BLTWG Meeting 02/12/2009

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  • Time: 9:30 EST
  • Place: EVO and ESNET (with telephone bridge)
  • Connecting: instructions are here
  • Present: Alex S., R. Jones, I. Senderovich, J. Stewart, T. Whitlatch, E. Aschenaur, F. Barbosa, and G. Yang.

Agenda

  1. Updated construction and installation schedule - Jim
  2. Progress on change request, communication within Jlab - Jim
  3. Two issues for discussion - Jim
  4. Updates on the tagger background simulations - Alex
  5. Question of CFD vs LE discriminators for tagging counters - Richard
  6. Updated interface drawings - Tim
  7. Dates and preparations for the Spring 2009 CHESS run - Richard
  8. Plans for beam tests - Richard



Notes - with TODOs in red

Construction and installation schedule

This week sent around an updated schedule for the construction and installation of the tagger and photon beam line components, including manpower estimate for each task. One highlight is that the schedule shows stands for several beam line components being constructed in FY09 using contributed university shop time. Time in the UConn shop is tight at the moment, with one machinist out for illness. He is expected to return within 6 weeks, at which point Richard will inquire with the shop about constructing stands for the photon beam line at UConn. It is conceivable that one of the UConn shop members might be willing to be certified as a welder so that the stands might pass safety requirements at Jlab. Major university groups in the experiment have been asked to buy a license for the scheduling software package FastTrack so that we can read and write these schedule files. The design and build contract for the tagger is supposed to go out for bids in January 2010, so getting the documentation together for that bid package is a high priority for the coming months. The sections on construction of the tagging detectors is not yes broken down at the level of detail that will eventually be required. UConn and Catholic U should begin soon to break out the hodoscope construction projects into tasks and show that they can be completed in the time available and that the required manpower is accounted for.

Progress on the GlueX Photon Beam change request

All of the documentation has been submitted to the management that is required to bring the P3E schedule into line with the plans presented at the Review last November. As far as we know, this has all been approved. New signs of progress have been seen in the direction of getting our Interface Document adopted somehow into the record of the 12 GeV project. We see this as an important step to help prevent communications problem such as the one we saw earlier in the week regarding the tagger quadrupole. One thread we started back in summer 2008 that we need to pick up again is the agreement about how the position information from the active collimator will be interfaced to the electron beam controls. Jim will contact members of the accelerator 12 GeV design team to set up a second meeting to discuss this.

Two issues for discussion

  1. Possible interference in the active collimator coming from stepping motor pulses on the primary collimator positioning system: stepping motors are controlled by pulse waveforms generated by a controller that might produce RF pickup in the pA current sensors of the active collimator. RJ reported that during active collimator beam tests in Hall B, the active collimator was mounted on the XY table of the TAC which was actually in motion during the measurement, and no evidence of pickup from the stepping motor control signal was seen. On the basis of that experience, this is not thought to be a problem.
  2. Tagger backgrounds coming from synchrotron radiation in the tagger: inside the tagger magnet the main beam emits an average of 5 MeV of synchrotron radiation in the form of soft X-rays. What do we know about the effects of this radiation on the performance and lifetime of the tagging counters? Synchrotron radiation is turned on in the Geant simulations, so SR effects are currently included in our background estimates, but only above the gamma energy cutoff currently set at 100 KeV. This cutoff could be lowered, but Geant results are not reliable for photons in the soft X-ray region because cross sections there are dominated by the detailed atomic physics of the photoelectric cross section with its characteristic emission peaks and absorption edges for each material. In any case, the SR directly strikes the vacuum chamber walls on the side facing the yoke, and only indirect radiation reaches the focal plane. RJ will look into a reliable way for estimating these effects.

Tagger background simulations

Discriminators for tagging counters

Tagger and Photon Beam Interface drawings

Spring 2009 CHESS run

Plans for beam tests