Schedule
Mon May/21: Installation of EUDAQ 1.7, which last chance to test inside tunnel.
Tue May/22: Caladium to be removed from tunnel due to invasive beam experiment before us.
May/23-28: Caladium parked inside ESA outside beamline but powered on and connected to allow continued new DUT software integration.
Tue May/29: Caladium reinstallation in beamline. New user in person training. DUT setup can start
Wed May/30: DUT installation and integration. Potential first beam.
May/31-Jun/5: Formal run period.
Tue Jun/5: Beam off at 9am.
Event Log
May/7
Test period formally allocated for May/31-Jun/4, which is the very last period before LCLS beam summer shutdown (until Sep/2018) to give as much time as possible to prepare the setup for the RD53A module. 3 other experiments are scheduled before us and some of them are rather invasive so that the Caladium telescope will be removed from the tunnel which we have to reinstall just before our period.
May/9
The experiment before our session will end on Monday May/28 so that dismantling that experiment and moving Caladium back into beam line may already start on at least Tuesday May/29. So we need to be prepared to jump on setup in ESA for Tuesday May/29 already. For regular run periods, Wednesday is normally off for machine development but for this last period of the LCLS Run 16, there is no MD so that we may potentially have ESTB beam already for Wednesday May/31. The whole session ends on Tuesday Jun/5 at 9am.
May/21
Ben is building EUDET 1.7 release on ar-eudaq. It needs various associated software utility updates, such as gcc. Compiling is taking rather long...
/home/tfuser/data space on ar-eudaq is effectively a new directory but inherited the same runnumber series. Older data (taken with 1.5-dev release) are moved to /home/tfuser/data_before_May2018. A new test data directory is created as /home/tfuser/test_root to hold the prompt offline processed data such as test root files which also has a before_May2018 subdirectory for older test files.
Checked out at ESA. Current experiment on shower radio signal detection is ongoing through the night. They are sensitive to other electrical noise, so that the tunnel florescence lights are turned off and no access until 3am. Driving Caladium parasitically can be another source of noise. Decided to not disturb the experiment and try to look at what we can do by 8am when they are done.
The NI crate remained on but login to it has a prompt complaining "JTAG software might be incompatible with the earlier version of the DAQ software Version 2.0 (compiled Sep 28 2011)". Not sure if this mattered.
May/22
Caladium and electronics rack are lifted off the ESTB tunnel and placed on ESA floor just behind the orange network racks for continuing EUDAQ software update tests. Yubo and SD reconnected the Caladium and managed to start Run at some point with ni_autortrig mode which was seeing "particle" (auto trigger) counters going up but no actual trigger or event build. After that, even NI_MIMOSA process would get stuck in config. Ben's 1.7 release build was successful with the exception of the online monitoring which required ROOT6 while building ROOT6 apparently requires the node with full internet access which ar-eudaq does not. We still have easy ESA access for 1-2 days until the next experiment starts.
May/23
Retested Caladium auto trigger run without touching the hardware. This time it just worked all the way through. Not clear what made the difference. Just he cold start of MIMOSA DAQ ?