Run Planning Meeting Notes, Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2017

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Thursday, March 2

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 6.49 0.88 0.63
Swing 6.97 0.71 0.32
Owl 7.09 0.80 0.11
Total 20.55 2.39 1.06


  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Production data taken after 10:30 AM Weds.
      • Long mode run
      • Black spots on diamonds
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 3099M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 40.05B
  3. Issues
    • Problems with FCAL crate 9
    • FCAL red light issue
    • TRD gas issue
    • DAQ issues:
      • 5:42 - The DAQ keeps giving us "SEBO: Client has not reported for xx sec." errors, but then recovers after a minute. This happens every ~20mins or so. We will restart the DAQ again after the current run finishes.
      • ~22:00 - Monitoring stops working, have to start/stop runs several times to get events flowing through secondary ET
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Production
    • Triggers: In-time random? Min-bias? FCAL+BCAL+ST?
  6. Offline Analysis
    • TAC runs?
  7. AOB

Friday, March 3

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 0.79 7.21 0.00
Swing 4.75 2.50 0.75
Owl 6.83 1.09 0.08
Total 12.37 10.80 0.83


  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Vacuum issues [~8 hours down]
    • 1630 - Beam back
    • 1730 - Attempt at trigger & DAQ studies
      • 1800 to 1840 - ACC access to replace controller
      • 1900 to 1930 - FSD Card swap
    • 2000 - Start of production
      • 500 - 20 min down due to cryomodule problems
    • Strip charts: 1 2
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
  3. Issues
    • Red lines on run control GUI?
    • Front-panel triggers off for 30920-2
    • Firefox problems
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Tagger/SC trigger
    • Hall A Bleed-through?
    • Empty target run?
    • fADC250 Compressed Mode?
    • Production
    • Next week:
      • High rate run [500 nA]
      • Low rate run [50 nA + 2x10^-5 RL Al]
  6. Offline Analysis
    • TAC runs?
  7. AOB


Saturday, March 4

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 6.79 1.18 0.03
Swing 6.17 0.71 1.12
Owl 7.29 0.64 0.07
Total 20.25 2.53 1.22
  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Steady beam delivery
    • New slow lock status display logbook entry
    • Strip charts: 1 2 3
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Tagger/SC trigger studies
    • Hall A Bleed-through study: 1 2
    • Empty target run accomplished
    • fADC250 Compressed Mode Study
    • Better downtime tracking in elog
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 1771M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 42.8B
  3. Issues
    • ~2hrs lost to DAQ problems on Fri. morning
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Production + Afternoon harp scan
    • Next week:
      • High rate run [500 nA]
      • Low rate run [50 nA + 2x10^-5 RL Al]
  6. Offline Analysis
  7. AOB

Sunday, March 5

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 6.94 0.74 0.32
Swing 7.31 0.52 0.17
Owl 6.78 1.19 0.03
Total 21.03 2.45 0.52
  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Harp scan including beam dump radiator: 1, 2
    • FCAL hole - Bad board in ROCFCAL12, slot 18
    • Low photon flux data taken during owl shift, ~14M triggers
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 2338M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 45.1B
  3. Issues
    • Bad FCAL fADC250, low on spares
    • Known DAQ problems with EB/cMsg
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Production Data
    • Tentative Accelerator Schedule:
      • Monday: Establish beam to Hall C - 9 AM to 1 PM
      • Tuesday: Beam studies - 9 AM to 2+ PM
  6. Offline Analysis
    • TAC runs?
  7. AOB

Monday, March 6

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 5.91 0.90 1.19
Swing 7.25 0.66 0.09
Owl 7.00 0.87 0.13
Total 20.16 2.43 1.41
  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Steady beam delivery, resteer due to BLMs 1-2 per shift
    • AC slow locks: 1, 2
    • Strip charts: 1 2
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Busy Friday: min-bias trigger studies, Hall A Bleed-through study, fADC250 compressed mode, empty target run
    • Saturday: Harp scan including beam dump radiator: 1, 2
    • Sunday: Low photon flux data taken during owl shift, ~14M triggers
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 2722M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 47.8B
  3. Issues
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • More Production Data
    • High rate run [500 nA]?
    • Low rate run [50 nA + 2x10^-5 RL Al]?
      • Halo counter settings
    • New diamond alignment?
    • Anything else?
    • Tentative Accelerator Schedule:
      • Monday: Establish beam to Hall C - 9 AM to 1 PM
      • Tuesday: Beam studies - 9 AM to 2+ PM
  6. Offline Analysis
  7. AOB

Tuesday, March 7

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 1.16 6.80 0.01
Swing 0.62 7.00 0.38
Owl 2.58 5.42 0.00
Total 4.36 19.22 0.39
  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Beam down until 8:15 PM, injector problems during day, problems delivering beam until ~5 AM
    • Strip charts: 1 2
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 2.4M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 50.2B
  3. Issues
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
  6. Offline Analysis
  7. AOB

Wednesday, March 8

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 1.78 6.22 0.00
Swing 1.73 6.21 0.03
Owl 6.29 1.40 0.31
Total 9.80 13.83 0.34


  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Beam down until ~9:00 PM, problem cryomodule, overnight delivery to only Hall D
    • Strip charts: swing owl
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Controlled Access
      • TOF, FCAL, GEM
      • Issues
    • Harp scans
    • FADC250 firmware check 1, 2
    • Low rate run study
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 1006M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 51.2B
  3. Issues
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Beam down until noon, support for Hall C KPP afterwards, other hall delivery not likely before owl (at best)
    • Low current program
      • Long-mode run
      • Low-intensity run: 20 nA? 50 nA?
      • L3 Tests?
      • TAC run?
      • Diamond alignment?
    • Spring 2017 High Intensity Run Plan (archive)
    • Run progress
  6. Offline Analysis
  7. New Run Coordinator: Richard Jones
  8. AOB
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