Dry Run 0

1. Dry Run 0 • Week 13: • BI test of...everything circulating beam: all fixed displays and BI applications • OP directories for 2009, concentrators running • Need to have an operational Hyper Cycle (another one to test software) • MCS tests of: • Check all existing critical settings after RBAC release • LHC BLMs, CISx (SMP parameters)....maybe collimators • MKI ExpertSettings and SoftstartSettings, BetsBem, BetsBei, IPOC, MKD and MKB critical settings test • Point 6 interlocked BPMs (BPMITLHC)....which role to be used: ABT is for MCS-BT-LBDS • BPMSA.A4L6.B1/InterlockSetting • BPMSB.A4R6.B1/InterlockSetting • BPMSB.A4L6.B2/InterlockSetting • BPMSA.A4R6.B2/InterlockSettin • Only missing then for start-up: maybe collimators, FEI

2. Program for Wednesday week 13 - BI • Check application + logging + fixed display: • YASP orbit + FIFO: will have simulated data • Multiturn ← capture events for BPMs • BLMs: running sums and capture events • NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ENERGY IS LOGGED • Abortgap Monitor • BCTs • Wire scanners, synchrotron light monitor • LHC timing BTVs – will play sequencer driven timing tables • Proxies → fixed displays and application; logging? • NO beam dumped events, NO post mortem events • Tune: wait for Ralph...

3. Dry Run I – injection equipment • week 14 (2nd and 3rd of April) and week 15 (for BI rather) • MKI 8: run it from control room • New softstart • OASIS: BCT + MKIs; logging • Beam permit loops: need to jumper out also injection BICs • Energy OK from energy from simulation • Application??: need to make sure that can run it through LSA • Application will be ready in week 16 only → SM18 shifts • Timing: ready for week 14 Test mode stuff (need to verify!!) → got email from Jean-Claude: first version will be ready: need to have a little application as well. Just ONE button (only as lhcop). • RF needs to generate the pre-pulse: Andy told me should be OK • Fixed displays • TI 8 and TI 2 • Critical settings for FEI? Prepare DC functions (can’t run it...interlocked) • All BI, usual stuff • Logging for new BPMs...new logging for the PC • Injection BI: again concentrators (BLM [also capture] and BPM), injection region BTVs, run injection tables • BTV proxies: for all SPS BTVs

4. Dry Run II • Week 17 (23rd and 24th of April) - Injection • Beam 1 and beam 2 injections if possible with the BIS • MKI 2 like before • Week 17 – LBDS software • LBDS monitoring application (no functional test yet, only communication): needs RBAC for the acknowledge • Arming of IPOC and BETS testable (BetsSim) → test new sequences as far as possible • Also, the new CIBG generators and communication with it...for the time being LBDS jumpered out • XPOC (play-back mode), logging • Dump line BI with XPOC events (should trigger XPOC): fixed displays • FBCTs, BLMs, BTVs, BPMs (interlocked BPM), Abort gap monitor

5. Dry Run III • Week 20 - 22 • TT40/TT60 beam tests • Will take out some time from CNGS for TT40. • Test of mastership business: • Injection sequencer fully available • (new mastership request: don’t need to remove user request to become master, can become master also when in spare (if tagged TO_LHC, but no dynamic destinations under spare); new mastership request removes: TI8_dump/TI2_dump request and sets requested batches to zero and does the same thing again when removing mastership; SIS also verifies that if dynamic destination is TI8_dump or TI2_dump the downstream TEDs must be in) • Would be good to have first version of IQC integrated in injection sequencer • Date not defined yet: during MD without extraction (long LHC cycle): requesting different filling patterns (different # batches) under LHC mastership

6. Planning for the next stuff... • As soon as we have a little bit of experience with the first dry runs, we plan the next ones. • Beam dump we can only fully test from the control room from week 29 (beam 2). • Need to test as much as possible before...need to figure that out. • MKQA and AC Dipole not covered yet.