sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Yip, Kin" <kinyip AT bnl.gov>]

Hi,

Rather inconveniently, our Lab. Chief Electrical Inspector (the way I 
call him) is on travel this week and can only read his email occasionally.
We are all very unhappy about this.  He's still not agreed with what we 
have done. Interpreting what he wants for the pre-start, we are now 
trying to do the EMII (electrical material and installation inspection) 
in the Assembly Hall and Interaction Region for those things that we 
haven't done (such as lighting).

Joel Vasquez ( our Chief Electrical Engineer ）is leading the efforts 
with a few Lab. EMII inspectors.  He and the C-AD ESSHQ Head and others 
determined that there are several items that we need to do.   3 of them 
belong to the Cryo Group (C-AD).  Since I'm more familiar with this C-AD 
group, I went to ask them.  They quickly found a C-AD electrician Bob H. 
to do it tomorrow.  But when I chatted with Bob, he told me that he's 
running out of EMII stickers !   I quickly found Mike D. in C-AD and 
took a few stickers from him to give to Bob.  If nothing else, I wanted 
just to show him how determined I'd like to get it done 😁   That may be 
the most productive thing that I've achieved the whole day. 😂

The plan is finish doing all the inspections and submit to this Chief 
Electrical Inspector.  We hope he'll agree ~on Monday that we have 
finished all the pre-start items ( --- he mentioned in his travel about 
something that should be post-starts).  Then,  the IRR Chair approve on 
Monday.  Since it'll need a couple more steps (we've sent documents to 
the next officer to give him a heads-up) before we obtain the final 
approval from the DOE site office, it looks like that though RHIC can 
start cool-down on Monday (May 8), we can't cool down our Magnet nor 
flow gas to TPC/TPOT.

Since I needed to change a couple things for the RHIC Operations 
Readiness check-off list (as the Rad. Safety Chair in C-AD), I noticed 
that the RHIC check-off list is also largely incomplete. They need this 
to be completed in less than a week before C-AD can inject beams to RHIC.

After lunch today, some of us have had a hot discussion with the ESSHQ 
Head.  At the beginning, it's about what to do or not to please the 
Chief Electrical Inspector.  At the end, we discussed/debated about 
whether we could put back our wooden planks that have been painted with 
fire-retardant paint.  He hadn't wanted to allow us to do so.  At the 
end, with so many mouths of us (vs only one of his), he "bitterly" 
agreed for us to put back those wooden planks.  After that, our Liaison 
Engineer has arranged at least two carpenters tomorrow (at the last 
minute) to put back all the painted planks to the scaffolding, so that 
our collaborators can get access to their detector inside the magnet 
bore etc.

Kin