Current temperature ~64 C

See plots attached

Current pressure ~ 2.5E-6 mbar

See
https://uoe-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/cbruno2_ed_ac_uk/EVbsVOubNHRLj0PKiFIvd00BClMJ6WSJ1UDAyLA2F3R4jA?rtime=OK4kVZKB2Ug

and
http://web-docs.gsi.de/~lestinsk/vacplot.php

With the help of OG, the baking tent was built. MG started baking around 11:30 am with a rate of 0.2 K/minute.

Heating update can be found on:  https://web-docs.gsi.de/~lestinsk/baking.php (CARME temperature plot now visible as well - thanks Michael!)

where, device - 192.168.207.192 is for CARME.

Ch1: CARME chamber long tape (2 kW)

Ch2: CF100 flanges exit side

Ch3: CF100 bellows exit side

Ch5:  200 W (x3) CF 100 flanges

Ch6:  40 W CF 100 flange

Ch8: VAT 100 gate valve to ring

example: in 39:50, 39 is the temperature and 50 is the set temperature.

Cooling of baking volume finished over the weekend, attached are some plots of the bakeout test. Bakeout2.png is the thermocouple profile for the entire period over the week. The heating in the first seven hours followed a nice linear rise of ~5C/hour, in the 7-40 hour period the heating rate slowed due to an issue with our octagon average limiting the increase in the temperature. The period from 40-65 hours was due to the picologger heating up to unacceptbly high temperatures which paused the heating. The octagon average and picologger problems were solved after this, with hours 65-75 showing the linear increase seen previously of ~5C/hour until the maximum temperature of the was reached. The maximum of the RE-72 controllers was 135C with the chamber average ~140C. The next 48 hours the bakeout was left to maintain its temperature, with slight day/night variations observed. During this period both heaters were on in order to maintain the temperature as can be seen in RE72_test2.png, where 1 represents the heater on and 0 the heater off (note for RE72 1 I have shifted these values to 1.5 and 0.5 respectively to better show on the same plot). The rest of the bakeout time shows the cooling of the volume in a serious of 10C and 5C steps. 

Graphs for the cooling profiles of each step (5C and 10C) are attached. Keeping the chamber temperature gradient below 10C is most dependent upon the top and bottom temperatures of the chamber. The bottom of the chamber cools much faster than the top of the chamber, down to a minimum value before the heaters kick back in once the RE72 temperatures arrive at the set point. An equillibrium time is then required for the top of the chamber to cool before the next step can be implemented. The 5C steps are recommened for future cooling due to chamber gradients not exceeding the 10C limit and the shorter 'equillibrium time'. Top/Bottom_test2.png shows the difference in chamber and air temperatures between the top and bottom of the baking volume, with a large difference in the air temperature between top and bottom potentially having a significant effect on the cooling of the chamber. I hope improved insulation on the main chamber will result in less heat losses from the bottom of the baking volume and a smaller cooling gradient for the bottom of the chamber during the step down. 

I have deconstructed the baking jacket on the chamber and am ready to begin moving the jacket over to the other chamber. 

Pressure on the leak cart is 7.1e-7 mbar as of 09:44. 

09:09 Arrived at GSI for comissioning beamtime.
      CARME currently in a stopped state, with all FEEs powered off.
      Upper detector is biased with 80V and has a leakage current of 9.92uA.
      This is up on the previous recording by JM of 5.4uA recorded in elog 187.
      It is possible light is reaching the detector via the interaction chamber which shall be checked.

09:19 Cave checked:
      Water is running to the FEEs (OK for power on when required)
      There are 4 uncovered windows on the interaction chamber. Will see if we can get these covered.

14:29 Tested different bias voltages.
      Between 80V and 120V got a normal diode response with small increases in leakage current
      At 120V leakage current was stable at 9.92 for one minute.
      Checked waveforms on DAQ and looked at current again and it was up to 16uA.
      Turned off bias and let ramp down.
      Now when trying to ramp up detector in similar position to last week with a diode response between 0-30V and a rapid increase above that.
      Carlo spoke to Gleb who was beam tuning. Which around the time of our trip he opened the valves and put beam into the ring for a rotation.
      Gleb put in several faraday cups prior to the CARME chamber yet we still see the non-diode bias characteristics.
      He will enter in 30 minutes and we will check if anything looks out of place. Will also remove motor pin to give option of movement.

