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TPC Group Meetings

2020

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TPC meetings are held on Wednsesdays at 15:00 Eastern Time. Meeting room 1-189 in physics building 510 @ BNL.

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tpc weekly

2020-12-16 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
virtual , at 20:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
 agenda
-- hardware
-- software


Minutes

TPC weekly meeting

 

Hardware;  Alexei excused. Is working on laser and gas system

 

The GG driver modules have been installed (Christian, as Tim is out) One module does not provide HV. There are two spare modules.

David is communicating with Tonko how best to provide the SC for the Gating Grid.

 

Software

Irakli had at LBNL meeting; provided an update to me after meeting

 

“I talked to Yuri last week about progress and the calculation of the distortions.

 

I also pointed out to him a little problem in the reading of the inner sector position parameters from the database. We reached out to Dimitry and he changed the readout for that table. It hopefully was not affecting anything, but now I have a good way to compare apples to apples as far as the inner sector position parameters are concerned.

 

While doing so I noticed that that is where a huge shift in z direction originates, so now I want to see if that is the right result or an artifact from what I've been saying – one can end up in a local minima for the alignment procedure. I will keep you guys updated I the days to come. I am running these jobs as fast as possible (Dmitry's fix has been applied only Monday).”

 

Yuri presented some intermedial results on his investigations of showing effect of his modified equations as discussed in the previous meeting 12/9/2020 that also have the documents

https://www.star.bnl.gov/~fisyak/star/Tpc/Distortions/

 

Unless there are updates we need to discuss in person this was the last TPC meeting for 2020. Please send updates to the mailing list until then 1/5/2021


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TPC weekly

2020-12-09 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
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Agenda:
-hardware status
- software
--- alignment progress 
--- https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/he34embedding4th.pdf
--- AOB

minutes

TPC meeting minutes  December 9, 2020

 

Hardware:

Alexei is done with laser maintenance on West side; waiting for etof re-install to be complete on East (done)).

Bob and Tonko finishing the work on Westside, which will close first. One more slicing to be done Wed. Still 5 splicing to be done on East side 

 

Irakli have reported to Yuri he is revisiting the alignment (inner-outer) from the cosmics.

 

Yue-Hang gave update on 3He eff . Guannan had looked at effect on RMS ped in Sl10k in embedding and see no effect. In never libraries the RMSX cut look ok excepts for eta~0 . 

At eta ~0 there may be other issues- as seen for other particles. Yuri points out there may be influence of prompt there |z| > 135, though issues are seen at up to ~20cm (??) from readout chambers.

 

Yuri reported on work on space charge correction and reports there could be a difference between East and West corrections. It is work in progress. Initial report is posted on meeting page, as well as some note by Jim Thomas from ALICE work on this subject.

 

  


 
 
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15:20TPC Distortions (progress report) ( 00:20 ) 2 filesYuri Fisyak

TPC weekly

2020-12-02 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
virtual , at 20:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
 

Minutes:
Tim reported on Gating Grid status
Crate has all modified modules. It was tested locally.
The web based script by Tonko does not seem to work after the upgrades. He is aware of it.
The polarity is swtiched at the connector for all. 
The sector 8 is special and should be checked.

FV will contact David on the slow control of the gating grid; how should it be implemented?

Alexei has been working on laser system
- optics replaced; signal looks good
- started with alignment of akll rafters
- propbably will need another week

Software
- no discussion as some key people could not join the meeting today. There was a longer discussion on the run-19 alignment at the monthly S&C meeting
- It is of high priority to get this resolved; will have as agenda point next week




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TPC weekly

2020-11-18 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
remote only, at 20:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
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Title:  STAR TPC Weekly
Description: Weekly TPC meeting for the STAR Collaboration
Community: STAR


agenda:
- hardware 
  hardware progress
- software
 update on 3He effeciency; Yue Hang
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/he34embedding3rdnew_1.pdf

minutes

TPC meeting Nov 18, 2020

 

-hardware

 Alexei and Nicolai another test round on adding SF4 to P10 at outer sector in clean room. Had to use +65V to get same gain as P10. Still some issues if this is ok. And will do another set of measurements in 2 weeks or so

Also working to get laser system back into shape.

Tim is installing gating grid drivers. Flemming confirmed that David is involved in get the SC for GG up and running. We should contact him for progress.

 

-software

Presentation by Yue on further check on the 3He, 4He efficiency and issues.

Presentation is linked on meeting web page.

Presented nicely where the consequences show us where there are differences splittracks, 3He vs. protons. There is still no understanding how the change in pedestal should affects stuff.

 

Discussion on run-19 alignment. Irakli has done a bit more work; he and Yuri are having discussion. Yuri shows some preliminary work documenting the different mass splitting depending on library version and corrections applied.

 

No meeting on Wed 25 just before thanksgiving.

 

Xin would like to have an updated report at next S&C meeting (not 25 either)




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TPC weekly

2020-11-11 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
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TPC weekly

2020-11-04 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
remote only, at 20:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Hardware repairs (Tonko, Scheetz)
Power cables should be crimped (100' and pigtails) as many are bad. El group looking for help
Gating Grid Drivers will be replacd Tim has to maake nesc fixes, should be installed in about 2 weeks
Repairs of RDO and FEE continuing

AL working on optical parts for laser, installing NMR for Mag field calibration, looking at response with outer sector in clean room
added SF4 gas. Nicolai wll come to BNL again next week?


Preliminary report from Yuri on  difference between online and offline cluster 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/FCF_online_offline.pdf


3He effeciency  https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/he34embedding.pdf




TPC weekly

2020-10-28 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
remote only, at 19:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
The Bluejean connection
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Description: Weekly TPC meeting for the STAR Collaboration
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TPC weekly

2020-10-21 15:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
remote only, at 19:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
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TimeTalkPresenter
15:00Run-19 Alignment Mistery ( 00:20 ) 0 filesIrakli