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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>Please find the notes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_April_5,_2022">here</a>
and below.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
dir="auto">Hall D Staff Meeting, April 5, 2022</span></h1>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Eugene">Announcements,
Eugene</span></h2>
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<li> Accelerator SAD work on track
<ul>
<li> beam in Hall starting in June</li>
<li> mid-April: CHL1 will go to 2K</li>
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</li>
<li> HUGS will be in-person this year</li>
<li> New Lab Occupational Medicine physician on-board</li>
<li> New head of Tech Transfer for Lab on-board</li>
<li> Rusty Sprouse, head of Facilities, will retire in
November</li>
<li> Run Around scheduled for May 25</li>
<li> Budget
<ul>
<li> still on CR spending basis, no big procurements
allowed</li>
<li> FY22 looks good, President's FY23 has smaller
increase</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Accelerator power limits are under discussion
<ul>
<li> Main effect is on current limits for Halls A and C</li>
<li> proposal: increase to 1.1 MW from 0.9 MW</li>
<li> limit is administrative, not imposed by physical
infrastructure</li>
<li> going to 2.0 MW attractive, but would require
modification to the dumps</li>
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</li>
<li> New Hall D positions
<ul>
<li> applications in for two positions</li>
<li> 5-6 candidates will be invited for interviews</li>
<li> Boris Grube has obtained his visa</li>
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</li>
<li> Alex: status of requirements for on-site work?
<ul>
<li> Eugene: on-site work is allowed, but not required</li>
<li> expect announcement from Director's Office on new
policy soon</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Work_in_Hall.2C_Tim">Work in
Hall, Tim</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> we start Hot Check-Out in six weeks</li>
<li> finishing CPP installation
<ul>
<li> still need signal cables</li>
<li> will use 3×3 Crystal array for TAC</li>
<li> need helium bag inside CDC</li>
<li> target pieces fiducialized, install them near the
end</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> chiller maintenance: replace some bad pressure gauges</li>
<li> beamline vacuum pump maintenance to be done</li>
<li> FCAL2 drawings getting finalized</li>
<li> K<sub>L</sub>: target temperature calculations underway</li>
<li> dates for Hall PSS system checks not set yet</li>
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id="CPP.2FNPP_Preparations.2C_Beni">CPP/NPP Preparations,
Beni</span></h2>
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<li> MWPCs have been installed
<ul>
<li> first 3 chambers have been checked, some low-level
noise to be addressed</li>
<li> missing most of the signal cables, first batch was
due in last Friday, will check with Chris Stanislav on
that</li>
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</li>
<li> scintillator paddles are installed, but not cabled up</li>
<li> muon trigger using paddles not set-up yet</li>
<li> F125 CDC crate re-located for use with MWPCs
<ul>
<li> ethernet connected</li>
<li> still need fiber to connect TI to TS</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> additional CAEN TDC installed for scintillator channels
<ul>
<li> Sergey performed the needed firmware upgrade</li>
<li> Beni will adjust the least-count resisters, do the
integrated non-linearity correction calibration</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="FCAL2_Preparations.2C_Eugene">FCAL2 Preparations,
Eugene</span></h2>
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<li> modules are being produced a rate of about 30 per week</li>
<li> labor-intensive activity, students from various
institutions have and will be involved</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="JT2GO_Demo">JT2GO Demo</span></h2>
<p>Tim invited us: Friday, April 8 1:00 pm on Teams (see your
calendar entry).
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<p>Our Hall D Engineering co-op student (Anthony Palazzo) will
be giving a demonstration of how to use free software to
pull up 3D models of Hall D equipment and easily manipulate
and measure things. Anthony and Stephanie have been working
over the past few months to put this together.
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