| RHIC Retreat 2012 | ||
| Wednesday 25 July - Friday July 27 | ||
| Wednesday 25 July | ||
| Session I: Lessons From Run 12 | ||
| Chair Wolfram Fischer | ||
| 08:30 | 0:05 Welcome | T. Roser |
| 08:35 | 0:10 Introduction | V. Schoefer |
| 08:45 | 0:20 RHIC Nuclear Physics | S. Vigdor |
| 09:05 | 0:20 Projections for Run 13 | W. Fischer |
| 09:25 | 0:25 Run 12: Polarized Protons Lessons Learned | V. Schoefer |
| 09:50 | 0:25 Run 12: Heavy Ions Lessons Learned | Y. Luo |
| 10:15 | 0:20 Coffee Break | |
| 10:35 | 0:20 The view from STAR | W. Christie |
| 10:55 | 0:20 The view from PHENIX | X. He |
| 11:15 | 0:20 Scheduling Physicist's view | F. Meot |
| 11:35 | 0:20 Air Conditioning at CAD | A. Pendzick |
| 11:55 | 1:30 Lunch | |
| Session II: Performance Challenges | ||
| Chair Haixin Huang | ||
| 13:30 | 0:25 AGS Polarized Protons: What now? | H. Huang |
| 13:55 | 0:25 RHIC Polarization: What now? | M. Bai |
| 14:20 | 0:25 Polarimetry | W. Schmidke |
| 14:45 | 0:20 Coffee | |
| 15:05 | 0:25 Electron Lens | X. Gu |
| 15:30 | 0:25 EBIS | J. Alessi |
| 15:55 | 0:25 EBIS Ions in the Injectors | C. Gardner |
| 16:20 | 0:25 Stochastic Cooling | K. Mernick |
| 16:45 | Adjourn | |
| Thursday 26 July | ||
| Session III: Operations and Reliability | ||
| Chair Peter Ingrassia | ||
| 08:30 | 0:10 Operatons Statistics and Failure Analysis | P. Ingrassia |
| 08:40 | 0:20 RF Reliability | A. Zaltsman |
| 09:00 | 0:20 RHIC P / S Reliability | D. Bruno |
| 09:20 | 0:20 Maintenance, Reliability and Scheduling | P. Sampson |
| 09:40 | 0:25 Coffee | |
| 10:05 | 0:10 The New MCR: Lessons Learned | T. Shrey |
| 10:15 | 0:25 The View from Operations | R. Tuccio |
| 10:40 | 0:25 A New Model for Run Coordination | G. Marr |
| 11:05 | 0:25 RHIC Ramps in the Feedback Age | A. Marusic |
| 11:30 | 1:30 Lunch | |
| Session IV: RF and Longitudinal Emittance / Instrumentation and Controls | ||
| Chair M. Blaskiewicz | ||
| 13:00 | 0:25 AGS LLRF Upgrade Commissioning | F. Severino |
| 13:25 | 0:25 Longitudinal Emittance: Source to Store | K. Smith |
| 13:50 | 0:25 RF Developments for Polarized Protons | J. M. Brennan |
| 14:15 | 0:20 High(er) Intensity Proton Operation | C. Montag |
| 14:35 | 0:25 Coffee | |
| 15:00 | 0:20 APEX Highlights | M. Bai |
| 15:20 | 0:20 He3: Results of Injector Test and Plans | H. Huang |
| 15:40 | 0:20 Access Controls System Upgrades | D. Hillis |
| 16:00 | 0:20 Developments in Beam Instrumentation and Control | M. Minty |
| 16:20 | 0:20 Controls: Startups and Mode Changes | S. Nemesure |
| 16:40 | Adjourn | |
| Friday 27 July | ||
| Session VI: Conclusions and Outlook | ||
| Session organizers will try to distill the lessons presented during their session to | ||
| sketch a picture for how RHIC operation will improve for Run13 | ||
| Chair Thomas Roser | ||
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | ||
| Bldg. 911A | ||
| Synder Seminar Room | ||
| 13:30 | 0:25 State of the Complex | W. Fischer |
| 13:55 | 0:25 Performance Challenges for p^ and Heavy Ions | H. Huang |
| 14:20 | 0:25 Operations and Reliability | P. Ingrassia |
| 14:45 | 0:25 RF, Instrumentation and Controls | M. Blaskiewicz |
| 15:10 | 0:25 Coffee | |
| 15:35 | 0:25 Plan for Run 13: Polarized Protons | V. Ranjbar |
| 14:00 | 0:25 Plan for Run 13: Heavy Ions | G. Robert-Demolaize |
| 16:25 | Adjourn | |
25–27 Jul 2012
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