Run Coordination Meetings:Spring2025
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Contents
- 1 Spring 2025 Run
- 2 Connect Information
- 3 Meeting General Agenda
- 4 Beam and Hall configuration
- 5 General Information
- 6 Runplan
- 7 Hall D situation room (current run plan)
- 8 Accelerator status
- 9 Hot Checkout
- 10 Readiness for Spring 2025 run
- 11 Live Camera Feeds from the Four Counting Houses
- 12 Running Shifts Remote
Spring 2025 Run
Google Spreadsheet.
GlueX experiment (January 24 - July 20 2025)
Connect Information
To connect, please see the information on the GlueX meeting wikipage
Meeting General Agenda
Run planning meetings:
Beam and Hall configuration
- Commissioning of ECal.
- Other task that can be done if there are pauses in the ECal commissioning
- Diamond alignment (Hovanes)
- ...
- Other task that can be done if there are pauses in the ECal commissioning
- Commissioning of FCal.
- Experiment: GlueX-II/JEF.
- Beam energy expected:
- 12 GeV
- Beam polarization expected:
- from 5% to 73%, depending on other passes of the other Halls . No expectation of decent polarization before March 19th. Then 73% for the rest run.
- Solenoid:
- 1350A
- CW Beam:
- 250 MHz frequency.
- Range: 1na-1000 nA.
- Chopper slit: TBD
- Standard current and radiators
- 300 nA on a 4.1·10-4 R.L. radiator (50 μm diamond). (RSAD limit 400nA on 58 μm diamond))
- 300 on a 33.7·10-5 R.L. AL radiator (30 µm Al). (RSAD limit 480nA on 30 µm Al radiator))
- Position Slow Lock on or FFB on (FFB doesn't operate below 50nA).
- Radiators:
- Goniometer radiators: Start with JD70-107. Next, JD70-109. JD70-103 may still be usable if needed. TBD: Install one of the thick 80μm new diamonds, to be available for opportunistic tests.
- Diamond JD70-107 (55 μm - 4.6·10-4 R.L., 7×7 mm²) New crystal. (Not expected to be great according to rocking curve.)
- Diamond JD70-109 (50 μm - 4.1·10-4 R.L., 7×7 mm² - New crystal - (Not expected to be good according to rocking curve.)
- Diamond JD70-103 (50 μm - 4.1·10-4 R.L., 7×7 mm²) Used in CPP. Partly spent.
- (Diamond JD70-106 (50 μm - 4.1·10-4 R.L., 7×7 mm²) - Aligned and used shortly during Tagger Accidental test in Spring 2020. Did not display sharp coherent peak.)
(Diamond JD70-105 (47 μm - 3.9·10-4 R.L., 7×7 mm²) - Spent: used for the second part of GlueX's Fall 2018 run and Fall 2019/Spring 2020/Fall 2021)- Amorphous 40 μm Al radiator (44.9·10-5 R.L.)
- Amorphous 1.86·10-5 R.L., (for TAC run).
- Amorphous
- 1.64 µm Al (1.86·10-5 R.L., see study)
- 10 µm Al (11.2·10-5 R.L.)
- 30 µm Al (33.7·10-5 R.L.)
- Goniometer radiators: Start with JD70-107. Next, JD70-109. JD70-103 may still be usable if needed. TBD: Install one of the thick 80μm new diamonds, to be available for opportunistic tests.
- Tagger quadrupole on (-4.2 A).
- Collimator hole: Default running: 5.0 mm.
- Targets:
- LH2 target: cryogenic target
- TPol converter: 75 μm
- Miscellaneous:
- PS test area. Tests must be fully opportunistic,without interfering with ECal commissioning and GlueX data taking. No more than 3 persons involved in such tests should be in the Hall during a control access:
- PS test area. Tests must be fully opportunistic,without interfering with ECal commissioning and GlueX data taking. No more than 3 persons involved in such tests should be in the Hall during a control access:
General Information
This document describes the run plan for the Hall D Spring 2025 run.
- Schedule for the run (see 2025 official schedule (draft)):
- January TBD: Electron beam restoration.
- January 24th - July 20th: 26 weeks for upgraded ECal commissioning and GlueX-II/JEF. As of 11/20/24, one or two weeks shift is expected ⇒ January 31st - July 27th:
- Accelerator overall plan and priorities: Deliver physics beam to 4 halls
- Hall D plan summary:
- Beam and detector check-out: 50 - 300 nA. ~ a day.
