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The SLAC End Station A Test Beam (ESTB) was re-establishing in 2014 to take small fraction of SLAC LCLS beams into End Station test beam line. The operation is largely parasitic to the LCLS operations with electron beams in the 5-13 GeV range depending on the LCLS operation energy. From the FACET/ESTB portal, you can navigate to info on proposals, new user registrations etc. ESTB beam schedule mostly just follow the LCLS Run schedule. The CALADIUM EUDET telescope owned by Carleton University has been installed at the end of ESTB as a precision tracking telescope with 6 planes of CMOS/MIMOSA sensors (1152x576 18.4x18.4um pixels) with ~3 micron spatial resolution. User Device Under Test (DUT) can be mounted on a movable stage in the middle of the telescope. For ATLAS pixel test beam users, a HSIO2/RCE based DUT readout will be provided as a standard readout utility.
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- Start chiller: 18 Celsius
- Switch on power supply: 8V constant --> check 2.0 A
- Switch on NI crate and TLU
1. Start sensors
- Remote access to NI crate:
-- Open Terminal
-- source access_NI_crate.sh
-- Login: telescope PWD: telescope-
- Start MI26.exe (upper icon on the NI crate Desktop)
-- Open .mcf threshold file, typically 6 (CALADIUM config files are in C:\opt\mimosas\config_files)
-- Press "Reset" --> 2.0 Amps
-- Press "All" --> 2.8 Amps
-- Press "Read" --> 2.8 Amps
-- Press "Start" --> check 3.6 Amps
2. Open Labview FPGA interface on NI crate, if not already open
- Double click MimosaDAQ (second upper icon on the Desktop)
3. Start EUDAQ on AR-EUDAQ:
- Open a second Terminal
- cd eudaq (points to /opt/install/eudaq/eudaq-1.5-dev)
- ./STARTRUN
- wait approx. 20 sec. until all Connections are green (OK)
4. Open TLUproducer on NI crate
- Double click start_EUDAQ_tlu (fourthbottom icon on the Desktop), a blank terminal pops up
--> check in eudaq Run Control, that Produce TLU is connected
5. Start DUT data producer(s) if not running telescope by itself.
For standard RCE based DUT readout, this should be just starting rceOfflineProducer on esadutdaq1.
6. Configure EUDAQ in eudaq Run Control
- select Config file (Caladium only exercise config: no-beam: ni_autotrig; beam: ni_coins)
- Press Config
- wait till all Connections are green (OK)
7. Start Run
- Press Start (wait till all green)
--> check, that Trigger and Event Built numbers are increasing
--> check OnlineMonitor, and reset (upper left x-button)
8. Stop
- Re-configure (5.) and Re-Run (6.)
OR
- Terminate and press "Reset" in MI26.exe at NI crate to stop sensors --> check 2.0 Amps
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