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= Agenda =
 
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# CDC update (Mike, Simon)
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# CDC update (Mike, Simon) [[File:MStaibStrawDeform.pdf]]
 
# FDC update (Lubomir, Luke)  
 
# FDC update (Lubomir, Luke)  
 
#* cathode resolution: [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_NewCathResComp.pdf],[http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Xres.pdf], [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Xres_slice.pdf], [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Yres.pdf], [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Yres_slice.pdf]
 
#* cathode resolution: [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_NewCathResComp.pdf],[http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Xres.pdf], [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Xres_slice.pdf], [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Yres.pdf], [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/commissioning/mufit_2242_Yres_slice.pdf]
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#* Tagger tests w/ Fe source: [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/luke/1950_UDvsQ.pdf][http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/luke/2050_UDvsQ.pdf][http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/luke/1850_UDvsQ.pdf][http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/luke/1950_0_XvsZProfY.pdf][http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/detector/fdc/luke/1950_700_XvsZProfY.pdf]
 
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# Electronics (Fernando, Chris, Nick)
 
# Electronics (Fernando, Chris, Nick)
 
# Engineering  
 
# Engineering  
 
# Other
 
# Other
 
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= Minutes =
 
= Minutes =
  
Participants: Curtis, Mike(CMU), Sean(NU), Fernando, Luke, Dave, Simon, Beni, and Lubomir (JLab).
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Participants: Curtis, Mike (CMU), Eugene, Luke, Dave, Chris, Simon, Beni, and Lubomir (JLab).
  
 
== CDC update ==
 
== CDC update ==
  
- Simon presented latest results on the CDC resolution as a function of the distance to the wire. The log entry is linked above. He has an option in the analysis code to exclude one ring at a time from the tracking, while still calculating the residuals for the tubes in that ring. The resolutions are at/below 200 microns except for hits close to the wire. Improvement compared to previous results - procedure for smoothing the reconstructed track.
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- Beni found the CO2 MFC for the CDC was not working. As a result there was only Ar in the CDC, explaining the max HV of 1kV. The MFC will be sent for fixing and two new MFC will be ordered. Scot is working on that but the time frame is not clear yet. In the mean time we decided to connect the CDC and FDC mixing tanks together, and fill both with the FDC MFCs set to 50/50 Ar/CO2 gas mixture.  
  
- Mike showed once more his slides presented at the last calibration meeting about the evidence for possible tube deformation. As pointed out before by Naomi, the drift time spectra on the different tubes are different, pointing to a possible tube deformations. There are "good" tubes with spectra as expected by Garfield, and "bad" tubes with long tails going beyond maximal expected drift time. Mike looked further at the azimuthal distribution of the hits vs drift time. Certainly there's a difference between the good and bad tubes. Much more statistics is needed to figure out the azimuthal and z-dependence of the deformations.
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- Mike showed more plots demonstrating the azimuthal asymmetry in the drift times for one "bad" straw. The time-to-distance is a little different in different directions. The main difference is in the range and, if time is converted into distance, the wire appears to be shifted by ~1mm from the middle in horizontal direction. Beni suggested to divide the tube into (at least three) parts along z to see if this is a real offset of the wire.
  
 
== FDC update ==
 
== FDC update ==
  
- Luke performed measurements with 55FE source on the spare package with 60/40 Ar/CO2 for different HV. He described the calibration procedure and showed some results for 2050V and 1950V. The up/downstream avalanche peak position are well visible as with 40/60 gas mixture. At 2050V they are ~150microns apart (compared to 250 microns with 40/60 at almost the same gas gain), while at 1950V they are 350microns apart.
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- Lubomir showed latest cathode resolution results: now we have reached the design resolution of 200 microns. The problem was in the centroid calculations - fitting the signals improves the resolution significantly. The resolution extracted from the wire position improved from 150 to 80 microns, while the directly measured resolution using tracking improved from 250 to 180-200 microns (first plot). There is still systematics in the residuals as function of the distance to the middle of the strips. For the wire-estimated resolution (2nd and 3rd plot) it depends on the wire position (as expected) and varies as sine function with an amplitude of up to 130 microns. For the tracking-estimated resolution (last two plots) this amplitude is 4 times smaller, as expected. The problem is that in both cases there's a left-right asymmetry w.r.t. distance to strip middle - a slope of ~100 microns per strip width. One certainly can correct for this and further improve the resolution.
  
