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<pre>Operations Status as we prepare to end the shutdown!</pre>


<!-- Date: Mon Nov 8 11:03:27 2004 -->
<pre>Hi Folks, 
 
As we are winding down on this shutdown, I thought I would bring people up to speed on where things are and what the schedule is.  Let me start with the schedule.  It has already slipped and may still slip further.  Ecool is taking more time than anticipated.  The current estimate to complete (of the 
work in the tunnel) is Wednesday, Nov 24th at 4pm.  Thats right, just priorto thanksgiving.   From my perspective, the ecool guys are doing a great job.  Its hard to estimate 13 weeks worth of work.  The fact that they are within a few days of what we thought is remarkable.  I highly recommend a tour!  With that slippage, here is what we can expect. 
 
Thanksgiving day and friday -- MCR doing power supply tests and hi-potting the MI and TeV.  (This may be the first thanksgiving Mike L. and I have not spent here in the last 4 years!) 
 
Saturday, Nov 27th, start bringing beam into MI and commission MI and recycler. 
 
Wednesday, Dec 1 -- First beam in the TeV.  They have alot of commissioning work, aperature scans, etc that has to be done 
 
Tuesday, Dec 7th -- First p-pbar shot 
 
Again, this is if all goes well.   Today we start to cool the Tevatron down. We also have to check out alot of vacuum work.  There are alot of places where things can go wrong still.  Some of it can go on in parallel but not all of it. 
 
CDF will complete everything it set out to do in this shutdown.  Steve Kuhlmann and his crew deserve alot of credit.  Make a point to seek Steve out and tell him you appreciate what he and his crews accomplished.  They managed to install the entire CPR system in the 11 weeks that I gave him.  This was a tremendous amount of work on something we have never attempted before.  Thanks Steve + Crew!!! 
 
The new low beta quad support system was installed and aligned on the west side last week.  This week we will do it on the east.  That is the last remaining big job.  After that, we will spend our time cleaning the hall and cleaning up odds and ends and trying to make this detector work.  We hope to have the solenoid powered later this week.  Flammable gas is now flowing in all muon chambers and will flow to the COT later this week.  If the COT checks out with Ar-Eth ok, we still plan on trying Ar-CO2 w/o beam as  a test.  We are ready to go on this. 
 
I will start using my elog book again to keep people informed as to what is happening. 
 
http://www-cdfonline.fnal.gov/e-log/ -- click on the upper right corner 
 
Rob+Carl 
 
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<pre>An email message from Steve Kuhlmann on the CPR summary 
 
Hello.  The final set of detectors rolled in successfully today.   We have 
&gt;99.7% working channels,  and the dead channels are mostly electronics  
which will be fixed in the next 2 weeks.   I have summarized the latest 
plots at: 
 
www.hep.anl.gov/stk/cpr2/meet/cpr2_pmg_20041110.ppt 
 
 
Grand summary and kudos: 
 
** Production ** 
 
1) All detector modules were assembled well ahead of the original  
schedule due to ANL crew led by Zeljko Matijas,  and many visitors from  
Italy and Korea.    Design by Jim Grudzinski was quite robust,  with 
nothing broken in shipping or installation.  Also, despite a lot of  
uncertainties with no access to the inside of the arches,  the module  
dimensions turned out to be perfect.   
 
2) Enormous number of parts delivered well ahead of the original schedule  
by MSU.  The planned late production of optical cables allowed us to  
optimize the fiber lengths,  increasing light yield significantly,  but 
pushed the assembly process to the limit.  Thanks to Mike Nila and  
Ron Richards.   The PMT box design by Richards and Bob Miller has 
worked very well,  zero light leaks for example.   And of course 
the leadership of Joey Huston. 
 
3) The accelerated PMT purchase and testing schedule,  led by Fumi  
Ukegawa,  allowed the early installation.   This was despite the 
huge financial blow due to silicon cancellation. The attached file 
shows a very good understanding of PMT gains using the  
measurements at Tsukuba. 
 
4) The Dubna group, led by Julian Budagov, went to great lengths to get us  
cut and polished tiles on time.  Also helped with the final arch's 
worth of fiber production at MSU. 
 
5) Funding for those tiles, and all the fibers and HV system was provided  
by INFN, led by Nicola Turini.  INFN also provided about 20  
techs and physicists for assembly and installation,  which was  
crucial.  Significant R+D was performed at INFN and Rockefeller led by  
Stefano Lami.  
 
6) Tile preparation by Phyllis Deering's group at FNAL,  working 2 shifts. 
 
7) Fiber preparation by Eileen Hahn's group,  very high quality. 
 
 
** Installation ** 
 
1) No injuries!  Mainly due to good scaffold design by Stefano Moccia. 
 
2) Almost zero broken fibers during installation,  credit goes to Dervin 
Allen's crew.  
 
3) Many other installation problems were solved by Moccia, Allen and 
many other FNAL techs. 
 
4) HV distribution boxes produced at INFN have worked well,  and the 
system was setup by Lami, Ukegawa, and Michele Gallinaro. 
 
 
** Both ** 
 
1) Major contributions to both assembly and installation from  
Minsuk Kim, Jun Suh,  and Maurizio Iori.  
 
 
Apologies to those I left out... 
 
The only obvious ones I could think of was Mike Lindgren and  
karen byrum for doing all of the "dirty" work behind the arches 
swapping cards, doing the local cabling etc. 
 
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