Run Planning Meeting Notes, January 19 - January 25, 2023

Wednesday January 24

Past 24 hours

• Beam study, with Hall D access. Then, production on diamond. ABU= 12.2 h for the day.

Shift Reports

• Day shift summary
• Swing shift summary
• Owl shift summary
• Early Riser shift summary

Reports

• During Access, a certain number of problems were fixed:
  • The TAGH HV crate power was cycled (A. Somov) (See original problem here)
  • Target remote control was fixed (C. Carlin)
  • Misbehaving pressure sensor was taken care of(Scot). [It looks fine now (Beni)] and [agrees with Newportnews weather station (Naomi)]. Spare sensor was ordered. Should we restore the sensor in the alarm and the usual instruction to stop run if the alarm goes off?
  • NMR probe fixed (Tim/Scot). Then it froze again until this morning, 6:24am. Now it is working again after Scot cycled it. Linked to Tagger magnet DCCT current sensor cycling.
  • Malte and Mark Dalton worked on FCal.
  • Justin worked on DIRC LED issue.
  • Scot had Vlad's chiller taken out of the Hall.
• Diamond orientations are consistent with 2020 (Alexander Austregesilo)
• Energy monitoring for Winter 2023 GlueX-II run

Issues

• Start counter 96 degree rotation in cabling or software space (Simon)
• DIRC LED TDC missing (David Lawrence, Justin
• TOF timing (Beni). Later fixed by Sean.
• Long DAQ problem:~1.5h (Alison Laduke/Sergei Furletov). See also Early Riser shift summary
• BCM calibration. Accelerator instrumentation group informed us that last BLA calibration was done in 2021 (beside that done last Thursday, 01/19/2023? To be confirmed) and recommend Ops to do one at each start of the run period.
• A request for the kitchen lights to be fixed should be submitted next time there is beam downtime.

Plans

• Production (300 nA, 2h runs) with cycle:
  • 2 runs para(0/90)
  • 2 runs perp(0/90)
  • 2 runs para(45/135)
  • 2 runs perp(45/135)
  • 1 run amo (use it to rejuvenate amo reference in CBREM GUI)
• Trigger fine tuning Thursday? (A. Somov)

Tuesday January 24

Past 24 hours

• Production on diamond. Trippy beam, but good availability. ABU=16.2h for the day

Shift Reports

• Day shift summary
• Swing shift summary
• Owl shift summary
• Early Riser shift summary

Reports

• Beam profile from Harp scan done Monday morning looks good
• Coherent peak enhancement fit for 2023 (Justin)
• Start Counter performance (Beni)
• Rates comparison for GlueX, PrimEx and CPP/NPP (Alexandre D.)
• Start Counter detector walk (Beni)

Issues

• Tagger Hodoscope HV communication problem (Jon Zarling)
• Main trigger scaler freeze goes unnoticed: Sunday, Monday Can we include them in the scaler summary gui, so it is easy for the shift people to see them?
• NMR probe not communicating.. It started around 4pm Monday. DCCT current monitor for the tagger is also down.(See also Early Riser shift summary)

Plans

• 4h of beam studies + 2h beam restoration). Tagger and Hall to be surveyed around 9pm:
  • Safety Walkthrough (M. Dalton + trainee(s))?
  • Scot to access to take out Vlad's chiller
  • Tagger access for HV communication issue?
  • Investigate the faulty pressure sensor?
  • Chris Carlin to fix the target controls
• Production (300 nA, 2h runs) with cycle:
  • 2 runs para(0/90)
  • 2 runs perp(0/90)
  • 2 runs para(45/135)
  • 2 runs perp(45/135)
  • 1 run amo

Monday January 23

Past 72 hours

• Beam was off from Friday 7:30am to Saturday 2am due to vacuum issue in south linac. Friday ABU: 4.0h
• Saturday: Ran on amorphous (goni), 300 nA. Until Sunday 9am when Hovanes started diamond alignment. Saturday ABU: 18.6h
• Sunday 9am-5:30pm: diamond alignment. Sunday 8:30pm - Monday 7:30am: First production 0/90/45/135/amo cycle (see CBrem peak). Then did Harp scans. Sunday ABU: 14.3h

Shift Reports

• Day shift summary Friday, Saturday, Sunday
• Swing shift summary Friday, Saturday, Sunday
• Owl shift summary Saturday, Sunday, Monday
• Early Riser shift summary Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Reports

• Diamond alignment (Hovanes). See also here and here and here
• Empty target vertex reconstruction (Simon Taylor)
• TAGM check and also here (Richard Jones)
• DIRC LED performance (Bill)
• FCAL occupancy plots (Churaman)
• Harp scan Saturday morning. Convergence does not look very good, but we decided to run this way for now (amorphous runs).
• cdc currents (Beni)
• TOF timing resolution (Beni)
• tagger field after power glicth (Alexandre Deur)

