sPHENIX HCal discussion

["Lajoie, John G [PHYSA]" <lajoie AT iastate.edu>]

Dear HCAL'ers:

    At the HCAL meeting yesterday there were questions about the reference to a "reactor" at Uniplast. I pinged Edward and here's his response:

Hi, John, “reactor” is the name for chemical equipment which holds the volume where chemicals are mixed and reaction occurs.  The whole property where UNIPLAST is located belongs to holding company (or whatever is left from preexisting research and industrial conglomerate “POLYMERSYNTES”). Uniplast is one of the space renters using its own and some of the old rental equipment. Holding company keeps control of the space allocation, energy, maintenance, waste etc. 

Reactors are many in this place, not much can be done if the one nearest to you needs to work when you do your testing, noise is through the power lines and in this place they typically consume ~20kwt of power each. 

Igor made the noise conditions study to learn of times in the day when environment is reasonable, since that study all measurements are done either early morning or weekend. 

So not the kind of "reactor" we were thinking of....

Regards,
John

John Lajoie

Professor of Physics

Iowa State University

 

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