A lot rides on the success of the December run for the
entire collaboration. We hope to take our first PUBLISHABLE
data. For me, that's a big word because I know how hard
it can be to get quality cross sections out of complicated
apparatus.
We assign shifts to groups and the groups designate individuals
for the novice shifts. This time, we will go one step further
and choose expert shift takers from the list of novices we
receive. These experts will receive shift training and will be
required to monitor many systems online to ensure reliability
of data. For December, I am asking you to choose people who
would be able to do this. We are after people who will be
willing and able to watch the monitoring devices carefully.
The goal is to make the systems easy to use and well-documented,
but it will clearly be a work in progress for December.
ALL those designated as shift leaders or expert shift takers
(I have seen both terms used) MUST receive training since at
present almost no one (I suspect I could say no one and still be
correct) has sufficient knowledge of all systems. On Wed, Dec 3,
we will conduct a session for people who want to or have to get
this training. Technical experts will make presentations about
their systems at 9am-noon and 1-4pm sessions. Both sessions will
be required. The systems presented will be CODA, trigger, online
monitor, drift chambers, Cerenkov, TOF scins, electromagnetic
calorimeter, beam line, cryotarget, and safety. We will have a
document ready at that time that presents the material.
If you can't make it to those sessions, you will have to get
the training from a designated (by the e1 run period COP,
Arne Feyberger) expert shift taker before you can take an expert
shift. The training sessions will be run again before the February
run.
As of now, the organizers of these sessions will be Arne Freyberger
and myself. Please address comments and questions to us,
freyberg@cebaf.gov and dytman@cebaf.gov.
regards,
Steve Dytman