Commissioning and running of sPHENIX

[Stefan Bathe <stefan.bathe AT baruch.cuny.edu>]

Minutes shift change 2023-05-14

general
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- 9 o’clock meeting:  
 expect late afternoon sweep today
plan for 3-h access Monday morning 8:30-11:30
7:00am-10:00pm access Tuesday
3-h access Wednesday morning

evening (Raghav)
- caught mouse
- MVTX flow rates slightly below

night (Brennan)
- nothing to report

Day (Ben)
- completely quiet
- EMCal NE chiller 46 % alarm, went away
  - only on large monitor on top, not showing on small shift leader monitor 
—> Lee
- TPOT right tank:  gauge lowest it can go

MBD (Abdul)
- nothing

HCAL (Virginia)
- nothing new

EMCal (Martin)
- ran into persistent problems trying to run with all 8 servers
- need to implement the right error handling

TPOT nothing

TPC (Jin)
- John K finished pulser test of newly identified noisy modules, being 
analyzed
- 256 sample readout, stress test, 13 h very stable run, 2GB/s to buffer box
- another GTM link interaction at 0:58am
  - these will be disruptive, trying to find source
- expect TPC to have 24 h operations
  - shift crew only detector safety

INTT nothing

MVTX nothing

sEPD nothing

DAQ (John H)
- trying to start and stop, seb03 crashed, wasn’t able to get back
  - Martin:  system D maintenance from rc_daq server not enabled (needed to 
get started manually when rebooted)
  - win driver needs to be loaded (John did that)
- Martin:  resurrected GTM status output
  - get_cnstats (see slide on agenda)

ZDC(John)
- not being logged indefinitely

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

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