Minutes of HERA Meeting      18.09.2001

On the HERA- meeting on September 18 in Bld 30b 4th floor SR459, the following topics have been discussed and were agreed upon:

Schedule:

* Due to the 3 week delay in commissioning, luminosity production run originally foreseen for December 2001 will be shifted to January 2002.

* The maintenance day of September 24 (next week) will take place as planned. Operation stops at 5:30h. Access to the tunnel between 6:00h and 14:00h. Experiments open from 6:00h to 22:00h.

* The maintenance days of October 2001 22-23-24 will be shifted to November 19-20-21. There will be no maintenance day in October.

* The maintenance day of December 3 is canceled also.

Preparation of H1 detector field turn on with beam: This will be discussed on a meeting on Thursday, September 20 at 10:00h in Bld 30b 4th floor, SR 459.

HERMES experts want to come to DESY to work on the detector while there is positron-beam operation. The commissioning schedule will try to take this into account. HERMES will notify HERA about the schedule of this work.

A possible misalignment of the H1 detector or the GO and GG magnets inside H1 is suggested by analysis of beam data. This has been presented during the meeting.

The next HERA- meeting will take place on October 2nd 2001.

                Ferdinand Willeke