RHIC commissioning continues to make steady progress, but this is clearly not the Booster.
Every gain comes with what seems like a long a struggle.
Of course the required dealing with the quench link protection system and its commissioning, which greatly decreases and fragments the beam time, ups the difficulty by a big factor. And requiring beam survival for many minutes is a space far removed from AGS experience. So from the perspective of scheduling and planning, the main event is the low intensity proton run which must be accomplished in the last two weeks of August. The main players are represented, especially when Kevin Smith shows up. Kevin Brown is in charge of the operation.