HPTPC meeting 24/01/19
Attendees: Deisting, Brailsford, Atkin, Richie-Yates, Dunne, Nonnenmacher, Hamacher-Baumann ,Jones, Valder, Haigh, Kaboth
Working group reports
ccd
- Plan to add spark cut to cfg file
- Bias subtraction written (as last week)
- Next steps are to write event processor to extract bias frames
waveform
- Test event processor written and working in principle
- Already able to check amplitudes and baselines
- Risetime need debugging
- Gaussian smoothing implemented but needs debugging
- Working on porting XMLs to mySQL. This information will then be stored in the waveforms
global
- MySQL hooked up with RAPtorr now
- Ed has granted access to the DBs from linapp3
- Now able to proceed with interrogating the spill DB to make spill events
HPTPC instrument paper
- Descriptions of the detector have progressed
- Data analysis sections need filling in but rely on results yet to be made
- February deadline for completing non-results sections + skeleton of results
- Missing sections to be discussed offline
Beam flux paper
- Developing structure for S4 section
- S1-S3 development work being chased up
Talk by Seb on proton/pion ratios in S4 (related to beam flux paper)
- S1-S4 time distribution has double peak structure for protons
- A. Korzenev’s plot for the utof does not have this structure and the proton/pion peaks separate for different moderator blocks
- Plan to reproduce Korzenev’s plot and get in contact with him
- proton/mip peak seen in the horizontal direction across S4. Need to verify which off-axis position this corresponds to
Next RAPtorr workshop
- Due to teaching constraints, term-time workshops are constrained to London
- Too many collaborator constraints in Feb so early March looking most likely
- Doodle poll to fill out. Please fill it out!
- Budget constraints for many people
- Patrick will ask Morgan about budgets
New meeting time
- Will be 12:00 -> 13:00 on Fridays as a trial
BTTB7 workshop debrief
- Talk well received
- Outlined FNAL test beam facility with energies in the range relevant for x-sec measurements
- Attendees impressed with the speed at which the HPTPC was setup, commissioned and shipped
- Interested parties in the HPTPC DAQ