Upgrades

Operations 2024

Under:

Pre-beam commissioning
  • Installation and light-tight test of the EPD April 2024 - »

FST Forward Tracking Simulation Studies

Under:

This page contains simulation studies regarding the Forward Silicon Tracker (FST).

FCS DB

Under:

Offline Database, Geometry for FCS

  • fcsDetectorPosition.idl (1 row) : Detector Position for each [det=0~3]
    struct fcsDetectorPosition {

FCS

Under:

Forward Calorimeter System

Start-of-run EPD tasks and instructions

Under:
 At the beginning of every run, there are a number of things that need to be done for the EPD.

EPD Run by Run QA 2018

Under:

EPD Timing Scan 2019

Under:

Nominal Values for 2018 were
B Gate End = 48
B Gate Start = 32
C Gate End = 39
C Gate Start = 23
TAC Stop = 64

Post-installation / pre-beam commissioning 2019

Under:

1. Verify proper mapping from TUFF to StEvent (tests databases, cabling...)  ("Seven Patterns" test) - DONE

FEE, SiPM, RX board Health Status

Under:

USTC has done a fantastic job of collecting and systematically posting their QA and characterization tests here.  They cover

Forward Upgrade NSFC Silicon Tracker Proposal 2018

Under:

96

Clear Fiber Bundle Health/Status

Under:
A summary of all of the testing results of the Clear Fiber bundles since the start.

EPD LV Power

Under:

 EPD Low Voltage Power Supply Assembly

Supersector and Tile Health/Status

Under:
This page records the health status of the 31 Supersectors.  (Well, SS28 was dropped, so there are only 30, but we keep the numbering.)

Cosmic Tests at BNL - Diagonal issue

Under:

While running at BNL, it was noticed that there was a diagonal line when looking at the correlation between two tiles.  Essentially, they would both fire, and with ADCs that are strongly correlat

Tuesday night EPD Management meetings

Under:
Weekly meeting of Upgrades Coordinator (Elke Aschenauer, formerly Flemming Videbaek) and the EPD management team

Tuesdays at 22:00 BNL time

article 12 SN0029

 
This sector was found at SDU to have the right GG side mount out of spec, just at limit where the
wire would touch the side mount surface

article 11 SN0024

 

article 5 SN0027

Under:

 
The sector was rejected due to separated plane 8/16/1017 -- returned to LBL

The QA travellers from SDU


Offline analysis package - StEpd and StEpdMaker

Under:
StEpd package

Mapping for the 53 GeV Au+Au run - 30 May 2017

Under:
For the final push of the 2017 run, we measure Au+Au with a mapping slightly different than the 25 May mapping.  Here it is: