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== Tuesday, January 30 ==
 
== Tuesday, January 30 ==
 
# Notes from the previous 24 hours:
 
# Notes from the previous 24 hours:
#* Machine maintenance day - work on FCAL, TPOL, TAGM, TRD (wow! secret [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523207 "Beni's material"]).
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#* Machine maintenance day - work on [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523200 FCAL], [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523257 TPOL], [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523214 TAGM], [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523207 TRD] (wow! secret "Beni's material").
 
#* Beam was back at around 8pm.
 
#* Beam was back at around 8pm.
 
#* Spent 1h40m on "Our - MCC - Our" harp scans due to beam trips and "operator in [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523491 training]".
 
#* Spent 1h40m on "Our - MCC - Our" harp scans due to beam trips and "operator in [https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523491 training]".
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# Reports:
 
# Reports:
 
[https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523169 CDC currents during no radiator].
 
[https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523169 CDC currents during no radiator].
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[https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3523243 Trigger rate comparison for 2017 and 2018].
  
 
== Monday, January 29 ==
 
== Monday, January 29 ==

Revision as of 07:56, 30 January 2018

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Tuesday, January 30

  1. Notes from the previous 24 hours:
    • Machine maintenance day - work on FCAL, TPOL, TAGM, TRD (wow! secret "Beni's material").
    • Beam was back at around 8pm.
    • Spent 1h40m on "Our - MCC - Our" harp scans due to beam trips and "operator in training".
    • Running production since ~10pm.
    • NN hours of "MCC beam". BAU: NN hrs (++), BANU: NN hrs (++)
    • NN events collected.
    • For now, PARA runs only 100M events to allow PERP to catch up.
    • Total: Spreadsheet: number of triggers.
  1. Issues:
    • Low level monitoring
    • Previously dead TAGM ch.21 is now too active in fADC
    • 5 or 6 FCAL channels are still empty despite of maintenance yesterday.


  1. Short term run plan:
    • Do we need harp scan this morning (previous one was 12 hours ago)?
    • Production all day long until 6am tomorrow.
    • Start emptying target at 6am on Wednesday (separate run).
    • 2 hours of empty target run (what radiator and current?)
    • 10-12 hours of TAC running starting at ~9am Wednesday.
    • Run plan chart: Week 3
  1. Reports:

CDC currents during no radiator. Trigger rate comparison for 2017 and 2018.

Monday, January 29

  1. Notes from the previous 24 hours:
    • "The machine was rather trippy" (MCC quote), with persistent RF and BLM trips.
    • 14.9 hours of actual beam per MCC in the last 24 hours.
    • ABU 14.5 hours, BANU 0.4 hours.
    • 2.1 B events collected. Total: Spreadsheet: number of triggers.
    • There were 2 minutes of 150nA beam with no radiator to study the chamber currents.
    • Beam will be off today from 9am until 1pm for RF recovery
    • Hall C pass change tomorrow morning for about 1 hour, and no beam studies.
  2. Issues:
    • Low level monitoring
    • FDC2 HV tripped without alarm [1]. For an hour, data were taken with FDC2 cell6 off.
    • No monitoring plots in logbook during day shift.
    • More on TAGM scaler trouble.
    • BTA periodic unreliability continues forcing people to do manual BANU->BNA transfers.
    • TPOL ch.3 is still alive
    • Update sqlite file from ccdb to bring TAGM ch.21 back from oblivion.
    • Switch to gluonraid4.
  3. Short term run plan:
    • Harp scan then production.
    • Hall access for FCAL?
    • Empty target: today after RF recovery, tomorrow after pass change, or Wed morning before TAC run?
    • Run plan chart: Week 3
  4. Reports:

