Minutes of the Jan 8, 2010 Tevatron Dept Meeting

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* News (Ron) - The Tevatron Accelerator Studies Workshop is next week Wed-Thurs
Jan 13-14.

* Weekly Operations Summary (Xiaolong Zhang) - Quickly summarizing the past 3
weeks over the Christmas/New Year holidays...a very productive period with
169 pb^-1 delivered to the experiments.  Only 1 store (abort kicker prefire) of
25 lost prematurely, and 2 shots were lost before reaching HEP (one quench
caused by tunes landing low at collisions, the other aborted by D0 when the
QC42 tune quad tripped off and results in high losses).  One week had a record
151.25 hours of HEP.  There were a number of store back above 300 ub^-1/s
initial luminosity.  Pbar longitudinal blow-ups have been reduced, but not
clear why.  Dean is working on improving the automatic orbit smoothing to 
fix the orbits around the D0 straight section.  The list of needed vacuum 
maintenance in the tunnel is growing.

* Plan for Next Week

   - Deliver luminosity safely.
   - 3-bumps @ S4 feeddowns (Ron, 1 hr end-of-store)
   - T-980 Crystal Collimator (Dean, 2-3 hrs end-of-store)
   - Bumper magnet as abort gap cleaner (Elmie, 4 hr proton-only)
   - Digital Tune Monitor (Alex, during/end store)
   - TEL-2 abort gap cleaning (Xiaolong, Alex, 1 hr end-of-store)