Instructions for shift takers
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
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 How to HRS. 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 statistic 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. Record the purpose for every single run in the "Run list" binders. Read [this] to create more blank forms.
- Online replay of all production runs (twice), as described in the online data analysis instructions. first replay the first 50 k events, check online plots (see next bullet), then run a full replay.
- 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). [go here to find blank copies of the shift check list and the shift check list how to]
- The shift leader or TO can help.