Minutes-6-24-2010
June 24, 2010 FDC meeting
Tentative Agenda
- Production
- 727 B.C. status
- production planning
- plans for wire stringing in 126 pin rail, pos meas cam, pos meas , pos meas parts, pretension screw, string table
- Electronics
- fADC125 status (Gerard, Fernando)
- ground modifications
- Cathode redesign: finalizing (Roger, Bill)
- Full-scale prototype tests
- tests with fADC FDC Log Book, pages 494 - 500 (Lubomir)
- cosmic tests (Beni)
- Other
Minutes
Participants: Bill, Glenn, Casey, Roger, Mark, Fernando, Beni, Simon, and Lubomir.
Production
- Bill: the PR for the clean room is in place but not for the ACs. We will need the AC, the one for the whole bay area, to start moving there some stuff and do some dirty work that doesn't require clean environment. Teresa Danforth is the person to be contacted and Glenn will help us in that.
- Bill: the cathode production plan is in a good shape: Fast Track procedure will be posted soon. The wire production planing will require more information since we have not done the stringing. Therefore, first we need to start setting up the fixtures from UVA and exercising and then clarify the procedure.
- We will start setting up the stringing in the tent in 126. The other option, F117, is no longer an option since there's not enough space. We decided to use the granite table in 126 for stringing. We are going to put wheels on that table. For the cathode production we will need another two granite tables. Lubomir: According to Eugene there are money for equipment so that we can buy two granite table right now. Glenn confirmed that and said that he could sign for Eugene, who is away from JLab till July 7. The plan is to put the tables directly in 727 B.C.
Electronics
- fADC125: Lubomir did further studies of the cutoff seen in the spectra from the wires. As suggested by Gerard on the last meeting now a quadratic interpolation is used to find the maximum from the fADC samples. At page 498 in the FDC logbook, shown are the maximum signal distributions separately for all the channels. The cutoff position varies from channel to channel somehow and probably this is the reason we don't see a good peak at the saturation region. Fernando asked if there's a peak in the spectra for the individual channels. Lubomir: there's not enough statistics to see clearly the peaks channel by channel. Lubomir will use the new scope and the differential probe to histogram the signals from the card directly and see if there's a saturation.
- Bill proposed a modification of the cathode production procedure: cutting the foil from the transfer ring will be done not at the I.D. position but at a larger (by an inch) radius. This will allow to flap the copper foil over the whole periphery of the cathode ring to improve the grounding connections. Thus, no modifications of the cathode g10 ring are needed. The back of the cards will be glued on the copper foil with conductive epoxy. The aluminum ground foil will be glued at one side to the cathode copper foil and Bill proposed to use conductive ink to connect the other side of the aluminum foil to the cathode. Fernando: conductive ink may not be the right choice
