Run Planning Meeting Notes, Jan 30-Feb 05, 2020

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Wednesday, February 5

  1. Last 24 hours
  2. Issues
  3. Reports
  4. Plans for today

Tuesday, February 4

  1. Last 24 hours
  2. Issues
  3. Reports
  4. Plans for today

Monday, February 3

  1. Last 72 hours
    • Friday:
      • No beam 10am-12pm (BLA calibration). Opportunistic Hall access
      • No beam 3pm-4pm (MCC software update)
      • No beam 4pm-9pm (lost vacuum in Hall C transport [1])
    • Saturday:
      • Goniometer stopped moving sometime between 5am and 3pm. The problem was only noticed at 3pm [2]. As a result, a few runs have unknown diamond orientation [3],[4]
      • Repair work on goniometer since 4pm (no beam) [5]
    • Sunday:
  2. Changes
    • Change in TPOL readout [6], [7]
    • New DIRC SiPM TDC reference timing [8]
  3. Issues
    • MCC sees our radiator IN & OUT at the same time [9]
  4. Reports
    • Ratio of rates [10]
    • Vertex plots for empty target [11]
  5. Plans for today
    • Production

Friday, January 31

  1. Last 24 hours
    • JD70-106 47um diamond alignment till 4pm [12], [13]
    • Ion chambers had to be masked for alignment [14], [15]
    • Production since 4pm (~3.5B triggers)
  2. Issues
    • JD70-105 keeps degrading [16]
    • Periodic holes in DIRC occupancy [17]. Any way to recover without full DAQ reboot?
    • "Disappeared" DIRC SiPM TDC [18] - its timing recalibration is not done yet
    • Oh yes, Great Battle of the Mouse for 3 hrs :) [19]
  3. Reports
    • More on initial PS enhancement [20]
  4. Plans for today
    • We may (or may not) have ~30min for access at 10am
    • Production

Thursday, January 30

  1. Last 24 hours
    • Harp scan (~9am) [21]
    • Alignment of JD70-106 47um diamond (9:30am till 6pm) [22]
    • Production at 350nA (since 6pm). About 2.6B triggers collected.
  2. Issues
    • DIRC N-board lost connectivity for 30 minutes [23]
    • Gamma radiation at the racks [24]
    • Uncoupling of DIRC and FCAL light censors [25],[26]
    • Online monitoring issues [27] and fixed calibrations [28], [29]
  3. Reports
    • Initial PS enhancement Spring 2020 [30]
  4. Plans for today
    • Any more work on diamond alignment?
    • Production