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    <p>Folks,</p>
    <p>Please find the notes below and at</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_November_13,_2017">https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_November_13,_2017</a>
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    <p>  - Mark</p>
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          <p>Present: Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Eugene Chudakov
            (chair), Mark Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey
            Furletov, Mark Ito, David Lawrence, Paul Mattione, Lubomir
            Pentchev, Elton Smith, Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim
            Whitlatch
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          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements">Announcements</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> Eugene showed some pictures of the DIRC in the Hall.</li>
            <li> The appraisal cycle is in progress.</li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Preparations_for_the_Run">Preparations
              for the Run</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> Tim:
              <ul>
                <li> solenoid
                  <ul>
                    <li> mass flow controller tested</li>
                    <li> liquid sensor refurbished, will be swapped in</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li> will move platform by end of week for muon chamber</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> David:
              <ul>
                <li> will run cosmics overnight, turn on monitoring
                  systems</li>
                <li> AMD computer has bad Ethernet, even after coming
                  back from repair
                  <ul>
                    <li> may get retired to the online farm</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li> run period changed over to "2018-01"</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> Sergey:
              <ul>
                <li> will run CODA 3.07</li>
                <li> doing high luminosity preparation with new
                  gluonraid 4, 2 network interfaces</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> Alex: starting "incoming" processing launches</li>
            <li> Sascha:
              <ul>
                <li> one FADC bad in tagger crate, now fixed</li>
                <li> tagger hodoscope powered</li>
                <li> next: go through sub-detectors one-by-one</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> Mark I.: JLab shifts will be assigned next week after
              domestic swap period concludes</li>
            <li> Paul: will be helping with diamond alignment again this
              run</li>
            <li> Mark D.: FCAL will get new voltages</li>
            <li> Hovanes:
              <ul>
                <li> all Dell computes were restarted last week
                  <ul>
                    <li> if any IOCs are missing, let him know</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li> working on gamma profiler read-out upgrade with Ben
                  Raydo</li>
                <li> V-wire control needs further development</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> Alexandre: we still have one empty run coordinator
              schedule slot</li>
            <li> Lubomir: hardware interlock for FDC low-voltage chiller
              complaining</li>
            <li> Elton: we need to start working on HCO for the Hall</li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Data_Processing">Data
              Processing</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> Paul: almost ready to start reconstruction pass.
              <ul>
                <li> tagger timing needed calibration over weekend by
                  Sean Dobbs
                  <ul>
                    <li> Alex is doing a monitoring launch to look at
                      results</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li> goal is to launch by tomorrow morning</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> Simon: working on track matching to BCAL
              <ul>
                <li> found and fixed an issue with start counter
                  matching</li>
                <li> deterioration of matching efficiency with BCAL
                  material added not understood</li>
                <li> launch will proceed without new matching code and
                  an air BCAL</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
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Mark Ito, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marki@jlab.org">marki@jlab.org</a>, (757)269-5295
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