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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, December 17, 2017 at 13:13:26, the beam
in Hall B was increased to 70nA. This corresponds to the design
operating luminosity of
CLAS12. This is a huge milestone on our way to science in 2018.
All baseline
detectors, superconducting magnets, and several ancillary
detectors are
installed and were fully operational. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While all detectors behaved as expected, some
tuning of
their operating parameters remains to be done for the second part
of the
engineering run in January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Until
then we all must do our utmost to use the large amount of data
collected during
this commissioning run for the calibration of all detector
components. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the best wishes for a wonderful holiday
season,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Volker Burkert</p>
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