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    User name miham

    Log entry time 08:03:16 on November24,2010

    Entry number 341480

    keyword=Owl Shift Summary (11/24/10)


    Swing shift summary: Miha Mihovilovic (SL), Lamiaa El Fassi (TO)
    ===================================================================

    EVENTS
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    00:00 Shift started normally. We inherited run #8979 from swing
    shift. We are taking production data on LH2 target.

    00:36 We noticed that DVCS calorimeter ADC current monitor is
    frozen. We are going to reboot IOC, but first need to
    wait run #8979 to finish.

    00:40 Compton is working strangley. Photon rate has high background.
    We did another coda reboot after run #24221, but did not
    help. For the time being, we will leave it as it is.


    01:00 Between runs #8979 and #8980 we rebooted DVCS calorimeter
    IOC as instructed on wiki. We had to do it twice. Now
    readback monitor works well again.

    01:39 In the last hour beam current was 2.8uA instead of
    requested 3.0. I called MCC and asked them, if they can
    increase current to 3.0. They have tried but after first beam
    trip, current went back to 2.8uA.

    02:44 MCC has problems keeping our beam current stable. Every
    change in Hall-C currect affects our beam current. When they
    took beam away from HallC, our current increased for
    approx. 0.5uA.


    03:12 We have noticed that photon rate signal was much better when
    current in HallC was < 100uA. Once they increased it back to
    150uA (at -15minutes) a large noise in compton signal
    returned.

    04:32 I have added HallC beam current to Compton strip charts
    (lite green line). It shows that photon rate directly
    depends of HallC current. Higher the current, more noise
    is in the Comton signal.

    06:49 Beam current was again lower than 3.0uA. It was 2.8uA. It
    had been so for last hour. Therefore we called MCC again and
    asked them if they could adjust beam current once more to
    3.0uA. At least for now, beam current is better (3.1uA).

    08:00 Shift ended in production mode during runs #8986 and
    #24234.




    RUN LIST
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    Run Events BCM U3 D3 (C) Time Avg Curr Deadtime
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    8979 275 k 0.00890 0.00984 59.5 mins 2.6249 uA 6.62%
    8980 290 k 0.00959 0.01061 59.5 mins 2.8274 uA 6.45%
    8981 314 k 0.01049 0.01156 61.9 mins 2.9708 uA 6.56%
    8982 End-of-run file is missing
    8983 302 k 0.01005 0.01106 60.6 mins 2.9048 uA 6.51%
    8984 290 k 0.00951 0.01053 61.1 mins 2.7313 uA 6.07%
    8985 264 k 0.00846 0.00935 58.1 mins 2.5543 uA 6.30%
    8986* Passed to next shift!

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    * Look for notes abouts these runs in the time table.



    COMPTON RUN LIST
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    Run Events START STOP
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    24221 N/A 23:56 00:40
    24222 2.5M 00:46 01:30
    24223 1.8M 01:31 02:03
    24224 1.7M 02:05 02:35
    24225 1.7M 02:36 03:07
    24226 1.9M 03:09 03:43
    24227 2.0M 03:44 04:20
    24228 2.0M 04:20 04:56
    24229 1.7M 04:57 05:27
    24230 1.7M 05:28 05:58
    24231 1.8M 05:59 06:31
    24232 1.9M 06:32 07:04
    24233 1.7M 07:05 07:35
    24234 Passed to next shift