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# Announcements: George V. is at JLab and taking shifts.
 
# Announcements: George V. is at JLab and taking shifts.
 
# Action Items: see below.  
 
# Action Items: see below.  
# Commissioning Status Quo:
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# Commissioning Status Quo
## Mark reported that the pedestals change with overbias.  See logentry: https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3332361.  Beyond 1.2 V the contribution comes from the SiPMs.  At 1.2 V we need a 10% correction to the pedestal width.  Channels are mostly grouped tightly except some that vary much more than the average.  This might lead to a separate smearing factor for different layers, at least.   David: We need to explore how the timing gets affected by the dark hits.  The threshold is 5 channels above baseline, which we may be able to drop to 4 if we work at it.
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## Mark reported that the pedestals change with overbias.  See logentry: https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3332361.  Beyond 1.2 V the contribution comes mostly from the SiPMs.  At 1.2 V we need a 10% correction to the pedestal width.  Channels are mostly grouped tightly except some that vary much more than the average.  This might lead to a separate smearing factor for different layers, at least. The threshold is 5 channels above baseline, which we may be able to drop to 4 if we work at it.
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## Will M. reported that Sasha had seen issues with the average deposited energies.  It was an isolated problem that seems to be resolved by a fix committed by Sean.
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## Elton reported that Noemi is working on the time-walk corrections, George V. on the effective speed in the fibers as well as the timing offsets.  When these task are completed we will have a complete set of constants in ccdb.  Ahmed is working on the efficiencies from the bias scans: plots will be available later today. [Since then, Ahmed posted a report: https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=2697]
 
# Simulations
 
# Simulations
 
## Shower Curvature (Tegan, Andrei): Tegan reported on the shower curvature tables.  He now sees 76% of the total Points, versus 80% seen by the IU code. The position resolution on the 4th layer is worse.  The tables give the mean value of the centroid and an error bar for a given impact position.  Elton: our primary goal is to specify the position of the shower and corrections.  
 
## Shower Curvature (Tegan, Andrei): Tegan reported on the shower curvature tables.  He now sees 76% of the total Points, versus 80% seen by the IU code. The position resolution on the 4th layer is worse.  The tables give the mean value of the centroid and an error bar for a given impact position.  Elton: our primary goal is to specify the position of the shower and corrections.  
 
## Dark hits (Mark/Tegan): Mark: we should consider getting rid of the waveform code for the dark hits and go to a simple (and fast) parametrization.
 
## Dark hits (Mark/Tegan): Mark: we should consider getting rid of the waveform code for the dark hits and go to a simple (and fast) parametrization.
## Elton is working on a report to study details of the bias scan, for nominal gain and vs dark rates.  This understanding might help us parametrize things simply, and will allow a comparison between Elton's toy code and Tegan's simulations.
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## Elton is working on a report to study details of the bias scan, for nominal gain and vs dark rates.  This understanding might help us parametrize things simply, and will allow a comparison between Elton's toy code and Tegan's simulations. [Since then, Elton posted a report: https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=2695]
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## David: We need to explore how the timing gets affected by the dark hits.
 
# Any other business
 
# Any other business
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## David reported that the e-log is has been upgraded to post run info automatically on our HDRUN logbook: https://logbooks.jlab.org/book/hdrun.  This is an awesome feature, and eliminated the need for tedious and time consuming scans of the conventional logbook entries by shift takers.

Latest revision as of 17:04, 24 February 2017

Video Conferencing Information

Meeting Time: 11:00 a.m. EDT

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Participant Direct Lines

  • JLab Phone: in CC F326 is 757-269-6460 (usual room)
  • JLab Phone in CC L207 is 757-269-7084
  • Phone in the Regina Video-conference Suite is 306-585-4204

References

  1. BCAL Reconstruction Issues
  2. BCAL Reconstruction Algorithms
  3. Will's reconstructed energy info

Action Items

  1. z-coordinate determination from up/down amplitude ratio
  2. Sampling fraction tables
  3. Code Cleanup

Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Action Items
  3. Commissioning Status Quo
  4. Simulations
    1. Shower Curvature (Tegan, Andrei)
    2. Dark hits (Mark/Tegan)
  5. Any other business

Minutes

Attendees: Elton, Mark D., Sean, David, George V., Will M. (JLab), Will L. (CMU), Tegan, Ahmed, Zisis (Regina)

  1. Announcements: George V. is at JLab and taking shifts.
  2. Action Items: see below.
  3. Commissioning Status Quo
    1. Mark reported that the pedestals change with overbias. See logentry: https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3332361. Beyond 1.2 V the contribution comes mostly from the SiPMs. At 1.2 V we need a 10% correction to the pedestal width. Channels are mostly grouped tightly except some that vary much more than the average. This might lead to a separate smearing factor for different layers, at least. The threshold is 5 channels above baseline, which we may be able to drop to 4 if we work at it.
    2. Will M. reported that Sasha had seen issues with the average deposited energies. It was an isolated problem that seems to be resolved by a fix committed by Sean.
    3. Elton reported that Noemi is working on the time-walk corrections, George V. on the effective speed in the fibers as well as the timing offsets. When these task are completed we will have a complete set of constants in ccdb. Ahmed is working on the efficiencies from the bias scans: plots will be available later today. [Since then, Ahmed posted a report: https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=2697]
  4. Simulations
    1. Shower Curvature (Tegan, Andrei): Tegan reported on the shower curvature tables. He now sees 76% of the total Points, versus 80% seen by the IU code. The position resolution on the 4th layer is worse. The tables give the mean value of the centroid and an error bar for a given impact position. Elton: our primary goal is to specify the position of the shower and corrections.
    2. Dark hits (Mark/Tegan): Mark: we should consider getting rid of the waveform code for the dark hits and go to a simple (and fast) parametrization.
    3. Elton is working on a report to study details of the bias scan, for nominal gain and vs dark rates. This understanding might help us parametrize things simply, and will allow a comparison between Elton's toy code and Tegan's simulations. [Since then, Elton posted a report: https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=2695]
    4. David: We need to explore how the timing gets affected by the dark hits.
  5. Any other business
    1. David reported that the e-log is has been upgraded to post run info automatically on our HDRUN logbook: https://logbooks.jlab.org/book/hdrun. This is an awesome feature, and eliminated the need for tedious and time consuming scans of the conventional logbook entries by shift takers.