Installation and Commissioning

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Installation Schedule

Spectrometer Angles

• HRS-L

Angle	Time	Experiment	Run Number Ranges	Report	Comment
20	02/01/2017	MARATHON	1111 ~ 2222	link

• HRS-L

Angle	Time	Experiment	Run Number Ranges	Report	Comment
20	02/01/2017	MARATHON	1111 ~ 2222	link

Commissioning Plan

Before Beam

• Trigger Timing Checkout (placeholder slides)

• HRS Detector Checkout
  • VDC Wire Hits (placeholder slides)
  • TDC distributions of scintillators, VDCs, and GC (placeholder slides)
  • FastBus ADC distributions of scintillators, GC, and calorimeters (placeholder slides)
  • FlashADC distributions of scintillators, GC, and calorimeters (placeholder slides)
  • Cosmic calibration of calorimeters (placeholder slides)
  • HV GUI (we check this frequently anyway....)
  • Document the Official HV save file

• Beamline
  • Twiddle Measurement to check BPMs (placeholder slides)
  • Clock run with raster on, check and compare fastbus and Flash raster signals (placeholder slides)
  • Harp Checkout/Testing
  • Unser Checkout/Testing
  • Beam Energy Measurements System Checkout/Testing
  • Optical Radiation Monitor?

• Spectrometer Angles

LHRS

Angle	Momentum	Duration	Experiment	Run Number Ranges	Report	Comment
17.0	3.980	175 hrs	x>1	1111 ~ 2222	link
17.0	3.710	27 hrs	x>1	1111 ~ 2222	link

RHRS

Angle	Momentum	Time	Experiment	Run Number Ranges	Report	Comment
28.5	2.910	132 hrs	x>1	~90000	link
28.5	2.715	75 hrs	x>1	~90000	link
28.5	2.530	38 hrs	x>1	~90000	link

• Magnets
  • Decide on scaling function for Q1s (not linear!)
  • Test LHRS full momentum range
  • Test RHRS full momentum range
  • LHRS Initial Momentum: ??.?? GeV/c
  • RHRS Initial Momentum: ??.?? GeV/c

• DAQ
  • LHRS DAQ machine: adaq1
  • RHRS DAQ machine: adaq2
  • Currently Functional online analysis machines: adaq3
  • Keep only necessary CODA configurations
  • Setup/Test remote power cycle of all crates

• Software
  • Demonstrate/write-up new Strip Chart procedure
  • Verify BTA functionality
  • Demonstrate working Podd1.6, ROOT6, replay and online plots with cosmics
  • Demonstrate updated spotL/spotR code (take special run with clock trigger and raster on)
  • Demonstrate updated online liveTime calculations with cosmics/clock

With First Beam

1. Beamline
   1. Beam Centering
   2. Raster Size Calibration
   3. BPM Calibration (Bullseye scan)
   4. BCM Calibration
   5. ARC Energy Measurement (parasitic only)
2. Trigger Timing Checkout
3. Detector Checkout
   1. VDC wire hits and efficiencies
   2. TDC distributions of scintillators, VDCs, and GC
   3. fastbus ADC distributions of scintillators, GC, and calorimeters
   4. FlashADC distributions of scintillators and GC
   5. Check all scalers
   6. check thresholds
4. HRS Optics
5. Detector Calibrations
6. Target

Commissioning Results

BPM calibration runs (Bull's eye scan)

Relative position	LHRS CODA run	RHRS CODA run	Harp scan entry no.
(0,0)
(2,2)
(2,-2)
(-2,-2)
(-2,2)
(3,3)
(-3,-3)

BCM calibration runs

Beam Current (uA)	LHRS CODA run	RHRS CODA run	BCM logger	Comments
5
10
15
20
25

Target Boiling Study

• H3 Target

Run number	Target	Beam Current	Raster Size	Ebeam [GeV]	P0 [GeV/c]	θe [deg]	Comment
	H3	25uA	2x2 cm
	H3	15uA	2x2 cm
	H3	5uA	2x2 cm

• He3 Target

Run number	Target	Beam Current	Raster Size	Ebeam [GeV]	P0 [GeV/c]	θe [deg]	Comment
	He3	25uA	2x2 cm
	He3	15uA	2x2 mm
	He3	5uA	2x2 cm

• C12 target for a normalization check for beam-current dependent rate check.

Run number	Target	Beam Current	Raster Size	Ebeam [GeV]	P0 [GeV/c]	θe [deg]	Comment
	Carbon-Foil	25uA	2x2 mm
	Carbon-Foil	15uA	2x2 mm
	Carbon-Foil	5uA	2x2 mm

Beam Energy Measurements

Energy of central ray (MeV)	Dispersive mode	Halog entry
11000.00
4400
2200