GlueX Start Counter Meeting, January 27, 2011
Contents
Location, Time
Thursday, January 27, 2011
3:30 pm EST
JLab: CEBAF Center, Room F326/7
Agenda
- Announcements
- Review minutes from previous meeting: all
- Start Counter News: Werner, Lei, Eric
- For pictures see http://wanda.fiu.edu/boeglinw/GlueX/SC
- MOU plans: all
Communication Information
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Slides
Talks can be deposited in the directory /group/halld/www/halldweb1/html/talks/2011-1Q
on the JLab CUE. This directory is accessible from the web at https://halldweb1.jlab.org/talks/2011-1Q/ . You have to be a member of the "halld" Unix group to do this.
Minutes
Present:
- FIU: Werner Boeglin, Lei Guo, Eric Pooser
- JLab: Eugene Chudakov, Mark Ito (chair), Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
Wrapping Material
The ESR sheets from FSU have still not arrived.
Materials and Construction
- Lei reports a price of $190 a piece for the scintillator from Elgin. They will have with diamond milled edges.
- The pieces will be sent to Plastic Craft for cutting, bending, and polishing.
Neutrons and SiPM Damage Rates
Sasha recommended that we look at Richard's [?? recent note] on the effect of SiPM dark current on the microscope counters. Some points from that note:
- Timing resolution is not much affected by dark rate.
- Looked at rates up to a gigahertz.
• Photonique devices with a slow recovery rate gives fluctuation in timing resolution due to non-constant exposure to beam. • Hamamtsu devices have a faster recovery rate and a steadier response.
measurements with new SiPM • timing resolution a bit disappointing • more test with the new scintillator, with PMT ∘ light output ∘ attentuaion length • then with SiPM ∘ even with same amount of light, get factor 1.5-2 worse resolution ∘ pulse with led works well with SiPM ∘ more study needed ∘ cannot see single pe peak, pedestal is wide
50 mV signal from SiPM, amplified to 200 mV ADC uses direct signal
don't think it is the amount of light played a bit with bias voltage, nominally 71 V using what Carl ways
using cfd's
peltier element
werner will send MOU
time resolution requirement: what is it? what do we put in MOU.
E. put in purpose
W. may take some details out.
photo-detectors in a region of substantial magnetic field
sascha: use the tagger to help
total 56 K$ labor: 170 man-weeks for labor