HALL C OPERATING MANUAL
Rev. 2.2
October, 1999

R. Carlini, R. Ent, H. Fenker,
P. Gueye, C. Keppel, S. Lassiter, A. Lung, D. Mack,
S. Wood, W. Vulcan, C. Yan, B. Zihlmann ......

Minor Revision Date: November 4, 2002

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Procedures for Experiments
  • Safety Responsibilities of Experimenters
    • Obtaining Required Safety Training
    • The Personnel Safety System
    • Hall C Access
      • Controlled Access Procedure
      • Restricted Access Procedure
      • Badge Reader Physical Access Control
    • Attire
    • Hall C Specific Hazards
    • Alarms
      • Radiation Alarms
      • ODH Alarms
      • Fire Alarms
    • General Issues
  • Physics Division in the Life of an Experiment
  • Control of Equipment and System Status
    • Monitoring and Emergency Shutdown of Hall C Systems
    • Independent Verification - Hall C Checklists
      • Typical Check List - Prior to Hall C Production Running
      • Typical Check List - When Hall C is in a Standby Mode
      • Typical Check List - When Hall C is Used as Accelerator Beam Dump
  
  
• Operational Procedures for Hall C
  • General Issues
    • Oxygen Deficiency Hazard
    • Radiation Safety and the Personnel Safety System
      • Induced Activity
      • Radiation Control Personnel
    • AC Power
      • AC Power Distribution System
      • Loss of Site AC Power
    • LCW Operations
      • Loss of site LCW
      • Maintenance
    • Fire
  • Beamline and Targets
    • Beamline
      • Control
      • Monitoring
      • Safety procedures
      • Machine/Beam line protection system
      • Reference documents
    • Special Beam Line Elements
      • Raster Systems
      • Superharp Systems
      • Møller Polarimeter
      • Bremsstrahlung Radiator
    • Current Measuring Devices
      • Unser Monitor
      • RF-Cavity Monitor
    • The Hall C Scattering Chamber
    • The Solid Target Ladder
      • Special Targets
      • Storage
    • The Cryogenic Target System
      • Target Circulation Fan
      • Target Cells
      • Heat Exchangers
      • Heaters
      • Other Features of the Cryotarget System
  • The Hall C Spectrometers
    • Features Common to Both Spectrometers
      • Vacuum Windows
      • CAEN High Voltage System
      • The Gas Mixing System
      • Hall C Laser Pulser System
  • The High Momentum Spectrometer (HMS)
    • Magnets and Power Supplies
      • Quadrupole Magnets and Cryogenic Procedures
      • Dipole Magnet
      • Operation of the HMS Magnets
    • HMS Vacuum System
    • HMS Slit System
      • Operation of the HMS Slit System
      • Hazard Identification
      • Hazard Mitigation
    • HMS Carriage and Rotation System
      • Remote Rotation
      • Personnel Trained for Manual Spectrometer Rotation
    • The HMS Detector Package and Shield House
      • High Voltage Supplies
      • Drift Chambers
      • Scintillator Hodoscopes (HMS and SOS)
      • Gas Cerenkov Detector
      • Lead Glass Shower Calorimeter
  • Short Orbit Spectrometer (SOS)
    • SOS Magnets and Power Supplies
      • SOS Magnet - Description
      • SOS Magnets - Operation
      • Setting the SOS Hall Probe Zero Offsets
      • Operating Procedure for SOS and HNSS Power Supplies
    • SOS Vacuum System
    • SOS Slit Systems
      • SOS Slit Box
      • Hazard Identification
      • Hazard Mitigation
    • SOS Carriage and Rotation System
      • Introduction
      • Carriage
      • Pivot
      • Wheels and Angle Readout
      • Rotation
      • Out-of-Plane Jacks
    • SOS Detector Package and Shield House
      • Shield House and Shield House Door
      • Opening/Closing SOS Shield House Doors
      • High Voltage Supplies
      • Drift Chambers
      • Scintillator Hodoscopes
      • SOS Gas Cerenkov Counter
      • Lead Glass Shower Calorimeter
      • SOS Aerogel Detector
  • Counting House
    • Cabling and Electronics
      • Cabling
      • Coincidence Electronics
      • Timing Philosophy
      • Cable Delay Calculation
      • Electronics Operating Procedures
    • Changes to Kinematics, Beginning of Run Hardware Checkout
    • Regular Hardware Checks (1 per shift or 1 per day)
    • Data (Software) Checks (1 per day, shift, or run)
    • Hall C Terminal Servers
    • Data Acquisition
      • What Needs To Be Turned On
      • Starting Control Systems
      • Reconfiguring the High Voltage system
      • Setting Data Acquisition (CODA 2.1)
      • Taking data
      • What To Do When Disk Space Runs Out
  • Trouble Shooting Procedures
    • Remotely Rebooting Crashed or Corrupt VME CPUs
    • ROC Login
    • Reprogramming sfihms
    • Rebooting other stuff
    • Online Data Replay
  
  
• Questions to be Addressed by a Conduct of Operations (COO) for a Hall C Experiment
  • General
  • Shift Routines and Operating Practices
  • Control Room Activities
  • Communications
  • Control of On-Shift Training
  • Investigation of Abnormal Events
  • Notifications
  • Control of Equipment and System Status
  • Lockouts and Tagouts
  • Independent Verification
  • Logkeeping
  • Operations Turnover
  • Interactions with Support Personnel
  • Required Reading
  • Operating Procedures
  • Equipment Labeling
  
  
• Pearls of Wisdom
  • The Basics:
  • Electrical:
  • Mechanical:
  
  
• Sample EH&S Review Committee Charge
• Hazard Assessment Criteria
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography
• About this document ...