15:00 Gleb and Carlo enters the cave.
      Dipole and beam off.
      Pin removed.
      Diode response restored 9.4uA at 40V. Which is only slightly above where it was during the morning


      Before they got anywhere with starting again the current has gone up again..

16:49 Since around 15:30 the current has come down to its levels earlier today at 40V. We are preparing a script to monitor the current levels going forward.

17:00 Gleb stopped tuning the beam for the day.
      There is no beam in the ring.
      Magnets and everything else continue as if there was beam in the ring.

19:40 Attempted to raise bias to 50. Immediately started to trip
      Carlo cycled motors multiple times.
      Bias in out position dropped.
      To lower
      Have made it to 60V. Will leave there overnight with leakage current tracking running.

      No beam so no daq running.

Laser surveying team worked till 11. Chamber was too high by 3mm close to the jet target and 6mm by the turbo pump (towards the dipole). 

CARME lowered appropriate amount using bolts under CARME feet. Height checked using a laser on the centre point line of the middle flange turbo end and mid point on the front of the chamber (see images). During lowering front foot swapped and valve supports moved slightly to give more clearance for opening. ~13cm clearance for opening the chamber currently. 

Pipe and single bellow connecting CARME to dipole replaced by two bellows and new pipe. Rest of open ports on chamber closed. 

Thermocouple feedthrough flange installed under the motors flange in the turbo pump section. One internal thermocouple hooked onto kapton cable connected to MACOR and one thermocouple left floating in the chamber. Floating thermocouple corresponds to right output on feedthrough, thermocouple on kapton corresponds to left output on feedthrough. Image taken from flanges at the top of the chamber, quality is poor due to lack of maneouvering space.  

Baking frame partially assembled around the chamber. Full assembly requires removing valve airlines to get under the valve pipe, will be done Monday morning. Took measurements for the RGA around the chamber, should be able to fit in multiple positions without conflict with baking jacket. 

Test

Noticed bursts of high energy noise on aida01 and aida02 during run 47 and 48.

Good events rate jumps from 10-20k range to 250k. ADC data items rate jumps from 0-1 to 2k. Data rate being written increases to ~2500 kb/s from ~20 kb/s

Effect appears short lived ~30s at a time. On 18/2/22 the asic was check loaded which appeared to remove the increased rate but due to the time taken to asic check the burst had already finished.

Asic 2 on aida01 and asic 1 on aida02 are affected. See attached plots.

Fast comparator threshold HEC currently set to 0x2 for all

Zoomed in region of aida 1 asic 2 and the same region for asic 1 to see the difference are attached.

Upper part of the frame was mounted. In order to do so, the valve was closed, turbo wire and hose were disconnected and then connected. Valve was opened again. See pictures 1-2.

Bottom part of the tent was constructed with 3 heaters (from one of the controllers) at the front, 4 in the middle, and 4 at the back (4+4 from the other controller). See pictures 3.

Thermocouples were tested and connected to TC08 modules.

Wire connecting to four heaters was damaged which caused a spark and sound when the upper tent was being constructed. This caused a power failure two times, turning off all three pumps. The upper valve was immediately closed. Power supplies of heaters were disconnected and pumps were turned on again. Valve was opened again as well.

Construction of tent is paused. Waiting for the wire to be repaired by tomorrow and start again.

11.15 Pirani 1.0e-03mbar IE514 2.72e-08mbar

16.35 Pirani 1.0e-03mbar IE514 2.61e-08mbar

10:10  IE514 2.0e-08mbar

Upstream part of the CARME is covered.

09:26  IE514 1.96e-08mbar

16.40 CB/ML install fibre optic cable from patch panel beneath dipole downstream of YR09/CARME chamber to VETAR2 front panel fibre connector - see attachments 1 & 2.

