September 7, 2011

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Wednesday Run Plan

• Tune up beam
• During this time, as much as possible tune up daq timing
• Kicker magnet calibration with viewscreen
• Pair spectrometer checkout/debugging

    This should include setting thresholds, studying rates with air converter, looking at rates with photon hole open
     versus blocked, ...

• Check detector rates with D2O. See if we can get a good time of flight spectrum.

Pair-spectrometer threshold calibration with beam

By using analog counter. Beam On. Dump out. Collimator Open. Radiator in (10 um Al).

By using analog counter. Beam On. Dump out. Collimator Open. Radiator in (10 um Al).

was not done

By using TDC to count PS pulses (10,000 beam pulses). Beam On. Dump in. Collimator Open. Radiator in (10 um Al).

• upstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 545 cnts/10,000 beam pulses
• downstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 476 cnts/10,000 beam pulses

By using TDC to count PS pulses (10,000 beam pulses). Beam On. Dump in. Collimator Open. Radiator out (10 um Al).

• upstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 74 cnts/10,000 beam pulses.
• downstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 101 cnts/10,000 beam pulses

There are effect from radiator in/out, but not so much as wanted.

By using TDC to count PS pulses (10,000 beam pulses). Beam On. Dump in. Collimator blocked (see lab log books). Radiator in (10 um Al).

• upstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 19 cnts/10,000 beam pulses
• downstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 18 cnts/10,000 beam pulses

(19/545 -> about 96.5% of beam is coming trough collimator!)

By using TDC to count PS pulses (10,000 beam pulses). Beam On. Dump in. Collimator blocked (see lab log books). Radiator out (10 um Al).

• downstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 20 cnts/10,000 beam pulses.

 About the same as previous, good

By using TDC to count PS pulses (10,000 beam pulses). Beam Blocked. Dump in. Collimator blocked (see lab log books). Radiator out (10 um Al).

• downstream PS: 150 mV threshold, 0 cnts/10,000 beam pulses.

Summary of counting with TDC (10k beam pulses) for different beam line configuration. -150 mV threshold

# as it was	Run #	PS detector	Beam	Dump magnet	Collimator	Radiator	Threshold	Counts	Ratio radiator in/out
1		upstream(down...)	On	In	Open	In	-150 mV	545(476)		rowspan="2"
5	2294(2293)	upstream(down...)	On	In	Open	Out	-150 mV	74(101)
6	2295	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Al	Out	-150 mV	43(*)
10	2300	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Al	In	-150 mV	191(*)
11	2301	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Al	Completely out	-150 mV	65(*)
12	2302	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Grafite	Completely out	-150 mV	79(*)
13	2303	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Grafite	In	-150 mV	190(*)
14	2304	upstream(down...)	On	Out	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Grafite	In	-150 mV	4093(*)
15	2305	upstream(down...)	On	Out	Upstream blocked w/ 2" Grafite	Out	-150 mV	3307(*)
7	2296	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 4" Al	Out	-150 mV	41(*)
8	2297,2298	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 4" Al	Completely Out	-150 mV	30/34(*)
9	2299	upstream(down...)	On	In	Upstream blocked w/ 4" Al	In	-150 mV	159/(*)
2	2289(2290)	upstream(down...)	On	In	Blocked	In	-150 mV	19(18)
3	2291	upstream(down...)	On	In	Blocked	Out	-150 mV	*(20)
4	2292	upstream(down...)	Blocked	In	Blocked	Out	-150 mV	*(0)

about meaning of the different adjectives (like completely) see the log books