Solenoid Operations

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The Solenoid Magnet

The principle analysis magnet for the GlueX spectrometer is a superconducting solenoid made from the Large Aperture Solenoid Spectrometer (LASS) solenoid built at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1971. The LASS solenoid consists of four separate coils located in separated vacuum vessels. Three coils were later used a second time for the Muon decays into Electron and GAmma ray (MEGA) experiment at Los Alamos National Lab from 1993 through 1995. During the MEGA experiment, the coils had electrical shorts and leaks to the insulating vacuum along with deteiorated superinsulation and instrumentation. In order to use them for the GlueX experiment, all four LASS coils have been extensively repaired, refurbished and tested at Jefferson Lab. The four coils were then assembled in Hall-D. The final GlueX solenoid has a bore of 1.85~m and measures 4 m long.

Halld solenoid.jpg

The magnet consists of 4608 windings(turns) of conductor in total. The windings are grouped into 19 sub-coils and distributed in four coils. The conductor is made of two copper bars 7.62 mm wide and about 2 mm thick, with a band of about 1~mm thick NbTi superconductor composite soldered in between them. These double-pancake windings are not insulated at their sides and are separated by a 0.64 mm thick stainless steel band co-wound with the cable, and insulated from the cable on both sides by Mylar bands of 0.2 mm thick.

Halld solenoid simulation.pngHalld solenoid field.png

When powered with the maximum current of 1350 A, the solenoid generates a field close to 2 Tesla in the bore. The full inductance of the solenoid is about 26 H.

Routine Operation

As the superconducting solenoid is very complex system, the operation of such system requires a lot of knowledge and experiences. The commissioning, troubleshooting, tuning of ground fault and quench detectors, Power ON and OFF, change current will be conducted by authorized experts only.

The responsibilities of the shift workers include:

  • Monitor the overall status of the solenoid: current, field, interlocks, voltages, cryo levels etc.
  • Notify experts when anomalies happen.

PLC HMI Interface

The HMI screens are for expert only. halldsc7 currently serves as the Remote Desktop Server to access these screens. Right now, only ONE connection is allow at a time, so please quit the remote desktop if not needed. You can access them by using any Linux terminals in the Counting House: gluon01a, gluon02, gluon03, gluon04 and gluon5. To do so, follow theses steps:

  1. Open a terminal from any of the gluon machines.
  2. Start remote desktop in fullscreen mode by typing rdesktop -f halldsc7 in the terminal
  3. In the Windows Log In screen, choose Other User, use JLAB\halldusers for username, ask Yi [1] or Hovanes [2] if you do not know the password.
  4. Once logged in, double click the FactoryTalk Client shortcut on the desktop, choose ...\Hall_D.cli application and click run to start the HMI screens.
  5. Once done, please log off the remote desktop. You can leave the screens running though.

EPICS Interface - Main Menu

The Solenoid Main GUI can be opened from the Hall-D's main EPICS GUI.

Solenoid Screen Main.png

If not opened, follow these steps:

  1. if offsite or using a person computer, log on to JLab's Login Gateway: ssh -X yourusername@login.jlab.org
  2. if not already in the device network, log on to the Hall Gateway (hallgw): ssh -X yourusername@hallgw, use your two-step crytocard to generate passcodes.
  3. log on to gluon30 with account hdops: ssh -X hdops@gluon30, ask Yi Qiang [3] or Hovanes Egiyan [4] for password.
  4. type css to bring up the EPICS GUIs.
  5. select ".../Solenoid" as Workspace.
  6. in the "Main Action Bar" GUI, in "MAGNETS" section, click "Solenoid" button.

Some basic status of the power supply will be shown on the main menu, one can access the following sub-menus.

note1: MobaXterm is recommended for Windows users, and a copy is available on M: drive M:\halld-online\MobaXterm.exe

note2: if neither "Main Action Bar" nor "Solenoid Main Menu" are shown, click the short cuts in the CSS menu to bring them up:

Solenoid Screen shortcut.png

Power Supply

Solenoid Screen Powersupply.png

Voltages

Solenoid Screen Voltage.png

Cryogenic System

Solenoid Screen Cryo.png

Temperature Readings in Individual Coils

Solenoid Screen Coil.png

Valve Menu

Solenoid Screen Valve.png

Settings for Individual Valves

Solenoid Screen Valve Setting.png

Vacuum System

Solenoid Screen Vacuum.png

Strain Gauges

Solenoid Screen StrainGauge.png

Interlock

Solenoid Screen Interlock.png

Expert personnel

The individuals responsible for checking that the solenoid is ready to take data and setting its operating parameters are shown in following table. Problems with normal operation of the solenoid should be referred to those individuals and any changes to their settings must be approved by them. Additional experts may be trained by the system owner and their name and date added to this table.


Table: Expert personnel for the Solenoid Magnet
Name Extension Date of qualification
George Biallas - Solenoid 269-7535 June 12, 2014
Yi Qiang - Solenoid/PXI 269-7237 June 12, 2014
Mark Stevens - Power Supply 269-6383 June 12, 2014
Jonathan Creel - Cryogenics 269-5925 June 12, 2014
Dave Butler - PLC 329-2583 June 12, 2014

Expert Information