General Meeting Summary 1/16/20
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COLLABORATION MEETING - 3 FEBRUARY AT JLAB
- Need substitute for talks from ANLS as speakers cannot be at JLab and large time zone difference
MAGNET (Charles)
- Full magnet mapping measurements in test lab have been completed - thanks to T. Hartlove and M. Kerver
- Note that these tests included the central magnet only
- Ready to move magnet to the hall
- Polarity of magnet - horizontal field so from NPS point of view the polarization doesn't matter
- Action items:
- Is it possible to compare measurements with calculation?
- Schedule availability for test in Hall C in 2020?
PMT MAGNETIZATION (Carlos, Bogdan)
- Frame modifications:
- back of carbon frame replaced by my metal mesh - now have 30mm in front of photocathode PMT and 27.5mm at back of PMT
- outer soft iron layer is 1.5mm
- Amount of mu metal depends on length of dynode chain - most important is the distance from photocathode to the first dynode
- Estimate for R4125 (8-10cm long tube, 1" diameter, 10 stages): distance relatively large
- Measurement from Hall D: 4.6cm is the distance to the first dynode
- Action items:
- Find out length of dynode chain for R4125
- Mu metal test to determine impact of shielding on PMTs
- mu metal plus mesh and use external field order ~50 Gauss (no PMT needed)
CRYSTALS (Vladimir, Alex, Tanja)
- Recent interactions with SICCAS about 500 crystal delivery
- Phone meeting on 5 January with SICCAS - Alex, Vlad, Tanja, Liping, and Jane - discussion about quality control and delivery of first crystals
- On-site inspection of first 250 crystals at SICCAS shows 10% of produced crystals have to be rejected due to discoloration and/or low transmittance, light yield measurements currently not possible (system broken), no capability for radiation hardness tests
- Also found problems with chamfer tolerance due to imperfection in grinding procedure - being addressed
- No new crystals from Crytur yet
- Discussion about impact of magnetic field on EM shower distribution in crystal
- for NPS fields are low - angular distributions are very wide, energy electron is 0.5 MeV
- more likely to damage PMT before impact crystals
TCS BACKGROUND SIMULATION UPDATE (Vardan)
- Problems displaying slides during meeting - please see the posted slides in the 1/16 agenda and send comments
NEXT MEETING: NPS COLLABORATION MEETING - MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY AT JLAB