Run Planning Meeting Notes, Mar 19-Mar 25, 2020

• Single-person shift schedule in operation, since Tuesday 16:00
  • the schedule, linked from main Hall-D web page -- Eugene
  • the shift rules, linked from main Hall-D web page -- Eugene
  • the shift rules, linked from hdops wiki -- Eugene
  • 4-hall video feeds are now available, displayed on screen above copier
    • on-site access only, please
  • Continuous bluejeans meeting open in counting house -- Needs another connection in order to remain open.

Thursday, March 19

1. Last 24 hours
   • Shift Summaries Afternoon Swing Owl Early Riser
   • TAC run -- MCC report
2. Reports/Issues
   • Transmission is back to higher level -- Alexandre
   • BCAL LED triggers missing -- Elton
3. Run Plan
   • Production

Friday, March 20

1. Last 24 hours
   • Completed 0/90 PARA, 0/90 PERP, 45/135 PARA, 45/135 PERP, AMO 4.5x10-4, begin 0/90 PARA
   • Shift Summaries Afternoon Swing Owl Early Riser
   • Monitoring Okay [1], [2]
   • CDC 2 channel trip on over-current -- Elton
     • Later ramp up fine. -- Elton
   • BCAL Hot channel fixed by Sergey
2. Reports/Issues
   • MCC operations under MEDCON5
   • BCAL LED triggers removed from monitoring -- Sasha
   • Looks like TAGM disc scaler 21 is dead
     • Turns out this is OK
3. Run Plan
   • Production

Saturday, March 21

1. Last 24 hours
   • Completed a full cycle of radiator settings
   • Shift Summaries Afternoon Swing Owl Early Riser
   • Monitoring:
     • Various issues CDC and FDC holes, -- Olga
     • RF & TPOL - quite different to reference plots. -- Ken
2. Reports/Issues
   • DAQ problems -- Amy
   • 8% PS rate decrease over 2-3 hours -- Elton
   • FDC HV trip --
   • Empty target results -- Simon
   • fadc250 "bad pulse data" bug in earlier 2020 spring data diagnosed, solved -- Richard
3. Run Plan
   • Need to plan for MEDCON6 and an orderly shutdown (while maintaining a 6 foot distance or using PPE.)
   • Production

Sunday, March 22

1. MEDCON6 Shutdown Plan
2. Last 24 hours
   • Shift Summaries Afternoon Swing Owl Early Riser
   • Monitoring:
     • [3]
     • [4]
   • Production run with CCAL
3. Reports/Issues
   • Transmission changes
   • Reboot roccal to get DAQ to work
   • Hall Counting House cameras, too many pop-up windows
4. Run Plan
   • Production

Monday, March 23

1. MEDCON6 Shutdown Plan
   • Bring lab to minimum safe ops state.
   • Complete by the end of the week (end of site access)
   • Expect email from management
2. Last 24 hours
   • Shift Summaries Afternoon Swing Owl Early Riser
   • Monitoring: [5] [6]
   • CCAL put into production
3. Reports/Issues
   • Transmission drift
   • DIRC Tile temperature alarm (restart DAC)
   • Chromium browser installed to fix window issue
4. Run Plan
   • Last day of running
   • short TOF trigger test run for CPP experiment: DIRC out, B-field ON at 1350 A (nominal), Detector in nominal position. (I assume this test would be useful even if the Forward carriage was somewhat downstream?)
   • Empty target data

Tuesday, March 24

1. Last 24 hours
   • Cavity failure 2l24
   • Raw mode run while emptying target
   • Empty target running (doubling the existing statistics)
   • Baseline study (no-beam run to study SiPMs)
   • CCAL integrated in trigger and retracted
   • Shift Summaries Afternoon Swing Owl Early Riser
   • Monitoring: [7] [8]
2. Reports/Issues
   • Impact of DIRC missing tile
3. Run Plan
   • Down Hard
4. MEDCON6 Shutdown Plan