Difference between revisions of "Instructions for shift takers"

Revision as of 16:58, 8 November 2014

Counting house: 5501 & 5507 | Run coordinator: 876-1787 | MCC: 7046 & 7047 & 7048 | Crew chief: 7045 | Guard house: 8522

Before the start of your shift: read, understand and sign the safety documentation of the experiments.

Very detailed instructions are available in the HRS / DVCS how-to page. If you encounter problems, first look at those instructions for assistance.

Your Responsibilities

Shift Leader

• Communicate clearly and effectively with shift crews and MCC (7047), and log any status information to the HALOG

• Keep track of beam time accounting

• Consult the daily run plans and communicate with run coordinator whenever problems happen that cannot be solved by shift workers.

• Maintain data taking quality and an efficient use of beam time.

• Follow the directives in the COO

• Log the following in a shift summary in the HALOG:

• • run list (describing the goal of this run: eg production on LH2, BMC calibration...) and report main statistics numbers
  • any major events, including accesses

Target Operator

• Watch the target, see Target Info

• Assist the shift leader and third person with their duties

Third person

• Start and stop the DAQ.

• Online replay of all production runs, as described in the online data analysis instructions:
  • godvcs
  • analyzer
  • .x online.C+("detectorL", NNNN);
  • .x online.C+("calo", NNNN);
  • .x online.C+("physics", NNNN);

• Compare replay histograms with the sample ones and report to shift leader any unexplained differences. Halog them.

• Fill shift checklist once per shift (for guidance, please see the checklist how-to). If both the Shift Checklist and the Shift Checklist How-to need to be modified, the original .doc files can be obtained from | DVCS ELOG entry 255.

• The shift leader or TO can help.

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