Run Plan Nov. 21 - Dec 6 2005

Last altered Wednesday Nov. 30

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Monday Nov 21

Find settings for pure Al stops.
  -achieved by maximising the number of "last hits" in PC6 compared with 
   PC5.
  -idea is to move the stopping distribution so that we minimise the
   number of muons stopping in gas upstream of the target, leaving
   muons decaying in the target (which we keep) and muons decaying
   downstream (which we can remove).
  -meant to study the polarisation of the muons in the target without
   the depolarising influence of muons stopping in gas.

when a satisfactory setting is achieved set for stable running of
this data set until maintenance


**Historical note** a High rate test was also performed while searching for 
	     an appropriate gas degrader setting.

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Tuesday Nov 22

continue running pure Al stops data set 

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Wednesday Nov 23

maintenance starts at 8:30. End Al stops data

install TEC at this time (with 49 hole collimator)

("4 hour" maintenance)

start with collimator data using Nov. 18 spray tune


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Thursday Nov 24

continue TEC collimator data

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Friday Nov 25

end TEC collimator data ~4:00 pm

remove 49 hole collimator

START NOMINAL DATA SET
      -remove TEC
      -use the settings found on the nominal settings page

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Saturday Nov 26

continue nominal data set

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Sunday Nov 27

end nominal data set Sunday morning 
start B2 + 6G data set

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Monday Nov 28

continue B2 + 6G data set

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Tuesday Nov 29

B2 + 6G with the beginning of Maintenance day

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Wednesday Nov 30

Insert TEC in nominal configuration during Maintenance

When beam returns, set up far upstream stops data set

Far upstream stops set
  - compare data in this geometry to far upstream stops in the old 
    geometry
  - details of setup to be filled later: 
    reference runs 18693-18700 are archived on Westgrid
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Thursday Dec 1

Take some characterisation runs of the beam at "nominal" and "B2+6G" settings
  - approximatly 2 runs for each setting
  - this gives us a charactorisation of the for the previous 2 data sets
  - produces a baseline for the comparison of the reversed TEC configuration

Reverse the X and Y modules in the planes
  - ideally this should tell us whether the observed Y angle is postion 
    dependent or not.
  - initially introduce TEC in normal configuration. Take a few runs 
    to provide a baseline to compare with the reversed case.
  - reverse the planes. Take a few runs to compare the operation in these
    two cases.

steering tests
  - presumably set up during the maintenance day
  - attempt to use the power sources we have to steer the beam

overnight (or after all the tests made during the day are completed)
Far upstream stops set continued from overnight Wednesday
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Friday Dec 2

end far upstream stops set. (should be in excess of 100 runs after the 
			      two nights)

t0 run with field on, MLT trigger. Note that this requires a 120 MeV/c
focused (non-spray) pion tune (to increase the rate)

Ramp down to 0T

alignment data 

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Saturday Dec 3

-continue alignment data
-t0 data- use MLT, PU, DS trigger scintillators (4 runs for each)

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Sunday Dec 4


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Monday Dec 5

-remove TEC and beam package
-insert MTEC 
-quads off TEC beam measurements to see if TEC/beam relationship consistant
       with Aug. 2005=>TEC postion
-Install Big collimators
-run with this collimator (to check absolute postion of beam in 
 spectrometer?)

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Tuesday

-beam positron characterisation run 
   -big collimators/ TEC out
   -large DS paddle scintillator
   -"one or two runs should be sufficient"