Thursday 12 August - Morning Regenerated chromaticity / sextupole functions for the squeeze

and re-trimmed knob functions using matched data points only. Current functions now smooth throughout - Aarush & Mike

Asynchronous beam dump analysed – all O.K. - Wolfgang – Chiarra - Jan

9:00–12:00: Preparation for the 10A/s ramp - cured some issuesSPS-LHC RF re-synchronisation problem: preventing injection for the Ramp10Aps resolved by trimming the RF freq. The RF team is looking at what is done in the re-synch sequence. Andy and team To note: for the Ramp10Aps, the longitudinal blowup during the ramp will not work at present, and so if the ramp is retried, the task should be skipped – Elena and team

12:00 : Ramp function ready to load after a slight increase in the rate limit for the RQXs in pts 2 and 8 (which required to dump the beams)

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XPOC error on B1; the TCDS beam loss bar appears in red on the LBDS display

450 GeV optics measurements – B1

Rogelio Tomas and team

450 GeV optics measurements – B2

Rogelio Tomas and team

Continuous series of problems: MKI-B1 erratic problem – quickly fixed (reset) Lost cryo-maintain in S23 -> access required in UJ27 to

check a DFB valve which was blocked QPS OK lost for the RB, RQD, RQF in A12 : RAID disk

problem on the PVSS server for the nQPS. A reboot was required but with the circuits switched to off, followed by a rebuild of one of the RAID disks. After the reboot, the nQPS functionality was recovered

… leading us to 18:30 so stopped the progress on the 10A/s ramp and recovered the 450 GeV condition to launch a physics fill

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Thursday 12 August - Afternoon

In the shadow: BLM tests without beam: Temporarily deployed a TEST firmware to all processing electronics that will push ramp vectors in the PM and XPOC buffers. Send few events to test the BLM XPOC buffers. Reloaded operational version of the firmware and checking that all cards run this version

19:00 – injecting, 1x1, ~3e10 for beam dump test TCDSA below threshold, but still higher than expected. Analysis and understanding on going.

19:30 – 20:30: Injecting 25b x 25b. SPS measuring 2.7um in both planes. Measure less in LHC (less than 2 um….).

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22:20 : Beam dump right before collisions – RCBXH1.R2 tripped. Investigation: the demanded current is obtained through a V_ref of 90 mV, which is immediately caught by the QPS. It seems that an offset is present on the U_res, which, once added, might just enough to exceed the 100 mV. M. Zerlauth --> made a reset. related to some spikes popping up from time to time on QPS system? checking with EPC piquet nothing anomalous was detected at the level of the PC

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Demanded current

Voltage seen by the QPS

Restarting the whole process – RCBXH1.R2 tripped again

Tried to repeat the event by powering the circuit RCBXH1.R2 through equipment state and then sending the Physics function: the circuit does not trip! Repeat it -> tripped

Circuit RCBH1.R2 is at the limit of ramp rate and/or acceleration. As soon as we drive the function (which was refined in the last days), it trips. Changing the function would work for this time, but maybe not for the next one better to reduce the ramp-rate/acceleration or increase the 100mV threshold? Need to be addressed with expert this morning.

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1bx1b, for loss maps on momentum -> last remaining test for “weekly” collimator checks (not done since some weeks now)

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Friday : 8:00 – 8:30 : Loss maps 8:30 – 9:30 : Ramp down 9:30 – 12:30 : 10A/s ramp 12:30 – 15:30 : Access Then : refill for Physics

Week end : Physics

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Plans for next days

COD (Miguel Cerqueira Bastos) RCBH12.L1B1 RCBH12.L1B1 - warning PSU - RCBV29.L4B2 - warning Imeas RCBH34.L7B1 - the converter was changed in 3/06/2010 -

we informed operation at the time: the converter is ready to be used

Next TS: RCBH18.R7B2 RPMC.UJ33.RCBCV6.R3B1 - change an auxiliary power

supply

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Access

BSRT – Access in point 4 US45 – 30mn - Federico Roncarolo ATLAS – Access in US15 – 15 min ADT : UX45 - ~1 hour. check remote reset and the rf multiplexor

– Daniel Valuch Fast BCT – Pt 4 – change attenuators -David Belohrad IP6 UA63 :CPU in CFV-UA63-BCTFD crate to change -

David Belohrad Monday: CV need to replace a motorization of the water valve

of the sector 56 - not urgent ~3 hours Monday: Access team to replace oxydized connectors for PAD-

PX24 in case of stop (3 hours) Monday: Magnetic probes in the machine for the studies related

to the hump - access in point 5 (Louis Walckier) – 3 hours

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Access

MONDAY – Clogging of CMS cryo filters not yet understood ACCESS 10h

QPS boards: several boards had to switch from channel A to B. BLM racks (in buildings SR1 and SR5 and both at position

BY02): would like to correct the way the power cable for the multi-plug arrives inside the rack.

Ion pumps in dump line MKB (B2 only 4 out of 8 pumps working; few days intervention, next TS)

Bunch-to-Bunch diagnostics would be very helpful! Noise on BBQ in tune spectra Origin – cause of the beam losses that terminated 2 of the best

runs (beam-beam?; coherent versus incoherent?).

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Issues