All ran smoothly.

As a test, ran for a short period at 1200 midday to run without S2-2 in the trigger. Finished that at 1339.

After discussion with Alison, Alex, Brian, Chris - we decided to change energy to 3.98 MeV/u. This started at 1340.

Pumped out H2, Marco steered with low intensity beam. He optimized on our PD2 with the 3mm collimator, then he observed the spot on the scintillator. He believed (as do I) that it looked as good as it did after the high-intensity tune yesterday. Beam spot blown up a bit, as before, but very well centred. picture from iphone below.

Did a run without gas, then filled, then got going on H2. H2 run started 1730. Thus, 4 hours for beam change and low-intensity tune.

Did analysis of rates/triggers with and without gas - all with 100 epA

                     WITHOUT GAS        WITH GAS

S2-2 all           3000                        3800

PD                   1500                        1900

Coincidence  10                            1800 

S2-1 all           13000                     57000

The trigger (7000 ish) is a sum of the first three of course. Interesting that all the coincidences are gas-"related" - which is good I think. It confirms to me that we should consider, at some point, running on only coincidences in the trigger to cut down the dead time (currently 60% live, 40% dead)

that's it. Jamie checking the spectra, if nothing else in this e-log then they are ok.

Sort started on new data, will run it overnight and compare in the morning with the old sort.

Mike