Meeting 2014-01-13¶

Date: 13th January 2014
Time: 16:00 GMT

Agenda and Minutes¶

0. Actions¶

• Create MICE note of channel mappings end-to-end through hardware, electronics and software - DA - Note prepared, needs DA, AD, MU to fill in sections.
• Dig up the old documentation for the electronics channel mapping - DA - Stands.
• Ask KL, AB, DA about whether it would be helpful to fit LED into TOF to help our timing - EO - Done.
• Create comparison plots for channel mapping data - CH - Stands, to be resumed.
• Visit AC Precision to make the new connectors for PP end of waveguides - GB - Replica of bore and tracker at Daresbury under construction for testing of installation. Should have more information Thursday.
• Move cryostat back to tracker lab - CM - Stands.
• Obtain survey data and place on tracker wiki - MU - Waiting on getting data.

1. DAQ/Calibration/Controls: DA, EO¶

Request put into FNAL PPD for personnel resources to complete 1) AFE Initialisation cleanup 2) Firmware installation 3) Timing electronics 4) Documentation and 5) Digitisation speed-up. Not clear that digitisation speed-up is required by the experiment. Development of CM code is underway.

1.1 MiniDAQ¶

• See presentation from DA
• MiniDAQ (separate from DATE) now done and tested on set up in tracker lab - DA
• Needs to be committed to the DAQ repository
• Still needs a full integration test with main MICE DAQ

1.2 Channel Mappings¶

• Check our channel mapping from end to end and make sure correct - DA, AD, ES, CH
• Dig up the old documentation for the electronics channel mapping - DA

1.3 Controls¶

• Create controls system - DA

2. LED: EO¶

• Finish main flasher unit - EO, CMacW Resin lab putting flasher unit together now.
• Make documentation mapping LEDs to areas of tracker illuminated - EO
• Ask KL, AB, DA about whether it would be helpful to fit LED into TOF to help our timing - EO

3. Tracker lab - AB, GB, CM¶

• Electronics operations shifted to Fermilab while DA is there
• CM wants to use tracker lab to store tracker equipment currently spread around RAL
• Move cryostat to go back to tracker lab. - CM

4. Installation¶

Installation manual underway, oritentation of internal waveguides connection needs to be included somewhere.

• Build tent in R9 - GB
  • AFC2 will be going back to Tesla on Wednesday, after which we can start building the tent.
  • Estimated time 1 week from today to get tent up and ready
  • Want maximum of three days with tracker exposed in R9 tent
• Survey data
  • Need to obtain survey data from M. Leonova - MU
  • Store data sensibly (tracker wiki for now) - MA
  • Survey of phi needs to be done by John Pallin - GB
• Finish installation manual - GB, AD
• External waveguides
  • Visit AC Precision to make the new connectors for PP end of waveguides - GB
  • Need to QA the external waveguides somehow - MA

5. Services in the MICE hall: CM¶

6. Mitigation of effect of magnetic field: CM, MG¶

7. Step IV Readiness - MU Located 9 out of 13 Hall probes and will retrieve from CERN. Old T2K fibre QA system and option for QA tracker waveguides, to investigate.¶

8. Software: AD, ES, CH, ST¶

• Milestones - AD See Software Schedule.
• MC Noise - CH
  • Look at large cpu load
  • Discuss with DA
  • Code review
• Hits to digits lookup - CH
  • Organise meeting with C. Hunt and start using it for spacepoint efficiency study
  • Code review

9. Conferences: DA, AB, KL¶

• CHEP (AD) - Paper submitted

10. AoB and summary of actions.¶

DA - Find out what's going on with surveys

• MU has taken over as head of hardware, AD head of software, DA head of DAQ
• Next phone meeting 16:00 GMT, 20th Jan 14

Phone Details¶

• The four digit company id: 4673 (callers from outside the UK)
• The pin number: 419357

Phone Details¶

• The four digit company id: 4673 (callers from outside the UK)
• The pin number: 419357

Phone numbers:

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