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    <p>Folks,</p>
    <p>Please find the notes below and at
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    <p>  -- Mark<br>
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          dir="auto">Hall D Staff Meeting, January 23, 2017</span></h1>
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          <p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Eugene
            Chudakov (chair), Mark Dalton, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey
            Furletov, Mark Ito, David Lawrence, Paul Mattione, Lubomir
            Pentchev, Patrizia Rossi, Sascha Somov, Elton Smith, Simon
            Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
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              <h2>Contents</h2>
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              <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Eugene"><span
                    class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Eugene</span></a></li>
              <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Run_Preparations"><span
                    class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Run
                    Preparations</span></a>
                <ul>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Solenoid"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span
                        class="toctext">Solenoid</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#tracking_chambers"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span
                        class="toctext">tracking chambers</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#BCAL.2C_Mark_D."><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span
                        class="toctext">BCAL, Mark D.</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#FCAL.2C_Sascha"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span
                        class="toctext">FCAL, Sascha</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Trigger.2C_Sascha"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span
                        class="toctext">Trigger, Sascha</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Online.2C_Sergey"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span
                        class="toctext">Online, Sergey</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#TOF.2C_Beni"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.7</span> <span
                        class="toctext">TOF, Beni</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Slow_Controls.2C_Hovanes"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.8</span> <span
                        class="toctext">Slow Controls, Hovanes</span></a></li>
                  <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php?title=Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_23,_2017&printable=yes#Schedule.2C_Beni"><span
                        class="tocnumber">2.9</span> <span
                        class="toctext">Schedule, Beni</span></a></li>
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          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Eugene">Eugene</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> Tomorrow the new lab directory will tour the lab. Hall
              D is on the tour schedule.</li>
            <li> Budget scenarios
              <ul>
                <li> OK -> continuing resolution and 3% increase
                  starting in FY18, 23 weeks of running</li>
                <li> good -> 3% in FY17 at some point</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> July: S&T review</li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Run_Preparations">Run
              Preparations</span></h2>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Solenoid">Solenoid</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> conductive hoses replaced, will get power supply help
              from engineering division</li>
            <li> issue with ground fault detector is in the power
              supply, not the magnet</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="tracking_chambers">tracking
              chambers</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> Beni: CDC on</li>
            <li> Lubomir: FDC on</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="BCAL.2C_Mark_D.">BCAL, Mark
              D.</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> standalone DAQ problem now fixed</li>
            <li> resolution for pi0s not converging, firmware and # of
              samples is different</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="FCAL.2C_Sascha">FCAL, Sascha</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> Adesh reports FCAL resolution worse as well</li>
            <li> FADC emulation working pretty well</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Trigger.2C_Sascha">Trigger,
              Sascha</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> ROC FCAL10 working, problem found</li>
            <li> F1 TDC initialization problem isolated, solution being
              worked on</li>
            <li> FADC in TOF crate: received report of bad module from
              Beni</li>
            <li> Cosmics planned for Wed., will talk to Sean about
              exercising emulation</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Online.2C_Sergey">Online,
              Sergey</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> new hardware controller for RAID, gives 1.5 GB/s</li>
            <li> could reconfigure network, but bottleneck is in the
              RAID, won't be done now</li>
            <li> moving from RAID 6 to RAID 5, three partitions</li>
            <li> will not switch CODA version this run</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="TOF.2C_Beni">TOF, Beni</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> TOF voltage values ready for all double-ended counters</li>
            <li> Brad obtaining voltages in parallel</li>
            <li> new calibration constants and performance tests for
              lower voltage in progress</li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Slow_Controls.2C_Hovanes">Slow
              Controls, Hovanes</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> goniometer still working
              <ul>
                <li> preparing jumpers for use if problem with limit
                  switch encountered, avoids damage to motors</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> discussed new 45 degree PARA and PERP with Ken
              Livingston
              <ul>
                <li> will implement as a separate diamond in the control
                  software</li>
                <li> each setting will need dedicated scan</li>
                <li> will use the short-cut alignment procedure this
                  time</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
          <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Schedule.2C_Beni">Schedule,
              Beni</span></h3>
          <ul>
            <li> they start tuning machine Wed. afternoon</li>
            <li> hope for progress at rate of one arc per shift</li>
            <li> beam due in Hall D Mon. afternoon if nothing goes wrong</li>
            <li> Hall B KPP program: Feb. 3-18</li>
            <li> Hall D will close on Friday</li>
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