Run1 - January 2015
Run 1 Journal
Shift leaders should make a MOTTLOG Shift Summary and link to it below. Important READ ALL comments should be included below too...
Shift Summaries
Blank Template - media:MottRun1Database.ods
- Wednesday, Jan 14
- Thursday, Jan 15
- Friday, Jan 16
- DAY
- SWING
- Media:Swing16Jan15_RunLog.ods
- Dan created a new Mott control screen (from command line for now)
- Saturday, Jan 17
- Sunday, Jan 18
- OWL
- DAY
- Media:MottRun1Database_owl18Jan15.ods
- Media:thickness_runs.ods
- Media:Day_shift_database.ods
- SWING
- Media:Swing_shift_database.ods
- Monday, Jan 19
Experiment Goals and Plans
Tasks which have been studied or completed are shown below in bold face.
Prep Work (through Tuesday Jan 13)
- Make a photocathode – SL5247-1 made about ~one week ago; QE low at low bias but ~1.8% at 130kV
- Test IHA2D00 – the Aurora card was replaced to fix POT sampling and CAMAC wiring fixed for gain
- Hi-Pot IP – 3D01 hi-potted, but still bad so moved to Dig#11 holding supply and 3D00 on Dig#12 monitors beam line only
- CHL 2K cooldown – 1/13 successful cool down completed
- Install laser – first beam test of Hall C laser with division by two rep rate
- Test laser RF trigger – Riad is using Hall A laser as reference; appears to be 499/2^N
- Verify beam line layout – completed
- Build elegant deck – completed and stored at ~grames/elegant/MOTT/
- Build qsUtility config file – completed, see below...
Injector Setup and Mott Checkout (Wed Jan 14 - Fri Jan 16)
- Restore beam to FC2 @ 6.3 MeV/c - 1/14 task was completed and summarized in link title
- Mott test: DAQ FADC/TDC synchronization and event separation with 62MHz; there is a TDC issue that prevents 62MHz so we use 31MHz with 31MHz trigger
- Electron bunchlength and transmission from 0-10 uA
- Tested harp IHA2D00 and it works
- Scale cryounit for p=5.487 MeV/c and minimize energy spread - 1/14 see entry for link initial setup
- Tried bunchlength script - didn't coverge, but looks like with more time can work
- Calibrate BCM to FC2; Media:BCM-calibration-slope16jan15.ods
- John improved the laser polarization and measured the Hall C laser spot size
Mott Setup and Systematics Testing (Sat Jan 17)
- Setup good orbit to Mott here
- Set PMT HV here
- Set PMT energy thresholds are here
- Finally we setup the polarization horizontally; initial "rough in" and the final here
- Calibrate PITA vs IHWP IN/OUT
- Finalize orbit w/ instrumental asymmetry, TOF and spectra
- Adjust target offsets per vertical instrumental asymmetry measured, analyzed, and corrected with new offsets media:New_Ladder_Position_Swing16jan15.ods
- Measure dump rate fraction to determine run times, Media:Dump_vs_Elastic.ods
- Measure asymmetry vs. dead-time and beam current Media:Deadtime_spreadsheet.ods
- Measure asymmetry vs. spot size (included emittance measurement and Elegant optimization)
- Measure asymmetry vs. energy spread (includes harp scans, see e.g. here
- Precisely measure beam momentum (includes BPM quad centering)
- Measure asymmetry stability vs. time (by virture of the 1um Au tests interleaved w/ target foil extrapolation)
Target Foil Extrapolation (Sat Jan 17 - Mon Jan 19)
- The list of targets and some description is describe in this entry
- We are planning to interleave two 1um ~1uA (~15% dead) runs of IN/OUT between each foil
- Test each new target foil to determine if energy spectra are good/bad. If not acceptable or don't want to try, move on to next one, make log entry...
Procedures
How to contact people
- Joe's cell
- 757-344-0188
- Riad's cell
- 757-254-7895
How to reach the Mott logbook
- Mott logbook is here
How to know who's on shift
How to be a shift worker
- Beam Driver = Shift Leader
- Control delivered beam, especially adjusting PITA with IHWP=IN/OUT
- Make sure FSD (BCM, Target) protection is used
- Monitor beam loss and vacuum levels
- Save and document settings
- Write shift summary in logbook
- DAQ Driver
- Configure/Start/Stop DAQ
- Monitor event rates and maintain dead time <5%
- Coordinate run start/stop
- COPY run information into standard excel sheet
- Analysis Driver
- Decode, analyze and inspect runs
- COPY run information into standard excel sheet
- Determine number of events needed for IHWP=IN and OUT
How to measure emittance
- Beam Setup
- We measure the beam emittance and Twiss at entrance of MQJ0L02 by varying MQJ0L02 and observing response on harp IHA0L03
- To simplify matters we turn off the intervening quadrupoles (MQJ0L02A = MQJ0L03A =MQJ0L03 = 0)
- Obviously, make sure beam can transports from MQJ0L02 to IHA0L03 w/ those quads off (use BPM's and viewers)
- The configuration changes MQJ0L02 B for 21 K1 values (-3.0, -3.2, … , -5.8, -6.0); this takes ~45 minutes, so a smaller data set could be used too
- qsUtility
- We use program named qsUtility to automatically to make the measurements and analyze the data
- The measurement configuration file is here and can also be used as a template /cs/prohome/apps/q/qsUtility/pro/fileio/config/IHA0L03_jmg1.xml
- qsUtility is documented here
- qsUtility assumes v=c
- One must scale the Energy [MeV] entry box as the tool uses this formula B'L [G] = K1[1/m^2] * L[m] * E[MeV] * 10/0.2998
How to measure momentum
- Note quads used for centering
- MQJ0L02 = IPM0L02
- MQJ0L03 = IPM0L03
- MQD5D00 = IPM5D00
- MQD5D01 = IPM5D01
- Center quads
- Mike Spata suggests standard dithering, as we do for solenoids
- When complete update the BPM .SOF field and log result
- Momentum measurement
- Excite minimum number of correctors and record values
- Set or measure BL using calculation on MDL0L02 control screen
- Make note of BL for zeroing IPM0L02-IPM0L03 and IPM5D00-IPM5D01 with (intervening quads OFF, correctors OFF or recorded)
- Calculate momentum from KE as p = sqrt [T*(2m+T)], so T = 5.0 MeV => p 5.487 MeV/c
- Calculate fraction KE spread as dT/T = (T+2m)/(T+m) * dp/p, so dT/T=1.09 * dp/p @ T=5.0
How to use Elegant files
- Elegant files for 2D, 3D, 5D, 0L regions
- locate /grames/elegant/MOTT/mott3/
- set mott3.ele beamline to be either 0L, 2D, 3D, 5D
- set mott3.ele emittance, Twiss and momentum spread
- To run
- Copy files to local area
- Interactively: Start IEE from terminal and then load elegant file: /grames/elegant/MOTT/mott3/mott3.ele
- Command: From terminal execute elegant mott3.ele