Current Events Discussion

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by scorpion » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:01 pm

I liked the quote from one of the boffins when he said 'we may even discover some unknown unknowns' :think: :D
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by jmayes » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:20 am

New Record! Beam for over 8 hours and at 3.5TeV too!
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by JNW » Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:22 am

The beams are still going, and with good lifetimes, too!

And LHCb just had a bizarre event: http://lblogbook.cern.ch/Shift/100401_0 ... 4210_0.jpg

:shock:
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by gronos » Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:18 am

Whoops, beams gone. Hope there were some interesting collisions.
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by jmayes » Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:58 am

I read around 10 hours, looks like a new record to me :clap: :dance:
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Danny252 » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:11 pm

Seems like Cryo is rather borked again today. Page 1 says they intend to sort it out by 2000.

So whilst we wait, seems we'll be attempting to break Igor...
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by CharmQuark » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:18 pm

Danny252 wrote:Seems like Cryo is rather borked again today. Page 1 says they intend to sort it out by 2000.

So whilst we wait, seems we'll be attempting to break Igor...
hahaha :thumbup:
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Danny252 » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:55 pm

Danny252 wrote:by 2000.
2200 now!
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Kasuha » Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:24 pm

No wonder, looks like parts of the machine had time to warm up a lot. Still too many red squares on cryo page.
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Kasuha » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:20 am

Today's morning dump was scary.
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Shadowdraxx » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:31 am

Kasuha wrote:Today's morning dump was scary.

how so mate?

Yesterdays Atlas fireworks were mad tho, nothing.... nothing.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM tracks everywhere so much you couldn't make any sense lol
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Kasuha » Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:28 pm

I was looking at page1 shortly after the beam was dumped and they put on beam tracking screens showing one beam mark in the center and one way off (by centimeters, not millimeters). Should this happen with full intensity beam I'd be afraid about beam pipes getting perforated by it.
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COLL-MOT-b2?

Post by chriwi » Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:19 pm

Now it is already the second time I see a dump during setting up for phzsics with the reason "COLL-MOT-..." while moving in the collimators.

What is that?
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by LarryS » Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:50 pm

Not sure if this will fully answer your question but from the "CERN BE - OP eLogbook"

Unprogrammed dump. When completing collimator sequence. TCT and TCLs were out of tollerance.

I have been (very slowly) putting together a spread-sheet of all the acronyms used on the various screens; I have the following defs ...

TCT - Target Collimator Tertiary: Tertiary Collimator

TCL - Target Collimator Long
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Shadowdraxx » Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:17 pm

A nice little animation of "collapsing separation bumps" that is part of the beam physics process:

Enjoy:

http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/News/e-comme ... ie2CMS.gif
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