VETAR2 LCD display changes from magenta to cyan.

DAQ stop. DAQ reset. DAQ setup.

All system wide checks OK.

WR timestamp control - attachment 3 is timed 16.43.11 UTC+1

WR timestamp 0x17B101E7 7FCD1ACD -> 1707147827543349965ns -> 1707147827s -> Monday, February 5, 2024 3:43:47 PM UTC ( https://www.epochconverter.com/ )

One of the detectors was damaged while mounting (see pictures 1-3).

Second detector was found already damaged when opened (see pictures 4-5).

9:30 Bias remained stable overnight - 60V 2.95 uA.

10:00 No grounding attached initailly. Pulser ON, lots of noise across all ~250-300 kHz across biased detector. Waveforms and histograms saved to /tmp. Pulser width for aida 6 ~300 channels. Aida 7,8 similar, aida 5 producing no ADC data. 

11:00 Grounding connected as in elog 181. Rates decreased to ~180-250 kHz. Waveforms and histograms saved to /tmp. 

12:00 Bias slowly increased too 100V giving a leakage current of ~3.5 uA which was stable for several hours. Bias varied between 60V and 100V for noise reduction perposes, 80V deemed least noisy at the time, noise still ~180-200 kHz

13:30 New grounding trialled. Bottom detector removed from pulser and grounding loops so that only the biased detector is grounded. Bias set to 80V

14:00 Rates significantly reduced for aida 6,7,8 - aida5 still producing no ADC data. Rates are in range 15-50 kHZ with noisy channels accounting for most of the rates. Waveforms and histograms saved to /tmp. Pulser peak on aida 6 ~300 channels. 

16:00 Aida 5 fee investigated to reason it is not producing data. FEE was not properly connected to ERNI connector due to incorrect installation of black adaptor card mount. Adaptor card mount reinstalled and fee remounted. Aida 5 now produces ADC with similar rates to aida6,7,8. 

During investigation of aida5, aida4 and 5 were swapped. Config files relating to MAC addresses, polarity etc of FEES has been updated. Elog 175 will be appended to include this swap.  

19:00 Bias set to 80V, DAQ running with pulser off to allow for alpha detection overnight. 

Connected all FEEs.

The two top fees corresponding to the bottom right detector are connected to damaged flexi rigid PCBs. The top one is missing an pin that should not be connected to anything, while the bottom one has a slightly cracked connector and is missing the top left pin. Spares should be in Edinburgh.

Found that the flexi rigid PCB connected to the bottom most FEE of the bottom-left detector has a damaged ground lemo connector. Possibly pulled during mounting? The bias cables were off most of the time. Seems to bias fine using the other bias lemo, but not ideal.

Attached, a V-I plot of the four detectors being biased. Note bottom-left was only biased to 120V vs. 150 since it shows relatively high leakage current. Time is wrong - bias was given over ~2 minutes. Unclear why the x-axis is incorrect.

Leakage currents for all detectors, and especially bottom-left and bottom-right drop significantly waiting a sufficently long amount of time, e.g. down to ~5.5 uA after 15 minutes.

To create this plots in case it is needed.

ssh to CARMEbakingpi

cd Programs/caenlogger

python3 caenlogger.py

This will capture the data and pass it to the server (carme-gsi) in ~/caen_current.dat where they will be APPENDED. Delete / save / move the file from the CARME server if required. Backups are in Programs/caenlogger/bias_logs

THEN Bias on

THEN

ssh carme-gsi

cd Programs/caenlogger

gnuplot plot_current.gp

The left (inside ring) bellow for the motors rod was replaced.

