Dmitri Denisov 5 February 2003 Status of the Summer 2003 shutdown   Dear Colleagues!   Here is brief summary from today's Run II Strategy Meeting between BD/D0/CDF:   1. Shutdown of ~6 weeks is needed by BD for maintenance as well as recycler related jobs. Both experiments expressed preference of running without shutdown.   2. With ~2-3 weeks postshutdown startup and outlined above shutdown duration all FY03 integrated luminosity will be collected before shutdown. Extrapolating recent Tevatron performance to reach goal of 225pb-1 of delivered luminosity in FY03 brings us to about mid. August 2003.   3. Based on the above summer shutdown start date will most probably be delayed by ~3-4 weeks past originally scheduled begining date of July 28 2003. We expect to hear final decision on start date and duration of the shutdown from the Lab within a few weeks. ______________________________________________________________________ Mike Martens 5 February 2003 Beam emittances   I have attached a Power Point file (and a Postscript version) with some slides and comments about the present state of beam position and emittance measurements in the Tevatron. Unfortunately, even this late in Run II, we do not have good measurements for these. Work is in progress and I hope to have some better results on the beam position after the Jan 2003 shutdown.   Since they are so large, I give the web page address instead   http://waldo.fnal.gov/~martens/public/FPD_beamsize_Jan03.ppt   and   http://waldo.fnal.gov/~martens/public/FPD_beamsize_Jan03.ps   ______________________________________________________________________ Victor Bodyagin 7 February 2003 access updates    sorry to be that late with updates but I was really busy today.     Today Carley, Wanda and me were fighting with the problem  of LVDT readout fluctuations in A2 castle.    Many of us remember about the mystery of A2I fluctuations.   We tried to solve it few times and were not successful.    While this shutdown we had enough time to try again.      Again we were observing big fluctuations for A2I and A2O and    very significant for A2U and A2D. By swapping the LVDT-to-Conditioner    cables on LVDTs we figured out that the problem is related with    conditioners. Measurements of voltages at the outputs of LPCs,    comparisons with good castles and many attempts to find something    interesting with the help of scope gave us practically nothing.    Fast ACNET plot usually used by us to watch A-halo P-halo turned out to    be the most powerful tool in our studies. Of course, we used it    to watch LVDT readouts.       1. It turned out that A2 problem is a part of more general one.        All LVDT readouts for good castles also fluctuate when pots        are at home positions. One can see it for A1, P1 and P2 as well,        though the fluctuations will be much smaller ~1mm. For A2        they could be up to ~10mm when all A2 are at home.        A2 is still not calibrated but improvement of LVDT readouts        by ~20% corrections will not change this picture dramatically.       2. All fluctuations in good castles and in A2 are extremely        strongly time correlated! It is clearly seen at time plots.        For us it turned out to be the most striking feature.       3. But probably the most amazing thing we observed today is that        these fluctuations are position correlated also, for A2 at least.        For instance, when all four pots are home one can see from        time to time (quasiperiodical) fluctuations for all pots.        After moving A2U, A2D and A2I to 5-7mm no fluctuations        are observed for these 3 pots meanwhile A2O has fluctuations.        Moreover, the closer A2O to them the bigger fluctuations        can be observed. You can move A2U, A2D, A2I to 15 or to 20 mm        and watch perfect straight lines as long as you want but        once A2O is moved closely to the same positions the flucts        appear again. It is really a resonant effect.        Certainly A2O is a primary suspect. Ricardo and me this night        swapped A2I and A2O LVDT-to-LPC cables and it was clearly seen        that it was not A2O LVDT which was responsible for such        for such a behavior of A2O readout.         The problem is that this A2O LPC is so-called "master" while the        others are "slaves". Earlier Carley and me replaced A2O LPC        by a spare  "master" but nothing has changed.            Seemingly A2I fluctuations mystery does not exist anymore.        We can leave A2O at home and have very good readouts for the        others. So far we can live with that.         Today I could not get into LAB6 and check do we have more spares        or not since Wanda (a tech in charge for our room) has changed the        lock on the door or its code.             We'll have access till 4p.m. Friday Feb 7th.           Ricardo and me left all tools in the tunnel we brought together        with Carley.          A guy from MCR whom I do not know (sorry for that) told me that        Mike Martens told him to prepare sandbags. According to his        estimates it's a lot (some two trucks). We need somebody who        could clearly tell him where to put them.                Bye. I'll try to be at work no later than 9:30.   ______________________________________________________________________ Victor Bodyagin 7 February 2003 some access news     yesterday I was wrong with the statement that A2O conditioner was bad.   Finally it turned out to be A2O LVDT. We moved A2I LVDT into A2O pot   and A2O LVDT to A2I pot. Since A2O has a pseudodetector it is   preferrable to move it and to work with it while A2I is now empty.   Our suggestion is to keep A2I at home and to work with A2U, A2D and A2O.   Right now Wanda is doing calibration measurements. It is necessary   to do since there was a deal of activity in A2 castle with swapping   LVDTs setting LPC spans etc.        The status of the pots is as follows:        16 good pots out of 18. A2I has a problematical LVDT in it. I could      not find a spare one at Lab6. We need to have spares. A1O has      problems while moving home. This problem will be investigated next      time. Very likely Newton is right and it can be IIB problems      Readout status:        did not change since my last report since CFT guys were too busy      with their own problems. They tried to take our AFEs in calibrating      run but DAQ failed for its own reasons this morning.          Obviously, after this shutdown everyone who was busy with it      feels tired. Let's have a quiet weekend.           I'll remain an on-call FPD expert this weekend.               Let's meet on Monday 11th at 14:00 in SdH for FPD operations. ______________________________________________________________________ Jorge Luis Barreto 12 February 2003 QCD talk   Hello,           The slides for my tomorrow's talk in the QCD meeting can be found at      http://www-clued0.fnal.gov/~barreto/fpd/QCD_021303.ppt           Please, let me know about any suggestion/comments.   ______________________________________________________________________ Sergio F. Novaes 21 February 2003 Workshop Agenda - Permanent URL   The workshop agenda has been transferred to its permanent location:   http://www-d0.fnal.gov/fpd/Links/Workshops/FPDWorkshop0302.html   with a link in the FPD homepage / Documents.   During the workshop, please keep using the old address:   http://d0server1.fnal.gov/users/novaes/FPDWorkshop.html   This one is easier to update. ______________________________________________________________________ Wanda Prado da Silva 9 March 2003 Pot calibration   Dear all.   Let me report the procedure and observations did during the pot calibration work. First of all, Vladimir and Christophe give me information that LVDT reading is related to a value named RAVL by a linear equation like   LVDT=RVAL*ASLO + ROFF For procedure calibration, We record LVDT reading for all pots, from home position to maximum position, each 1.0mm. Then using current value for ASLO and ROFF and LVDT reading recorded for each position, we determine the RVAL value for each pot position. Finally, we plotted the wanted position X RVAL in order to determine the new value for ASLO and ROFF parameters, where wanted position is the position were asked pot to go.   The plots with this results are:   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\A1U-A1D_1.ps \\D0server4\users\prado\pot_calibration\A1I_1.ps   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\A2U-A2D_1.ps \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\A2I_1.ps \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\A2O_1.ps   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\P1U-P1D_1.ps \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\P1I-A1O_1.ps   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\P2U-P2D1.ps \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\P2I-P2O1.ps   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\D1-D2_1.ps   After introduce new value for ASLO and ROFF, I did measurement for pot position from home until maximum position. These data are found on   \\D0server4\users\prado\pot_calibration\P1_pos.xls \\D0server4\users\prado\pot_calibration\P2_pos.xls \\D0server4\users\prado\pot_calibration\A1_pos.xls   Pots from A2 castle are miscalibrated and show big fluctuations, D2 is also miscalibrated and show little fluctuation.   I have been discussing with Vladimir and we are investigating the cause of this fluctuantions and miscalibration, doing the following procedure:   - runnig a archiver process, in order to record the position for all pots;   - moving pots in different positions searching some kind of   correlation between position X fluctuation;   - moving pots and record the RVAL for different pot position.   A plot from data record by archiver can be found at   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\D1_D2_HPos1.gif   when dipoles were at home position, and   \\D0server4\users\prado\Pot_Calibration\D1_D2_Mov1.gif   when dipoles were moved   The summary for the study of A2 castle, movement is:   Pot Position     |    behaviour ________________________________________   A2U/A2D/A2I/A2O  at home         |  big fluctuation ________________________________________   A2I at 10.0mm    |  stable     and A2U/A2D/A2O      |  big fluctuation  at home ________________________________________   A2U/A2D/A2O      |  stable  at 10.0mm     and A2I at home      |  big fluctuat ________________________________________   A2U/A2D/A2I/A2O at any position  |  big fluctuation different from home position ________________________________________   A2I/A2O          |  stable at 10.0mm   and A2U/A2D          |  big fluctuation at home ________________________________________   A2I/A2O/A2D      |  stable  at 10.0mm     and A2U at home      |  alternating between big                  |  and little  fluctuation ________________________________________   So I didn't understood this behaviour.   