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| − | The main task during the RC week from 01/18-01/25/2023 was to align the diamond and start then production with linearly polarized photons. The diamond was aligned on Sunday (01/22/2023) and production started right after. The reason why alignment could not be done sooner is because of multiple issues with the accelerator. Wednesday, the beam was not available during the day for beam and RF study and a long recovery from these study: acceptable beam came back only Thursday at 1:10am. Hovanes, the expert aligning the diamond waited until 1am and left as the beam was still not there and it was getting too late to do the long work efficiently. We therefore took amorphous data in production configuration when the beam. Thursday, the beam was again taken way for RF study. The reason was that the accelerator could not reach the high currents required by the Hall A and C experiments. The beam came back around 17:30. Hovanes tried to see if he could align the 0/90 directions of the diamond, which he hoped would be quick to align since they were already aligned for the CPP/NPP experiments, but it turned out not the be the case and he realized he will have to redo the alignment from scratch. By the time, it was getting too late for such task. During Thursday night, we ran again on amorphous radiator, choosing to do one run on each of the 4 available Al. foils in order to check the dependence of the rates with radiator thickness. This was due to the rate appearing to be 30% larger than expected for our nominal current. (This was ultimately traced back to a BCM calibration problems, see below in the list of issues). Friday, the beam became unavailable again starting around 7:30am due to a vacuum issue in south linac. | + | The main task during the RC week from 01/18-01/25/2023 was to align the diamond and start then production with linearly polarized photons. The diamond was aligned on Sunday (01/22/2023) and production started right after. The reason why alignment could not be done sooner is because of multiple issues with the accelerator. Wednesday, the beam was not available during the day for beam and RF study and a long recovery from these study: acceptable beam came back only Thursday at 1:10am. Hovanes, the expert aligning the diamond waited until 1am and left as the beam was still not there and it was getting too late to do the long work efficiently. We therefore took amorphous data in production configuration when the beam. Thursday, the beam was again taken way for RF study. The reason was that the accelerator could not reach the high currents required by the Hall A and C experiments. The beam came back around 17:30. Hovanes tried to see if he could align the 0/90 directions of the diamond, which he hoped would be quick to align since they were already aligned for the CPP/NPP experiments, but it turned out not the be the case and he realized he will have to redo the alignment from scratch. By the time, it was getting too late for such task. During Thursday night, we ran again on amorphous radiator, choosing to do one run on each of the 4 available Al. foils in order to check the dependence of the rates with radiator thickness. This was due to the rate appearing to be 30% larger than expected for our nominal current. (This was ultimately traced back to a BCM calibration problems, see below in the list of issues). Friday, the beam became unavailable again starting around 7:30am due to a vacuum issue in south linac. It came back Saturday at 2am. Hovanes was not available for Diamond alignment on Saturday, so it was postponed to Sunday and we did production on the amorphous radiator of the goniometer until Sunday 9am. Then Hovanes started diamond alignment. It was relatively quick, finishing by Sunday 17:30. Then we started production cycling over 0/90/45/135/amorphous and continued until the end of my RC tenure Wednesday, Jan. 25th. |
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Significant issues discovered during the week were: | Significant issues discovered during the week were: | ||
* The calibration of our BCM differed by 30% compared to the run in 2020. Discussions with Ops revealed that the BCM calibration (called BLA calibration) is not done systematically before each run period and the last one was done in 2021. We discussed with Ops to ensure that it should now be done at each start of new run period. We did the BLA calibration on Thursday, 01/24/2023; | * The calibration of our BCM differed by 30% compared to the run in 2020. Discussions with Ops revealed that the BCM calibration (called BLA calibration) is not done systematically before each run period and the last one was done in 2021. We discussed with Ops to ensure that it should now be done at each start of new run period. We did the BLA calibration on Thursday, 01/24/2023; | ||
*The Start Counter was effectively (but not physically) rotated by about 90 degree; | *The Start Counter was effectively (but not physically) rotated by about 90 degree; | ||
| − | *Loss of communication with the target: for a few days, it could be only locally controlled; | + | *Loss of communication with the target: for a few days, it could be only locally controlled: we could monitor the target, but not control it remotely (switch empty <=> full).This is not a crucial problem since there was no need to empty the target during that week; |
*Loss of communication with the TAGH high voltage crate. | *Loss of communication with the TAGH high voltage crate. | ||
| + | *DIRC issues. | ||
Smaller issues beside the usual running woes such as DAQ or FADC troubles, included discovering beam energy modulations of a few MeV due to artifacts in BPMs, the pressure sensor for the CDC producing unphysical spikes and triggering alarms (the sensor information was temporarily removed from the alarm). When it was inspected during an access, found hanging. After being put back and shielded from winds, the spikes disappeared. | Smaller issues beside the usual running woes such as DAQ or FADC troubles, included discovering beam energy modulations of a few MeV due to artifacts in BPMs, the pressure sensor for the CDC producing unphysical spikes and triggering alarms (the sensor information was temporarily removed from the alarm). When it was inspected during an access, found hanging. After being put back and shielded from winds, the spikes disappeared. | ||
Revision as of 10:09, 29 January 2023
Contents
Wednesday January 24
Past 24 hours
- Beam study, with Hall D access. Then, production on diamond. ABU= 12.2 h for the day.
Shift Reports
Reports
- During Access, a certain number of problems were fixed:
- The TAGH HV crate power was cycled (A. Somov) (See original problem here)
- Target remote control was fixed (C. Carlin)
- Misbehaving pressure sensor was taken care of(Scot). [It looks fine now (Beni)] and [agrees with Newportnews weather station (Naomi)]. Spare sensor was ordered. Should we restore the sensor in the alarm and the usual instruction to stop run if the alarm goes off?
