Run 9 Preparation and Jobs List

Green = complete   Red = currently critical

• Run 9 Preparation Tasks (includes commissioning at startup
  • ZDC SMD hardware preparation Whitten
    • planning and analysis - Hal, Valpo, LBL
    • install DAQ and testing - Aihong
    • Calibration and monitoring - Ramon
  • VPD as polarimeter - LBL
  • Trigger plan
    • L0, L2 optimization - TAMU
    • FMS
    • coordination with other PWGs
  • L0 trigger monitor from trigger data - Pibero
  • DSM replacements - Hank
  • Analyze 2008 data to:
    • check triggers etc.
    • BSMD operation, gains
    • influence of low mass on gammas
  • L2 algos
    • coordination - Corliss
    • endcap gamma-jet - Ilya
    • barrel gamm-jet - Betancourt
    • dijet algo - Page
    • Peds - Page
    • monitoring web pages - Betancourt
    • Upsilon - Haidong Liu
    • Ws - Seele
    • Calibration - Corliss
    • High energy - Corliss
  • BEMC gain equalization
    • Eta = 1 and -1
    • E/W balance and phi dep in east
  • BSMD, BPRS readout upgrade and data compression
    • Hardware - Visser, Jacobs
    • hardware tests post delivery
    • zero suppression, peds
      
    • software infrastructure and monitor - Leight
      
  • BPRS Calibration and readiness
    • Characterization from previous runs - Balewski
    • FPGA fixes for cap ID - Visser
    • HV adjustments, fiber fixes
  • Resolve hole in East Barrel trigger - Pibero
  • Shielding additions at top of tunnel - Bill, Al, Jim
  • Pplot upgrades to match changes - G. Webb, Tsai and Trentalange
    • Daq reader - core group
    • EMC - Walker
    • BSMD compression
    • trigger changes
    • DSM changes
  • DSM wiring modifications and test
    • Rewire - Engelage, Gagliardi
    • tests - G. Webb, Grebenyuk
  • High luminosity monitoring
    • L measurement planning - Hal
    • Scalers - Ernst, Jim, Joe, Hal, Dave, Chuck
    • L measurement implementation
  • TPC monitor FGT prototype - ANL, Majka
  • 500 GeV preparation
    • BSMD staturation studies
      • W program - Seele
      • gamma, pi0
    • Trigger differences from 200 GeV - Carl
    • Other
  • ESMD->DDL data path and necessary software changes
  • EEMC maintenance - Jacobs, Sowinski
  • BEMC maintenance - Tsai, Trentalange
  • FMS trigger work
    • Remap cabling for cluster triggering - Jim Drachanberg and/or
    • rebuild pre-shower system - Jim Drachanberg and/or

• Run 9 Startup and During Run Tasks
  • Scaler check out - Bridgeman
  • Luminosity monitor checkout
  • Real time monitor of lumi/local pol - LBL
  • CDEV monitoring - Sowinski
  • AGS polarimetery - Spinka, Underwood, Haixin Huang
  • RHIC polarimetry - Spinka, Underwood, Qinghua/student
  • RHIC polarimeter monitor and recording - Jones
  • ZDC SMD tuneup
  • Commission BEMC - Grebenyuk, Cendejas, Tsai, Trentalange
    • check calibration
    • check ADC timing
    • on call expert
  • Commission EEMC - IU with help
    • check calibration
    • check ADC timing
    • on call expert
  • Commission FMS
  • Commission BBC
  • Trigger setup
    • EMC trigger bit timing - Hank et al
    • Rates and thresholds scans and settings
    • confirmation good to go
    • L2 testing
    • L2 monitoring and updating
    • L2 on call expert

• Preparation for analysis
  • Luminosity -Jones
  • runlist and QA - Page/Sowinski
    • Spin data base
    • Fill by fill spin patterns - Page
    • Bunch offsets and load DB
  • Calorimeter Readiness
    • EEMC - IU
      • peds and status
      • claibrations
    • BEMC
      • peds and status
      • calibrations

• Ongoing Service Work
  • EEMC hardware maintenance - IU
  • EEMC software coordinator
  • EEMC calibrations
    • Sampling fraction MC studies
    • pi0, eta, electron, mips
  • BEMC hardware maintenance - Tsai and Trentalange
  • BEMC software coordinator
  • BEMC calibrations - Tsai and Trentalange
    • pi0 - Renee
    • time dependence - Renee
  • BEMC GEANT model refinements - Tsai and Trentalange
    • Other GEANT model refinements
    • TPC endcap and electronics - ANL
  • FMS
    • Calibrations
    • run 9 - Zagreb
    • Root framework software - PSU,TAMU
    • FPD++ calib. - Poljak
  • Common analysis software
    • Trigger simulator software - Fatemi, Grebenyuk?
    • L0 - Fersch
    • EEMC codes - Gagliardi/Huo
    • L2 ported to simulator incl. data base of params
    • Vertex finding and tracking
    • Jet finder
    • gamma maker
    • pi0 algos BEMC
    • pi0 algos EEMC
  • FGT project - Simon, MIT, IU, KU, ANL, Valpo
  • Tier 2 simulations - Btancourt

Run 9 commissioning plan

Run 9 500 GeV Commission plan (start of draft)  Not necessarily time ordered
or prioritized

Establish collisions

Develop Minbias trigger
  BBC
  TCU
  DSMs 

BBC as lumi and polarimeter
  Commission and test scalers 
  Look for analyzing power -  need > 30%? pol

FMS triggers and commissioning

EMC commissioning

  Need minbias trigger to start - pol irrelevant
  Timing Scan
    Need stable beam background conditions - 2nd half of store?
    Guess 4 hrs?  scan both at same time
    need EEMC and BEMC experts available
    1 day min. to produce and check
    Requires fast offline production of data on short time scale

  HV adjustments and calibrations
    Needs timing scan complete and set
    Need minbias trigger - "low" backgrounds
    1hr of beam - 3 succesive days
    day of analysis of each run
    Need calo experts and analyzers

Polarimetry commissioning in addition to BBC
  ZDC -
    signals into DAQ/trg
    establish trigger
    5-10M events with P>25%
    min 1 day of analysis - try to analyze from trigger data
    Suggest optimized trigger
    Longer run after seeing analysis of first data (~1 day)
    Needs detector and analysis experts
  VPD
    signals into DAQ/trg
    signals at scalers
    runs parasiticaly
    Time to have answer few shifts of beam over few days?
    Needs detector and analysis experts

Commission high level calo triggers
  Needs calibration steps done
  set thresholds based on rate scans - needs 1/2 a store

  check for an mask hot towers at L0 and L2
  monitor and analyze for a day
  check L2 algos
  confirm all ready to go
  need L2 experts, calo experts

Criteria to switch to longitudinal
  Some polarimeter working well enough to measure transverse components
  Sufficient data to evaluate alternate polarimeters

Priorities?  Time ordering?  What can go in parallel?  What could
but is prevented from going in parallel due to overlap of people?
 

Run 9 triggering

Carl has prepared a trigger description for 200 GeV.