FWD Software

[videbaek <videbaek AT bnl.gov>]

Genem

just a comment for your point 2
Certainly runs217016-217030 are all bad ofor the TPC as you say.

-F

On 2024-08-05 11:28, Van Buren, Gene wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I have two questions to raise here....
>
> 1) As I noted last week on the ops mailing list, there was a run where
> the magnetic field dropped off at the very end of data-taking. Most of
> the run is fine, but I understand that FWD subsystem physics (as well
> as all mid-rapidity physics) would be affected by the magnetic field
> drop. I would like to know if there is already a way to set the status
> of FWD subsystems to "not OK" in the middle of a run? I can already do
> this for the TPC, but I don't think we yet have a global way to do
> this....I might need to invent that.
>
> 2) I understand the TPC gating grid malfunctioned for a few hours
> yesterday. Again, I can set the TPC status to "not OK" for these runs.
> But is there any use for these runs for FWD physics without the TPC?
> If not, we can just mark the runs as bad.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks,
> -Gene

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