Minutes for May 25, 2016

Present:
Seamus, Adam Sarty, Dasuni Adikaram, Gordon Cates, John Annand, Rachael
Montgomery, Andrew Puckett, Juan Carlos Cornejo, JLab

* Presentation by Dasuni - ECal DAQ and Event switching
Overview of FASTBUS inventory
9 out of 12 FASTBUS crates have been tested
2 of 9 CDet crates tested

Event switching documented and preliminary tests done 
Working on Linux installation for CODA

Overview of Event Switching and test setup

Discussion of results on deadtime with event switching
Non-buffered event switching shows ~5% improvement at few kHz trigger rate
Buffered mode with event switching reduces deadtime by ~10%
Results are in agreement with models

More tests are planned over the next several months

* Doug - Bigbite Readiness

Overview of existing equipment for Bigbite (power supply, sieve)
Cerenkov gas C4F10 is an issue and expensive (C4F8O totally out of production
Plan is to stockpile, have British vendor
Ordered fraction of what is needed

Summary of electronics and cable inventories

Space is an issue, Bigbite was going to the hall for Marathon and not clear 
where it will go right now.  Manpower is also an issue (Tritium students not
focused but there is a new Hall A postdoc)

For readiness:

Needs new OSPs - Discussion of previous magnet saftey issues
Also needs other documents (at least drafts)