GlueX TOF Meeting, November 3, 2021
GlueX Time-of-Flight Meeting
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
11:00 am EDT
BlueJeans: 350 531 998
Contents
Agenda
- Announcements
- Review of minutes from the last meeting
- TOF II Trigger
- TOF NIM paper
- Action Item Recap
Minutes
Present: Edmundo Barriga, Eugene Chudakov, Mark Ito (chair), Sasha Ostrovidov, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
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Review of minutes from the last meeting
We went over the minutes from the meeting on October 6th.
Occupancy Plots
Beni remarked on the changes in the monitoring plots for the current run after the magnetic field was turned on.
Before: run 81347
After: run 81696
The "before" plots are much more symmetric, left-right, up-down, and front-layer-back-layer. Beni remember that this effect is also seen in the distribution of charged tracks around the beam line.
We could not recall exactly when the acrylic shield for the inner TOF was removed; that may have had an effect. Eugene mentioned that high TOF rate near the beamline may have an effect on the current η reconstruction efficiency since the TOF is used as a veto for photons. Here the acrylic shield may help. Beni also noted that there is a big rate difference in the TOF depending on whether the target is full or empty.
Beni is planning a study of the observed asymmetries using scalar records from the EPICS Archiver.
Calibration
Beni reported that the TOF gains have dropped a bit during the course of the current run.
He is going to get back in touch with Jackson Pybus. The TOF calibration has been streamlined to make it easier to hand off.
TOF II Trigger
Mark and Beni reported on the discussion at the CPP Meeting earlier today. Ilya has a plan for the test, but we have run out of time to execute it during the PrimEx run. The CPP group will try to get a short period of time for a test during SRC. Beni pointed out that since there is a lot of set-up to do, trigger-wise, for SRC, that the new TOF firmware might be made part of the plan, at least for very high-level tests (basic operation, i.e., no crashes).
Beam Angle Measurement during SRC
Beni suggested that during the period where SRC is running with a series of thin carbon targets (8 of them, 2 mm thick each, equally spaced in z, spanning 21 cm in z) we might be able to reconstruct vertices and measure the beam angle, using a series of x-y measurements at several z-positions.
