Minutes of the Aug 21, 2009 Tevatron Dept Meeting

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* News (Ron) - If you haven't applied for your "services account" password, do
it soon - you need it for the new FTL effort-reporting system.

* Shutdown Status (Jim Volk) - A1-A3 still warm, almost ready for cooldown.
D1 warm, D11-3 dipole replaced, ready for hipot.  E1 warm, outside air leaks
found.  C4 - bad O-ring on vacuum port replaced, no need to warm up.  B3 -
lingering issues after removing iceball from B29 turn-around box.  RF cavity
water leaks repaired.  Vertical crystal collimator installed.  Magnets unrolls
and stand replacements complete.  Quench bypass switch at F46 back in wall.
Still some water level work and cryo maintenance to be done in CDF collision
hall.

* Startup Planning (Jerry Annala) - Jerry outlined an initial plan for 
recommissioning the Tevatron after the long shutdown.  The machine should be
cold (4K) around Sep 8, power supply check-out would follow.  Separator 
conditioning can start before the machine is cold.  We made no fundamental 
changes to the Tevatron, but ~80 magnets were unrolled.  We are estimating 
about 1 week of around-the-clock shift work: establishing new orbits; lattice 
measurememts at injection, flattop, low-beta; tune-up the basics tunes, 
coupling, chromaticity throughout the entire cycle; possible pbar-only store 
to make lattice measurements on pbar helix and check helix closure for 
collisions; check-out of dampers and instruementation.  There will likely be a
colliding-beam store after ~3 days with beam, followed by additional 
commissioning before easing into a "normal" HEP schedule.