Replacing the bellow involved;

• One person holding the metal plate the detectors are mounted on (cabling remains plugged in) while the operation is performed. 
• The motors box is supported by the cryring crane by its mounting points
• Bolts on the flange connecting to the chamber can then be undone. The whole motors section (rod included) is then moved out of the chamber using the crane and someone to stabilise the rod as it slides off the detector plate. 
• Once off the chamber, the steel cover can be removed by disconnecting from the flange and from the motors box. Best to perform on a table. 
• The bellow is then removed by removing the nuts on the small flange (kf 25) connecting the bellow to the box. The bolts for these bolts are very long and go through the motors box from the moving metal plate seen in the attached image. 
• Follow these steps in reverse to install the new bellow. 

While replacing the bellow, it was noticed the long bolts for the small flange were too short. It was therefore very difficult to re-attach the nuts with any torque. The thickness of the head of the bolts was shortend to effectively lenghten the bolt which was sufficient to tighten the nuts. New bolts should be bought in case of replacing the bellows again. 

The orbit of the beam in the ring was re-configured so that the beam position is more central.

With the target density at ~6e11 at/cm2 this allowed a target overlap scan using the beam lifetime to be performed. 

Beam put into bunched mode to allow the number of particles to be observed on Grafana.

The number of particles injected at the start of the cycle was then compared to the number of particles at the end of the cycle to gauge the % of the beam lost.

A flat top region was observed where >99% of the particles in the ring were lost. The centre of this flat top corresponds to a horizontal beam position of 1.0 mm

Attachment 1 - Grafana plot of beam intensity

Attachment 2 - Plot of overlap

Target density this morning had stabalised at 7e11 at/cm2

This is sufficient to test the beam/target overlap using the lifetime of the beam in the ring.

Previous attempt at this method was done at 1.5e11 at/cm2 where lifetime from residual gas and target are essentially the same.

Beam set to bunched. Beam position varied by 1mm and the number of particles in the ring taken from Grafana plots. Particles at injection compared with at dump.

Significantly more beam loss at > 8 mm beam position with highest value at 8.75 mm. This is the maximum we can move the beam.

Test repeated with no target. Same beam loss rate for all positions. We see a clear difference with the target only at positions > 8mm.

Test repeated with original electron cooler voltage Gleb tuned with last night. Same outcome -> cooler voltage has no significant impact on overlap (for 0.1V at least)

Overlap using count rate over 7.5 minutes also tested. DSSD 1 (top right) used as gauge as no beam stripe is seen in this detector. 

At horizontal position 4 mm (previous estimation of overlap) we saw a small increase in counts around 4.7 MeV with the target off compared to target on (76 vs 57)

At horizontal position 8.75 mm we saw a large decrease in counts around 4.7 MeV with target off compared to target on (95 vs 290)

It appears clear the overlap is at 8.75 mm. Future runs will use this as horizontal beam position.

14:01

Run 36 started.

We put both detectors to the fully out position. Detectors then driven IN using the pnuematic motor only once the beam is ready and driven fully out before beam dumping.

We notice the right arm is significantly slower than the left arm and does not manage to go fully out before being told to go back in. This is not ideal.

Run stopped.

14:10

Run 37 started

Right arm is positioned at pot = 70.49 and remains stationary. The left arm is moved with the ring cycle. When IN left arm pot = 62.71 mm. When out left arm pot = 18.89 mm

Movement signals are being saved to jan MBS system and can be used to seperate out injection periods on other runs where both detectors will be stationary.

All beam and target settings are the same as for Run 35.

Spectrum browser rates for each FEE when left arm IN shown in (attachment 1). Rates dependent on beam cycle, when detectors move out, rates in left arm drop significantly as expected.

XY and energy histogram plots from monitoring code (attachments 2+3)

We see the Rutherford much more well defined on the bottom left detector now (it is further in and halo effect is reduced). Still some low energy counts (may be due to detector movement -> need to test without beam)

Top left detector energy histogram looks a lot different, still much halo effect.

we will collect some stats for 30 mins or so

14:57

Run 37 Stopped. Run 38 started.

Faraday cup to the ring closed. No beam in the ring. Left arm of the detectors still moving IN and out of the beam with the ring cycle.

Very little counts observed in energy spectra.

15:02

Run 38 stopped so Gleb can change the beam energy. Run 39 started.