[Halld-jlab] Hall D Staff Meeting Notes, July 24, 2017

[Mark Ito]

Find Steve's slides on the Safety Culture Survey at

https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2017/PHY%20April%202017%20rev1.pptx

They are also linked from the notes on the private wiki now.


On 07/24/2017 04:51 PM, Mark Ito wrote:
>
> Please find the notes below and at 
> https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017
>
> __________
>
>
>   Hall D Staff Meeting, July 24, 2017
>
> From Gluex PRIVATE Wiki
>
> Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Eugene Chudakov 
> (chair), Mark Dalton, Hovanes Egiyan, Mark Ito, David Lawrence, Paul 
> Mattione, Lubomir Pentchev, Elton Smith, Steve Smith, Simon Taylor
>
>
>     Contents
>
>   * 1 Safety Culture Survey, Steve
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#Safety_Culture_Survey.2C_Steve>
>   * 2 Hall Status, Eugene
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#Hall_Status.2C_Eugene>
>   * 3 Carbon Dioxide Switch-Over Valve, Lubomir
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#Carbon_Dioxide_Switch-Over_Valve.2C_Lubomir>
>   * 4 Analysis Launches and Software, Paul
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#Analysis_Launches_and_Software.2C_Paul>
>   * 5 PAC, Eugene
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#PAC.2C_Eugene>
>   * 6 Run Readiness
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#Run_Readiness>
>   * 7 Hall B Ready-for-Science Review, Elton
>     <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_24,_2017&printable=yes#Hall_B_Ready-for-Science_Review.2C_Elton>
>
>
>     Safety Culture Survey, Steve
>
>   * results of the latest survey were presented
>   * survey conducted 2 months ago
>   * already presented to the Director's Safety Council
>   * questions were different this time
>   * two big take-aways:
>      1. schedule pressure has led to unsafe practices
>      2. line management not supporting workers, not requiring worker
>         accountability
>   * see Steve's slides for all the details, including statistical
>     breakdown of results
>
>
>     Hall Status, Eugene
>
>   * Tim sent in some items
>   * DIRC frame due to appear in August
>       o water purification system due to arrive at same time
>   * magnet cooling starts mid-August
>   * August 10, UPS battery replacement scheduled, allegedly non-disruptive
>   * heater went off in the Hall, temperature dropped, recovered now
>   * field in the permanent magnet in the tagger area checked, no change
>   * budget extremely tight (operations)
>       o for rest of FY, only spending to support upcoming run
>   * GWU hiring new postdoc to be resident at JLab: Stuart Fegan
>
>
>     Carbon Dioxide Switch-Over Valve, Lubomir
>
>   * new valve not as good as the old
>       o no manual switch-over capability
>   * Josh did the last change over by manually re-plumbing the lines
>   * old valve being readied to back into service
>
>
>     Analysis Launches and Software, Paul
>
>   * Alex A. reports that the reconstruction launch for Spring 2017
>     data is finished, including post-processing
>       o 120 TB of REST data
>       o 40 TB of coherent skim data
>   * Analysis Launch being prepared
>       o 40 channels
>       o resulting trees about 40% of REST data volume
>       o experimenting with cuts to reduce footprint
>       o goal is to start Friday
>   * Analysis Library software: improvements in speed, memory usage
>       o still some memory leaks
>       o if ready by Friday, will switch over to new library
>
>
>     PAC, Eugene
>
>   * JEF approved with no dedicated time, will run with GlueX
>       o replacement of inner calorimeter needs to be scheduled
>       o if central FCAL becomes damaged, new inner calorimeter a
>         possible replacement
>   * K_L : PAC wanted more coherent proposal with more detail
>   * Nuclear targets: PAC wants to combine the proposals, not clear how
>     to do that
>   * PVPDF, Mark D.: question on quantifying improvement
>
>
>     Run Readiness
>
>   * David: new disk for DAQ system, bids due tomorrow
>   * Hovanes: goni survey done, one axis a bit off
>       o next: move to tagger hall, re-survey
>
>
>     Hall B Ready-for-Science Review, Elton
>
>   * Elton, David, and Beni Zihlmann on committee
>   * convene just before run, end of September
>   * internal review
>
> -- 
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>
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