Issues

• 2 RC volunteers were needed (one for Beni's RC week because of his surgery, and another for Susan S's week because she had to cancel her trip to the US). Hovanes and Simon volunteered to cover the two weeks.
• Numerous pressure alarms. Sensor problem? Since Saturday morning, instruction from Lubomir are that we should only acknowledge the alarms. No need for stoping the ongoing run. See also here. The suspicious sensor has been removed from the alarm (Hovanes)
• Beam energy oscillation investigation: Several accelerator experts are looking at it. No consensus whether it is real or not. Since it is at the MeV level, it should not be an issue for GlueX (but it is for accelerator).
• 30% increase in rates compared to Summer 2020 run period.
  • Yields after BCM recalibration (A. Deur)
  • Edy (Hall D Accelerator contact) has been asked to follow up on the issue.
• Target control issue.
  • Target communication lost around 1pm Friday. Alarm acknowledged by shift crew without action or calling expert. New shift noticed this and called Hovanes. Hovanes informed Alexandre who checked what was the issue and call then Chris Carlin. Chris C. could not come (catching a flight at the airport) but instructed the crew to switch the the back-up IOC, which apparently fixed the issue. However, the controlled came back in a confused state (Full but with heater on, an incompatible situation) so Alexandre informed Chris Keith who went in (beam was off for repair during the whole event) with the shift leader (Dene) and partly fixed the issue by switching the target to local control.
  • We can monitor the target, but not control it remotely (switch empty <=> full). For the moment, this is not a crucial problem.
• Numerous DIRC alarms Saturday, see this entry, this one, and the comments in the day and swing shift summaries.

Plans

• Production on amorphous (Goni, 300 nA) until the diamond is aligned.
• Diamond alignment: Sunday morning, ~9am. (Hovanes)
• Then production on diamond radiator, 4 orientations + amo. 300 nA. Presently, we do each orientation once (not twice) and each run is nominally 2h, including the amo run.
• Tomorrow (Tuesday, 24th: 4h of beam studies + 2h beam restoration):
  •  ?Safety Walkthrough (M. Dalton + trainee(s))?
  • Scot to access to take out Vlad's chiller
  •  ?Investigate the faulty pressure sensor?
  •  ?Chris Carlin to fix the target controls?
• Link to runplan

Friday January 20

Past 24 hours

• Ran on amorphous radiator (250 nA) until 10am. Then, beam was taken away for RF work (high current push for Halls A and C). Beam came back around 5:30pm. We did harp scans, a BCM/FCup calibration, and then ran on various amorphous radiators during the night and early morning. ABU= 11.5h for the day
• Several accesses done during the day:
  • Sasha (FADC replacement for TOF)
  • Sergey

Shift Reports

• Day shift summary
• Swing shift summary
• Owl shift summary
• Early Riser shift summary

Reports

• Harp scans. Sigma_y is too wide=> too wide photon beam spot (magenta). Okay for now (unpolarized beam)?
• TOF calibration (Beni), FADC replacement for TOF (A. Somov)
• Difference in Shape of Reconstructed photon beam energy with different AMO radiators (Churamani Paudel)

Issues

• Beam energy oscillation investigation (M. Tiefenback). Summary: Mike T. suspects the oscilations are not real but he is asking confirmation/advice from the system experts.
• Tim W. reminder on acknowledging alarms
• HVB currents look high and follow-up (Naomi)
• 30% increase in rates compared to Summer 2020 run period.
  • Original finding by A. Somov
  • Comparison of 2020 and 2023 for TAGH rates (A. Deur)
  • Check that TAGH counters scale with (A. Deur)
  • rho and pi0 yields (A. Austregesilo)
  • BCM/FCup calibration suggested by the PD, its results and follow-up.
  • the rate discrepancy after BCM/FCup calibration has been reduced by half (A. Deur)
  • Ran overnight on different amo radiators

Plans

• Thursday evening and Friday night:
  • Once beam come back, do Harp scans.
  • FCup test of our beam dump BCM.
  • Run 1h on the amo radiator of the goni (baseline for next runs below). 250 nA
  • Run 2h on 0.19E-4 RL amo radiator on radiator ladder (250 nA).
  • Run 2h on 1.12E-4 RL amo radiator on radiator ladder (250 nA).
  • Run (until the beam is taken away in the morning) on 3.4E-4 RL amo radiator on radiator ladder (250 nA).
• Beam off starting Friday morning around 7:30am to fix vacuum issue in south linac, until 4pm(?).
• When the beam comes back:
  • Harp scans
  • Production on goni amo radiator at 300 nA until Sunday morning.
• Hall access:
  • Sergey F.
• Diamond alignment: Sunday morning, ~9am.
• Until then production on amorphous.
• Link to runplan

Thursday January 19

Past 24 hours

• Ran on empty target until 7:20am. Then, beam was taken away for beam and RF study and acceptable beam came back only Thursday at 1:10am. ABU= 4h for the day
• refilled the target around 4:15pm.
• Several accesses done during the day:
  • Scot
  • Sergey
  • David Lawrence
  • Cody
• Took amorphous data, starting around 1:10am after aborted attempt to check diamond alignment.

Shift Reports

• Day shift summary
• Swing shift summary
• Owl shift summary
• Early Riser shift summary

Reports

• Harp scans (just our harp)
• Hovanes attempted to start diamond alignment between 10:50pm-1am. Not able to start due to lack of good beam.

Issues

• TOF rate issues (Beni)
• beam energy oscillation
• 30% increase in transmission compared to Summer 2020 run.

Plans

• Beam off starting around 10am for RF study, nominally until 4pm+/-4h.
• Hall in controlled access?
• Diamond alignment: Friday day ? (Hovanes unavailable today)
• Until Friday day, production on amorphous?
• Link to runplan