TAC V-wire commissioning
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The purpose of the commissioning of the V-wire is to identify the position of the goniometer that exposes the V-wire to the beam in a way that produces TAC FADC scaler rate of 10^5 Hz at very low thresholds.
- Position the V-wire into the beam using the cross-hair with the holding bar on the horizontal orientation.
- Get a stable electron beam at around 30nA on the V-wire.
- Perform two horizontal scans using halo counters from MYA as detectors at two different Y-position of the goniometer to verify the angle of the V-wire and to find the X-position of the bisector for the V-wire.
- Move the goniometer vertically to define the vertical range of motion within the V-wire holder.
- Move goniometer low enough to reduce the halo counter rate while keeping the cross hair in the mounting bracket of the V-wire.
- Set TAC FADC threshold to the lowest value.
- Insert the TAC into the beamline making sure the TAC interlock does not get engaged. Set the collimator to 5mm.
- Move goniometer low enough to reduce the TAC rate to nearly zero and then slowly raise the goniometer position to achieve 10^5Hz rate for TAC FADC scaler.
- Record the position where the rate is 10^5Hz and put into the EPICS GUI for goniometer targets.
- Move the V-wire position by +-0.5mm in horizontal and vertical around the determined optimal position to check the TAC rate sensitivity to the electron beam motion with respect to the wire using MYA archiver values.