On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Stephen Pordes wrote:

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> 
>  First a plea: We need to write and distribute by mail a brief summary of 
>  what has been accomplished on each shift. It's good for us all. The 
>  following may have big holes - which I trust people will fill. 
> 
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>  Summary after first commissioning weekend 1/22 -> 1/23
> 
>  We have just finished about 34 hours of commissioning with pbars.
>  Frankly, I am impressed in how good a shape we may be in.
> 
>  Of course, there were a lot of screw-ups (people (like me) leaving cables
>  unplugged) but in the end I think we made quite good progress:
> 
>  The pbar source delivered us a nice stack of 19 mA.
>  
>  The gas-jet worked just fine.
> 
>  We did a vertical scan and found a peak luminosity moving the beam about 1mm
>  up (I think "up")
> 
>  We did a horizontal scan looking at the left and right luminosity monitors;
>  this was inconclusive. Some work will be done rearranging the luminosity
>  monitor equipment upstairs.
> 
>  All the counters are timed, their gates and TDC stops and their HV set. 
>  (EM correct me if I am wrong). There is some problem with one of the forward 
>  vetos. (EM please expand).
> 
>  The charged trigger timing is done. There is a dead channel in an MLU and
>  the assignment of channel/trigger has changed to accomodate this. According
>  to RC, the new trigger module has also been checked out and timed. (We aren't
>  using it yet,however).
> 
>  The neutral trigger has been checked out and its stuff seems fine. There is
>  a plan to use the ring sum TDC's to check the CCAL timing into the trigger.
> 
>  CCAL and FCAL reported ADC's and TDC's. A few channels were missing and are 
>  being investigated.
> 
>  The online monitor worked fine - I don't know the status of the scaler data
>  however.  
> 
>  The offline also seems to work.
> 
>  We wrote some minimum bias tapes towards the end.
> 
>  After we had said we were done (to give time for VLPC work tonight) the 
>  source people decelerated the beam to below the Chi-0 in about an hour
>  with a ~50% efficiency and cooled it "nicely" at the low point.
> 
>  An  access to work on VLPC's, fix some calorimeter channels and other stuff
>  started at 20:40.
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>  Stephen