September 25, 2013 tracking CDC/FDC

Meeting Time and Place

Wednesday September 25, 2013 at 11:00am At Jefferson Lab, the meeting will be held in F326

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Hardware Agenda

1. Announcement
2. Collaboration Meeting
3. FDC Update
4. CDC Update CDC_216_channels Upsampled data
5. Data Formats
6. Cluster Counting Updates [1], [2]
7. Voltage controls for FDC and CDC

Minutes

Present: Curtis, Naomi, Beni, Lubomir, Simon, Cody, David, Hovanes

1. FDC Update
   1. Techs are working on FDC skin and cable mesh.
   2. Spare package reconfigured for the new F1TDC test; Beni's working on the readout.
2. CDC Update
   1. Curtis has begun negotiations over use of our preferred loading dock, which is now within a construction site.
   2. Naomi has rearranged Gerard's upsampling algorithm from a retrospective processor into a continuous one-sample-in, five-upsampledpoints-out form. Upsampled data
   3. The CDC drift time histograms are showing bumps, Beni suggested it could be a grounding problem. CDC_216_channels
3. Data Formats
   1. Cody confirmed that the proposed data formats are doable.
4. Cluster Counting Updates [3], [4]
   • An example of one event track: raw signals and the track reconstructed from the cluster information in the two thick cells.
5. Voltage controls
   1. Hovanes gave a presentation on the HV and LV control systems