NDOS Commissioning Meeting 2011/08/25¶
Attendance: Jon, Rafael, Gavin, Enrique, Carl B., Zukai, Minerba, Gary, Susan, Nick, Chad, Martin, Leon
Agenda:
- Beam & Detector Update
- DataCheck Update
- DAQ Update
- DCS Update
- AOB
Beam & Detector Update¶
- Next Tuesday, Aug. 30, power will be turned off at the NDSB at 9 am for about an hour for grounding studies.
- Leon:
- ~20 APDs have passed all tests at CalTech
- Looking at heatsinks on APDs removed last week, there is clearly a sealing issue with the heatsinks. Pulled a vacuum on the seals, and the vacuum failed in seconds (compared to hours seen on "good" APDs).
- Before the good APDs are sent back to FNAL, would like to address this sealing issue, in case the problem is on the APD carrier board (eg).
DataCheck Update¶
- Plots from the past week look pretty good. There are some normalization issues with some of the plots that will be addressed soon.
- "Good run" cuts investigated by Susan. One curious thing she's observed in many of the distributions is a dual-peak structure which seems to correlate with time; one peak corresponds to data collected after May, the other is from data collected before. She is investigating into the root cause.
- The nearline is up and running; shifters can go to the nearline website to see plots from the last 24 hours. One concern is that data are being copied to the /data2/ disk only once per day; this needs to be done more frequently. Checklist plots are a work-in-progress.
DCS Update¶
- Martin:
- code for alarms for FEB temp. and drive current in IOC is ready, and IOCs will be updated tomorrow morning.
- should the GUI be updated tomorrow too? That means that no DCS experts will be around over the weekend to deal with any issues. Jon: try it out tomorrow and see how it goes. If it looks to behave reasonably, then leave it for the weekend. Otherwise, wait until Monday.
DAQ Update¶
- Peter:
- Andrew N. was able to successfully take control of the NDOS DAQ and run it from the Ash River CR.
- Ron fixed the problem with external timing commands on DCMs. Jon will remove instructions to shifters to "force" ET.