RC meeting and Run Plan, Friday November 11th

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RC Meeting Information

Time:at 3:30pm today

  • Location: Counting house conference room

Useful Links

Experts On Call (11/09 - 11/16)

  • Target: William Henry (Bill)
  • GEM: Manjukrishna Suresh (Manju)
  • Beamline Simona Malace
  • HCAL/BBCAL Jiwan Poudel

Current Status

Accelerator and Hall Status

  • After being down for more than 24 hours we finally got beam around 6pm last night. MCC sent us beam exclusively for an hour in the beginning. Simona started beam checkout.
  • As soon as Hall C was up with 70uA, beam became very trippy. Around 10pm MCC took away beam for 20 mins to correct pathlength. [ https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/4079522 ]
  • During owl beam was relatively stable. Hall C didn't go above 60uA overnight.
  • Simona finished C-hole alignment during owl. Currently she is doing IC calibration on C-optics. After that she will move to reference cell.
  • The next pass change was scheduled to take place on 11/22 (two weeks from now). Mark has talked to the spokespersons and confirmed that we will stay at 3pass until December 19th. I talked to the PD afterwards and requested her to update the schedule.
  • MCC is thinking about doing beam maintenance either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Current Issues

Target

  • Frequent laser trips during swing and owl - Solved -- Bill
  • One of the laser fiber temperature is higher than usual. Is it safe to run like that? - Arun, Bill
  • Heater RTD signals are inconsistent. Currently running at lower temperature. What's the status? - Arun
  • Calibration constant at the current kinematic setting. - Hunter will do EPR measurement to get the calibration constant as soon as beam checkout is done.

Subsystems Updates

Polarized Target

  • Current Polarization: 10.2mV -> 12.2mV-> (BB ON + SBS OFF) |
  • If holding field is changed for any reason, do NOT perform an NMR measurement.
  • Hourly screenshots are necessary for the laser gui.
  • Update from target team.

Any additional subsystem updates?

Run Plan

Current Plan

  • Finish beam checkout - Simona [We are here. Should take ~2hrs or less if beam is stable]
  • Get calibration constant for target polarization (EPR + NMR) - Hunter
  • Do Ion chamber calibration on reference cell with H2 - Simona
  • Take ~ 2 hours of data on H2 (147 psi, max current 45uA | ramp up in steps).
  • Go to polarized He3 and start production.
  1. 45uA of beam current (ramp up slowly) | Use ps3=ps5=0, rest =-1 | One hour long runs
  2. Move the target to the pickup coil position and do an NMR sweep every 2/3 hours
  3. Return to step 1.

Requests

  • Moller measurement - Sometime next week? According to Doug, Hall B is getting higher than expected polarization which may mean that we could get lower than expected. If that turns out to be the case then a Wien adjustment will be necessary.
  • Optics runs with sieve in
  • GEM luminosity study

Instructions for Shift Crew

  • Keep an eye out for drifting BPM positions
  • Log all DAQ crashes in the excel worksheet along with the reason for the crash
  • If beam has been down due to accelerator issues perform a checkout of the beam profile by doing harp scans and check beam centering on target using the Carbon hole target, see Simona's procedure: procedure, If in doubt about whether you should go through the beam checkout procedure, call this number: 7578693131.
  • Cross check the rate with what is expected: log
  • Cross check with the expected ion chamber readings: log

Be sure to follow these procedures:

Miscellaneous

Experimental progress (for MCC planning meeting)

  • 6.1% of accumulated charge for production data (13.55 Coulombs out of 232)
  • 32% Experimental run time (46 out of 141 days)
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