Minutes-4-2-2015

April 2, 2015 FDC+CDC meeting

Connection

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Agenda

1. Running at half energy
2. Gas puzzle
   • CO2 monitoring [2]
3. CDC update (Beni, Mike)
4. FDC update (Lubomir)
   • HV4_c6_2p ampsHV4_c6_2p volts
   • 55Fe-source studies: spare, FDC4
5. Electronics (Fernando, Cody, Chris, Nick)
6. Engineering
7. Other

Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Naomi(CMU), Sean(NU), Eugene, Luke, Mike, Dave, Chris, Nick, Cody, Beni, Simon, and Lubomir (JLab).

Running at half energy

- For the FDC we expect to have about the same e.m. background on the chambers, i.e. we will be limited by the same photon intensity as in the fall run. The number of pion tracks is expected to be about half of that in the fall. We asked for 16 hours beam time assuming we will have 8 hours at each of the two HV settings: 2200V and 2250V. As the HV filter boxes are expected to reduce the noise significantly, we ask for 16h run but only at one setting, 2200V but at a lower discriminator threshold, thus compensating for the smaller number of tracks.

Gas puzzle

- The new pump has been installed in the EEL and data taken with the spare package using the certified gas mixture. On the attached plot: CO2 measurements (blue), atmospheric pressure (black), corrected measurements (red) using (dp/p)^2.4 pressure correction. This pump has variable flow, Nick and Chris made voltage control for that. Thus the flow was adjusted in this way, keeping the rotameter open completely, so that the pump doesn't create vacuum.

- The plan is to monitor the certified gas till Friday afternoon, then move the sensor to the Hall and monitor the CDC for one more day. On Saturday afternoon Beni will change the CO2 gas factor to 1.

CDC update

- Naomi found in run 2451, some of the pedestals are wobbling by 100+/-3 units on a scale of hours. Could be temperature variations, in any case it is small compared to the thresholds of ~60.

FDC update

- The HV channel on FDC4 cell 6 sector 2p, developed a constant current of ~3 microamps (at the nominal 2200V) after being unstable for a week (current/voltage plots attached). Most likely the problem is outside of the gas volume and we may attempt to fix it sometimes when the FDC is pulled outside of the magnet.

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Electronics

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