Run Planning Meeting Notes, Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2017

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Thursday, March 2

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 6.49 0.63 0.88
Swing 6.97 0.32 0.71
Owl 7.09 0.11 0.80
Total 20.55 1.06 2.39


  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Production data taken after 10:30 AM Weds.
      • Long mode run
      • Black spots on diamonds
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 3099M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 40.05B
  3. Issues
    • Problems with FCAL crate 9
    • FCAL red light issue
    • TRD gas issue
    • DAQ issues:
      • 5:42 - The DAQ keeps giving us "SEBO: Client has not reported for xx sec." errors, but then recovers after a minute. This happens every ~20mins or so. We will restart the DAQ again after the current run finishes.
      • ~22:00 - Monitoring stops working, have to start/stop runs several times to get events flowing through secondary ET
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Production
    • Triggers: In-time random? Min-bias? FCAL+BCAL+ST?
  6. Offline Analysis
    • TAC runs?
  7. AOB

Friday, March 3

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 0.79 0.00 7.21
Swing 4.75 0.75 2.50
Owl 6.83 0.08 1.09
Total 12.37 0.83 10.80


  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Vacuum issues [~8 hours down]
    • 1630 - Beam back
    • 1730 - Attempt at trigger & DAQ studies
      • 1800 to 1840 - ACC access to replace controller
      • 1900 to 1930 - FSD Card swap
    • 2000 - Start of production
      • 500 - 20 min down due to cryomodule problems
    • Strip charts: 1 2
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
  3. Issues
    • Red lines on run control GUI?
    • Front-panel triggers off for 30920-2
    • Firefox problems
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Tagger/SC trigger
    • Hall A Bleed-through?
    • Empty target run?
    • fADC250 Compressed Mode?
    • Production
    • Next week:
      • High rate run [500 nA]
      • Low rate run [50 nA + 2x10^-5 RL Al]
  6. Offline Analysis
    • TAC runs?
  7. AOB


Saturday, March 4

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 6.79 0.03 1.18
Swing 6.17 1.12 0.71
Owl 7.29 0.07 0.64
Total 20.25 1.22 2.53
  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
    • Steady beam delivery
    • New slow lock status display logbook entry
    • Strip charts: 1 2 3
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Tagger/SC trigger studies
    • Hall A Bleed-through study: 1 2
    • Empty target run accomplished
    • fADC250 Compressed Mode Study
    • Better downtime tracking in elog
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 1771M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 42.8B
  3. Issues
    • ~2hrs lost to DAQ problems on Fri. morning
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Production + Afternoon harp scan
    • Next week:
      • High rate run [500 nA]
      • Low rate run [50 nA + 2x10^-5 RL Al]
  6. Offline Analysis
  7. AOB

Sunday, March 5

Shift ABU BNA BANU
Day 6.94 0.32 0.74
Swing 7.31 0.17 0.52
Owl 6.78 0.03 1.19
Total 21.03 0.52 2.45
  1. Accelerator Status over the last 24 hrs
  2. Hall-D/GlueX items
    • Harp scan including beam dump radiator: 1, 2
    • FCAL hole - Bad board in ROCFCAL12, slot 18
    • Low photon flux data taken during owl shift
    • In the last 24 hours:
      • Total triggers collected during last period: 2338M
      • Run Statistics Spread Sheet
      • Current Total: 45.1B
  3. Issues
    • Bad FCAL fADC250, low on spares
    • Known DAQ problems with EB/cMsg
  4. Monitoring
  5. Run Plan
    • Production Data
    • Tentative Accelerator Schedule:
      • Monday: Establish beam to Hall C - 9 AM to 1 PM
      • Tuesday: Beam studies - 9 AM to 2+ PM
  6. Offline Analysis
    • TAC runs?
  7. AOB
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