Overview of vacations / absences

Overview of actions

ID	Who	What	Deadline	Status	Details
1	Cristóvão	Find a GEANT4 expert	asap	Done	J. Apostolakis contacted and some feedback received. Cristóvão is in contact with John Apostolakis
2	Paul	Send the technical drawings of the telescope rails / brackets to Markus	asap	Done	-
3	Paul	Manufacture supports for the absorbers	asap	Done	Mounted
4	Markus	Order absorbers	asap	Received	-
5	Markus	Find scintillators	asap	Done	do we want to ship the big block to DESY?
6	Paul	Material for the dark box	asap	Done	PVC (or similar polymers) can temporarily be used in the beam area
7	Markus	Build the dark box	asap	Done
8	Paul	Check if we have to use the BRM or if a smaller magnet is available	asap	Done.	No other magnet will be available.
9	Cristóvão	Send pictures of ISOTDAQ scintillators to Paul	asap	Done
10	Markus	look for 5 more MMFE8 cards	asap	Arizona contacted. Not looking good so far	Right now we have 4 cards.
11	Markus	build more MicroMegas ventilator assemblies	asap	Done
12	Cristóvão	Estimate the amount of MicroMegas gas needed in August and October	asap	Done	~900 l in August; ~1700 l in October; gas mixture 93% Argon, 7% CO2
13	Paul	Order MicroMegas gas for August / October	asap	Done	Ordered ~3000 l of Ar:CO2 93:7 (delivered) and >800 liters of Ar:CO2 70:30
14	Paul	Check the DESY Lead glass calorimeter	asap	Done	Tested one calo, it works well. Statistical analysis by a student ongoing. More calos available, but with incompatible cables -> replacement ongoing
15	Cristóvão	prepare the spare SBC	asap	Done
16	Cristóvão	contact the USA team and give them homework (e.g. calculation of synchrotron radiation, MMFE8 temperature read out	asap	Ongoing
17	Paul	contact the NED team and give them homework	asap	Started discussions and questions on showers and the setup
18	Markus	Plan the transport of the material (in particular MMs) to DESY	asap	Done
19	Cristóvão	Finish integrating the MM into TDAQ	asap	Done but missing state machine implementation
20	Cristóvão/Paul	Set up the user/analysis accounts	September	Done	Will use Jupyter at DESY. Accounts are prepared, credentials are with Paul. Access to Jupyter notebooks works.
21	Sarah	Coordinate the production of the banner	October	Done	2 banners have arrived at DESY
22	Paul	Organise safety half day	asap	Almost done	Only missing location info for cryo and some details for radiation (DESY school lab).
23	Cristóvão	Test and get to run the "Split DAQ" (GUI running on PC but rest on the SBC)	asap	Done	Thanks to Louis' help
24	Cristóvão/Markus	Fix the busy logic during the TDAQ configuration steps	2020	Postponed to 2020
25	Markus	Find a VMEbus ADC	2020	Postponed to 2020
26	all	define microMegas and MMFE8 configuration for the DESY setup	asap	Done	-
27	Markus, Jorgen	equip a chamber with fans and the MMFE8 that we got on loan on Friday	asap	Done	-
28	Jorgen, Markus	get a CAEN HV power supply from the pool	asap	Done	Jorgen/Cristovao: Specify the type of PSU. Markus: Rent the device
29	Jorgen, Markus	install in RD51, test electronics and calibrate	asap	Done	-
30	Jorgen, Cristóvão	test with vmmChamber monitor program	asap	Done	-
31	Jorgen, Cristóvão	(re) install online graphical monitoring of currents in the microMegas (spike detection)	asap	Done	-
32	Jorgen, Cristóvão	understand noise events	asap	Most likely the thresholds were too low	-
33	Cristóvão	monitoring of temperatures in the VMMs	asap	Ongoing/Done	Fallback solution of using oscilloscope/multimeter. Must focus on other points first before looking into automated temperature monitoring
34	Jorgen, Cristóvão	define/develop method on testing VMM threshold settings	asap	Done	-
35	Jorgen, Cristóvão	adapt event display to VMM based readout	asap	Done	-
36	Jorgen, Cristóvão	adapt tracking monitor	asap	Ongoing	-
37	Jorgen, Cristóvão	make UDP fragment format RCD compatible (GetNextFragment and RCDRawEvent)	asap	Done	-
38	Paul, all	low energy calorimeter	2020	TBD	Contact E. Auffray re. old crystals of L3 and PANDA
39	Markus, Cristóvão, Paul	Discuss and complete the shipping list	End of July	Done	see also: https://espace.cern.ch/project-blfs/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc=/project-blfs/Launch%202019/shipping%20list.docx&action=default
40	Markus	Buy 5 Lemo cables (100 ns)	asap	cancelled	cables would have been delivered too late
41	Paul	Measure the magnetic field inside of the dark box when the BRM is on	asap	Done	See Mail from 05.09. "PMT and magnetic field"
42	Paul	Provide long (5m) HDMI cables for the MMS (or ask Markus to buy them)	asap	Done	Five pieces ordered and delivered
43	Cristóvão	Contact Sune re. influence of magnetic fields on PMTs	asap	Tests Ongoing	-
44	Paul, Markus	Send the MM box and the malfunctioning DWC to CERN	asap	Done	Box is packed and closed. Markus will prepare a shipping request in EDH
45	Cristóvão, Markus	To be shipped to DESY: HV-PSU, 6 channels, 2000V, 2mA with GECO monitoring, Screws for the MMFE8, cotton gloves	asap	Done	-
46	Markus	Make aluminium rails for mounting the DWC to the MM frame	asap	Material has been collected and is ready to ship to DESY. Only mounting holes remain to be drilled	-
47	Cristóvão, Markus	Clean the zebra connector, order more if necessary	asap	Done	Had discussion with Givi about details. Also received a set of 10 clean ones to use in case of need
48	Markus, all	Order thinner tungsen slabs if required	asap	Done	15 slabs of 2 x 50 x 50 mm ordered
49	Sarah	Take care of Facebook page	asap	Ongoing	Markus to approve requests with answered questions, Paul and Cristóvão to answer questions; check once per day
50	Paul, Barbara	Expert electron therapy	asap	TBD	Look for a specialist for electron therapy as a cancer cure at DESY
51	Paul	Room(s) for data analysis	asap	Done	Booked for the whole programme. Guest office in Bldg 1d, Ground floor.
52	Paul	Alternative for webcams	asap	Done	Got a MacBook, installed Vidyo/Skype and created a Vidyo room for the event
53	Paul, Markus	Volunteers for data analysis	asap	Ongoing	Volunteers are currently signing up, 20.10. - 25.10. fully covered, 26.10. - 28.10. still missing: https://confluence.desy.de/display/DESYTB/Data+Analysis
54	Markus	DAI San Diego	after receiving invoice	TBD	Please submit DAI with invoice and take care of payment
55	Markus	New BL4S flyer	after receiving modified version from Ewa	TBD	Please forward the flyer to DESY and LNF as well as Sascha for collecting comments/signing it off
56	Cristóvão/Markus	Purchase/build hygrometers for measuring humidity of Micromegas	asap (for 2020?)	TBD	Minimum of 2, a few extra might not be a bad idea for extras and monitoring individual chambers

