[Halld-jlab] Hall D Staff Meeting Notes, October 17, 2016

[Mark Ito]

Colleagues,

Please find the notes below and at 
https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_October_17,_2016 
.

   -- Mark

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  Hall D Staff Meeting, October 17, 2016

Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Eugene Chudakov, Mark 
Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito, David 
Lawrence, Paul Mattione, Patrizia Rossi, Elton Smith, Steve Smith, 
Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Zhenyu Zhang, Beni Zihlmann


    Safety Survey, Steve

  * latest results of the survey for Physics Division presented
  * lots of text comments this time, survey around time of LERF
    incidents and safety stand-down
  * see his slides at
    https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2016/PHY%20-%20Safety%20Culture%20questions%20updated%20Sept%202016.pptx


    Announcement, Eugene

  * Thanks to all for completing their self-assessments
  * report from Diversity and Inclusion Training
      o team building an important aspect
  * all-staff photo on Oct. 24
  * all travel goes through Allison Lung for now
      o do not make financial commitments (e. g., registration fees)
        until travel is approved
  * Prizes: Cynthia Hellman, Charles Perdrisat
  * Hall B solenoid late, will not be energized for upcoming run
  * No new news from accelerator, Nov. 9 still the start date
      o Danfysik expert has been here, root cause of problem not known


    Engineering, Tim

  * fuse was blown on heater for vapor cooled lead, replaced
  * no news on goniometer


    DAQ, Sascha

  * have been running cosmics overnight
  * busy from F125s good at 100 kHz
  * Problems:
     1. baseline setting on F250, failure on initialization, intermittent
     2. crate with start counter and pair spectrometer TDCs, DMA bus errors
     3. optical links give problems once in a while
     4. tagger crates have new firmware, 160 in trigger latency
        recovered, but problem with DMA scalers not being recorded properly
     5. flash125 reporting not-ready-for-readout, fixed by new firmware
        from Cody Dickover
     6. TOF1 crate is disassembled now to facilitate flash250 debugging


    Production, Paul

  * last reconstruction attempt: issue with FDC timing
  * over weekend, did launch for calibrations
  * Adesh contributed FCAL timing calibration code
  * will do monitoring launch, then full ver03 reconstruction by end of week


    Conferences

  * for now: only invited talks at plenary sessions


-- 
marki at jlab.org, (757)269-5295

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