NEWS:
Steve said there were beam loss problems during the past week. These problems
were solved by realigning a
collimator. Also longitudinal bunch length blew up badly. It's fixed now.
The Friday power outage caused a lot of problems. Unfortunately UPS failed to
work properly. He noticed that Gamma supply limits were all reset due to the
power outage - we need a scheme to read in these values automatically. After
the shutdown, the CCU and PISA box trigger inhibit does not work somehow.
We need to contact Oleg.
He also mentioned that the planned shutdown for BTEV and MINOS works during the summer might slip, if we do not have enough integrated luminosity by the summer.
ICICLE:
Margherita said a software which can access the database in small portions
at a time will be ready in a few weeks. This will make it much faster. She
also mentioned about the MUON3 time stamp problem. Sometimes it generates illigal
dates, for example, 13th month. As a temporary measure she
installed a protection in the Icicle codes. Yeongdae said he need the
Visual C++ Version 6 to work on this.
PMS:
Marcin said BSU NW1, 2 were installed in the muon chain during the shutdown.
Somehow the most significant bit got stuck. He modified his code to ingore
the bit.
Marcin is going back to his home institution at the end of May.