Summary of the Working Group for Operations, Reliability, Injection, and Instrumentation

When a particle accelerator achieves the status of a particle production factory or super-factory (luminosities in the range of 10 to 10 cm-sec), the expectation is that it will be capable of operating at high luminosities reliably. To achieve this goal, those in accelerator operations must concern themselves with the disposition of personnel, the efficiency of day-to-day operations, the reliability of the accelerator hardware and software, and reproducibility of accelerator luminosity conditions. In order to achieve high integrated luminosity performance, it imperative that the injection and preparation of the beams be handled as rapidly and efficiently as possible. When the accelerator encounters a fault condition, it is critical to detect the nature of the fault, to undertake repairs and to recover operations in the most expeditious manner. To accomplish the fault detection and repairs effectively, necessitates a suite of diagnostic instrumentation and supporting analysis software. The efforts of this working group have focused on these issues.