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1. Runlist for fermilab beam test

beam hit the edge of top Ecal
New HV is: 1260, 1300, 920, 960, 940, 1940, 1780, 2100

777 First run - MWPC trigger -

783 Preshower channels set to 2V range in FADC, new HV is: 1260, 1300, 920, 960, 940, 1840, 1680, 2000

784 TS1 and TS2 - move detector position so beam is hitting the center of three ECals

785 New HV is: 1160, 1200, 820, 860, 840, 1840, 1680, 2000

786 TS1 only - beam centered on calorimeter

787 lower HV on preshower, New HV is: 1260, 1300, 820, 860, 840, 1740, 1580, 1900

788

792

793 reduce 100 V more on preshower, New HV is: 1260, 1300, 820, 860, 840, 1640, 1480, 1800
short run PEB1 crashed

795 switch to FADC only config TiIntelvmeha8 and use

Changing down stream Cerenkov N2 pressure

===========good data start from here===================

796 move to Top block, use this New HV: 1260, 1300, 880, 920, 940, 1640, 1440, 1800
797

798 move to left block

800 beam on the center of the left block, point B
801
802 beam on the center of the right block, point C

803 beam on the center of the top block, point A

804 beam on the center of 3 modules, 6.5k

805 2GeV, beam on the center of 3 modules, 31.7k

806 4GeV, beam on the center of 3 modules,

818 12 GeV e-
819 12 GeV e-
820 10 GeV e-
821 8 GeV e-
822 6 GeV e-

===========1GeV===================
HV is: 1260, 1280, 760, 860, 880, 1640, 1480, 1800
823
824
825
Switch to TS2 trigger, which is our own trigger

828

Switch back to TS1

831

839 daq crashed

847 1 GeV
===========6GeV===================

848 6 GeV
849 6 GeV
850 6 GeV
851 6 GeV

calibration start
853 center on the top block(1440, 252),
854 center on the left block (1498, 347)
855 center on the right block (1382, 347)
calibration end

858 bad run

===========16GeV===================
862, ecal HV is using 8GeV setting: 760, 860, 880 bad run, all saturated
863, change ecal HV: 720, 820. 840, bad run, all saturated
864 bad run, all saturated
865, change ecal HV: 700 780,800 bad run, sdu#4 saturated
866, bad run, sdu#4 saturated
===========12GeV===================
867
868
869

870 motion table moved to (1429,315)
871

872 motion table moved to (1452,315)
873
874

875 motion table moved to (1461,315)
876

877 motion table moved to (1451,315)

878 coda has 2 events less than MWPC daq
879 coda has 3 events less than MWPC daq
880 coda crashed, no output file
881
882 bufferlevel=2

883

884 Moved motion table from (1451, 315) vertical down by 2mm to (1451,313)
885

886 Moved motion table vertical down by 5mm to (1451,308)
887

888 Moved motion table vertical down by 3mm to (1451,305)
889

890 Moved motion table vertical down by 2mm to (1451,303)

891
892
893
894
895

896 coda crashed. 17661 events, data is still good
897 coda crashed, no output file
898
899
900
901 MWPC daq not start
902

calibration start
903 Moved table to (1451, 239), center on the top block
904 Moved table to (1510, 334), center on the left block
905 Moved table to (1393, 334), center on the right block
calibration end

===================16GeV====================
beam still hitting the right block----------------------------
906|907 Ecal HV: 660 760 780,
908|909 Ecal HV: 700 780 800,
910|911 Ecal HV: 760 860 880, MCR start to shrink beam spot size

912|913 Ecal HV: 660 760 780,

914|915 Adjust Ecal HV, also Lower Preshower3 HV by 40V,
new HV: 1260 1280 640 760 760 1640 1480 1760,

916 Move table back to center----------------------------
917
918|919
920|921 Ecal HV: 620 700 720, beam hit center O
922|923 Move table, beam hit the Top block

MCR cfinished changing beam spot size
calibration start=========
924 Ecal HV: 620 680 720, Top block

925 Move table, beam hit the Left block
926 MWPC daq not synchronize
927

928 Move table, beam hit the Right block
929
calibration end =========

930 Move table, beam hit the center of 3 blocks
931
932
933
934
935
936
937
938 coda has 3 events less than MWPC daq
939 MWPC not run
940
941
942
943
944

