Monthly Reports

 The HFT project send monthly reports to the BHSO (Brookhaven Site Office) which in turn cc them to the DOE program managers, Jim Sowinski.  Reports are gathered from the sub-system managers and finalized by the Contract Project Manager. They will usually be finalized within 6 business days each month. Each report covers from the first of the month to the end.The document is use as the basis for the monthly teleconference held, usually on the second Thursday every month.

The report contains brief status overview, followed by technical status reports on pixel, ist, ssd, integration and software, and
with milestone and cost updates.
The September 2014 was the final monthly report.



2014 Monthly reports

• September 2014 report
• August 2014 report
• July 2014 report
• June 2014 report
• May 2014 report
• April 2014 report 
• March 2014 report  additional information on PXL status pdf
• February 2014 report
• January 2014 report

2013 Monthly Reports

• December 2013 report
• November 2013 report
• October 2013 report
• September 2013 report
• August 2013 report
• July 2013 report
• June 2013 report
• May 2013 report
• April 2013 report
• March 2013 report
• February 2013 report
• January 2013 report

2012 Monthly Reports

• December 2012 report
• November 2012 report
• October 2013 report
• September 2012 report
• August 2012 report
• June 2012+ July 2012 combined due to OPA review
• May 2012 report
• April 2012 report
• March 2012 report
• February 2012 report
• January 2012 report

2011 Monthly Reports

• December 2011 report
• November 2011 report
• October 2011 report
• September 2011 report
• August 2011 report
• July 2011 report
• June 2011 report
• May 2011 report
• April 2011 report
• March 2011 report
• February 2011 report
•  January 2011 report

2010 Monthly reports

• December 2010 report
• November 2010 report
• October 2010 report
• September 2010 report
• August 2010 report

 

 

OPA mini review September 24 2013

 An OPA min-review was held on September 24 as a video/phone conference

• Charge Letter
• HFT status talk   F.Videbæk
• Cost and schedule S.Morgan
• Testing and commisioning plan F.Videbæk
• Close-out report

 

HFT Review July 12 , 2013

 It has been decided in view of the amount of work ongoing instead of the July OPA review to have an BNL lead informal review on the
project. It is tentatively scheduled for July 12. The charge is in the attached file

As more information becomes available it will be added to this page

agenda
 1.30 (30) Overview F.Videbæk
 2.30 (30) SSD status J.Thomas
 3.00 (30) IST status G.vanNieuwenhuizen
 3.30 (30) PXL Leo Greiner

Reviewers and instructions

The charge for this review and the report from the Feb. 15 review are also posted.  In the interest of keeping this review short, we have not scheduled an opening executive session.  With the exception of Laur Littenberg, all of you were present at the February review, and the three charge elements for this review follow directly from that.  We will follow the same assignments for leading the discussion and preparing the (brief) review report:

 

D. Lynn:  Pixel Detector

R. Lipton:  IST and SSD Detectors

R. Van Berg: Electronics

J. Lajoie:  Integration/installation/commissioning

L. Littenberg:  Management, schedule, cost

The report form the commitee was issued on July and is available in the list below.

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 These files have been downloaded from the web site setup at BNL and used foir the review.
Got these from Kerry 9/4/2015

HFT 2014 Commisioning and Physics Run

 A page mainly with links to appropriate pages and documents for run 14 progress.


PXL

PXL expert running log of activities (google doc)

HFT BNL review Feb 15 2013

 The review took place at BNL on Feb 15. The talks are given below, including the commitee report

HFT Management , including f2f meeting schedules

Management information for HFT.

There are several project specific mailing lists. Pertinent information on these can be found in this document

HFT management has roughly every 2-3 months face-to-face or phone conference meeting dealing with project status, and detailled sub-system reports.
The meeting content is usually placed on the STAR event drupal page. The list below includes the most recent, but not all historical links.


2014

June 10, 2014: Face-2-face meeting at LBNL to prepare for the CD-4 Closeout review
Link to meeting agenda and talks.

2013

September 10 at LBNL during STAR collaborations meeting.
Star HFT focus meeting. Link to agenda and talks 

July 10, HFT software workshop
link to agenda and talks

2012
Tuesday December 3, Phone/EVO link to agenda and talks

Tuesday September 25, LBNL link to agenda and talks
Monday June 18, UIC link to agenda and talks

Friday May 25, BNL link to agenda and talks 

Wednesday March 14, LBNL link to Agenda and talks  

Tuesday January 10, LBNL/BNL link to agenda and talks

2011

Monday November 14, LBNL link to Agenda and talks

HFT Related Publications

 
Project Documents

• The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker - Technical Design Report  November 2011
• The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker - Conceptual Design Report  November 2009
•  

HFT Sub-system IST

 Documentation page for Intermediate Silicon Tracker (IST)


Reports & documents:

2015

IST cooling system repair summer 2015

• debriefing document Jason Bessulie

2013

IST performance with cosmic ray data Yaping Wang pdf Initial report 2/22/2013

IST cooling system

• System Description 
• Fluid System Schematics 
•  Instrumentation Overview Diagram
• External services; engineering diagram

