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= Minutes =
 
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Participants: Naomi (CMU), Fernando, Beni, Eugene, Mike, Bill, Nick, Simon, Fernando, Vlad, and Lubomir (JLab).
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Participants: Curtis, Naomi (CMU), Eugene, Fernando, Dave, Mike, Chris, Simon, Vlad, and Lubomir (JLab).
  
 
== DAQ ==
 
== DAQ ==
  
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- Beni: new fADC125 firmware installed. First tests of the CDC crates: all OK except one module in crate 3. Beni will modify his code to accept new data types. Hopefully he will start run tomorrow using mode 8: raw data, time, and integral. For that one needs to define proper thresholds (several sigmas of the noise above pedestal), and daq values.
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- Lubomir: running for a first time with sparsification in mode 1 (almost three days on gluon49), and today started also mode 8. The data make sense, Mike also looked at the pedestals, amplitudes and the timings in mode 8 and they look reasonable.  
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- Record long run, #304, has been take with all the CDC and 12 (out of 14) FDC crates. The run didn't crash after >5 days, we had to stop it for the new firmware to be installed.
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- After the power outage yesterday (at ~1:30pm) Beni had to go down in the hall to turn on the VME crates, including the third trigger crate. One should be able to do this from the web, it's not clear why it didn't work.  
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- About 10 fADC125 modules report timeout errors from time to time. Two modules, ROCFDC9-slot 14, and ROCCDC4-slot 16, crashed the DAQ. Cody already looked at ROCFDC9 and replaced the module. 
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== CDC update ==
 
== CDC update ==
  
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- Mike: few pre-amps have been changed. Four fADC125 modules were replaced due to missing bits in some channels. On the next meeting Mike will present results about the straw efficiency.
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- Mike: One LV channel is tripping (by the controls) due to "overheating". That started after the power outage. We may replace the module, or first relax the temperature limits in the controls. Several CDC channels are questionable, will work on them.
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- Due to the power outage the mass flow controller stopped and the pressure in the CDC went down to atmospheric in about 10-20 minutes. Beni: need to check for gas leaks with sniffer.   
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- In run #304 two crates were off: one due to a new firmware installed, the other had issues with one module. In addition we had 6 modules not reporting any signals, and many channels with pedestals below zero. We have to understand what's wrong with these 6 modules, and replace them if we have to.
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- Vlad: looked into the run 304 results, for the first time we have enough statistics (at least 10 events in each channel) to decide if the channel is working. Results: 1 wire channel (3M connector problem) and 16 strip channel not working. The low number of bad strips (to be compared to 60 bad channels before) is due the low threshold used in the analyses. However, 4 of the 16 bad channels are new.
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- Due to the power outage the chiller, the LV and the gas in the Hall went off. We turned on the chiller successfully, even it took ~20 min till it reached the 20deg target temperature. As for the gas it was restored, but we need to connect the two mass flow controller boxes to the UPS (we will need extension cords and Tom's permission). The two gas boxes in the gas room were connected to a UPS and we had no problems there. There was a problem to turn the LV back on. Even the chiller was on and the hardware interlock not engaged, we couldn't do it yesterday. Today, according to Hovanes, it turned out that there's another IOC (independent of the FDC IOC) that checks the temperature and the flow in the chiller and interlocks (using epics software) the LV crates. In the mean time Dave Butler made the status of the hardware interlock available for epics. Thus, Hovanes is working now on a control window that will have all this information so that one can monitor the interlocks and clear them to be able to start the LV.
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== Electronics ==
 
== Electronics ==
  
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- Fernando: there are cables in the Hall that are not marked, run properly, or even have fire hazard (mostly in the FCAL area). Related to the FDC we have a cable from the chiller (used for the epics) and an ethernet cable that has to be marked and run properly.
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- Fernando: Contacted CAEN on the noise issue, they are working on it. First article on the f125 boards (not populated) arrived, they look really nice, even the company made a cut in the board to see the quality of the internal layers.  
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- Fernando and Nick installed ferrite core filters on all the HV cables (CDC and FDC) at the module side, but the noise didn't change. The plan is to do nothing for the coming run. Later will consider rearranging the HV cables in the CDC.
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== Engineering ==
 
