Minutes of Tuesday meeting : held on 5th Dec 2006

Test Cordinator for this week : Arjan ; Next week : Stephan ; Last week ( upto Dec 22): Vittorio

No of magnets completed : 9 ( 5 dipoles, 2 arc SSS, 1 5XX series & 1 6xx series) out of which 5 were signed for stripping & others standby.

The salient points of discussion were are follows:

· 1406 was not tested as it failed during initial HV test (WP04)

· A major cryogenic problem has affected the cryo operations and thus OP tests. On last thursday one of CRYO transmitter sent a wrong signal to open a valve, which led to blockage in a valve box on liqufier, seriousely affecting CRYO operations. This was investigated & CRYO team has tried to heat up this blocked part but the block kept on moving ahead. Ultimately, they had to heat up the whole line to get rid of this.

· It is expected that the CRYO operations would be fully functional by today (5th Dec) afternoon.

· Power failure exercise was conducted on 4th morning as planned & was resumed without any problems.

· Helik informed that all the 600 seris magnets, to be tested this year are ready in SM18. (S4-694,669 & 695)

· 695 will have special tests on beam loss measurements.

· There are 4 no of arc SSS & 3 no of 600 series remaining to be tested ths year & is ready.

· On B2, 525 will be put, with extended magnetic measurements, & on B1, 509 will be put.

· Louis Walckiers mentioned to keep D1 & D2 bench to be kept on top CRYO priority, followed by B1 & B2.

· Georgeo informed that SSS052, had a corrector problem (CD) & was set right.Even though it was signed for S/By,by vertue of an NC,it was cleared & this magnet is not coming back for retesting.

· 9. S4-675 took more bench time compared with others.

· Stephan would like to give a highier priority to A1 to finish MM.

· For 2409, WP04 was missed & subsequent HV tests yeilded good results.So it was cleared.

· Op team requested stephan to gear up ES to assist OP team to complete MM in time.

· It was informed that Ansaldo magnets will not be put for MM at least for remaining period of this year.

Op team informed ES that enough HV racks are not available.

Padmakumar