Sunday, January 28

  1. Notes from the previous 48 hours:
    • Beam ran smoothly for most of the last 2 days. According to MCC calculations, they delivered 37 hours of actual beam in the last 48 hours. They even proudly posted this: A good hour of beam
    • Friday ABU 12.9, BANU 4.8. Saturday ABU 14.8, BANU 4.0
    • About 3.8 B triggers in the last 2 days. Total: Spreadsheet: number of triggers.
    • 2 hours of 300nA AMO run.
      • Trigger rate >65kHz, event rate 65kHz, L.T. 96% but with DAQ crashes every 10 minutes.
      • Both CDC and FDC were not tripping HV at 300nA. Currents in both chambers scaled well with the beam current but only FDC current scaled with 2 different AMO radiators.
      • TOF rate was reaching 2.2 MHz. Impact on signal magnitude is yet to be studied.
    • TPOL access for 4 hours. Apparently, the noise issue has been fixed. fADC baselines were recalibrated.
    • Fixed TAGM cabling for channels 19 and 21. Translation table was updated [4]
  2. Issues:
  3. Short term Run plan:
    • Production, production, production
    • Short Hall access for TPOL dead channel and FCAL bases during either Hall C pass change or beam studies.
    • Empty target run: before or after beam studies?
    • Run plan chart: Week 3
  4. Reports:
    • Latest harp scan
    • Photon spot for different diamond orientations [14]
    • Nice β vs. p plot [15]


Friday, January 26

  1. Notes from the previous 24 hours:
    • Beam was mostly up and we were taking production data.
    • From 6pm till 7:30pm, the beam was off to switch Hall B to 5-pass run.
    • At about the same time, 22.5uA were turned on for Hall A.
    • The beam was acceptable but not as good as before [16].
    • Accelerator went down at 5:20am to investigate A -> C bleed-thru. We got beam back at 8am.
    • ABU 15.2 hrs (5.6+5.1+4.5), BANU 3.5 hrs (2.3+0.6+0.6) for the last 3 shifts
    • About 2.4B triggers collected. Total: Spreadsheet: number of triggers.
  2. Issues:
  3. Plan for today:
    • 300nA AMO run together with L1 study from 8am until 10am.
    • Controlled access (with TPOL RADCON sweep) at 10am for:
      • RADCON test
      • TPOL noise
      • TAGM cable connection
    • Return to production after that.
    • Possible Saturday morning access as well.
    • Run plan chart: Week 3
  4. Reports:
  5. Weekend meeting?

Thursday, January 25

  1. Notes from the previous 24 hrs:
    • Beam was off from 9am till 5:20 pm. At the end, Hall A was able to get their 22.5 uA current. Since then, beam was relatively stable.
    • Upon return of the beam, a harp scan was performed: MCC and Our harp. Beam seems to be acceptable.
    • After harp scan, about an hour has been spent on trigger and DAQ studies by Sasha and Sergei.
    • We switched to production running at 7pm and has been taking production data since then.
    • ABU 10.5 hrs (0.7+3.5+6.3), BANU 0.8 hrs (0+0.3+0.5) for the last 3 shifts
    • About 1.2 B triggers collected. Total: Spreadsheet: number of triggers
  2. Issues:
    • A couple of hours of beam time has been lost on fighting with DAQ while starting the next run (java out of memory, rebooting rocks, etc.)
    • Sometime, a histogram or two would disappear in rootspy and reappear after monitoring restart.
    • Once, a coherent edge had to be nudged by more than 50 MeV.
    • BCAL ADC/TDC timing offsets jumped by 32 ns for some modules: [22]
    • TAGM voltages
    • Any other issues?
  3. Short term run plan:
    • TAC run: should we do it today (Halls A and C are down)?
    • 2 hours of AMO 300nA running tomorrow morning.
      • Would it be better to start it at 7am or 8am?
      • Are any configuration changes necessary (HV, etc.)?
      • Who needs to be here for such run?
      • RADCON will follow this run with their Fast access study.
    • Consequent Hall controlled access to fix TPOL noise issue.
    • Simultaneous tagger hall access to fix bad TAGM channels.
    • Possible Saturday morning access as well.
    • Run plan chart: Week 3
  4. Reports: