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Wed, 5.08.2026 15:04:13 |
K. Wojcik | Pb test run settings | |
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296
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Wed, 5.08.2026 15:03:03 |
K. Wojcik | Final settings for Be run | Beam counters:
[LIST]
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295
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Wed, 29.07.2026 19:40:38 |
M. Quintieri | Beam settings for Be run | |
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294
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Thu, 23.07.2026 20:20:45 |
Aleksandr Dmitriev | Settings for p + LNT Long @ 15GeV/c | |
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293
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Thu, 16.07.2026 14:04:09 |
MQ | A new trim scan after beam tuning by Govanni | |
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292
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Tue, 14.07.2026 23:10:04 |
Yuliia Balkova, Bartosz Maksiak | Count recovery | YB: Around 19:20, Giovanni came to try to
focus our beam better. After half an hour
of unsuccessful attempts, he resigned and |
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291
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Sun, 12.07.2026 16:42:56 |
BM, AD, YB | Trim scan 15 GeV/c | |
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290
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Sun, 12.07.2026 14:32:19 |
Michael Quintieri | p@15 GeV CEDAR Scan | Central value of proton peak: 8.85 bar. |
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289
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Fri, 10.07.2026 11:20:17 |
S. Pulawski | S3 at p13GeV/c preparation scans | |
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288
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Thu, 19.03.2026 14:25:49 |
K. Wojcik, A. Shukla | pp run 2026 - after beam retuning: | Beam was retuned upstream, so counters needed
to be aligned. It improved T2/T1. CEDAR was
also realigned. No new pressure scan needed.
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287
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Sat, 14.03.2026 15:45:43 |
K. Wojcik | pp run 2026: starting physics, field ON setup | CEDAR:
- pressure: 10.371 [bar]
- diaphragm: 0.149 [mm]
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286
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Fri, 13.03.2026 09:43:20 |
K. Wojcik | pp run 2026: preparation | |
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285
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Thu, 12.03.2026 13:26:36 |
K. Wojcik | pp run 2026: CEDAR scan | Diaphragm: 0.149 mm
PRESS TRIGG 6-FOLD |
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284
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Sun, 30.11.2025 12:29:47 |
K. Wojcik | Pb 2025 run setup | [B]Material in counters:[/B]
[LIST]
[*] S1: quartz, 80 x 80 x 2 mm
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10x |
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283
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Sat, 29.11.2025 15:29:20 |
K. Wojcik | Pb 2025 run prepatarion | Sun, 30.11.2025 12:15:03 We had a lot of tuning
and scans yesterday.
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10x |
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282
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Sun, 23.11.2025 13:14:48 |
K. Wojcik | S5 beam scan | Sun, 23.11.2025 13:16:09 S5 X position (field
OFF) -280.9 mm.
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281
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Sun, 9.11.2025 00:01:17 |
K. Wojcik | HL proton run 300 GeV - setup in the middle of the run | HV settings:
S1_1, S1_2, S1_3 S1_4: 2200V (negative)
S2: 800 V (negative)
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280
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Sun, 26.10.2025 19:01:28 |
K. Wojcik | Preparation for proton run | 1. S4: I repaired position measure now it
doesn't block and bend anymore. Scintillator
was pushed off the lightguide. I attached |
15x |
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279
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Sat, 5.07.2025 12:24:51 |
K. Wojcik | fragmentation run 2025 preparaions | Sat, 5.07.2025 12:25:00 I was asked by AD
to lower S4 HV, because maximum threshold
was not high enough. It was 1550, now it |
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278
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Sun, 29.06.2025 13:42:55 |
Sk SP KW | Target out - in scan | Position of S2 on beam 85.1 mm
Oxygen run
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277
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Thu, 19.06.2025 20:31:18 |
Y. Balkova | How to calculate beam momentum | 1. Give Nikos currents on BEND02 and 03, ask
for BL [T*m] ("There is a formula with parameters."
(c) Nikos) Example: for both currents around |
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276
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Tue, 3.06.2025 09:52:39 |
K. Wojcik, Y. Balkova | Beam tuning @ neutrino run 2025 | protons 120 GeV/c
S3, S3' and S4 has POSITIVE polarisation
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14x |
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275
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Mon, 25.11.2024 11:36:06 |
Y. Balkova, K. Wojcik | Beam and counters during fragmentation run 2024 | Mon, 25.11.2024 setting up for the fragmentation
run
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274
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Thu, 21.11.2024 21:48:28 |
K. Wojcik | Pb run 2024 - Significant beam tuning | Beam angle tuned (position on BPD1 moved more
than 10mm).
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273
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Mon, 4.11.2024 16:49:29 |
K. Wojcik | S3 PM replacement and position scan | Mon, 4.11.2024 16:39:12 After turning on
magnetic field, we lost S3 signal. PM was
replaced for the small one (the same as during |
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272
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Wed, 30.10.2024 18:17:03 |
Y. Balkova | Beam and counters during Pb run 2024 | Wed, 30.10.2024: Pb run preparation began.
S4 removed from beam.
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271
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Sat, 19.10.2024 19:52:47 |
Y. Balkova | Beam and counters during pi+C run 2024 | 16.10.2024 V1 movement and HV connected and
tested
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21x |
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270
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Mon, 22.07.2024 15:02:48 |
K. Wojcik | Beam tuning | 22.07.2024 V0 HV raised to 980V. PP added
active splitter (better signal shape) and
changed discriminator (lower threshold).
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270
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Mon, 22.07.2024 15:02:48 |
K. Wojcik | Beam tuning | 22.07.2024 V0 HV raised to 980V. PP added
active splitter (better signal shape) and
changed discriminator (lower threshold).
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269
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Sat, 6.07.2024 14:52:01 |
Y. Balkova | Beam and counters during neutrino run 2024 | [B]S1[/B]: Was installed and HV tested. Piotr
and I opened S1 box on evening of July 5th,
because the counts were too low. It appeared |
12x |
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269
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Sat, 6.07.2024 14:52:01 |
Y. Balkova | Beam and counters during neutrino run 2024 | [B]S1[/B]: Was installed and HV tested. Piotr
and I opened S1 box on evening of July 5th,
because the counts were too low. It appeared |
12x |
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268
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Fri, 13.10.2023 22:48:01 |
K. Wojcik | BPD2 removed | BPD2 removed from the beamline 12-10-2023
at 9:19 am. |
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267
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Sat, 30.09.2023 17:23:19 |
| Pb test settings | Channel 1 = S1
channel 2 = V1 |
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266
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Tue, 8.08.2023 15:46:09 |
Y. Balkova | Lessons learned | [B]Never ever trust anyone again![/B]
When the beam configuration changes:
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8x |
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265
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Wed, 2.08.2023 21:16:21 |
Y.Balkova | Beam tuning p@120 GeV | After the THC scan, the pressure was set to
0.87 bar.
[LINE]
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7x |
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264
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Fri, 28.07.2023 21:26:02 |
Y. Balkova | Fluctuating beam position in Y | Several last days we had a problem with beam
fluctuating in Y direction. First, Nikos
blamed the power supplies for the several |
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263
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Wed, 26.07.2023 22:41:12 |
Y. Balkova | Beam tuning K@60 GeV | Wed, 26.07.2023 22:41:27 YB: After the magnets
were ramped back up and MD was finished,
I began to tune the beam around 19:00. The |
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262
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Tue, 25.07.2023 18:23:43 |
K. Wojcik | CEDAR scan p 120 GeV | PRESS TRIGG 6-FOLD
7-FOLD 8-FOLD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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261
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Mon, 24.07.2023 21:56:24 |
K. Wojcik | Cedar scan 90GeV/c protons | PRESS TRIGG 6-FOLD
7-FOLD 8-FOLD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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260
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Sun, 23.07.2023 02:37:34 |
K. Wojcik | Beam after Nikos tuned it | 22.07.2023 - Nikos tuned the beam perfectly.
Cedar alignment was done and diaphragm was
set to 3 mm (read value: 2.835). Quick pressure |
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259
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Wed, 19.07.2023 11:15:06 |
K. Wojcik | Beam tunning | Wed, 19.07.2023 11:16:01 After beam retunning
on the accelerator site (wobbling was changed),
we need to retune it as well. Scans started.
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258
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Tue, 18.07.2023 12:09:40 |
K. Wojcik | Beam tuning | The beam has moved this night, so it needs
to be trimmed.
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257
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Mon, 17.07.2023 17:15:37 |
K. Wojcik | THC scan - looks better | After Inaki's intervention scan looks better.
However, the kaon step is barely visible
Mon, 17.07.2023 20:45:50 I made skanfor Yoshikazu |
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256
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Fri, 14.07.2023 12:31:35 |
K. Wojcik | THC scan - not successfull | Fri, 14.07.2023 12:35:11 THC scan finished,
but it is does not look as I expected (thcNew1.png)
<- it was only total efficienty in very wide |
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255
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Fri, 7.07.2023 17:26:05 |
S. Pulawski | Cedar and THC scans scan 60GeV/c | ELOG with 2015 trigger monitor screenshots:
[URL=http://na61-elog.cern.ch/Shift+logbook/1423]link[/URL]
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254
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Fri, 7.07.2023 10:55:59 |
K. Wojcik | Neutrino run 2023 - CEDAR scan | Fri, 7.07.2023 10:56:14 Cedar scan completed
within the range 1.4 - 1.9 bar. Need to extend
the upper limit to 2.1. Starting the new |
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253
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Thu, 6.07.2023 09:08:19 |
K. Wojcik | Neutrino run 2023 CEDAR scan issue | Thu, 6.07.2023 09:19:17 Cedar scan not finished
by night. Pressure got stuck at 3.6 bar (scanning
from 3.8 to 1 bar)
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252
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Wed, 16.11.2022 13:33:24 |
T.Czopowicz | Test entry | Piotr asked me to check, weatcher I can ad
stuff here... |
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251
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Fri, 16.11.2018 19:14:19 |
A. Marcinek | Pb at 150A GeV/c beam retuning by Nikos : focus in XZ | Att. 1 - settings
Att. 2 - 4 - the beam |
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250
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Tue, 13.11.2018 00:55:50 |
A. Marcinek | Pb at 150A GeV/c beam tuning | Att. 1 - 3 - after taking over from Nikos
Att. 4 - 6 - after beam tuning
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7x |
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249
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Tue, 6.11.2018 18:30:32 |
Yuliia Balkova, Kamil Wojcik | Beam tuning for target-in | Tue, 6.11.2018 18:32:04 The best beam position
ever in this run |
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248
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Sun, 4.11.2018 12:53:51 |
K. Wojcik | Radiation alarms | Due to low beam intensity collimators were
opened last time the beam was tuned. It caused
radiation alarms. Investigating.
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247
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Sun, 4.11.2018 11:48:58 |
Nikolaos Charitonidis | Beam | Dears,
I was called by the CCC that very high radiation |
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246
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Sun, 4.11.2018 00:39:35 |
K. Wojcik | Beam tining | Sun, 4.11.2018 00:47:12 Beam tuned. |
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245
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Thu, 1.11.2018 19:50:47 |
Yuliia Balkova, Kamil Wojcik | Beam tuning 1.11.2018 | Thu, 1.11.2018 19:51:32 Beam tuning started
Thu, 1.11.2018 21:15:40 I guess Brant is
satisfied
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244
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Mon, 23.07.2018 21:48:01 |
K.Wojcik | Beam tunning - noise around beam | After moving target out there's some "noise"
around beam.