2012




2011

IST sensor review recommendations Jan 2011  pdf

HFT Sub-system Integration

 Integration sub -system. 
reports, links to pictures

Installation

• Assembly Notes for the Fall 2012 Assembly of the HFT Carbon Fiber Support structure, including the new beam pipe.   Bill Christie & Bob Soja word document
• IDS assembly document for Fall 2012 word document

Mechanical for IDS

• Deflection test for IDS for 2013 installation word document
• IDS Model Verification Test Addendum pdf
• Load test for IDS 2011 word document
• IDS design report 5/2011 pdf document

Electrostatics for IDS

• Results of electrostatics tests at UIC Gerard Visser  word document  2011
• Effect of ledge and aluminized mylar for WSC  Howard Wieman Fall 2011 powerpoint
• Summary of Electrostatic Field Calculations for WSC Design DickMajka 19 August 2010 word document

Beam Pipe

• Beam pipe design considerations D.Beavis, J.Brodowski, J.Scheblein, E.Andersen, 2009 file
• Beam pipe effective radiation length design D.Beavis 2009 file

Pictures

• September 2012 Assembled and ready to install IDS by BNL photography LINK 

HFT Sub-system PXL

(Credit Berkeley Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt,
Copyright Notice:

The PXL documentation primarely exsits on Leo Greiner's rnc webpage.
The content here primarely reflect a copy of content on that page and reports that has been circulated in the HFT group
See rnc.lbl.gov/hft/hardware/docs/ for full listing

Internal Reports:

2015

PXL removal procedure (Rahul Sharma + Bob Soja)

PXL run-14 damage report (G.Conti, L.Greiner)

2014

Operation

PXL expert instruction manual (June 2014)

Commisioning

QA plots from runs
http://portal.nersc.gov/project/star/sss/protected/Run14QA/

PXL insertion 

Insertion checklist  south (HW) 1/25/14
insertion checklist  north

Technical information

Additional PXL sensor testing  (3/30/14) LG  word file
PXL temperature interlock (4/7/14   ) LG,MS, HW  word file

PXL vibration and stability Howard Wieman (1/7/14) pdf

Final sector model and survey points for PXL sectors by Jo Silber for run-14 sectors  pdf


2013


Engineering  run:

• PXL DAQ format word document  (version 6/6/2013)
• pixel engineering run preparations, L.Greiner 04/23/2013 (word document)
• Report on sensor failures during engineering run 09/13/2013 (pdf document)

mechanical:

Pixel insertion procedures with updated models
        - Howard Wieman powerpoint

PXL ladder assembly Problems and Lessons Learned , L.Greiner 03/06/2013 (docx)



Electric:

Temperature measurements on Ladder H.Wieman et.al. (pdf)
2012

Electric:


Mechanical:

Mechanical and dicing thinning yield 5 wafers ultimate-2
             - Leo Greiner draft document

Draft document for PIXL survey November 2012
             - Joe Silber  document

Insertion test instructions October 2012
             -   Howard Wieman document

Sensor and ladders dimensions October 2012. Design, layout of sensors and ladders, messurements
             - Joe Silber document

2011

PXL connectivity document v1.8 September 2011
            - Leo Greiner document

2010

HFT Sub-system SSD

 Documentation page for SSD

The older doumentation page is available at this link . Much of the information is still relevant.

2013

Installation

• Ladder travelers (number schemes, ladder is, cable numbers,...) from re-installation

HFT annual OPA Review 2012

 

DOE/SC Review of the STAR HFT Project July 7-18

 

Presentations:

Project Overview   .......................F.Videbæk

Schedule and Budget .................. S.Morgan

Global Structure and Engineering E.Anderssen

PXL sub-system .......................... L.Greiner

IST subsystem ............................. G vanNieuwenhuizen

SSD sub system ........................... J.Thomas

 Integration and Assembly ............ R.Sharma

 Software ...................................... S.Margetis

 

DOE/SC closeout presentation

HFT software meetings (overview)

 Most software and related links are refered to in the link pointing to pages maintained by Spiros Margetis  LINK

Meeting page references

January 7, 2015 Minutes and contribution on eventpage

•  Run14 production - last issues
• Run 15 preparations

-----HAPPY 2015----------

December 10, 2014  SSD software workshop at Kent State
      time table on Event-page

December 3, 2013 Minutes and contributions on eventpage

•   SSD hit correlation
• KF vs. Minuit Vertex Finder  Daniel Kiola

OPA CD-4 Close-out review July 31, 2014

 An OPA pre CD4 review was held on July 31, 2014. It will be setup as a Video/Tele Conference with participants at DOE HQ, BNL, and LBL and
phone conference

Charge memo for the review (pdf)

Agenda

11:00 am HFT Executive Session....................................................................................... L. Nelson

   11:30 am      Project Overview.................................................................................... F. Videbæk

   12:00 am       Project Cost and Schedule—Q&A…………………………………… S. Morgan

   12:30 pm      PXL Status/Requirements—Q&A............................................................ L. Greiner

   13:00 pm     IST Status/Requirements—Q&A...................................................................... Z.Ye

     1:30 pm     SSD Status/Requirements—Q&A ........................................................... J. Thomas