===================2GeV====================
HVis set to :
SC1 SC2 Ecal1 Ecal2 Ecal3 PrSh1 PrSh2 PrSh3
-1260 -1280 -760 -860 -880 -1640 -1480 -1800

945
946
947
948 daq crashed, no data
949 only 863 events

950 - 969 production

===================4GeV====================
970
971
972
973

974 coda crashed, no output file

975 detector are below beam line, good for checking pedestal,
in run 975, Cherenkov raw signal are connected to FADC, previously we connected the logical signal after DSC
976 detector are below beam line, good for checking pedestal

977
978 Upstream cherenkov HV changed from 1700 to 1640

984 coda crashed, no output file

985

987 change coda latency from 100 to 150 to test daq.
988

989 change coda latency back to 100
991 trash

995 Changed Cherenkov HVs from (1640,1700,1700) to (1600,1740,1720) .
996 stopped with only one spill. Did not synchronize to MWPC daq
997

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PMT: Up, Outer, Inner
<=977: 1700,1700,1700
978-994: 1640,1700,1700
995-997: 1600, 1720, 1740
998|999: 1640, 1780, 1740
1000|1001: 1700, 1840, 1740
>=1002: 1740, 1880, 1740
/////////////////////////

998 HV: 1640, 1780, 1740. Only one spill. Stop to view event
999
1000 HV: 1700, 1840, 1740. Only one spill. Stop to view event
1001
1002 HV: 1740, 1880, 1740. Only two spill. Stop to view event
1003 MWPC has one event less than CODA
1004
1005 MWPC has one event more than CODA
1006
1007
1008

calibration start
1009 Moved table to (1505, 337), center on the left block 52034 events
1010 Moved table to (1389, 337), center on the right block 77621 events
1011 Moved table to (1447, 243), center on the top block
calibration end

===================8GeV====================
HV setting is
SC1 SC2 Ecal1 Ecal2 Ecal3 PrSh1 PrSh2 PrSh3
-1260 -1280 -760 -860 -880 -1640 -1480 -1800

-----------------------------------
these 3 runs can be used to calibrate HV setting of the above, which is also used in 1,2,4,6 GeV data

calibration start--------
1012 top block, saturated due to pile up
1013 left block, saturated due to pile up
1014 right block, saturated due to pile up
calibration end----------

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Change to the following from run 1015
-1260 -1280 -720 -820 -840 -1640 -1480 -1800

calibration start--------
1015,1016 right block,
1017 left block
1018 top block
calibration end----------

1019 Move motion table to the center of 3 blocks, point O
1020 coda crashed, part of the data is good
1021 coda crashed, part of the data is good
1022 coda crashed, no output
...
1028 MWPC has 2 more events than CODA
...
1031 MWPC has 3 more events than CODA
1032
1033 713306 events at coda. Coda has 1 event more than MWPC

==================10GeV====================
1034

==================1 GeV====================
1035
1036 events# 10027
1037 events# 10940
1038 with events 10794
1039 with events 12529
1040 with events 10982
1041 with events 12035

1042 1 GeV
1043 1 GeV
1044 junk run (missed first spill)
1045 1 GeV
1046 1 GeV
1047 1 GeV, out of sync at 23:04:11 CST (end of run)
1048 1 GeV
1049 1 GeV, off by 2 events at 23:46:50 CST
1050 1 GeV
1051 1 GeV
1052 1 GeV
1053 1 GeV
1054 1 GeV
1054 289234 events
1055 308115 events
1056 28310 events
==================2 GeV====================

1057 MWPC has 321476 events, but CODA ended with 321477 events, CODA has one more event. This one extra event was added when I clicked "End" on CODA. Might not be a problem, need to check. <<----confirmed by Alex that the last extra event of coda will not be written into the output file.
1058 MWPC has 367897 events, CODA ended with 367898 events. The same reason as 1057.
1059 MWPC 356721 events, CODA ended with one more event (356722). . The same reason as 1057.
1060 MWPC 316666 events, CODA ended with 316667 event. The same reason as 1057.
1061 MWPC 233967 events, CODA ended with 233967 events.

==================6 GeV====================
1062
1063 requested lower rate after 5 spills
1064
1065

==================10 GeV====================
HV setting is:
HV for FADC channel 0 to 7:
SC1 SC2 Ecal1 Ecal2 Ecal3 PrSh1 PrSh2 PrSh3
-1260 -1280 -720 -820 -840 -1640 -1480 -1800

1066
1067
1068
1069