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243
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Thu, 12.07.2018 14:39:51 |
K.Wojcik | Tunnung beam spot size - success | Beam is tuned:
-first absorber is in the beam (XCON.021.026
Pb 4mm)
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242
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Wed, 11.07.2018 23:52:04 |
K.Wojcik | Tunnung beam spot size | Wed, 11.07.2018 23:52:10
I've been doing this for about 3 hours. It
is impossible to make it with collimators |
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241
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Sun, 8.07.2018 00:42:15 |
K. Wojcik | Bad beam after 23:00 7.07.2018 | Sun, 8.07.2018 00:50:14
Doors were open. Beam was shifted a little
in YZ plane. Tunning...
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240
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Sat, 7.07.2018 17:21:54 |
K. Wojcik | CEDAR scan h+ beam @120 - USNA61 run | PRESS TRIGG 6-FOLD
7-FOLD 8-FOLD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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239
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Fri, 27.04.2018 11:26:25 |
E. Kaptur | Hadrons at 120 GeV/c - PSD Callibration | |
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238
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Thu, 26.04.2018 00:26:51 |
E. Kaptur | Hadrons at 80 GeV/c - PSD Callibration | |
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237
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Wed, 25.04.2018 23:21:59 |
E. Kaptur | Hadrons at 40 GeV/c - PSD Callibration | |
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236
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Thu, 7.12.2017 14:00:57 |
E. Kaptur | Xe+La at 13A GeV/c | |
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235
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Wed, 29.11.2017 13:03:55 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 40 AGeV/c : first beam tuning | Att. 1 - 3 - after taking over from Nikos
Att. 4 - Upstream reference beam positions
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9x |
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234
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Sat, 25.11.2017 13:07:49 |
E. Kaptur, A. Marcinek | S2 scan | S2 to 67.5 mm |
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233
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Sat, 25.11.2017 11:20:56 |
E.Kaptur | Beam Spill Structure | 131
1.0 18.0
2.0 28.0
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232
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Tue, 21.11.2017 13:18:11 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 30 AGeV/c : adjustments | 21.11.2017 about 6:30 AM: After access beam
moved by 8mm on BPD1y. Tuned BEND03 222.6
-> 223.3
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231
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Mon, 20.11.2017 13:32:03 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 30 AGeV/c : first beam tuning | Att. 1 Upstream reference beam positions
Att. 2 - 4 - After taking over from Nikos
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8x |
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230
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Tue, 14.11.2017 00:43:10 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 19 AGeV/c : day 1 | 14.11.2017 00:57:37 AM: BEND03 141.7 -> 141.2
(about 0.4 shift on BPD1)
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6x |
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229
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Mon, 13.11.2017 15:51:21 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 19 AGeV/c : first beam tuning | Att 1 - 3: final words of Nikos for now. Maybe
he will still try to move the focus from
BPD2/S2 to the target. Anyway I take over |
11x |
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228
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Fri, 10.11.2017 13:13:51 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 75 AGeV/c : day 3 to day 7 | 8.11.2017 21:30 AM: BEND03 561.5 -> 561.0,
TRIM05 5 -> 7, BEND6 -483 -> -482
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225
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Tue, 7.11.2017 02:10:20 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 75 AGeV/c : day 2 | 7.11.2017 02:10:23 AM: beam moved upstream
causing T4/T1 to raise. BEND03 562.8 -> 562.0
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224
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Mon, 6.11.2017 17:45:40 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 75 AGeV/c : first beam tuning | Att. 1 - beam on beamline chambers (upstream
ones are important as reference)
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6x |
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223
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Sun, 5.11.2017 14:09:43 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 14 | 5.11.2017 14:10:49 AM: Realigned on analog
wire chamber upstream: BEND03 1135 -> 1131,
TRIM05 -115 -> -55 |
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222
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Tue, 31.10.2017 14:28:06 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 9 | 1:40 Beam shifted to -0.32, tuned TRIM05 to
-18
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221
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Mon, 30.10.2017 17:39:44 |
E. Kaptur, A. Marcinek | S2 scan | Moved S2 up by 7mm to 62.1mm
[IMG]elog:221/1[/IMG] |
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220
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Mon, 30.10.2017 15:10:21 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 8 | In a meeting with Karel and Nikos we decided
that the fault is in the beamline
(maybe thermal instability of bends) so we |
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219
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Sun, 29.10.2017 08:41:07 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 7 | 29.10.2017 08:41:03 AM: The beam is off in
BPD3y: -0.21 and too high in XWCA.021.387
~ 2-5 mm.
