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FDC Weekly Meeting

Date: January 15, 2009

Participants: Daniel, Micah, Simon, Mark I., Mark S., Chuck, Brian, Beni, Kim, Roger, Eugene, Bill

Next Meeting: January 22, 2009 @ 1:30 p.m.

Full-Scale Prototype Updates

 - Procurements:
    * Roger will check with the company for the rigid-flex assembly
      order. He stated that he believes that the boards are now in
      production.
    * The replacement order for the Rohacell should arrive any day now.
 - Wire QA studies:
    * We got the SEM photographs from the field wire scans from Olga
      Trofimova. Brian will look into having them complete the EDS
      measurements so that we can get some mass spectroscopy done. DSC
      provided an example to Brian based on work done for Hall B. The
      issue is that this could not be done with our pre-mounted wire
      samples. Brian will provide additional samples of our tungsten and
      CuBe wire for this work.
    * Brian will prepare a final QA report with photos and test results
      for all wires when all studies are complete.
 - Mark S. is also responsible for upkeep of the list of procurements for
   the full-scale prototypes.
      * Location: M Drive/halld/Electronics, or for more sophisticated folks, 
        /u/group/halld/Electronics.
 - The Hall A folks have inquired about use of the clean tent. Brian will
   find out more about their requirements and time line and we will work
   to get them in at a convenient time.

Wire Frame Construction

 - Brian and Mark have completed 5 G10/Rohacell laminates. The laminates
   have been planed to the required thickness by the JLab machine shop
   and the thicknesses have been checked by them compared to our required
   tolerances. One of the laminates exhibited some local delamination at
   4 places along its outer diameter. The other four laminates looked
   great. Bill suggested that we increase the epoxy thickness slightly
   during construction.
 - The next stage of machining of the laminates is to add the through-holes
   and the pockets for clearance of the rigid-flex assemblies. This work
   be done by Monday and the boards returned to us. Mark will do some
   thickness checks and report the findings to DSC. Once this work is done,
   we will move on the construction of the first wire frame.
 - After QA checkout and review of procedures, we will move immediately
   to construction of the remaining wire frames. We hope to complete
   construction of all four frames for IUCF by the end of next week
   (Jan. 23). Hopefully we are on target.
 - We should have two construction stations fully available for this
   work. One will be located in the clean tent and the other in the
   JLab machine shop viewing room.
 - We will be in contact with the JLab machine shop so that IUCF can be
   kept up to date on our plans for shipment.
 - Kim needs to complete the PCB stuffing/cleaning document. This should
   be done by the middle of February.
 - We had talked about sending Bill to IUCF to learn the ropes on wire
   winding. This needs to be organized internally and with the IUCF
   folks. DSC will talk with Elke about organization.

Cathode Planning

 - We reviewed the cathode R&D timeline. Folks are reminded to pass on
   progress updates to Chuck every Wednesday.  The current schedule is
   being kept on the mdrive at:
     * Location: M:\halld\Individual-Schedules\FDC or for more sophisticated 
       folks, /u/group/halld/Individual-Schedules/FDC
   At present we are sticking to the schedule reasonably well across the
   board.
 - Progress updates:
     * The cathode edge cutting system has been assembled. A few last
       odds and ends will be installed this week and then we will do
       some test cuts. We should have results to report by our next
       FDC meeting.
     * The construction document is not yet under way formally, but
       Bill is gathering drawings that are needed and Brian and Mark
       will be taking photos of the construction work that is going on
       now.
     * Brian and Mark are now starting work on construction of the
       full-scale cathode sandwich. They are now making up two cathode
       frames.  The details are contained in the assembly drawing. You can
       see that the frame is made from a large G10 annulus and a thin
       Rohacell + G10 annulus.  After the foam and the large G10 annulus
       are laminated, the piece will go to the machine shop to plane it
       to the proper thickness and to include the gas holes. A couple of 
       things have us concerned at the present moment. The first is that 
       the assembly drawing reveals mechanical strength worries. The
       small G10 + foam annulus does may be undersized, but its radius is
       limited by the daughter board space requirements. Also note that the
       gas holes are cut radially into the foam piece further weakening it.
       There are up to 25 of this to allow equalize the gas pressure on 
       either size of the cathode. The plan is to make these cathodes as realistic 
       as possible to study their performance with a realistic Kapton cathode 
       board tensioned to the expected tension of 300 to 400 N/m.
     * We believe that we have a viable way of connecting the external
       ground to the cathode boards and to the ground plane between cathodes.
       Mark has made us a little prototype and passed it around. We would
       like to get feedback from Fernando on the design.  The nominal design
       includes tabs on the cathode boards and ground planes that fold
       over the frames onto which the connector pigtails are attached via
       conductive glue.
     * Eugene is continuing his study of the artwork distortions in the
       sample 2-micron cathode board. The board was tensioned to an average
       value of about 500 N/m. In the dimension perpendicular to the strips,
       the board elongated about 0.3%. The tension on the board relaxed
       20% after the first 24 hours and has remainded constant for more
       than a week now. It is not clear if this is a feature of the board
       or of the tensioner. The stretching in the coordinate along the
       strips is about 0.15%.
     * The work of Eugene led us to discuss how to procede with the cathode
       design. DSC believes that these measured numbers (which were done
       with the polyimide that we will have in the final detector, but were
       not on a very asymmetrical piece) should be used as upper limits for
       the stretching (as will will tension to an average value of 300 N/m).
       Perhaps we should scale the artwork by -0.3% across the strips and
       -0.15% along the strips to take out the lion's share of the distortion.
       We then might want to measure the strip distortion to make tracking
       corrections if necessary.  More discussion on this is needed.  However,
       Roger does need to work on the board design to move traces away from
       through holes to allow for up to about 2 mm of stretching (max) along
       a radius.
     * Roger asked when we plan to place the next cathode order and what
       material we want. The answer is that we would like to place the
       remainder of the order by the middle of February. While we don't
       have an answer yet, we most likely would like to purchase all 2 micron
       stock. If there is an issue with availability of materials, we would
       not wish to delay delivery and we would take a mixture of 2 micron
       and 5 micron stock.  We will move to make a decision very shortly.
       Roger will be in contact with Allflex to give them a head's up on
       where we are.

Cathode flatness measuring system

 - Documentation of the system continues. See the FDC wiki page for details.

Spacer Design

 - Bill has completed the prints for the spacer construction and will pass
   them onto the machine shop shortly.

Stack Assembly Procedures

 - DSC, Brian, and Bill will work to finalize the stack assembly construction 
   document that has been prepared.  This document should be in place before 
   we get too far in the construction process.
 - Bill has found some plastic threaded rods that could be used to 
   compress the stack.  We will be receiving some samples shortly and
   will carry out some loading tests.

Cooling System Tests

 - Fernando is in the process of writing up the results from his cooling 
   system studies.  Stay tuned for the GlueX note.
 - Bill has done some ANSYS modeling to better study the connector that 
   goes from the daughter board card to the cooling loop.  These will be
   added to Fernando's note.

Documentation

 - Roger needs to prepare a document for QA/stuffing/cleaning for the
   cathode boards and a similar document for the cathode daughter
   boards and ground boards.

Small-Scale Prototype

 - We will be moving the FDC cosmic ray test stand from the Test Lab back
   to the EEL building. This move should be completed in the next 6 months
   or so.

Work List

 - The FDC short-term work list has been posted on the FDC web site.  
   This is continually being updated and DSC welcomes any feedback or 
   comments from the group.

Minutes prepared by Daniel. Send any comments or corrections along.