     2:00 pm      Break

     2:30 pm      Lessons Learned, Transition to Operations , Contingency Spending Q&A F. Videbæk

     3:15 pm      Project Summary and Recommendation................................................... .L. Nelson

     3:45 pm      Executive Session

     4:30 pm      Closeout and Adjourn

Final Documents

• Project Closeout Report - draft July 17, 2014
• Hazard Analysis -  signed July 15
• Transition to Operation - draft July 17, 2014
• Report on Verification of Key Performance Parameters, July17 2014

Supporting Documents

• Signed PEP from CD2/3 review 
• HFT Technical Design Report CD2/3
• HFT Beam Commisioning Plan 
• HFT Contingency Spending Plan
• Report on Verification of Subsystem Requirements and Deliverables, July 17 2014
• Independent review of KPP verification by Jon Kotcher, ATLAS/BNL  July 29, 2014

Supporting Documents Refered to in Reports can be found in the following page


Closeout Report

The final version of the report with recommendation for CD-4 approval was received on September 4  pdf

The CD-4 approval was given on Spetember 25. Approval document pdf. Minutes from same meeting pdf


 

OPA mini-review October 2012

 One recommendation of the July OPA review was to conduct a mini-review in October, in particular to assess progress on SSD, but also to review progress on the few other recommendations.

The charge for the review was:

 

1. What is the status of the Silicon Strip Detector (SSD)?  Is management making progress towards addressing the technical issues of the SSD, and mitigating corresponding cost and schedule impacts?

 

2. Have there been any significant changes or risks affecting cost, schedule, and scope since the prior DOE/SC review?  If so, is appropriate management action being taken?

 

3.  Is the project addressing appropriately the recommendation(s) from the prior DOE/SC review(s)?

 

The review included 3 talks

- Overview F.Videbæk

- SSD Status J.Thomas

- Cost and schedule S.Morgan

 

The closeout had in essence the following recommendations:

      Submit BCR-4 to the NP Program Manager for review by November 1, 2012.

•         Update the risk register and report changes to the NP Program Manager monthly beginning November 1, 2012.
•          Provide preliminary summary lessons learned to date and corresponding project improvement actions to the NP Program   Manager by November 1, 2012.
•          Report planned versus actual percent complete at WBS Level-2 beginning with the next Monthly Report.
• ·         Conduct OPA mini-review in February 2013.

 

 

post CD-4 documents

 Following CD$ there has been a few follow-up reports. These reside on this page

The PXL group has created a report on the damage and repair plan for the PXL#2 detector. See word document

The project was also asked to update the transsition to ops document describing how to get to the optimum value.
This is attached below.

Quarterly meetings with DOE in FY15 to discuss progress

• January 9, 2015 presentation
• April 9, 2015 presentation
• July 9, 2015 presentation
• November12 presentation

At the November 12 meeting DOE acccepted that the UPP has been met, congratulated the efforts, and declared no further meetings are
required.

HFT Internal reviews

HFT project internal reviews . This page mainly have links to other pages:

2013

• SSD RDO review June 7 2013

 
2012

• HFT review on survey and alignment software status October 12 (drupal event page); review report
• HFT safety review for IST and SSD
  • IST presentation
  • SSD presentation
  • Minutes from of review
• SSD status review (talks are posted on LBNL e-room for HFT).  review report
• HFT Y2013 Geometry review March 2 (drupal event page)

2011

• SSD DAQ review December 2011 (report)
• BNL lead pre cd23 review March 28,29. See child page below for agenda, talks as given
• IST sensor design Review, BNL January 26 sites.google.com/site/istprototypereview/ ; final review report

2010

• PXL sensor Review  BNL December 6,7 http://rnc.lbl.gov/hft/hardware/docs/sensor_review/index.html
• PXL RDO and sensor review at LBL June 23-24. http://rnc.lbl.gov/hft/hardware/docs/elec_review/

CD2-3 review

The CD2-3 review is scheduled for July 13-14, 2011 at BNL.

DOE documents will be place here as they are approved.

Technical Documents

• Technical Design Report , June30  (TDR

DOE HFT Review july 13-14, 2011

 

      8:45 am    STAR and HFT Physics...................................................................... N. Xu, STAR spokesperson

     9:00 am      Project Overview.................................................................................... F. Videbaek

   10:00 am      Break

   10:15 am      Engineering Overview............................................................................. E. Anderssen

   10:40 am      PXL subsystem ........................................................................................ L. Greiner

   11:05 am      IST subsystem............................................................................................ G. van Nieuwenhuizen

   11:25 am      SSD subsystem......................................................................................... ..J. Thomas

   11:45 am      Integration and Safety Management........................................................ D. Beavis

   12:05 am     Cost & Scehdule .......................................................................................... S.Morgan

 

July 14              Close out presentation

 

Short close out report

Full (draft) report 

 

 

 

 

 

CD1 documents final

 The CD-1 ESAAB meeting was on August 31, 2010. 

• signed preliminary Project Execution Plan
• signed Aquisition Strategy
• signed ESAAB approval document
• minutes from ESAAB review

 

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