E835 Weekly Meeting Minutes -- January 11, 2000      (KEG reporting)
							
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	The FCAL2000 group (Ted Vidnovic, Matt Graham and Seon-hee Seo) 
reported the status of the counters: 2 medium size blocks with bad PMT 
(located low in the stack), 1 large counter bad shaper board channel and
1 faulty base (which will be swapped with one of the dead PMT bases).
There are also several fiber optics that need to be reconnected to the
counters. The laser fiber optic cable couplings have arrived and installed.
The FCAL 1ON-1OFF test will be done.

	Jason Kasper and Michelle Stancari will perform a 1ON-1OFF test
of the CCAL which is mainly to check the neutral trigger cabling. There
has been problem of getting the program to record the ADC values observed;
TDC hits are seen.

	Stephen Pordes is arranging for the air conditioning in the pit be
inspected and to have "stops" added to the AP50 pit crane.

	Mauro Marinelli reported about the testing of the Gas Jet. His tests 
show that the jet density as a function of pressure (along the pressure-
temperature {PT} path) is the same on the beam line as was measured at PAB 
during the summer. The maximum density was 3.2e14 atoms/cc at a pressure of
130psi. The path keeps the temperature +1K from the saturation curve. At the
maximum pressure, he has shown by hand that decreasing the temperature in
steps of 0.1K, that the density increases dramatically: doubles with a 
change ~0.5K and just at the saturation curve nearly triples (running with 
liquid in the jet target; he notes that this type of running condition can 
not be sustained, overload the pumping, for hours).

	Keith Gollwitzer reported that for the first time since the IRIX
upgrade, the DAQ and database were able to take and record pedestals from
the pedestal configuration and then be retrieved and downloaded with the
data configuration.

	Keith reported that on Monday evening a peak stacking rate of 
0.75mA/hr (15 min) and sustained rate of 0.65mA/hr (5+ hours) was achieved.
After the meeting (for which these minutes are for), an antiproton 
deceleration was attempted. The deceleration of the high energy ramp 
(injection to above the psi': ~3720MeV) was successful with 95% of the
beam arriving (the losses may be understood). Phasing of the cooling systems
was done and the beam lifetime reached ~200hr while the emittances were
periodically blowing up. The beam was lost instantly at the beginning of the
medium energy ramp; several hours were spent looking at the logged information
for the cause -- none determined yet.

Present: 
	Gollwitzer, Graham, Kasper, Marinelli, Pordes,
	Seo, Stancari M, Vidnovic

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