At current funding levels, Jefferson Lab’s accelerator is scheduled to run 30.5 weeks between April 1999 and June 2000.

The Lab’s Nuclear Physics Experiment Scheduling Committee recently announced the accelerator and experimental schedule and made it available at www.jlab.org/exp_prog/experiment_schedule/. You may also access the information from a link on the Lab News web page at: www.jlab.org/news/.

Prior to publishing the new itinerary, the experiment scheduling committee met several times to resolve conflicting requirements and to ensure that sufficient resources would be available to properly stage and carry out each of the experiments scheduled at the Lab for this year’s run period.

Equipment installation request forms, evaluating worker requirements, accelerator maintenance and experimental hall preparatory work, and engineering priorities were used to help build the schedule.

Jefferson Lab team members include: Larry Cardman and Andrew Hutton (co-chairmen), Hari Areti, Roger Carlini, Bernhard Mecking, Kees de Jager, Claus Rode, Mike Seeley, Charlie Sinclair and Will Oren. Nathan Isgur provided advice.

This is the fourth schedule with substantial polarized beam for researchers’ use.

The schedule includes important memos, experiment and user staffing information, daily schedules for all three experimental halls, daily & weekly updates, downtime for maintenance work and equipment upgrades, and holidays. "The schedule represents our best effort to optimize the physics output of the laboratory consistent with our resource constraints and the technical evolution of the accelerator and the experimental equipment," reports Cardman and Hutton, in the schedule report.

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