Run Planning Meeting Notes, December 2 - December 8, 2021

Monday, December 6

1. Last 24h:
   • Continued C production running. Smooth during day and swing.
   • Alarms for TAGM1 and TAGM2 d/c from DAQ [1]. Sergey made an access to tagger hall after unable to remotely recycle the crates. Determined to be a network problem.
2. Issues:
   • (urgent) Right Ar tank empty and cylinder needs replacement.
   • (urgent) Runs not being transferred fully from Hall D to central computing [2]
   • (not urgent but noted) Hall D techs need access to retrieve CPP equipment in the next week.
   • (to do) Coordinate with Chris and techs the changing of C target.
3. Plan:
   • run on carbon at 150nA
   • Rotate the radiators and use both configurations
   1. • Stop the beam ALWAYS before changing the radiator configuration (even with the same radiator). Between radiator change (0/90 <--> 35/145) ALWAYS ask MCC to insert the dumplette.
   • Aligning the peak: Use coarse adjustment to align the distributions (red on blue) and then nudge/fine adjust to line up vertical line fit.
   • Take an amorphous run today

Sunday, December 5

1. Last 24h:
   • Continued C production running. Pretty smooth running throughout the day and overnight.
2. Issues:
   • (urgent) Right Ar tank empty and cylinder needs replacement
   • (not urgent but noted) Hall D techs need access to retrieve CPP equipment in the next week.
   • (to do) Coordinate with Chris and techs the changing of C target.
3. Plan:
   • run on carbon at 150nA
   • Rotate the radiators and use both configurations
   1. • Stop the beam ALWAYS before changing the radiator configuration (even with the same radiator). Between radiator change (0/90 <--> 35/145) ALWAYS ask MCC to insert the dumplette.
   • Aligning the peak: Use coarse adjustment to align the distributions (red on blue) and then nudge/fine adjust to line up vertical line fit.
   • No Hall D RC meeting over the weekend. I will send updates by e-mail. Meeting with the PD at 9am both days.

Saturday, December 4

1. Last 24h:
   • Continued C production running. Took amorphous run yesterday evening, run 90382 [3]
   • This morning had an issue with an FCAL FADC. Indication also from livetime at 5% [4], [5]. Sasha made a controlled access and swapped in a new FADC [6].
2. Issues:
   • (not urgent but noted) Hall D techs need access to retrieve CPP equipment in the next week.
   • (to do) Coordinate with Chris and techs the changing of C target.
3. Plan:
   • run on carbon at 150nA
   • Rotate the radiators and use both configurations
   1. • Stop the beam ALWAYS before changing the radiator configuration (even with the same radiator). Between radiator change (0/90 <--> 35/145) ALWAYS ask MCC to insert the dumplette.
   • Aligning the peak: Use coarse adjustment to align the distributions (red on blue) and then nudge/fine adjust to line up vertical line fit.
   • No Hall D RC meeting over the weekend. I will send updates by e-mail. Meeting with the PD at 9am both days.

Friday, December 3

1. Last 24h:
   • Tried re-tuning the beam yesterday (reducing MQP5C11). Resulted in lower PS rates (~2.8 kHz) consistent with what was observed previously when we tried this. See: [7],[8]
   • After reverting to optics before the change, PS rates back up (~3.3 kHz). See: [9],[10]
   • Hovanes performed collimator scan [11]
   • Continued C production running overnight.
2. Issues:
   • FDC HV alarm overnight [12]
   • (not urgent but noted) Hall D techs need access to retrieve CPP equipment in the next week.
   • Need to coordinate with Chris and techs the changing of C target sometime next week.
   • Mark S. heard a strange repetitive banging sound in the Hall yesterday afternoon. By the time he made the access, it was gone.
3. Plan:
   • run on carbon at 150nA´
   • Rotate the radiators and use both configurations
   1. • Stop the beam ALWAYS before changing the radiator configuration (even with the same radiator). Between radiator change (0/90 <--> 35/145) ALWAYS ask MCC to insert the dumplette.
   • Aligning the peak: Use coarse adjustment to align the distributions (red on blue) and then nudge/fine adjust to line up vertical line fit.
   • No Hall D RC meeting over the weekend. I will send updates by e-mail. Meeting with the PD at 9am both days.
4. Analysis update

Thursday, December 2

1. Last 24h:
   • Established beam last night before midnight.
   • Harp scan extrapolation looks to be focused a bit differently than before. PS rates seemed around 3.2kHz as before with 150nA beam so we kept this.
   • Radiation levels at 50nA acceptable.
   • Continued production on C target at 150nA. Beam not available for most of Early Riser shift so far.
2. Issues:
   • Rates came back lower [13]
   • Tagger magnet came back at slightly lower field [14]. From meeting this morning "DC Power lowered HMax from 290 to 285A and supply cycled fine."
3. Plan:
   • run on carbon at 150nA´
   • Rotate the radiators and use both configurations
   1. • Stop the beam ALWAYS before changing the radiator configuration (even with the same radiator). Between radiator change (0/90 <--> 35/145) ALWAYS ask MCC to insert the dumplette.
4. Analysis update