November 1998

• Magnet delivered to AGS to be assembled, wired with sensors and tested briefly.

• Si module support structures (octagon, 1 spectrometer arm, and 1 ring counter) arrive at UIC and MIT.

• Detector rail system assembly starts at MIT.

• Counting house and its utilities complete.

• Water-cooled bus installation.

December 1998

• Magnet installed and hooked up at RHIC.

• Cooling water system and power supply complete.

• Setup for magnet mapping begins.

• Detector rail assembly at MIT completed.

• Cable tray in ports and outside berm complete.

• Electronics room racks installed and floor/wall cable penetrations finished.

January 1999

• Magnet mapping completed.

• Concrete block installation.

• Module support structures arrive at BNL.

• Si module delivery to BNL begins.

• Test and certify personnel safety (interlock) system.

• Octagon/vertex module assembly complete.

• Dirty power in tunnel complete.

• Clean power distribution in counting house complete.

Note ODH hazard training required!

February 1999

• Install barrier fences and cranes

• Cable tray system inside tunnel completed.

• Beam pipe protection system installed.

• Clean power distribution along beam line completed.

• Study installation of octagon and spectrometer rail systems.

• Detector water cooling system arrives at BNL.

• Thermal shields delivered and installed on magnet pole tips.

• Detector enclosure mechanical structures installed.

• Install dummy beam pipe.

• Install shield wall outside main entrance.

• Fabrication of tooling for mounting modules on cooling frames.

• Design of tooling for mounting cooling frames on plate and transporting assembled plate.

• Counting house trigger electronics installed and cabled.

• High-eta trigger counters possibly installed.

March 1999

• Tunnel area closed for machine work.

• Spectrometer arm assembly and surveying procedures tested.

• Staging area (small tent) installed in utility building.

• DAQ fully installed in counting house.

• Full electronics system moved to BNL.

• Tunnel trigger electronics installed in counting house and cabled.

• Full trigger chain established through spooled cables.

• Testing of trigger electronics, including DAQ communication.

• Remaining parts for cooling system delivered (with exception of thermal shield manifolding).

• Testing of slow controls system in counting house.

• Be beam pipe arrives at BNL.

April 1999

• Bake-out of dummy beam pipe(?).

• Second specrometer arm and remaining ring counters delivered to BNL.

• Installation of slow controls system in tunnel.

• Full rail, support structure, cooling system, and detector enclosure installation (first without Si).

• Begin installation of trigger detectors and trigger cable pulling.

• Trigger electronics moved to tunnel.

• Begin installation of TOF and TOF cable pulling.

• Installation of DMU system and connection to DAQ.

May 1999

• Final checks of flex cable routing.

• Installation of thermal shield manifolding.

• Reinstallation of the removable parts of the detector enclosure.

• Commissioning of detector enclosure air conditioning and distribution system.

• Connection and testing of the detector enclosure air conditioning and distribution system.

• Installation of Si electronics power supplies and FEC crates.

• Connection of Si electronics to DMU.

• Removal of spectrometer arms and octagon module support structure.

• Mounting of a few Si modules on octagon structure.

• Reinstallation of octagon module support structure into magnet.

• Connection of octagon Si hybrids to FEC boards.

• Full test of installed Si readout system through DAQ.

• Fabrication of tooling for mounting cooling frames on plate and transporting assembled plate.

June - July 1999

• Area closed for accelerator commissioning. Some (sacrificial?) Si modules left in octagon.

• Spectrometer module assembly for one arm complete.

• Spectrometer arm assembly and survey with full Si modules exercised.

August 1999

• Remove octagon module support structure.

• Remove any trigger counters.

• Remove dummy beam pipe.

• Install Be beam pipe.

• Bake out and vacuum test Be beam pipe.

• Mount all Si modules on octagon structure.

• Install full set of trigger counters.

• Installation of ring counters.

• Installation and hookup of ring counter FEC crates.

• Complete trigger and TOF cable pulling.

• Complete any remaining tunnel work.

September 1999

• Final installation of fully loaded octagon and spectrometer arm(s).

• Installation of ring counter enclosures.

• Final commissioning of water and air cooling systems.

October 1999

• Final tests of full detector systems.

November 1999