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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
dir="auto">Hall D Staff Meeting, September 16, 2019</span></h1>
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<p>Present: Eugene Chudakov (chair), Mark Dalton, Alexandre
Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito, David
Lawrence, Lubomir Pentchev, Elton Smith, Sascha Somov, Simon
Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements_.28Eugene.29">Announcements
(Eugene)</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Interviews are in progress for technical positions</li>
<li> Physicist position has not been advertised yet</li>
<li> New post-docs start Oct. 1, Igal Jaegle and Keigo
Mizutani
<ul>
<li> Possible tasks include conducting launches,
maintaining the TPOL, managing translation tables,
working on the FCAL upgrade</li>
</ul>
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<li> Rik Yoshida is leaving the Lab for a position at
Argonne
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<li> He will be replaced by a team consisting of Doug
Higinbotham, Volker Burkert, and Christian Weiss</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> All money for FY19 has been spent</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="Preparations_for_Upcoming_Run">Preparations for
Upcoming Run</span></h2>
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<li> We will need a decision of using new firmware for
FADC-250s (Sascha)</li>
<li> Trying new alcohol infusion system for the chamber gas,
adding a heater to avoid condensation (Beni)</li>
<li> TOF being assembled in Hall (Eugene)</li>
<li> New mirrors for DIRC being developed, sandwich of
layers, along with plan on how to protect them (Eugene)
<ul>
<li> 8 k$ has been spent on new mirrors</li>
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<li> Magnet is full (Eugene)</li>
<li> We need decision on whether to include the start
counter in the trigger. More study needed (Eugene)</li>
<li> Josh is fabricating TAC, will switch to CompCal after
that (Sascha)</li>
<li> Vladimir Popov is redesigning the base</li>
<li> Testing with PS pairs:
<ul>
<li> Crystals, up to 12, with light guides, right side
(looking downstream) (Sascha)</li>
<li> TRD/GEM will start near DIRC on floor and move to
left side of PS in January (Lubomir)</li>
</ul>
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<li> Andrea [?] from Hall B will propose using positrons
from the PS to search for dark matter, will bring in a new
calorimeter (Elton)</li>
<li> Issues with the DAQ? Seems not (Sergey)</li>
<li> With ramdisk buffers, can write 3 GB/s to RAID (Sergey)</li>
<li> Raid5 schedule uncertain (David)</li>
<li> Data compression: always part of plan, some schemes
tried, need system to test, need test done by mid-Oct. to
have time to make decision before run (David)</li>
<li> Spring run from Jan. 10 to May 6 (Eugene)</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="NIM_paper">NIM paper</span></h2>
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<li> first draft due Sep. 24 (Elton)</li>
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