- NMR probe fixed (Tim/Scot). Then it froze again until this morning, 6:24am. Now it is working again after Scot cycled it. Linked to Tagger magnet DCCT current sensor cycling.
- Malte and Mark Dalton worked on FCal.
- Justin worked on DIRC LED issue.
- Scot had Vlad's chiller taken out of the Hall.
- Diamond orientations are consistent with 2020 (Alexander Austregesilo)
- Energy monitoring for Winter 2023 GlueX-II run
Issues
- Start counter 96 degree rotation in cabling or software space (Simon)
- DIRC LED TDC missing (David Lawrence, Justin
- TOF timing (Beni). Later fixed by Sean.
- Long DAQ problem:~1.5h (Alison Laduke/Sergei Furletov). See also Early Riser shift summary
- BCM calibration. Accelerator instrumentation group informed us that last BLA calibration was done in 2021 (beside that done last Thursday, 01/19/2023? To be confirmed) and recommend Ops to do one at each start of the run period.
- A request for the kitchen lights to be fixed should be submitted next time there is beam downtime.
Plans
- Production (300 nA, 2h runs) with cycle:
- 2 runs para(0/90)
- 2 runs perp(0/90)
- 2 runs para(45/135)
- 2 runs perp(45/135)
- 1 run amo (use it to rejuvenate amo reference in CBREM GUI)
- Trigger fine tuning Thursday? (A. Somov)
Tuesday January 24
Past 24 hours
- Production on diamond. Trippy beam, but good availability. ABU=16.2h for the day
Shift Reports
Reports
- Beam profile from Harp scan done Monday morning looks good
- Coherent peak enhancement fit for 2023 (Justin)
- Start Counter performance (Beni)
- Rates comparison for GlueX, PrimEx and CPP/NPP (Alexandre D.)
- Start Counter detector walk (Beni)
Issues
- Tagger Hodoscope HV communication problem (Jon Zarling)
- Main trigger scaler freeze goes unnoticed: Sunday, Monday Can we include them in the scaler summary gui, so it is easy for the shift people to see them?
- NMR probe not communicating.. It started around 4pm Monday. DCCT current monitor for the tagger is also down.(See also Early Riser shift summary)
Plans
- 4h of beam studies + 2h beam restoration). Tagger and Hall to be surveyed around 9pm:
- Safety Walkthrough (M. Dalton + trainee(s))?
- Scot to access to take out Vlad's chiller
- Tagger access for HV communication issue?
- Investigate the faulty pressure sensor?
- Chris Carlin to fix the target controls
- Production (300 nA, 2h runs) with cycle:
- 2 runs para(0/90)
- 2 runs perp(0/90)
- 2 runs para(45/135)
- 2 runs perp(45/135)
- 1 run amo
The main task during the RC week from 01/18-01/25/2023 was to align the diamond and start then production with linearly polarized photons. The diamond was aligned on Sunday (01/22/2023) and production started right after. The reason why alignment could not be done sooner is because of multiple issues with the accelerator. Wednesday, the beam was not available during the day for beam and RF study and a long recovery from these study: acceptable beam came back only Thursday at 1:10am. Hovanes, the expert aligning the diamond waited until 1am and left as the beam was still not there and it was getting too late to do the long work efficiently. We therefore took amorphous data in production configuration when the beam. Thursday, the beam was again taken way for RF study. The reason was that the accelerator could not reach the high currents required by the Hall A and C experiments. The beam came back around 17:30. Hovanes tried to see if he could align the 0/90 directions of the diamond, which he hoped would be quick to align since they were already aligned for the CPP/NPP experiments, but it turned out not the be the case and he realized he will have to redo the alignment from scratch. By the time, it was getting too late for such task. During Thursday night, we ran again on amorphous radiator, choosing to do one run on each of the 4 available Al. foils in order to check the dependence of the rates with radiator thickness. This was due to the rate appearing to be 30% larger than expected for our nominal current. (This was ultimately traced back to a BCM calibration problems, see below in the list of issues). Friday, the beam became unavailable again starting around 7:30am due to a vacuum issue in south linac. It came back Saturday at 2am. Hovanes was not available for Diamond alignment on Saturday, so it was postponed to Sunday and we did production on the amorphous radiator of the goniometer until Sunday 9am. Then Hovanes started diamond alignment. It was relatively quick, finishing by Sunday 17:30. Then we started production cycling over 0/90/45/135/amorphous and continued until the end of my RC tenure Wednesday, Jan. 25th.
Beside diamond alignement, the other special task done during the week (waiting for the aligned diamond to become available) was a long empty target run done during the Tuesday-Wednesday night. Its analysis shows the expected vertex distribution.
In all, the useful beam time (ABU) for the week was ***, and we lost about *** due to problem on our side (BANU).
Significant issues discovered during the week were:
- The calibration of our BCM differed by 30% compared to the run in 2020. Discussions with Ops revealed that the BCM calibration (called BLA calibration) is not done systematically before each run period and the last one was done in 2021. We discussed with Ops to ensure that it should now be done at each start of new run period. We did the BLA calibration on Thursday, 01/24/2023;
- The Start Counter was effectively (but not physically) rotated by about 90 degree;
- Loss of communication with the target: for a few days, it could be only locally controlled: we could monitor the target, but not control it remotely (switch empty <=> full).This is not a crucial problem since there was no need to empty the target during that week;
- Loss of communication with the TAGH high voltage crate.
- DIRC issues.
Smaller issues beside the usual running woes such as DAQ or FADC troubles, included discovering beam energy modulations of a few MeV due to artifacts in BPMs, the pressure sensor for the CDC producing unphysical spikes and triggering alarms (the sensor information was temporarily removed from the alarm). When it was inspected during an access, found hanging. After being put back and shielded from winds, the spikes disappeared.
