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ME1/1A—revisited…. Recall request from Wesley Smith regarding ME1/1A “We cannot remove ME1/1 at high eta from the trigger since we need every single muon trigger for startup… Please do not remove any of the sections of ME1/1 from the trigger.”. Snippet from TMB documentation:.
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ME1/1A—revisited… Recall request from Wesley Smith regarding ME1/1A • “We cannot remove ME1/1 at high eta from the trigger since we need every single muon trigger for startup… Please do not remove any of the sections of ME1/1 from the trigger.” Snippet from TMB documentation: Couldn’t we just set CC[3]=0 (for TMB firmware types C and D) to enable ME1/1A in the trigger (like it used to be)? Do we want to do this? G. Rakness (UCLA)
Stuff at point 5 • We have taken many local runs with detector in various states, for example… • 9 – 23 February has ME4/1 OFF while they paint the forward shielding • csc-daq03 was revived • Updated to software version 6.9, including… • monitoring package update to TMB counters (ME1/1A version) • new TMB configuration parameters… • tmb_firmware_compile_type • alct_readout_without_trig • clct_readout_without_trig • match_readout_without_trig • mpc_block_me1a • I have been pushing people to work on CSC CANbus by example • I now know more about CANbus than I ever thought possible… • … I’m surprised our CANbus worked as well as it did… G. Rakness (UCLA)
Gas mixture change in CSC Recall: cost of CF4 in 2008 = CHF 400k… • CF4 reduces chamber aging in a high rate environment • Should not be necessary for commissioning with cosmic rays • Changed today at noon • 40% Ar + 50% CO2 + 10% CF4 40% Ar + 5% CF4 + 55% CO2 • How did we verify that the gas mixture was OK before we did this? • Measured mixture composition with gas chromatograph • Took local run, looked at gas gain plots in CSCValidation • Performed HV scan (see next page…) G. Rakness (UCLA)
HV scan from Tuesday… https://cmsdaq.cern.ch/elog/CSC/7703 This trace is identical to January 2008 and December 2007… Gas mixture is the same G. Rakness (UCLA)
To do at point 5 • Thursday: • Continue to push CANbus studies • Calibration run • Friday: • HV scan • local data run for gas gain • Next week: cooling work will make it not possible to power on both endcaps at the same time… In the meantime… • Track finder mezzanine card test + firmware updates • Update to online software version 6.10 • Uses configuration database G. Rakness (UCLA)
Beginning of shifts • From Chamonix meeting: slip in LHC schedule by ~6 weeks Beam likely in late October… Immediate question (to be discussed at tomorrow’s commissioning meeting) is: when do we start CSC shifts? • CMS commissioning note: there are biweekly mid-week global runs beginning first week of March What would we (UCLA) like to do? • My point of view: since the power-up procedure has been fixed, it is no longer painful to turn off/on every day. I believe the major pain will be extracting volunteers to run for the mid-week global runs… G. Rakness (UCLA)
Other stuff • Iterated with Alex M about including ALCT test firmware… he doesn’t think it will be a problem to include it in a beam version of ALCT firmware, but would like to see us test it out at 904 and point 5 first… G. Rakness (UCLA)
To do • Get TMB + ALCT test firmware working • at 904 • At point 5 on chambers with problems • Push CANbus studies at point 5 • Come up with numbers for • (CSC latency + cable lengths) and • (RPC latency + cable lengths) so that I can decide if I believe the RPC folks about their latency… • Combine firmware version check into configuration check moving towards a single push-button check of all configuration… G. Rakness (UCLA)