<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Dear all,</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">As many/most of you are already aware, we have asked Dave Kashy to act as Cryogenic<br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Coordinator for the Physics Division. <br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br><div><div>The simultaneous operation of Halls A, B and C with additional superconducting magnets</div><div>is driving the End Station Refrigerator (ESR) at or above its capacity. This is actually better</div><div>than originally projected - going into the 12-GeV project we had concern to operate Halls</div><div>A, B and C simultaneously and keep all magnets cold unless the proposed ESR-II became</div><div>available. It turned out that the CHLs can provide additional flow to the ESR, but we remain<br></div><div>on the edge.</div><br><div>Several other factors become limiting and the whole system somewhat unstable unless the</div><div>conditions and demands across the entire eco-system are tightly tracked and regulated: </div><div>CHL, CHL to ESR transfer lines, ESR and, Halls A, B and C. Hall D is not included here</div><div>because its operation is independent of the ESR.<br><br>We want to accomplish the most physics we can in every running period. This means<br>running Halls A, B, C and D simultaneously if possible at all, and avoiding situations in</div><div>which one of the halls causes disturbances on the other halls (or starves them), prioritizing</div><div>recovery if there are cryo "crashes" and responding quickly to events that may cause</div><div>larger problems if not deal with (e.g. a sudden shutdown of the CHL-ESR transfer line).</div><div>In addition, we can benefit from as much coherence, consistency and understanding of</div><div>the various cryogenic monitors and signals as we can achieve.<br></div><br><div>For all the above reasons, we have asked Dave Kashy to be the cryo coordinator for the<br>division. He will be the contact point between cryo and physics. His responsibilities are to</div><div>start understanding, coordinate, balance and prioritize the cryo needs of all halls as well as</div><div>look into ways/changes to make the cryo eco-system of the division more efficient and reliable.</div><div>It is clear we can not count on an ESR-II in the near future yet.<br><br>I would like to ask you to please provide all the support possible to Dave so that we all can<br>make progress on the main reason we are there: to support our large user community to do</div><div>exciting nuclear physics research.<br><br>Best regards,</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div>Rolf</div></div><br></div></div></body></html>