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E06-010 Instrumentation Requirement List: Jian-Ping Chen's memo to Kees De Jager, 08/07/08

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File of Physics/MCC experiment planner, by MCC Lester Richardson 10/21/2008

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HARP and HARP scan procedures

Please follow the directions at the Harp Scan Page [Harp Scan page]

Beam raster

Notes in case of Raster Power Supply Failure :

MCC will tell you which has failed -- vertical (Y) or horizontal (X). Their notation, last time I checked, had to do with the direction of
the B field. So, Y = vertical field (i.e. horizontal deflection), and X is the other way.

If the MCC cannot reset raster, here's what to do:

0. Find someone on the call list to fix it. But this often fails for some reason .... so then do 1-4 below.

1. First, determine which supply is broken and look at it to make sure you know what it looks like. Take access, find the raster,
follow it's cable to the lead-brick box containing 2 power supplies. Find the suspect bad supply. If the green LED is off (presumably
only on one supply), then indeed the supply is bad. Why ? All such failures so far are due to a 24V supply, but since we've
changed / improved this design it may or may not be so this time.

2. Find the replacement supply. It may be in EEL building room 126, or perhaps Bill Gunning has staged it somewhere else.
Note, EEL 126 is the electronics lab. It might also be in EEL 109 (or whatever is the electronics groups main lab.) If you don't
find it in EEL 126/109, you'll need to call Bill Gunning or Jack Segal.

3. What to look for: raster supplies # 5,6,7,8 belong to hall A and are matched to our raster. Do NOT use any other
power supply box. For example, if you use hall C's supplies they will probably fail (it's happened) and never mind why.
Obviously, two of the above are already deployed, the other two are spares. NOTE: #6 and 8 are "vertical" (field,
see note about MCC notation), and the other two are "horizontal" (MCC notation).

4. Make careful notes about the cabling, pull the bad supply out, restore cabling exactly as before, then call MCC while
still in the hall and make sure they can ramp up the raster to some small value like 1x1 mm. If that's ok, ramp up to
whatever maximum raster current you want. If that's ok, you are done. Exit the hall.

Beam charge monitors (BCM) and calibration procedure

--- From Brad Sawatzky (For the Coulomb Sum Rule experiment)

I'd recommend finding the BCM Logging GUI beforehand and making sure it works. It should be at

"Hall A Main Menu:BCM:BCM Logging"

This is a multi-step process. The machine is set-up in "no-loss" mode: this allows people to believe that all the current that gets out of the injector region makes it past the BCMs in the Hall. The following procedure is then followed:

• In Hall A:
  • Go to Empty target. Ask MCC to get ready and call you back before starting the procedure. When they call: start CODA run(s) and start logging the current monitor DVM data (from the Hall A Tools menu). MCC does the rest.

1. Current = 5 uA
2. The Faraday cup is inserted at the end of the injector region to measure an absolute current.
3. Faraday cup is removed.
   1. Cross calibrate the 0L02 cavity monitor with the Faraday cup data.
   2. Cross calibrate Hall A BCMs at the same time (via CODA data and the DVM logging).
4. Current += 10 uA, goto 1).

When you're done Halog stop the CODA runs and the Logger. Halog the CODA run numbers and the BCM logging filename (which only updates after you hit stop, I think). The whole thing usually involves a 2 hours of downtime for all Halls. I think the "official" time is only 30-45min. Don't believe it.

Ideally you want to start at a current below your minimum production current and end somewhat above your maximum production current to get a clean calibration. 5--80 uA will probably be all you want. If you will be going above 80 uA you might want to check with Kees -- I'm not sure what the administrative current limit is for CSR.

Here are the formal MCC procedures:

• "Main" BCM calibration
• Hall-A Unser calibration (I don't think our Unser is actually working though... Let me know if I'm wrong.)

FYI, those files are from: http://opsntsrv.acc.jlab.org/ops_docs/MCC_web_interface/interface_pages/operating_procedures.asp

Beam position monitors (BPM) and calibration procedure

How to perform a BPM pedestal run:

0. Beam current and raster should be off for this activity.

1. MCC has to follow the following procedure:

    - open BPM window "BPM Diagnostics - SEE"
    - from there pull down the "Expert Screens" and open "Gain Control"
    - for IOCSE10, use the pull down window and change from "auto gain" to "forced gain". 
    - then change the forced gain values x and y to zero.

