Meeting 2014-01-29¶

Date: 29th January 2014
Time: 15:00 GMT
Attendance: D. Adey, G. Barber, A. Dobbs, R. Gamet, C. Heidt, E. Santos, M. A. Uchida
Apologies: P. Kyberd

Agenda and Minutes¶

0. Actions¶

• Create MICE note of channel mappings end-to-end through hardware, electronics and software - DA
• Dig up the old documentation for the electronics channel mapping - DA
• Create comparison plots for channel mapping data - CH
• Visit AC Precision to make the new connectors for PP end of waveguides - GB
• Move cryostat back to tracker lab - CM
• Obtain survey data and place on tracker wiki - MU, DA
• Doodle poll on tracker meeting time - AD

1. DAQ/Calibration/Controls - DA, EO¶

1.1 MiniDAQ - DA¶

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
• 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¶

• 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¶

• Build tent in R9 - GB Tent started, now waiting on getting a model pushed through the bore, to check clearances
• Survey data
  • Need to obtain survey data from M. Leonova - MU
  • Store data sensibly (tracker wiki for now) - MU
  • 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 - MU

5. Services in the MICE hall: CM¶

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

7. Step IV Readiness - MU¶

8. Software: AD, ES, CH, ST¶

• Milestones - AD See Software Schedule.
• Documentation - AD, ES, CH See maus_user_guide.pdf for latest updates
  • Base documentation - AD
  • Digitisation - CH, ES
  • Pattern Recognition - AD
  • Track fit - ES
  • MC - CH
  • Geometry, CDB - CH
  • Noise - CH
• Geometry, Calibrations, Configurations, CDB - CH
  • Get CMM geometry data in to CDB
  • Translate CDB geometry xml into MiceModules format
• MC Noise - CH
  • Look at large cpu load
  • Discuss with DA
  • Code review
• Final track fit
  • Deal with -ve charge
• Hits to digits lookup - CH
  • Code review
• Spacepoint efficiency study - C. Hunt, AD

9. Conferences: DA, AB, KL¶

• CHEP (AD) - Paper accepted

10. AoB and summary of actions.¶

• Next phone meeting 15:00 GMT, 5th Feb 14

Phone Details¶

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

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