Hera Coordination Meeting Oct 13, 1999
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The requests and decisions taken in the meeting are summarized as follows.

Christmas shutdown
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will begin on Dec 19 after machine studies starting on Dec 13. On request of
Hera-B it will be extended to 7.1.2000 to allow for beam pipe installation
and re-alignment work.
NB: Recently the shutdown was extended further to Jan 16, 2000 to allow H1
the repair of their central drift chambers, see a recent mail of
C.Kleinwort.

Mini shutdowns
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The planned dates for 1999 are unchanged. Hera-B requests another mini
shutdown
early 2000 for installing remaining inner tracking chambers, which is
scheduled for 7.2. to 9.2.2000 (coinciding with DESY maintenance period).

Running in 2000
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H1 wishes to continue with positron running in 2000. ZEUS will decide on its
preference until end of November. In case of disagreement, a Hera
coordination meeting should be called on Dec. 8, 1999 to take a decision
between electron and positron running.

Miscellaneous
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Hermes re-iterates the wish to have the beam polarization flipped after each
mini shutdown. They might want to have 3-4 weeks of un-polarized running
after the Lambda-wheels are commissioned, which should give a small (45h)
contribution to the electron beam life time.

Hera asks for extending the period between access days from 4 to 5 or 6
weeks from 2000 onwards, the experiments agree.

The Hera taskforce is reactivated under the leadership of C.Kleinwort to
solve the outstanding problems of cohabitation between Hera-B target
operation and the other experiments, and to maximize Hera-Bs use of the
proton beam time.