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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Beni,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I attached a document from Yi Qiang (2012) that is relevant to this discussion. It is also available in the GlueX docdb as 2449. Periodic annealing at 40 C is recommended in the document.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Benedikt Zihlmann <zihlmann@jlab.org> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 3, 2023 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joerg Reinhold <reinhold@fiu.edu>; Fernando Barbosa <barbosa@jlab.org>; halld-pid@jlab.org; Werner Boeglin <boeglinw@fiu.edu>; Timothy Whitlatch <whitey@jlab.org><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">hi Joerg,<br>
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I absolutely agree that it is not obvious at all that this "annealing" will lead to an improvement.<br>
The main reason is that it is cheap in labor and material do to it and we have the time to do it.<br>
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the higher the temperature the better or rather the faster the annealing happens. The lower the temperature<br>
the slower the process. A typical thermodynamic behavior, and it of course follows and exponential dependence.<br>
In other words at room temperature you wait for ever, at 45 degree you wait a long time and at 100 degree it<br>
would goes much faster.<br>
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cheers,<br>
Beni<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/3/23 09:02, Joerg Reinhold wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Another thing to check is the alignment of the SiPMs with the scintillators. My understanding is there is a carefully adjusted airgap. The detector has been handled
by now numerous times, removed and again inserted into the detector. Just slight misalignments might lead to a loss in transmission to the SiPMs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Beni makes the argument that sigma/peak does not change, which seems indicative of primary photon yield not having changed. But then, the paddles have quite some
counterintuitive light collection as a function of z; i.e., the transmission seems to be best from the nose section. There are regions where sigma/peak is changing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Other questions: would 45 C even be close enough to expect some annealing to happen. Naively, I would have expected the required temperature to be in the hundreds
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2023 4:27 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">wow,<br>
that is the same epoxy that is use in boat building together with fiberglass.<br>
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so a 45 degree C is the max it seems.<br>
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cheers,<br>
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<p>Hi Beni,<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>When warming the detector remember that the scintillators are held together with a self-clinging plastic packing wrap. I do not know how this reacts when it gets warm (I think we still have some of the material here somewhere), we do not want the detectors
getting loose or too tight. Also, the rohacell foam support and the carbon fiber inner tube are glued to the aluminum mandril and you might want to ask the engineers about the temperature properties of the glue that was used.<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>To: </b>Benedikt Zihlmann <a href="mailto:zihlmann@jlab.org"><zihlmann@jlab.org></a>,
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Hello Beni,<br>
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Looking at the plots, I agree with your assessment of significant gain degradation. However, I am a bit dubious that the gain can be recovered by that much via annealing. This will be an interesting test.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Fernando<br>
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From: Fernando Barbosa <a href="mailto:barbosa@jlab.org"><barbosa@jlab.org></a><br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 8:12 AM<br>
To: Benedikt Zihlmann <a href="mailto:zihlmann@jlab.org"><zihlmann@jlab.org></a>;
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Hello Beni,<br>
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I suggest 40 to 60 degree C and 1 month of annealing should provide considerable recovery. I would also suggest keeping the bias off.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Fernando<br>
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From: Benedikt Zihlmann <a href="mailto:zihlmann@jlab.org"><zihlmann@jlab.org></a><br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 7:20 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:halld-pid@jlab.org">halld-pid@jlab.org</a>; Fernando Barbosa <a href="mailto:barbosa@jlab.org">
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Subject: Start Counter "warming"<br>
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Hi Fernando, Werner,<br>
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in view of the fact that we do see a significant degradation in the gain of the Start counter response over the years I was thinking if active "annealing" may help.<br>
see also:<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Start_Counter_Operations*Run_Period_Winter_2023__;Iw!!FjuHKAHQs5udqho!Nk-OYfMHDbkBaRlkuKDCils8sI-c1M2TiRC4IK3Omz3pN4U1-69uADQTkIB3RpB9iK3wYcztgQCBt_1Rmrw$">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Start_Counter_Operations*Run_Period_Winter_2023__;Iw!!FjuHKAHQs5udqho!Nk-OYfMHDbkBaRlkuKDCils8sI-c1M2TiRC4IK3Omz3pN4U1-69uADQTkIB3RpB9iK3wYcztgQCBt_1Rmrw$</a><br>
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It is not clear why this drop in gain occurred. It does not seem to be related to a loss in light since the ration of width divided by mean-amplitude has not changed much, and in the nose area not at all (this is the middle histogram of the plot). So the source
of the loss in gain may be related to the SiPM photo sensor itself?<br>
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We know "annealing" helps with regards to dark current but I am not aware of recovering gain.<br>
An active annealing can be employed by covering the photo sensor area with a "heating blanket"<br>
and warm up the region to a certain temperature. The question is what temperature can be considered "save" with regards to the PCB board and electronics as well as the plastic scintillators.<br>
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how high in temperature do you think can we go without affecting these parts? 70 degree Celsius or even more?<br>
The time frame for such an "annealing" attempt would be of order 1 month.<br>
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any comments?<br>
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cheers,<br>
Beni<br>
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