2. Make sure CODA configuration is either Twoarm_FB" or "Twoarm_RICH". If not, follow these steps:

    - if you were running before you first have to press Abort
    - choose the appropriate configuration in runcontrol
    - select "Twoarm_FB"  or "Twoarm_RICH" 
    - Press RunTypes button in RunControl, download.

3. Set T8 prescale factor to 4 and take a run.

4. Have MCC change the BPM gain back to "auto gain".

5. Run get_bpm_pedestals.C in the root analyzer: Updated on October 26, 2008!

    - this code is now available from the onlana account on the adaq machines
    - run analyzer and type:
          get_bpm_pedestals(<runnumber>,<number of events>) with the run number and number of events you want to replay. 
    - the code should print out the new pedestals at the end 
    - post the plots and results in the Halog
    - an expert  should load the database into an editor and change them (2nd line of the [BPMx] blocks)

How to perform a bulls eye scan:

1. You need unrastered beam:

    - caution you should not do this with a target requiring rastered beam
    - use carbon, BeO, optics, or in the worst case empty instead

2. Ask MCC to steer the beam to the nominal center of the target.

3. Wait until beam is stable and have MCC perform a harp scan for 1H03A and 1H03B and a coda run during the same time,

   that's two run numbers to record. Start coda run first before asking MCC. request MCC to put ELOG entry, they should see
   all three harp wires, request plots to be saved into ELOG. record ELOG entry numbers. 

4. Ask MCC then to steer the beam to positions around the nominal center:

    - cover at least the area the raster will cover: (2,2), (2,-2), (-2,-2), (-2,2) and repeat (0,0)
    - repeat harp and coda runs for each position

5. Record Harp scan run numbers and corresponding CODA run number for each beam position.

6. Make a record of the harp scans and CODA runs in the Halog.

How to analyze the bulls eye scan:

 - detailed instructions can be found at the Analyzing BPMs website.
 - the shift crew is not expected to analysis the bulls eye scan.

Beam Recovery Procedure

After beam study or other major down time

1. Move target to Empty position, let MCC restore the beam.
2. Move target to BeO/Optics, ask Raster OFF.
3. Then let MCC tune the beam to our nominal beam position (BPM values are on the white board) with low current (<2uA). On the monitor, verify the beam is hitting the center of the cross-hair marked on BeO target.
4. Move target to Empty position, ask MCC to do a Harp Scan, the beam profile should be within 100-200 um (sigma).
5. Move target back to BeO/Optics position, ask for 3x3 raster (3x4 MCC units) and 2 uA beam. Check BeO monitor one more time and do spot++ to check raster size.
6. Move target to He3 position, keep the 3x3 raster size. Ask for 2uA beam and compare the trigger rates (T1/T3/T5) with previous log (posted on the right side of the scaler monitor).
7. Keep 2uA beam, change raster size from 3x3 to 4x4 (4x5 MCC units) and then 5x5 (5x6.6 MCC units), verify that there is no significant change in the trigger rates. Spot++ with 5x6.6 raster is required and others are optional.
8. Once everything looks normal, change raster size back to 3x3 (3x4 MCC units). Ramp the beam to 10 uA and compare the trigger rates with previous log (also posted on the right side of the scaler monitor)..
9. Continue production.

After not very short beam down (>1hour)

1. Move target to BeO/Optics position, ask for 3x3 raster (3x4 MCC units) and 2 uA beam. On the monitor, verify the beam is hitting the center of the cross-hair marked on BeO target.and do spot++ to check raster size.
2. Move target to He3 position, keep the 3x3 raster size. Ask for 2uA beam and compare the trigger rates (T1/T3/T5) with previous log (posted on the right side of the scaler monitor).
3. Ramp the beam to 10 uA and compare the trigger rates with previous log (also posted on the right side of the scaler monitor)..
4. Continue production.