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.


Kicker magnet calibration with viewscreen

Pair-spectrometer threshold calibration with beam

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

Thresh upstream beam collim 090711.png Thresh downstream beam collim 090711.png


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).

Thresh upstream beam collim TDCdata 090711.pngThresh downstream beam collim TDCdata 090711.png

  • 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
1 upstream(down...) On In Open In -150 mV 545(476)
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(*)
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