20150119 FF¶

Phone¶

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Failing that:

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Agenda¶

• Run plan for 21st Jan
• Report at MICE Video Conference
  • Please produce 5 slides - preparations/issues during run up, successes, failures
  • Rogers will cover PPS, TOF, KL, Ckov (if there is anything to report)
• Status, by system (as before)

VC agenda¶

15:00 - 15:20	Spokesperson's Update	20'	Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)
15:20 - 15:40	Project Manager's Report	20'	Speaker: Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
15:40 - 16:00	MOM Report	20'	Speaker: Dr. Chris Rogers (STFC)
16:00 - 16:10	Mock Run - Online	10'	Speaker: Edward Overton (The University of Sheffield)
16:10 - 16:20	Mock Run - DAQ	10'	Speaker: Yordan Ivanov Karadzhov (Universite de Geneve (CH))
16:20 - 16:30	Mock Run - EMR	10'	Speaker: Francois Elie Rene Drielsma (Universite de Geneve (CH))
16:30 - 16:40	Mock Run - Tracker	10'	Speaker: David Adey (Fermilab)
16:40 - 16:50	Mock Run - Beamline & Datamover	10'	Speaker: Henry Nebrensky (Brunel University)
16:50 - 17:00	Mock Run - Beamline Controls/Controls	10'	Speaker: Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Notes¶

09:00 start
Rogers will be responsible for

• taking notes
• keeping things running
  • watching the clock
  • watching the run plan
  • judging when to halt at a problem and when to progress
• Kicking folks out of MLCR

PPS

• PPS issue some problem in the trench
• Not allowed to run PPS anyway
• Can't open beamstop, can run D1, D2 and target

Target

• target frame not tested, frame expected to work
• would like to run a bit before frame is lowered
• would like to monitor the target temp
• gate valve should be open, but want to double check - implication for ISIS happiness ACTION: Rogers

Decay solenoid

• Working as of end of last week
• Power supply needs rebooting on Tuesday

NC Magnets

• Q1 complaining about water on Thurs, fluctuations in readout
• D1, D2 depend on PPS, run in muon beam permit should be okay

Beamstop okay

Proton absorber okay

Diffuser okay

TOF and KL

• HV control is fixed
• SL5.7 machine installed and deployed, CAEN will not support for SL6.4
• Discussion regarding HV power supplies
• Check TAG bar channels in HV for KL are turned off ACTION Hanlet - Done

Tracker

• Four cryostats are cold enough
• Leak issues
• Fine temp control is awry, can't self regulate properly, feedback loop is possibly too long but debugging equipment is not available (PC dying), Ed/Craig/Paul trying to improve debugging, too cold, need to warm up with heaters, nominally working at the moment, alternatively use fine control but being "difficult".
• Power supply unit on cryo 3 is busted, Craig to move power supply from 1/2 to 3
• Noise issue on Cryo 1/2, originally solved by rerouting power and sensor wires, solved for 1/2, expect 3/4 to be okay based on monitoring of the cables
• Controls okay, running on SL6.4 still purely Leaver software
  • Board no longer hangs on firmware upgrade, dodgy card, means we can only readout one tracker, two cryostats, sent back to CAEN, spare ordered
• Trigger - Yordan is now happy, should work, looked good on scope, ought to work
• DAQ - only two functioning VME boards with upgraded firmware, one for C+M, one for readout
• DATE - Tried to catch Yordan last week, Yordan was not able to integrate the code, he prescribed a major refactor, major refactor failed, David Adey will implement a wrapper to keep tracker code independent of DATE
• Unpacking still blinged
  • Attempting to write code to single station test unpacking
  • Online monitoring which existed last time has disappeared - Ed Santos standalone has gone
  • Online recon which existed last time has disappeared
  • Melissa is making progress but hitting technical difficulties; very tight timescale
• LED - not seen in November, not attempted it yet this week, too many other issues
  • Move towards LED, abandon standalone system
• Craig - do we need to do calibration? David Adey - No it is okay, we should see something regardless, calibration is too hard anyway

• LM power supply - needs checking voltages, connectors have been pulled out
  • Pierrick proposes monitoring

• EMR, same as before

• DAQ, dropping out once in a while, dropping broadcasts, nothing changed with DATE version, possibly problem with network, Ed to sit next to Yordan, but rather complex

Controls

• Controls beamline IOC is complete, tested, except one small bug
  • Decay Solenoid and Target separate by design
• Beamline state machine operational but not fully operational, need to run the beamline on Wednesday
• Beamline run control is refactoring work in progress

• Detectors, a lot to do with EMR, integrated detector ioc will not be implemented
  • 527 and 127 are operational
  • New PC running the high voltage, SL5.7, PCI card running
• Tracker uses repurposed MICEACQ22
  • Some discussion about spares etc
• TestIOCPC code is moved into production on MICEIOCPC1

• ACTION Rogers to talk to Craig about spares with MOM hat on

MLCR Servers

• Nothing new has died, broken things have been fixed
• MICEIOCPC1 RAID died on two disks

Datamover

• Okay, not tested since network switch was changed, PPD network communications switched
• ACTION Janusz to check
• Still moving on manual
• Henry needs to check that mount points are on MICE RAID machines using automount daemon
• Data size threshold will stay in for now
• Fast turnaround reconstruction, work in progress, different path at RAL, one bit missing, writing a test script
  • Fall back is to reconstruct through Brunel/IC
• NAGIOS monitoring not implemented

Online Recon

• Using old version, with old unpacking, should work as not touched since last time
• Need unpacking to work prior to March
• Durga/Dobbs will install a new version e.g. 0.9.2 on Onrec machines

Online Monitoring

• Rhys is apparently at RAL but not been seen

Henry - documentation

• Target check list manual is up to date
• NC magnet manual is a bit old
• DS is not documented
• Beamstop docs are up to date
• PAbs docs are missing
• Diffuser docs are missing
• Movefiles docs are missing

ACTION Rogers: Run conditions spreadsheet should be used to check CDB write

Note data okay flag

Long term actions:

• Make R76 a viable place for MICE S/w&C pied a terre
• ToF/KL HV supply issue: needs new system
• Some old PCs may still be in use; need to purchase replacements;
• Automation of data moving