This page collects information about the SLAC involvement in the read-out of the Cathode Strip Chambers, which is one of ATLAS's four muon systems and designed to provide precision measurements in the forward region.
Documentation
Collection of original CSC ROD Documents
NRC (New ROD Complex) Twiki page
RCE development Lab Twiki at CERN
Initial Gen-III RCE training workshop (May/02/2014)
Commissioning
CSC Readout Commissioning Week July 2014 (C2)
CSC Readout Commissioning Week June 2014 (C1)
Workshops and Reviews
CSC Readout Replacement Conceptual Design Review (Oct/2012)
NRC design working meeting (CERN, Jan/2013)
Record of some operation issues in April/2011
Date | Time | Run | E-log | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
26/4/11 | 00:30 | 188242 | CSC link lock failed for CSC EC sectors 2,12 in run 188242 | ||
23/4/11 | 12:08 |
| Replaced SPU B0 in ROD slot A06: fixes data integrity for Sector A02 Layer 1 |
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21/4/11 | 21:03 | 180124 | CSC related DAQ (monitoring) issues (CSC ADC time spikes and fit fail flag not propagating upwards ?) | ||
20/4/11 | 18:41 |
| high rate test of CSC DPU code modification | ||
18/4/11 | 12:41 |
| Change in OKS database (CSC main controlled moved from private machine to online machine) | ||
13/4/11 | 19:08 |
| CSC high rate test (busy 4.5% @ 75Khz after initial confusion of a hot channel) | ||
5/4/11 | 17:18 | 178992 | CSC errors during run 178992 | ||
1/4/11 | 7:59 |
| OHP (large fraction of bad data - due to A01-02 losing HV) |