GlueX TOF Meeting, March 1, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
10:00 am EST
JLab: ARC, Room 428
Contents
Agenda
- Announcements
- Minutes from the last meeting
- Sasha's talk at the Collaboration Meeting (for reference)
- Mechanical design: Tim, Chuck
- Prototype status: Paul, Sasha
- TDC choice: all
- Contract Status: Mark, Paul
Communication
Videoconference
- ESNet: 8542553
- EVO: EVO site
Slides
Talks can be deposited in the directory /group/halld/www/halldweb1/html/talks/2012-1Q
on the JLab CUE. This directory is accessible from the web at https://halldweb1.jlab.org/talks/2012-1Q/ .
Chairman's Cell Phone
(757)504-0664.
Minutes
Present:
- FSU: Paul Eugenio, Kurt Koetz, Sasha Ostrovidov, Ian Winger
- JLab: Chuck Hutton, Mark Ito (chair), Tim Whitlatch
Mechanical Design
Note: Chuck brought his PC into the meeting room so we were able to look at the 3-D I-DEAS drawings.
- The TOF detector modules are clamped between two U-channels that run along the entire edge of the array.
- Tim proposed lengthening the long scintillators by 1 cm, so that the edges protrude another 0.5 cm. This is to make the clamp share load equally between scintillator and light guide.
- [Added in press] Elton Smith pointed out that it is not a good idea to put any pressure on the scintillator surface. That practice promotes crazing. So it looks like in fact we want to make the counters shorter.
- Tim proposed building a 1/4-scale model of the entire frame, including some of the detector modules, to see if there are any assembly issues with the current design.
- Paul proposed building a full-scale model of one corner of the frame, to test whether mechanical tolerances in the assembled array are sufficient.
- Kurt expressed some skepticism that the clamping U-channels could be made with enough precision to both hold the scintillator and provide a suitable mounting surface for the outer steel magnetic shields. In fact the current design does not have a provision for adjusting the angle of the long axis of the shields so that they miss the PMT's and their bases. That would have to be added.
- Kurt advocated a different approach, where the support for each end of each module is a separate mechanical assembly, each assembly supported on a common backbone. These assemblies would allow adjustment of more of the degrees of freedom and would have greater precision in doing so. Ian had drawn up a [??? concept] some months ago.
We decided that a lot of issues had been raised that require some study and further discussion. We agreed to meet again, in a week, Thursday, March 8, at 10 am (in ARC 428, so Chuck can bring his PC again).
next measure light transmission, loss in light guides
Paul: full scale of corner
adjusting angle of steel shield
paul would like to use CAEN TDC's
bring Eugene, Fernando into the conversation