- Commission new beam profiler from Regina (Hovanes).
- Commission of ECal (~ a month. 150 nA)
- Opportunistic tests during possible pauses of ECAL Commissioning:
- Diamond alignment (Hovanes, see below)
- CDC HV scans (Beni, Naomi). Need compatible trigger
- ToF HV scans (Beni). Need compatible trigger
- Lead glass HV scans (Malte). Need compatible trigger
- Study thick 80μm new diamond (Richard).
- Others?
- Opportunistic tests during possible pauses of ECAL Commissioning:
- Commissioning of FCal (In parallel with ECal. Needs a commissioning plan.)
- Diamond alignment: Stable beam (no frequent trip) 20 nA without FSD for 2-3 shifts.
- Experiment: GlueX-II/JEF E12-12-002
- 2 TAC runs. ~nA or less. The bleedthrough should be small compare to it. 1 run just after ECAL Commissioning. Another near the end of the run.
- Ideally, TAC run should be done with the other Halls off.
- If not possible, the next best option is to have both A and C not at 5 passes, so that magnetic extraction is performed (less bleedthrough than with RF separation).
- Either Hall A or C or both are at 5 passes during the whole run ⇒ we will have to watch for opportunity when the Hall at 5 passes is down.
- High luminosity runs: up to 1 week at 650nA, and up to 1 day at 1 uA.
- 2 empty target runs (300 nA). 1 run at the start of GlueX-II data taking. Another near the end of the run.
- Straight track run: 2 shifts (50% efficiency: one shift of good data) (50 nA on 10-4 R.L. radiator).
- Opportunistic tests:
- GEM-TRD test during ECAL Commissioning Positioned 3 to 6 o'clock in front of forward detectors, looking downstream.
- Beam and detector check-out: 50 - 300 nA. ~ a day.
- Expected Staffing and responsibilities:
- The Run Coordinator oversees the run:
- Jan. ?? - ??, ?? days (beam restoration): Alexandre Deur
-
Jan. 24 - 29, 6 days: Alexandre Deur - Jan. 29 - Feb. 5, 1 week: Igal Jaegle
- Feb. 5-12, 1 week: Simon Taylor
- Feb. 12-19, 1 week: Edmundo Barriga
- Feb. 19-26, 1 week: Colin Gleason
- Feb. 26-March 5, 1 week: Igal Jaegle
- March 5-12, 1 week: Simon Taylor
- March 12-19, 1 week: Mike McCaughan
- March 19-26, 1 week: Drew Smith
- March 26-Apr. 2, 1 week: Naomi Jarvis
- Apr. 2-9, 1 week: Boris Grube
- Apr. 9-16, 1 week: Mark Dalton
- Apr. 16-23, 1 week: Hao Li
- Apr. 23-30, 1 week: Mike McCaughan
- Apr. 30-May 7, 1 week: Alexandre Deur
- May 7-14, 1 week: Richard Jones
- May 14-21, 1 week: Justin Stevens
- May 21-28, 1 week: Boris Grube
- May 28-June 4, 1 week: Amy Schertz
- June 4-11, 1 week: Edmundo Barriga
- June 11-18, 1 week: Naomi Jarvis
- June 18-25, 1 week: Drew Smith
- June 25-July 2, 1 week: Hao Li
- July 2-9, 1 week: Susan Schandmand
- July 9-16, 1 week: Susan Schandmand
- July 16-23, 1 week: Mark Dalton
- July 23-30, 1 week: Alexandre Deur
- The Run Coordinator oversees the run:
- The Physics Division Liaison (PDL) and Hall D Work Coordinator/Safety Warden (S. Spiegel) verify that the proper safety rules are followed. PDL is:
- PDL: B.Zihlmann
- The analysis coordinator (Alexander Austregesilo) oversees the off-line diagnostic of the different systems and analysis of the data.
- Shifts: 2 person shifts: 1 leader and 1 worker, both on-site, scheduled through the GlueX shift scheduler.
- The Physics Division Liaison (PDL) and Hall D Work Coordinator/Safety Warden (S. Spiegel) verify that the proper safety rules are followed. PDL is:
- Coordination Activities:
- The RC will attend the MCC meetings at 7:45am and 8:00am and the weekly MCC meeting (Wednesday, 1:30pm). The PDL will attend the weekly MCC meeting.
- Run meetings: broadcasted on Zoom. 8:45am in the counting house conference room. The Run Coordinator will be responsible for organizing and chairing the meeting.
