February 1, 2012 Tracking CDC/FDC

Meeting Time and Place

Wednesday February 1, 2012 at 11:00am At Jefferson Lab, the meeting will be held in F326

Connections

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Hardware Agenda

1. Announcements
2. FDC Update logbook
3. CDC Update
   1. February 2012 GlueX-doc 1898

Tracking Software Agenda

1. Announcements.
2. Status of performance metrics.
3. Summary of current work on tracking.

Hardware Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Naomi, Dave, Mark, Eugene, Tim, Simon, Beni, Lubomir

CDC Update

1. Stringing - this should be finished next week, there were 220 wires left to do this morning.
2. HV - 500V is being applied to (one end of) each wire and the (very small) current measured.
3. Resistance - now is a good opportunity to measure the resistance of each wire.
4. Survey - wires need to settle for a week before finishing tension measurements. Tim will schedule the survey team between Feb 20 and March 5.
5. Remaining hardware - the cheeseplate is on its way to CMU. Slava is working on the other hardware.
6. Soldering - Kait and Amy are now expert at this.

Collaboration meeting

One talk each will be scheduled for the CDC and FDC.

Software Minutes

The meeting started about five minutes early due to an early completion of the hardware meeting. Present at the meeting were: (CMU) N. Jarvis, P. Mattions and C.Meyer, (JLab) E. Chudakov, M. Ito, D. Lawrence, L. Pentchev, S. Taylor, B. Zihlmann (IU) R. Mitchell, K. Moriya, M. Shepherd (FSU) N. Sparks.