CREXAuxiliaryMeasurements-Aug2020

CREX Main << August 2020 CREX Run Plan

Schedule

• This plan is evolving as we move along

Day, Date	Shift	Tasks (Responsible Party)	Comments/Status
Saturday Sept 12	Owl	Production	DONE
	Day	Production	DONE
	Swing (Zeke/Pitt)	Production	DONE
Sunday Sept 13	Owl (Adam/Tao)	Production.	(No scans done.) 39 min ABU!
	Day (Bob/Eric)	Final Q2 measurement. Optics [1]	Acc mostly down; Bob took escorted access and switched to Counting Mode
	Swing (Zeke/Pitt)	Optics [2]	Sanghwa for Analysis and remote assistance. Mostly completed optics.
Monday Sept 14	Owl (Adam/Amali)	Inelastic spectrum. Poletip study [3]	Chandan for Analysis and remote assistance. Finished optics, inelastic spectrum, poletip study
	Day (Thia/Bob)	10am - noon Beam studies 1: Hall in Controlled Access (CA) - Install blind At PMT, Blind main Detector; noon - 4:15pm Beam available to ready Halls - we take data with blinded tubes.	Devi required for tube blinding
	Swing (Weibin/Eric, Devi on-call)	4:15pm - 8:15pm Beam studies 2: Hall in CA - restore US PMTs, Compton e-Det work; 8:15pm - 9:15pm Beam recovery and onward delivery. Production.
Tuesday Sept 15	Owl (Adam/Amali)	Pedestal Scans, PITA scan. Production.
	Day (Rom/Eric)	SAD Safety Meeting 9-11am https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tkcbphay ; Production if beam available	7:45am South Linac down, cold box trip in CHL1, recovery 10.5 hours
	Swing (Devi/Siyu)	Beam recovery and on to production on Ca-48.
Wednesday Sept 16	Owl (Bishnu/Victoria)	Production
	Day (Simona/Eric/B.Yale - standby)	8am start Moller measurement. Sign check. Followed by raster and Target study	Cameron supporting the raster study remotely and Bob locally.
	Swing (Devi/?)	Complete raster and target study. Pedestal scans, PITA scan. Production
Thursday Sept 17	Owl (Victoria/Siyu)	Production.
	Day (Rom/Weibin)	Production
	Swing (Zeke/Adam)	Production
Friday Sept 18	Owl (Victoria/Siyu)	6am SHUTDOWN
	Day (Rom/Weibin)	-----

Optics and Q2

1. Q2 measurement (Done)
   • Repeat of Q2 measurement, with improved pedestal noise control.
   • Detector counting mode.
   • S0 trigger
   • production raster and beam position
2. Optics Data (Done)
   • Sieve IN, dp=+1, 0, (maybe -1). Raster/no raster thin C, raster H20
   • Priority is 1 dp change (both arms!) plus backout, and 10 runs. Watercell runs should be long.
   • Assume 3 hours for magnet changes and 2 hours for data taking. ~ 1 shift
   • See grid on optics data spreadsheet
3. Energy Measurement (Done)
   • Doug did a parasitic energy measurement Sun, Sep 13 at 20:24 [4].

Backgrounds

1. Blinded At PMTs (Done)
   • Longish access to setup and back out, but short data taking period (production conditions).
   • Reconfigure AT PMTs to use blinding cap, attach to US PMTs.
   • This will be done during the long beam studies break on Monday
   • software blinding on the AT PMTs must be disabled
   • Check pedestal noise in counting and in integrating mode. We need low noise is the blinded tube, and we can't add noise to our main detector!
   • Integrating measurement for asymmetry measurement
   • (Do we want counting mode measurement for rate in blinded At tube?)
   • (yield only normalizable using table-gain gain curves).
2. Blinded Main detector? (Done)
   • Need 2 hours to blind main detectors. Then another hour after meaurement to unblind.
   • short-ish yield runs in integrating mode.
     • Software blinding must be disabled on the blinded MD tubes for this study
   • short counting mode run to get relative rate
   • Then return. Keep AT blinded piggybacked for asymmetry measurement.
3. Inelastic spectrum scan (Done)
   • Needs a detailed run plan
   • Counting mode. Current 0.5uA or so? Turn quartz HV off.
   • Measure dp spectrum form dp=nominal to dp=-25%, in 5% steps. Use LHRS only.
   • should scale all spectrometer magnets (including septum)
4. Pole tip re-scattering (Done)
   • Counting mode (VDC tracking). Counting mode on detector is ok (and helpful) but not needed.
   • Q3 turned off.
   • Run three septum setpoints: nominal, -5%, and +5%. Need ~1M S0 trigger events per run (and more is better).

Detectors

1. Linearity Studies (PITA + current scans)
   • These are ongoing - should continue regularly. At least once more,maybe twice.
   • Useful to have one after we get the blinded tubes in place.
   • Current scans for detector and BCM pedestals. Skip the BPMs, I think.
2. Linearity LED tests
   • This will be studied post run, during SAD
   • detector crew were left off the SAD access list - Kent has repeated the request.

Other

1. Sign check
   • perform at next Moller polarimeter measurement
   • run Moller, Compton, and parity DAQ for quick PITA scan
2. Target/Raster study
   • Set up for normal production mode. Call in experts (Bob M in person, Cameron remote).
   • With each raster change we start with a brief C12 run for safety, then do a brief Ca48 run.
   • Raster Scan Run Plan

Moller polarimetry

1. One more measurement

Compton polarimetry

1. Spectrum run
2. Laser polarization changes
3. linearity studies During SAD