- The problem with the control of the FDC chiller was fixed (could not read out the temperature and flow) by Hovanes and the FDC LV and HV were turned on. So far we keep the HV at 2000V, some channels need more time for conditioning.
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- Luke showed more results with 5FFe source (linked above), now varying also the field HV. One can see that the distance between the peaks in direction perpendicular to the wire plane increases for smaller charges - no explanation at all. 
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- FDC is at almost the nominal HV, 2150V. For some of the channels it took a week to condition them after the power outage.
  
 
== Electronics ==
 
== Electronics ==
  
- Discussing the noise in the CDC, we want first to look at the noise in the FDC and then decide if and how we want to improve it (Fernando).
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- Beni looked at the FDC noise - it's systematically smaller than the noise in the CDC. Beni wants to try again to improve the grounding by connecting the grounds on the HV board together with a thick cable. Will discuss this with Fernando.
 
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Latest revision as of 18:28, 29 July 2015

July 23, 2015 Drift Chamber meeting

Connection

  1. Instructions for Bluejeans meeting connection
  2. Meeting ID: 290664653
  3. To join via a Web Browser, go to the page [1] https://bluejeans.com/290664653.

Agenda

  1. CDC update (Mike, Simon) File:MStaibStrawDeform.pdf
  2. FDC update (Lubomir, Luke)
  3. Electronics (Fernando, Chris, Nick)
  4. Engineering
  5. Other

Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Mike (CMU), Eugene, Luke, Dave, Chris, Simon, Beni, and Lubomir (JLab).

CDC update

- Beni found the CO2 MFC for the CDC was not working. As a result there was only Ar in the CDC, explaining the max HV of 1kV. The MFC will be sent for fixing and two new MFC will be ordered. Scot is working on that but the time frame is not clear yet. In the mean time we decided to connect the CDC and FDC mixing tanks together, and fill both with the FDC MFCs set to 50/50 Ar/CO2 gas mixture.

- Mike showed more plots demonstrating the azimuthal asymmetry in the drift times for one "bad" straw. The time-to-distance is a little different in different directions. The main difference is in the range and, if time is converted into distance, the wire appears to be shifted by ~1mm from the middle in horizontal direction. Beni suggested to divide the tube into (at least three) parts along z to see if this is a real offset of the wire.

FDC update

- Lubomir showed latest cathode resolution results: now we have reached the design resolution of 200 microns. The problem was in the centroid calculations - fitting the signals improves the resolution significantly. The resolution extracted from the wire position improved from 150 to 80 microns, while the directly measured resolution using tracking improved from 250 to 180-200 microns (first plot). There is still systematics in the residuals as function of the distance to the middle of the strips. For the wire-estimated resolution (2nd and 3rd plot) it depends on the wire position (as expected) and varies as sine function with an amplitude of up to 130 microns. For the tracking-estimated resolution (last two plots) this amplitude is 4 times smaller, as expected. The problem is that in both cases there's a left-right asymmetry w.r.t. distance to strip middle - a slope of ~100 microns per strip width. One certainly can correct for this and further improve the resolution.

- Luke showed more results with 5FFe source (linked above), now varying also the field HV. One can see that the distance between the peaks in direction perpendicular to the wire plane increases for smaller charges - no explanation at all.

- FDC is at almost the nominal HV, 2150V. For some of the channels it took a week to condition them after the power outage.

Electronics

- Beni looked at the FDC noise - it's systematically smaller than the noise in the CDC. Beni wants to try again to improve the grounding by connecting the grounds on the HV board together with a thick cable. Will discuss this with Fernando.