- Useful links:
- Accelerator schedule and information
- Link to Richard Jones program to plot the beam profile at the collimator.
- Links to previous runplans
- Web-accessible EPICS information
- Links to beam parameters/radiation level monitoring:
- Last 8-hours plots showing 1-minute, 10-minute, and hourly averages
- Same but Last 24-hours
- Same but Last 72-hours
- Week, month, and quarter (3 months) plots also exist, with similar web addresses.
- A map of the radiation monitors
Runplan
Hall D situation room (current run plan)
Hall D counting room white board
Accelerator status
- Link to accelerator short term schedule (White board)
- Link to accelerator SAD calendar
- Bluejeans code for the daily MCC meetings and Wednesday 1:30 meeting: 569476853
Hot Checkout
To be completed by TBD
0% ready ; 0% checked ; 100% not ready
Readiness for Spring 2025 run
- Solenoid (Tim/Eugene/Beni/Scott):
- Solenoid is cold, full with LHe and tested to 825A. Check-out in progress.
- Surveys (Tim/Scott)
- Surveys yet to be finalized or TBD:
ToF done- May need to redo the goniometer survey if we install a 80 μm diamond.
- PS may need to be redone.
- DIRC
- Beam pipe
- GEM
- Luminosity monitor
- Target
- Surveys yet to be finalized or TBD:
- DAQ (Sergei).
DAQ is tested and working.
- Trigger (Alex Somov).
- Beam line
- Diamond status (Tim/Hovanes).
- Install one of the thick 80μm new diamonds.
- Remove spent diamond JD70-105 for anneal tests at U.Conn. Richard needs to glue it to its holders. Need to have it before mid-January. From Richards, this timeline should be fine.
- Putting new diamond and/or removing mounted diamond ⇒ re-surveying the goniometer. (Presumably, after mid-January.)
Tagger magnet- Ready and NMR is working.
- Diamond status (Tim/Hovanes).
- Tagger hodoscope (A. Somov).
- TBD
- Tagger microscope (R. Jones/Igal).
- TBD
- Goniometer (Hovanes).
- Removed from beamline and reinstalled ⇒ all diamond alignments will need to be redone.
Collimator Motion (Hovanes).- tested and working
- New profiler (Regina): All tests are fine and surveyed,
- Tested with Cosmics. There is a couple of dead channels. Fernando and Chris will look into fixing one of them (we can live without the other channel).
- Detector is operational, Voltages were applied and signals observed. M. Dugger will do a complete checkout Jan 6 to 10.
- Surveyed. Target group is working on making electrical powering system compatible with new regulation.
- Assembled, tested and surveyed. Need to be cabled.
- Lots of work to be done. Need ECal hardware (temperature sensor, High Voltage equipment) to be finalized before to start Slow Control work on it.
- Need to wait for the cables to be reconnected. Will be checked sometimes in January.
- Start Counter (Simon/Joerg/Beni)
- Operational, everything look good.
- FDC (Lubomir).
- Chiller is now operational.
- At nominal HV, but two sectors are not quite operational.
- Two flash ADC are not communicating. Waiting for Cody to check them
- CDC (Lubomir/Naomi/Beni).
- Looking good so far. Also need to have BCal trigger to test.
- Gas system (Beni/Lubomir)
- Looking good.
- BCal (Mark Dalton/Malte)
- Detector appears functional. Need to do the HCO.
- ECal (Sasha)
- Waiting for the trigger firmware
- FCal (Malte/Mark Dalton)
- Running it now with LED and cosmics. Cosmics data taking started mid-December.
- ToF (Simon/Beni).
- Installed: requires re-shimming to match the new ECAL/FCAL
- Once it is surveyed and cabled (before Christmas in principle), it can be powered and checked out.
- Need to take (non-beam) data to re-calibrate TDC chips. Need to wait for ToF to be cabled. Calibration data taking takes a long time (~week).
- DIRC (Justin).
- Will be tested with LED after the Christmas break.
- Support from Electronic Group (Eugene)
- Do we have a phone number for on-call contact?
- ESAD is updated and uploaded to github.
- RSAD is prepared by RadCon and out for the required signatures.
- tested and working
Live Camera Feeds from the Four Counting Houses
- These feeds SHOULD be open and visible at all times from one of the monitors in each of the counting houses.
- Management cautions AGAINST opening them from other locations or offsite, out of concern for available bandwidth.
- Beni will contact Walt Akers to inquire about their status. Done. Walt will take care of it.