The RVAl value for different dipole positions, has being recorded and is being analysed. Also for A2 castle, I intend to do many tests, arranging these pots in pars and recording the RVAL value.   I hope receive comments that help me in this task.   ______________________________________________________________________ Wanda Prado da Silva 10 March 2003 pot calibration   I don't have specific information how this variable is processed internally. I have only the information that links this variable to LVDT reading by a linear relation. Me Carley and Ricardo, just find documentation about this issue. I am convinced that there are some kind of mistake on this calibration procedure, some mistake about linear region.   About the calculation, I used the linear equation:   LVDT=RVAL*ASLO + ROFF   Since I had ASLO and ROFF, I determined RVAL:   RVAL= (LVDT - ROFF)/ASLO   and I proced as explained in the previous message.   Regard to A2I pot, the previous test made by Victor, me and Carley, adressed all fluctuations problems to this pot, but note that now I did tests that show A2I stable when this pot, A2O and A2D, is at 10.0mm while A2U left at home, shows big fluctuations. For other hand, the fluctuations can't be linked only to home position, since if we put all four pots, together, they fluctuate, doesn't matter the position, in wich they are. Those observation changed our understanding about this fluctuations.   The correct address and the name of plots are:   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A1U-A1D_1.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A1I_1.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A2U-A2D_1.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A2I_1.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A2O_1.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P1U-P1D_1.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P1I-A1O_1.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P2U-P2D1.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P2I-P2O1.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/D1-D2_1.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P1_pos.xls //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P2_pos.xls //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A1_pos.xls   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/D1_D2_HPos1.gif   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/D1_D2_Mov1.gif ______________________________________________________________________ Wanda Prado da Silva 15 March 2003 Pots calibration   I compute new parameters for all pots, after we discussed the procedure about that and looking the epics documentation. I also examined the epics.db and I checked AOFF, ESLO value on this file. Occour that this procedure didn't results in good calibration, but the fit on plot wanted position X RAW, looks good. All pots at home position show values for LVDT different from zero, some of them positive and some negative. So sounds like a problem in ROFF value.I examine the epics reference, but I didn't find anything that help me to adjust this values. The plots Wanted position X RAW, for all pots are on:   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A1U-A1D.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A1I.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A2U-A2D.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A2I.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/A2O.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P1U-P1D.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P1I-A1O.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P2U-P2D1.ps //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/P2I-P2O1.ps   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/D1-D2.ps   and the table with the parameters before calibration and after calibration, is on   //d0server1/users/prado/Pot_Calibration/Parameters.ps   ______________________________________________________________________ Victor Bodyagin 28 March 2003 fpd MAP        I've attached a full-scale-FPD-from-fiber-to-SVX channel map bellow. Please, note that:     1. Practically everyone of us contributed into this project at different      stages of FPD development and I just tried to assemble our mapping      folklore onto one list.     2. The map has not been tested and verified yet with fpd_examine since      examine development is still underway. So I can not claim that it is      correct.     3. This is a full-scale project map, i.e. for all 18 pots and 5 AFEs.      Our current hardware configuration is:       1. We have 3 AFEs for vertical quads and dipoles.       2. Cables from vertical detectors A1,P1 are plugged into A/S          inputs for horizontal A1,P1.       3. Vertical A2,P2 and Dipoles are attached normally.              Please, take a look at it and any comment or correction      is welcome.   ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Strang 3 April 2003 DPF Diffraction talk   The location of the updated diffractive talk is:   http://www-clued0.fnal.gov/~strang/web/DPF2003.ppt   Please look it over and send any comments this afternoon. Thanks.   ______________________________________________________________________ Vladimir Sirotenko 7 April 2003 acnet separator values   When we access seperator's values from acnet, we got errors all the time. From BD Vax consol we also can not access them (from page D80, tehre is an error: this is not valid device name). For example, varaibles C:C4HSPF, C:D1HSMF and so on. Script is written to put acnet variables to RUNS database, but those variables are zeros all the time .. your suggestions? Complete list which was agreed to keep for every run is the following: 'C:C4HSPF':{'DESC':'C49 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:C4HSMF':{'DESC':'C49 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:C4VSPF':{'DESC':'C49 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:C4VSMF':{'DESC':'C49 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:D1HSPF':{'DESC':'D11 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:D1HSMF':{'DESC':'D11 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:D1VSPF':{'DESC':'D11 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:D1VSMF':{'DESC':'D11 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:A4HSPF':{'DESC':'A49 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:A4HSMF':{'DESC':'A49 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:A4VSPF':{'DESC':'A49 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:A4VSMF':{'DESC':'A49 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:B0HSPF':{'DESC':'B11 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:B0HSMF':{'DESC':'B11 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:B0VSPF':{'DESC':'B11 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:B0VSMF':{'DESC':'B11 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:A1VSPF':{'DESC':'A17 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:A1VSMF':{'DESC':'A17 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:B1HSPF':{'DESC':'B17 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:B1HSMF':{'DESC':'B17 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:C1VSPF':{'DESC':'C17 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:C1VSMF':{'DESC':'C17 vertical separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:D4HSPF':{'DESC':'D48 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   'C:D4HSMF':{'DESC':'D48 horizontal separator settings','UNIT':'VOLT'},   ______________________________________________________________________ Victor Bodyagin 18 April 2003 rates OK                           when I came in the morning to look into the problem of the update of the   scalars at first I found nothing wrong. SDAQ was running and scalars   were being updated properly. The only one thing I found to be wrong is   that "GRAND OR" NIM Logical Unit (LU) has gone crazy. It was generating   output logical "1" ignoring any input combinations and "AND" terms.   It was working like a free generator. So Carley and me replaced it.   Now things got back under our control.       So far I have no any satisfactory explanation why the problem   of the ACNET update appeared and was it in fact a problem of ACNET.   Probably this problem appeared in the "transition" period for   the LU from a reasonable to a mad state.     Now, let me remind you a few things about update.        Counting rates are measured by normalizing them by a standard   frequency (1MHz) coming from the generator. For that purpose these   standard frequency NIM pulses are coming at the input No.11 of the   first CAMAC scalar. The sum of this scalar values over some period   of time (mostly it is 5 seconds) is used for normalization.         SDAQ does it in the following steps:    1. Gets the trigger.    2. Reads out the event with the current values of the scalars in it.    3. Sums up scalars' values with the values from the previous events.    4. Checks time and statistics.    5. If 5 seconds passed since last update and if total statistics for       the scalar is greater than 100 SDAQ normalizes this value and       updates the counting rate. Big enough statistics is necessary hear       in order to have some reasonable accuracy of the counting rate       estimation.    6. SDAQ updates are coming:         a. To vxWorks window.       b. To EPICS variables.         One can see these updates:      1. As ACNET variables provided nothing is wrong neither with EPICS db       nor with ACNET.    2. In FPD Gui provided nothing is wrong with SDAQ and EPICS.      3. In vxWorks window provided nothing is wrong with SDAQ.        What can be wrong with SDAQ ?        For SDAQ update two things a crucial:      1. Triggering. If it is absent then SDAQ can not readout an event.    2. 1MHz pulses at the input #11 of the first scalar. If they are absent       then SDAQ can not divide by ZERO.           Since main Logical Unit got crazy there are many possible guesses     what and why was wrong.        There are no rules for love and madness!   ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Strang 24 April 2003 Access results   The first order of business was to put the A2 castle into normal operating condition, which was accomplished. The pots where then moved and the LVDT values were observed to change. Further studies showed that the LVDTs were stable, even with all pots at nominal positions over a long period of time. The other pots were exercised as well. With these results, it was decided to not replace the LVDT at this time.   Most of our efforts were spent on the noise problem which took longer than expected due to the unusual results. We tested the P1I cables that are carrying the P1U signal looking for common ground between the channels. The dipoles show common ground on all channels and work fine. In the cables we tested, we found that for P1I-1, some of the channels had common ground and others did not. Those that did not were interspersed with those that did. Inspecting the cable, we found no problems. P1I-2 showed that half of the cable had common ground and the other half did not. P1I-3 showed that no channels had common ground. We inspected P1I-3 both in the tunnel and at PW08 and everything looked fine. P1I-3 looked to be plugged into the TPP correctly during the test.   We then used the master map to convert from cable channel to SVX channel and ultimately to calibration histogram channel (after some confusion) and compared our results to the latest calibration for P1I taken last night. If the antenna hypothesis were true (channel without a common ground indicate that the signal channel is picking up noise and causing spikes) it should be clear. Instead, what we found was that the channels with common ground are evenly distributed between noisy and quiet channels as are the channels with no common ground. We unplugged P1I-3 from the TPP and Jadzia will be performing a full CFT calibration run tonight and we will be able to see if this has any effect on the noise levels for those 16 channels compared to last nights calibration where the cable was plugged in.   We will discuss these results with John Anderson tomorrow morning to try to figure out where to go from here on the noise issue.   In parallel with these tasks, Mike Utes installed the new sequencer software and Victor is downloading updated time delays for the dipoles.   ______________________________________________________________________ Mike Martens 25 April 2003 12:03 Orbit smoothing   The Tevatron orbits were adjusted this week so some amount of extra care should be given when moving the pots in for next store.   Horizontally I expect orbit differences of less than 0.5 mm except at the location of the dipole pots. At the dipole pots the horizontal orbit position is now +2 mm different than it was before the smoothing. (It is now 2 mm further to the radial outside.) However, there is some confusion because smoothed and tried to keep that position constant. It appeared to be constant, but now it shows a 2 mm orbit difference.   Vertically I expect that the beam will be +2mm higher at the proton pots, -1mm lower at the pbar pots, and +1mm higher at the dipole pots. Also, we are now saving the orbits periodically during a store in the SDA (Sequenced Data Acquisition) database. The orbits are collected about every 30 minutes. These are the orbits during a store with coalesced beam, so there will be a difference between these measurements and the orbit measurements made during the smoothing. They should give an indication of the stability of the beam however.   To view the orbits,   Start up T39 on an ACNET console. Select the "sda" menu item. Select "Collider Shot" for usage. Select "HEP" for case. Enter the store number for the file #. Then you should be able to plot the orbit positions. ______________________________________________________________________ Mario Vaz April 28, 2003   Wagner and I are working on a new set of L1 trigger equations. The DI implementation made with Ramirez at D0 was replicated here. Do you guys downloaded and tested it in the FPD DFE at the Test Stand ? is any FPD DFE operating at the PW08 rack ?   About the FPD noise problem, I wrote a short note at http://d0br1.lafex.cbpf.br/~mario/FPD/TPP_Ground_Loops.htm   ______________________________________________________________________ Carley Martins 30 April 2003 TPP: news results   The last results of run calibration for 0x50 and 0x52 done by CFT, can be found at:   \\D0server4\users\cmartins\TPP_PLOTS\AFE_CAL_histo1_04-29-03.jpg \\D0server4\users\cmartins\TPP_PLOTS\AFE_CAL_histo2_04-29-03.jpg   This plots are related to 4quarter of TPP (PW08 border) with all cables unplugged.   The previous results, with (n-1)cables plugged, can be found at:   \\D0server4\users\cmartins\TPP_PLOTS\AFE_CAL_histo1_04-25-03.jpg \\D0server4\users\cmartins\TPP_PLOTS\AFE_CAL_histo2_04-25-03.jpg \\D0server4\users\cmartins\TPP_PLOTS\AFE_CAL_histo3_04-25-03.jpg   Please, take a look at this plots and comments are wellcome! ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Strang 6 May 2003 FPD Issues   Ok, I've returned the FPDIssues link to the top of the online version of the checklist. The url is:   d0server1.fnal.gov/users/strang/web/fpd/documents/FPDIssues.txt   Please look it over and let me know if there is anything I should change or add.