Electron Detector

Qweak Run 2 preparation

• characterize all v3 QWADs by giving calibration input signal
• Verify each program step of the motion mechanism
• install QWADs for individual detector planes: plane1, plane2, plane3 and plane4
• clamp ribbon cable's ground-shield to the euro-card cage
• prepare DAQ for data taking (reinstating to the run-1 status)
• DAQ tests
  • check chip-scope view of the LVDS response
  • reason for appearance of 255's
  • check for 'missing events' in the overlap region
  • vary involved parameter and check responses.
• cross-check the cable-labels
• update the wiki page
  • for emergency response
  • for information related to the subsystem

Italics: represents completed General Font: still to be done

Standard Running Procedure

• from any cdaq machine, from the directory ~/compton/ execute StripTool edetectorEpics.stp . This pulls up the strip chart of some relevant epics variables for e-detector. If we are unable to locate this file, the following epics variables should be explicitly opened.
  • 4 Hall-C Chicane BPMs
    • 3P01A (IPM3P01A.XPOS , IPM3PO1A.YPOS)
    • 3P02A (IPM3P02A.XPOS , IPM3PO2A.YPOS)
    • 3P02B (IPM3P02B.XPOS , IPM3PO2B.YPOS)
    • 3P03A (IPM3P03A.XPOS , IPM3PO3A.YPOS)
  • Rates on Scintillator (cComptScintRateNorm) on the Compton laser table, along with Photon detector Rates (cComptPhotonRateNorm)
• Turn on the HV on the e-detector planes. (Current operating voltage: plane-2: -260V, plane-3: -360V, plane-4: -360V)

Request beam to be set through the chicane, with FFB turned ON

• Check Chicane view: on any cdaq machine type edmmonticello, from the Monticello screen
  • open Magnets -> Magnet Commander
    • 3C -> Compton Combo
    • In this Hall C Compton Control screen, the REQUESTED and ACTUAL current readbacks should be ~104 A
  • open BPM -> BPM Overview
    • open Absolute -> on the Hall C column from the left bottom of this screen
    • BPM 3P01A, 3P02A, 3P02B and 3P03A should have finite non-zero read back
• Check compton rates from the photon detector (typically 600 per uA per second)
  • If the Scintillator rates are too high (> 2000 Hz/uA), DO NOT proceed without talking to an expert from photon detector group.
  • The Fast feedback has been observed to give lower background rate, the status of FFB can be checked on the HALL-C general tools screen on the main-monitor of HALL-C

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Backout Procedure

https://hallcweb.jlab.org/polwiki/index.php/E-Detector_Motion_System#Parking_the_detector

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courtesy: Thanks to Dave Gaskell for the motivation to organize this information

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Q-Weak Amplifier Discriminator

The Q-Weak Amplifier Discriminator, termed as QWAD has 48 channels on each electronic board. We would be using 2 QWAD boards per plane. One QWAD will process the signal from all odd strips of the detector, while another processing the signals from all even strips.

Though functionally the board is capable of operation in both positive as well as negative polarity. We shall be using it in negative polarity with the jumpers on the inner side of each channel ( diagram elaborating jumper placement)

The QWAD (version-2) being used requires +5,-5 and two GND connections for its power supply. We are using two Agilent E3633A LV [power supply] to provide the same. The QWAD boards would be attached to the vacuum - can in the tunnel whereas the power supply needs to be behind the Green Wall (2nd rack allocated), which adds a long cable of ~120 feet between the power supply and the consumer QWAD boards. We are using a 5 conductor 12 AWG cable for carrying 8 x 1.6A (~13A) from one power supply unit delivering +5V and 8 x 0.37A (~3A) from another unit delivering -5V. We use a 22 AWG cable for sensing the voltage at the load. A terminal block is used to send out this voltage to all of the 8 QWAD boards.

Noise measurements after installation of QWADs with HV turned ON to -250V on the detector planes 2, 3 and 4 can be seen on the current noise rates

Current Status of QWAD version-2 boards

We have received 8 QWAD boards on-site after being mended at TRIUMF.

• QWAD3: all channels giving digital output, first 11 channels were particularly noisy [1]
• QWAD4: Tested and found quite clean, the most noisy channel is only 400Hz.
• QWAD5: not tested yet
• QWAD6: ch#1,38 have no digital output, noise rate as seen with and without calibration input was a maximum of 2kHz.
• QWAD7: not tested yet
• QWAD8: all channels giving digital output, noise rate as seen with and without calibration input was a maximum of 2kHz.
• QWAD10: ch# 7,8,11,34,38,45 either do not have a digital output or has a flaky output.
• QWAD11: not tested yet