E614 Current Run Information

E614 (TWIST) Run Information
10/13/2005-12/07/2005

Important Links
Midas Web Interface	Electronic Log book
Run Log	Shift Schedule
Operations Group Beam Schedule for 2005	Cyclotron Status Cyclotron Message
Run Plan Nov21-Dec6

You may find a list of initials helpful in reading the elog.

Useful Numbers Vancouver is ten digit dialing even for local numbers
Run Coordinator Pager:	604-320-3819
TRIUMF Control Room:	604-222-7333
Executive:	604-222-7377
Hospitality:	604-222-1047, ext.6339
M13 Area Entrance:	604-222-1047, ext.6214
Expert Contact Information
TWIST Contact Phone Numbers

NOTE:Anyone working, or supervising crane operations, in the posted areas must acknowledge reading the TWIST Magnet Safety document [PDF] on the sign-off sheet by the phone in the TWIST counting room.

Nominal Settings

"Standard" settings for thresholds, HV's, beamline, etc.
in various modes of operations: surface muons, pions, 1AT1 target scans, etc.

Shutdown procedures prior to a maintenance day

"Standard" procedures for the last person(s) on shift to follow
prior to a one to two day long shutdown.

TEC

Instructionson how to turn on HV, run analysis, check histograms.

DAQ and Slow Controls

How to run DAQ, slow controls, Midas, Lazy Logger, StatusBar, etc.
Includes information on recovering from software trouble, restarting things, etc.
Also includes other DAQ-related software, like the CAMAC Mini-DAQ.

M13 Beamline and EPICS

Information about M13 (TWIST's beamline), what's in it, and (especially) how to control it. For information on the proton beam (BL1A), see TN93.

Online Analysis with Mofia and QOD

Basic instructions for shift people on using Mofia and QOD.
Includes lists of histograms, and procedures for certain basis tasks
such as finding the stopping distribution.

Hardware Documentation

Dealing with Hardware Trouble

TWIST hardware database

TWIST Software Page

Miscellaneous Documentation

Range and dp/dx plots for electrons, muons, pions, and protons.
(from Berkeley document UCRL-2426, Vol IV, (1966))
Capturing Screen Regions from midtwist (for elogs, printing, etc).
RF Booster (what it is, and why we might care).

Run Coordinators

Previous 2005 Run Plans

Nov 2005: Nov15-21 Nov8-14 Nov1-Nov8
Oct 2005: Oct20-Oct27 Oct20-Oct21 Oct 13-Oct20

Shift Responsibilities

Shift responsibilities.
Writing a Shift Summary
Shift Checklists with instructions.
Elog Reporting -- a wishlist of record-keeping things that would make reading logs easier down the road.

Special Procedures

PACT pedestal runs (and subsequent calibration).
Efficiency scans.
Changing certain electronics settings (postamp pulsers, PACT things, etc).
Time zero calibration.
How to identify and fix plane oscillation problems

Run Summaries and Logs

Maintained by Mina Nozar