[Halld-pid] Time-of-Flight Meeting Minutes, August 14, 2019

[Mark Ito]

Friends,

Please find the minutes here 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_TOF_Meeting,_August_14,_2019#Minutes> 
and below.

   -- Mark

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    GlueX TOF Meeting, August 14, 2019, Minutes

Present:

  * *FSU: * Ashley Ernst, Paul Eugenio, Sasha Ostrovidov
  * *JLab: * Mark Ito (chair), Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann

There is a recording of this meeting <https://bluejeans.com/s/UEEgD/> on 
the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials to access it.


      Review of minutes from the last meeting

We went over the minutes from the meeting on July 31 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_TOF_Meeting,_July_31,_2019#Minutes>. 


Mark called attention to the item describing the nylon bolts that will 
be used as physical stops to prevent the vertically-oriented paddles 
from slipping. Paul wondered if the Lucite shield could be made with an 
outline to produce a marker (via the boundary between high and low rate 
regions) of the physical position of the counters so that slippage could 
be monitored in data. We discussed the idea only briefly.


      Construction Status

Paul gave us an update.

  * Jason Barlow and Edmundo Barriga were at the lab last week. They
    tested all of the modules that will go back into TOF array. A few
    had some pin-hole-sized light leaks which were taped over. All
    modules are in working order.
  * Fabrication is finishing up. Three are in need of repair due to the
    ends of light guides that inadvertently got buffed yielding weak
    glue joints. The gluing stand does not accommodate modules with PMTs
    attached; it is getting modified to do so.
  * The wooden boxes are being moved to the area where they will receive
    the finished modules. Styrofoam is getting cut. The details of the
    packing procedure are being worked out.
  * The collars are complete and are ready to be packed.
  * The estimate now is to initiate transport of the modules in two
    weeks time.


      Structure of TOF II software

We briefly discussed the plan to keep our software backward compatible 
with the TOF I geometry while implementing changes needed for TOF II.

  * Ashley described progress so far. She modified the geometry in HDDS.
    The version of the TOF geometry used will be controlled by the CCDB.
    Sean Dobbs has modified halld_recon to key off of the number of
    paddles in the TOF geometry to decide whether to reconstruct the
    data as TOF I or TOF II.
  * Beni had a discussion with Mark on how to proceed with the
    calibration software. They proposed that the TOF II calibration be a
    independent set of code from that developed for TOF II. That avoids
    a myriad of if-then-else structures in the code.
  * These philosophies are not obviously in harmony. It is not clear
    that they need to be, but discussion should be had as soon as Sean
    returns from travel.

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