== Engineering ==
  
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- Linked above are the very last Luke's results (we didn't have time to discuss them on the last meeting). Luke re-measured the first position. The second plots shows the difference between the new and the old pitch values: the problem is that there's a constant slope. This is well seen from the third plot, showing the difference between the new and the old measurements point by point (i.e. the second plot is the derivative of the third one). The difference goes up to 0.3mm in the middle. The new measurement was done when the AC was off in the ESB, so the discrepancy might be related to the humidity/temperature change.
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- FDC was surveyed without field on Wednesday. They could see only two (out of four) reflectors on the first package, which unfortunately is not enough to define a plane. The reflectors on the other packages were visible. Today (Thursday) they were looking in one directions with three reflectors while the magnet was powered to 1000A and found 1mm shift downstream along z on all the three points. Then they moved to another position with four points visible. While the magnet was going down to zero amps, they found same 1mm shift in the opposite direction.  
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== Commissioning ==
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- Beni: not sure if using the Bertan modules on some of the CDC channels is possible, since there's no way to control them remotely, after the beam is aligned it will require going in the hall to turn them on or to adjust the HV or trip levels.
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- The CDC instructions for the [https://hdops.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Tune_Photon_Beam_and_collect_data_for_initial_detector_checkout initial detector checkout] need to be written as line-by-line instructions for the shifters (according to Alex).
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- The explanation is, it is the whole magnet shrinking (when the current goes up) that causes this shift w.r.t. floor. The BCAL rails are attached only at the upstream side that is why it moves downstream.  
  
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- The shift is not big, but good to know. It means the target (attached to the platform) will move w.r.t. FDC with/without field. We may be able to see this with the tracks.

Revision as of 18:30, 19 September 2014

September 18, 2014 FDC+CDC meeting

Agenda

  1. DAQ
  2. CDC update (Mike)
  3. FDC update (Vlad, Lubomir)
  4. Electronics (Fernando)
  5. Engineering
  6. Commissioning Wiki Page (all)
  7. Other

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FDC meeting ID: 290664653

Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Naomi (CMU), Eugene, Fernando, Dave, Mike, Chris, Simon, Vlad, and Lubomir (JLab).

DAQ

- Lubomir: running for a first time with sparsification in mode 1 (almost three days on gluon49), and today started also mode 8. The data make sense, Mike also looked at the pedestals, amplitudes and the timings in mode 8 and they look reasonable.

- About 10 fADC125 modules report timeout errors from time to time. Two modules, ROCFDC9-slot 14, and ROCCDC4-slot 16, crashed the DAQ. Cody already looked at ROCFDC9 and replaced the module.

CDC update

- Mike: One LV channel is tripping (by the controls) due to "overheating". That started after the power outage. We may replace the module, or first relax the temperature limits in the controls. Several CDC channels are questionable, will work on them.

Electronics

- Fernando: Contacted CAEN on the noise issue, they are working on it. First article on the f125 boards (not populated) arrived, they look really nice, even the company made a cut in the board to see the quality of the internal layers.

Engineering

- FDC was surveyed without field on Wednesday. They could see only two (out of four) reflectors on the first package, which unfortunately is not enough to define a plane. The reflectors on the other packages were visible. Today (Thursday) they were looking in one directions with three reflectors while the magnet was powered to 1000A and found 1mm shift downstream along z on all the three points. Then they moved to another position with four points visible. While the magnet was going down to zero amps, they found same 1mm shift in the opposite direction.

- The explanation is, it is the whole magnet shrinking (when the current goes up) that causes this shift w.r.t. floor. The BCAL rails are attached only at the upstream side that is why it moves downstream.

- The shift is not big, but good to know. It means the target (attached to the platform) will move w.r.t. FDC with/without field. We may be able to see this with the tracks.

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