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[Sphenix-run-l] Minutes shift change 2023-05-10

From: Stefan Bathe <stefan.bathe AT baruch.cuny.edu>
To: sphenix-run-l AT lists.bnl.gov
Subject: [Sphenix-run-l] Minutes shift change 2023-05-10
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 19:16:52 -0400

Minutes shift change 2023-05-10

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- 9:00am meeting today: no change to RHIC schedule discussed yesterday:
- first beam circulating Thursday (tomorrow) night
- IR sweep Thursday (tomorrow) afternoon, after that no access
- probably daytime access through Monday/Tuesday
- sPHENIX commissioning begins next Wednesday morning (May 17)

- "approval to operate” process
- electrical inspections successfully completed yesterday
- now approvals are moving through committees
- Ray Fliller (C-AD Associate Chair for ESSHQ) expects approval to operate
by end of next week

AC work on mezzanine

Day: accesses by INTT, MVTX, EMCAL;

MBD: problems with DAQ

HCAL swapped TP board and put back CM;

TPOT noise data after ground change

TPC online calibration; fw testing of throughput capable of reading 256
samples and 13 FEE; L1 trigger tagger features incorporated; noise RMS 4
channels which is 2 channels

INTT some HV channels need some work; decoding almost final

MVTX all 48 staves can now be read out; CAEN MF replaced

sEPD nothing

DAQ 226224 problem; HCAL.W still has issues

ZDC tested

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Stefan Bathe
Professor of Physics
Baruch College, CUNY
and RIKEN Visiting Scientist

Baruch: BNL:
17 Lexington Ave Bldg. 510
office 940 office 2-229
phone 646-660-6272 phone 631-344-8490
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Stefan Bathe
Professor of Physics
Baruch College, CUNY
and RIKEN Visiting Scientist

Baruch: BNL:
17 Lexington Ave Bldg. 510
office 940 office 2-229
phone 646-660-6272 phone 631-344-8490
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[Sphenix-run-l] Minutes shift change 2023-05-10, Stefan Bathe, 05/10/2023