March 14, 2012 Tracking CDC/FDC

Meeting Time and Place

Wednesday March 14, 2012 at 11:00am At Jefferson Lab, the meeting will be held in F326

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Hardware Agenda

1. Announcements
2. FDC Update logbook
3. CDC Update
   1. Construction Update
   2. Cosmic Calibration of the Chamber
4. TDR Update

Tracking Software Agenda

1. Announcements.
2. Summary of current work on tracking.
3. Where we need to focus work (Discussion)?

Hardware Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Naomi, Beni, ?, Simon, Lubomir, ?, Eugene, Tim

1. FDC Update
2. CDC Update
   1. Construction Update
      1. Jim (JLab) has nearly completed his survey of the CDC.
      2. The rohacell ring arrived, looks good, we will dry-fit it when Jim has finished.
      3. The transparency of the cheeseplate has been greatly improved by sanding and buffing. When the buffing has finished it will be cleaned.
      4. The thermocouple kit has been ordered. We did not order a control unit for it - we are leaving this to Elliott. We plan to attach 10 thermocouples to the CDC (5 inside each gas plenum, passing through the plenum wall to the outside) and some shielded thermocouple extension cables to run from downstream to upstream endplates. Longer shielded thermocouple extension cables will run from the upstream endplate to the electronics racks.
      5. Tim asked us to think about how to check that the gas is filling all areas of the CDC before wiring it up.
   2. Prototype
      1. Naomi is still working on timing.
   3. Cosmic calibration
      1. Simon started working on some straight track fitting software with electrons to see if he could move the wires and then correct their position.
3. TDR Update
   1. The CDC team have looked at this but no real progress yet.

Software Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Paul, Beni, David, Simon, Eugene, Nathan, Kei

Overviewed ongoing projects: