Information for Shift Takers

Counting house: 5503, 6666 & 6000 | Run coordinator: 270-8916 | MCC: 7046 & 7047 & 7048 | Crew chief: 7045 | Guard house: 8522

Before the start of your shift: read and understand the Safety Documentation for this experiment.

• You must then sign in the Yellow Binder in the Hall C Counting House!

Detailed instructions are available on the 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 HCLOG

• 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 and associated Safety Documentation.

• Log the following in a shift summary in the Hall C Logbook:
  • run list (describing the goal of this run: eg production on LH2, BCM 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 fixme to create more blank forms.

• Online replay of all production runs (twice), as described in Analysis How-to. 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. Hclog them.

• Fill shift checklist once per shift (for guidance, please see the checklist how-to). fixme 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.