Minutes of 3 June (taken by Paul)

Particle Peers

Choices to take:

• Materials / Thicknesses of absorbers
  • Technical drawings of rails
  • Brackets available or technical drawings
• Telescopes
  • Send around specs
  • Readout time
  • Number of planes
  • Simulation @Markus finds a G4 expert
• Data storage
• Analysis?
  • Add-on machine learning? @Cristovao

Computing:

• Analysis
  • EduSWAN (global SWAN, Jupyter notebooks)
• Data Storage
  • Options: NAF / desycloud / CERNbox
  • What do we store?
    • Raw?
    • Root?
  • Backed up please (NAF, desycloud, CERNbox)
  • Data transmission?
  • Copy data on a daily basis / convert to ROOT
    • Script executed by students?
  • Open access data storage?

Accounts:

• Maybe DESY computing accounts
• CERN accounts?
• Functional accounts for the students if (edu)SWAN will be used
• 4 PCs for analysis

DESY Chain:

• To decide:
  • Scintillation materials
    • Markus contacts experts/companies
  • PMT
    • which are the relevant wavelengths -> 400 - 550 nm for EJ-200
    • anything against the available 40 mm PMTs? -> No. Sune recommends using them
• To design:
  • Dark box
  • Optical coupling
    • Grease? Air? Optical gel?
    • Do we need a light guide? -> not for the organic scintillators. Decision for crystal pending
• Simulation:
  • G4 simulations: Does the scintillator (<10 cm) affect the electron beam

• Tracking (energy measurement):
  • In case of BRM usage:
    • Setup: Black box → 2-3 planes particle tracking (alpide?) → Magnet → MicroMegas → Trigger
    • @Paul ask Norbert for Laura’s beam support (tracking before the magnet)
    • Scintillators:
      • Large tails?
      • Mechanical support?
      • @Markus sends pictures around
  • In case of another magnet materializing:
    • Difference:
    • Potential of using DWC in case of not having Alpide ready

• Micromegas:
  • Need 8 MMFE8 cards (@Markus)
  • MicroMegas electronics cooling (@Markus)
  • Mechanical adjustment (@Cristovao)
  • Gas mixture → @Paul contacts Ralf / Baro
  • HV: brought from CERN (@Markus)
• Lead glass calorimeter:
  • Check DESY calo @Paul contacts Jan/Norbert
• VME readout:
  • SBCs:
    • One is at DESY
    • Spare will be prepared at CERN
  • Alpide:
    • Integration: @Paul contacts Yi/Lennart

• Homework for students:
  • Calculate synchrotron radiation → does it affect the experiment?

---++ Layout of the area:

• Challenges:
  • Moving the telescope (Monday morning it has to be reinstalled at the original position)
  • Material budget in front of the shower telescope / remove black box for shower experiment?
  • Different time slicing? Do scintillator experiment first and then the shower
  • Alternative setup: BRM → 1x MicroMegas → Shower telescope (can be moved out) → 1x MicroMegas

General:

• • Discuss spares (mechanics, detectors)
  • Analysis volunteers:
  • Find volunteers (J.H. Arling, Lennart, Yi, Uwe, Mengqing) @Paul
  • Use of Jupyter notebooks with ROOT → C++ or python? @Cristovao/@Paul

-- MarkusJoos - 2019-06-13