Feb runplan

E08-027/E08-007 Commissioning Runplan (K. Slifer / K. Allada)

Task I : Beamline Commissioning (Y. Roblin)

Initial Beam Accelerator Ops, with assistance from the Hall A shift crew. This includes delivery of beam to the dump, commissioning of the BPMs, calibration with the Harp and power up of the rasters.

Full Details for ONLY straight-through beam delivery are provided at:

• Initial straight-through beam delivery

Start-up configuration

1. Two pass beam, E0 =2.2 GeV, polarized, no raster.
2. Current: Initially pulsed up to 2-4<math>\mu</math>A pulsed, then up to 5 <math>\mu</math>A CW.
3. Spectrometers at 12.5 degrees, <math>P_0=??</math> MeV (carbon elastic).
4. Sieve slits : OUT.
5. Septa settings: 5.69 degrees.
6. Compton chicane: OFF.
7. Polarized Target chicane : OFF and degaussed.
8. Tungsten Calorimeter : Retracted.
9. Polarized Target: Field OFF

Task II : Moller Commissioning (1 shift)

(Resp: O. Glamazdin, J. Zhang)

1. Detector HV tuning (30min)
2. Q1 and Q2 quadruple magnets scan (1hour)
3. Moller target longitudinal scan (30 min)
4. Beam polarization measurement (30-40min)
5. MCC job (to set Moller settings and to restore previous beam parameters) (~2hours)

Total: 5 hours.

Task III: Compton Test (2 shifts)

(Resp: Sirish et al.)

Task IV: HRS/Detector Checkout

(Resp: g2p students)

Most of these check-out can be done during the initial beamline commissioning(see above)

HRS and Septum Magnet Checks (Min, Jixie?)

1. Cycle magnets
2. Septum field vs current, checks with carbon elastic peaks

HRS Detectors Check-out (Melissa, Ryan, Vince)

1. Check all the detectors in both arm to establish that we don't have problems.
2. Post ALL the online plots for the detectors (ADC, TDC etc..) in the Halog
   1. VDC (efficiencies etc..)
   2. Gas Cerenkov (ADC and timing peaks)
   3. S1 and S2m (ADC and timing peaks)
   4. Lead-glass Calorimeter (ADC)
3. Check HV on all the detectors, align the peaks if necessary

DAQ/Trigger Check-out (Melissa, Ryan, Vince)

1. Establish the DAQ conditions for production
   1. What is the max rate DAQ can run with < 20% DT (Buffered and unbuffered mode) ?
   2. Record deadtime as a function of DAQ rate. Change rate via current or prescalers.
   3. Check synchronization of ROCs in buffered mode
   4. Make sure all important scaler channels are working (BCM, Helicity, triggers, L1A, clock)
   5. Check scalers in S1 and S2m detectors for double pulsing

Third Arm Detector Check-out (Chao, Kalyan)

1. Set thresholds for 2.2 GeV beam
2. Check for bad channels, double peaks etc ..
3. Check deadtime, helicity, BCM scalers

Beam Diagnostics Check-out ( Pengjia, Alexandre, Kalyan)

1. Check BPM, slow and fast raster signals in the data
2. Is spot++ working for both arms?
3. BPM commissioning plan by Pengjia here
4. Check BCM signals in the scalers
5. BCM calibration?

Helicity Checks (Chao, Pengjia, Kalyan)

1. Larger charge asymmetry runs to check BCM/helicity signals in HAPPEX, HRS, thirdarm, Moller DAQs simultaneously
2. Establish that there are no problems by checking Hall-A beam charge asymmetries measured in Hall-C

Lumi Detector Check-out (Pengjia, Kalyan)

1. Adjust HV with 100nA current to make sure all channels are roughly aligned and there is no saturation in Happex ADC
2. Establish non linearity of the Lumi detectors
3. Measure lumi asymmetries

Task V: Tungsten Calorimeter

(Resp: Alexandre, Pengjia)

1. Commission tungsten calorimeter
2. BCM calibration ?
3. How do we establish that we can achieve ~1% measurement ?

Task VI: Optics Commissioning

(Resp: Jixie, Min, Vince et al.).

Full details are provided at:

• Optics run plan

Task VII: On-line Analysis

(Resp: Toby)

1. Make sure all on-line analysis scripts are up to date on both arms
2. Post easy instructions for the shift crew on how to start online analysis (stick-notes near the DAQ machine)
3. Make sure all the important information is recorded in the datastream:
   1. EPICS: Beam diagnostics(BCM, BPM, HAPRP etc..)
   2. Target variables
   3. Helicity sorted scalers information ( triggers, L1A, BCM, helicity etc.)
   4. Helicity in ADC, scaler TIR

Task VIII: Beam Energy Measurement

(Resp: Vince?)

1. Mott ?