Run Coordinator
The MINOS Run Coordinator is Bob Zwaska. Previous Run Coordinators have been Rob Plunkett, Cat James, and Alec Habig.
Accelerator & NuMI Beam Schedule
The present run (Run III), is scheduled to terminate on June 15, 2009. A 10-14 week shutdown will ensue. Run boundaries were cataloged by Matt Strait.
The Program Planning Accelerator Schedules show the running plan and Shutdown periods for the coming year or so; these schedules are updated only a few times per year and may not yet display recent decisions. A calendar of activities in the MINOS Areas is posted here if you wish to see what work might be occurring underground. Go to the MINOS All Experimenters Meeting page to see weekly status reports, including proton delivery statistics and detector up-times. See the Data Quality page for plots of Near Detector reconstruction parameters used to monitor the data from week to week.
Operations Meetings
Accelerator Operations meetings are held at 9am on M-Tu-W-Th-F, in the Huddle (M-Th) or 1 West (F).
MINOS Operations meetings are held every Monday at 10am.
NuMI Beam meetings are held irregularly.
Special Runs
The Special Runs page lists the various runs taken, with the Near and Far Run Numbers corresponding to each run condition. The types of runs we call special are -
- Possible bad data, due to any reason
- Detector configuration changes - B-field reversal, or B-field off, etc
- Energy changes - anything besides pseudo-Low-Energy (LE10) target position.
- Horn Current changes - anything besides the nominal 200kA
- Beam Intensity changes. These are defined as -
- Low intensity = 1-turn of the Booster, ~2E12PPP
- Medium intensity = 3-turns of the Booster, ~6E12PPP
- Slip-stacking studies, when the beam spot size is increased from nominal
- Changes to the detector configurations, such as reversing/changing B-fields
