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experiment administration during data taking. TJNAF experimental groups are
made up of collaborating institutions, each of which typically has a senior
member serving as group leader, as well as some number of post-docs and
students. Often the chain of authority within the collaboration is not
traditional; it is often organized around the components of the detector, rather
than around the senior physicists. The formality and structure required within
a group depends on the size and complexity of the collaboration. TJNAF
experiments range in size from small activities with fewer than ten participants
to international collaborations of more than 100. Traditionally, the
spokesperson is responsible for reporting the scientific status of the
experiment to TJNAF management and the physics community at large. Today this
responsibility is often delegated to other members of the collaboration.
However, the spokesperson of each experim ent is ultimately accountable to the
director for the safe operation of his/her experiment. We provide the following
set of questions for evaluating your experiment's administration. Senior
members of the experiment should determine whether to codify the answers in a
document for use by shift personnel. These questions are posed within the
context of DOE Order 5480.19, "Conduct of Operations Requirements for DOE
Facilities". There are no right or wrong answers to these questions. The
experiment collaboration should determine the documentation needs for shift
personnel based on the answers to these questions and the complexity of the
detector.
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10/13/1997