E835 Weekly Meeting Minutes -- January 13, 2000      (KEG reporting)
							
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	The cryostat system has stabilized. The system was losing liquid
helium from the dewar; the trend has been reversed. During the next access
opportunity there is still some leak work to be done.
	The VLPCs have under gone some LED testing. Further testing will
be done on Friday at different temperatures. These tests will help determine
the operating temperature of each cassette. The tests will use the entire
DAQ and detector online monitoring system. After the operational temperatures
are set and when an access can be made, the clear fibers will be connected to 
the cassettes (8-12hr).

	The FCAL 1ON-1OFF test was performed. ADC and TDC data were recorded.
The results are being tabulated. There is one CCAL channel not connected in
the pit and will be attended to during the next access.

	With the help of a half dozen computing division experts, the SCSI
bus resets of the tape drive busses has been fixed. The new tape drives
react differently than the the old drives to a specific sequence of events.
The DAQ system setup of the tape drives has been changed so that this sequence
doe not occur; it also means that there will be an added step to unloading
the tape drives.

	The 1996-97 gold files will be removed on Monday to make room for the
data files to be written for the upcoming run. Before removal, the files are
being spooled off onto 10 tapes (grouped by E_cm and ordered by run number on
tape). 10 master tapes will be in AP50 while an additional 10 tapes will be
available for use in the trailers. There are also plenty of traditional 
backup tapes of these file systems.  

	The current schedule is the following:
  Now to 08:00 Jan 22 Stack with 1 hour of gas jet operation test (no stacking)
  08:00 Jan 22 to 08:00 Jan 24 beam-jet interactions and access
  08:00 Jan 24 to ??  stack
There was a long discussion about how to use the 48 hour period between
stacking. Below are the 7 semi-sequential periods, the main people are in {}
and the estimated time is in []:

1. [3hr] Move beam to central orbit, set cooling etc {S Werkema, G Stancari}
         Turn Gas Jet on {S Pordes}, Turn on H2' counter(s) {E Menichetti}
         Vertical beam scan with H2' read-back {SW, GS, K Gollwitzer}
         Observe luminosity monitor signals {D. Joffe}
         Horizontal beam scan with Lum Mon {SW, GS}           

2. [8hr] Time hodoscope and Cerenkov {EM, M Obertino}
         Time min bias and form strobe {J Kasper, S. Seo, M. Graham, SP}

3. [8hr] Set min bias gatemaster trigger and gate distribution {KG}
         Time gates and Stops {M Stancari, EM, MO, MG, SS}
         Check Charged trigger {R Calabrese, W Baldini}
		Includes making a 2h coplanar trigger
         Form CCAL total energy trigger {JK, MS}
         Check PBG trigger {JK}

4. [8hr] Run DAQ and online monitor with different trigger configurations
         as well as the offline {KG, P Rumerio, W. Roethel, D Bettoni}

5. [8hr] Perform different runs and record to tapes/file {KG}
           Short runs with Torino PMTs at different HV {EM}
           Write N tapes of min bias trigger 
           Write N tapes of Etot triggers
           Write N tapes of 2h copl
		where N is less than or equal to 10 tapes at once

6. [1hr] Perform deceleration with remaining stack and dump beam {SW, GS, KG} 

7. [12hr]Access for SCIFI, VLPC, CCAL and anything found wrong during the
         preceding 36 hours.


Present: 
	Baldini, Bettoni, Calabrese, Cibinetto, Gollwitzer, Graham, Kasper, 
	Menichetti, Negrini, Pordes, Rumerio, Seo, G Stancari, M Stancari

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