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218
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Sat, 28.10.2017 14:15:42 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 6 | After many hours managed to retune the beam
and bring back stable conditions.
According to Nikos we should not try to compensate |
9x |
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217
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Thu, 26.10.2017 20:32:41 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 4 | Intensity scan att. 1 - we stay at 150k -
below saturation - for safety of VD and to
be sure that we don't screw up PSD measurememt. |
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216
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Wed, 25.10.2017 21:48:05 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 3 | Moved beam on the nominal position - att.
1 - 3, (4 & 5 - zooms)
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215
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Tue, 24.10.2017 21:25:04 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : day 2 | We realized that the spill structure is ~flat
upstream (XSCI.021.131), but gets worse downstream
(att. 5). So the conclusion was that beam |
6x |
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214
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Tue, 24.10.2017 01:26:24 |
A. Marcinek | Xe at 150 AGeV/c : initial settings | Initial settings by Nikos - att. 1 - 3 - the
focus is in a wrong place, but the beam is
so narrow that it is irrelevant (for now); |
8x |
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213
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Wed, 18.10.2017 18:29:01 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : new settings from Nikos | Setting 1 - att. 1 - 4 : disaster
Setting 2 - att. 5 - 8 : another disaster
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16x |
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212
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Sat, 14.10.2017 20:54:28 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : attempt on data taking efficiency optimization x 2 continued | Setting 13 - going back to setting 10 with
opened collimators - att. 1 - 3 - no significant
change in beam shape despite going 10 times |
7x |
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211
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Sat, 14.10.2017 17:25:14 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : attempt on data taking efficiency optimization x 2 | [COLOR=red]S1 trigger by cable switch + taking
out V1 from CAMAC readout [/COLOR]
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50x |
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210
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Fri, 13.10.2017 19:12:00 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : attempt on data taking efficiency optimization | New file .201. - att 1, 2
Nikos thought that the beam envelope plots |
9x |
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209
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Fri, 13.10.2017 16:52:25 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : attempt on proton content optimization | Att. 1 - yesterdays settings, but S1=400k
- i.e. no absorber, default B1, thick primary
target
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16x |
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208
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Thu, 12.10.2017 20:48:09 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c: bringing back parallel beam | Att. 1 - last "focused beam" settings save
Moved to "parallel beam" (Att. 2 - 4)
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207
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Thu, 12.10.2017 15:21:00 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c: trigger rates | Att. 1 - target IN - T2/T1 = 4.37 %
Att. 2 - target OUT - T2/T1 = 0.92 % |
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206
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Thu, 12.10.2017 09:35:19 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c: CEDAR and trim scans | We have roughly 10% protons, 1.7% kaons and
88% pions.
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205
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Tue, 10.10.2017 21:34:36 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : attempt 2 | After long tuning by Nikos to reduce beam
size at our detectors |
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204
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Tue, 10.10.2017 11:13:34 |
A. Marcinek | p at 40 GeV/c : attempt 1 | First reduced COLLs 7-10 to -5:5 from -10:10
to reduce S1 count from 600k to 160k
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7x |
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203
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Fri, 1.09.2017 15:13:37 |
E. Kaptur | p at 120 GeV/c | |
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202
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Fri, 1.09.2017 15:12:03 |
E. Kaptur | p at 90 GeV/c | pi - 37% |
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201
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Wed, 16.08.2017 18:47:36 |
E. Kaptur | Pi- at 60 GeV/c | Beam from CERN after angle and position corrections:
Att 1, Att 2.
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10x |
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200
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Sat, 5.08.2017 01:54:47 |
E. Kaptur | pi+ at 60 GeV/c | [IMG]elog:200/2[/IMG][IMG]elog:200/1[/IMG] |
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199
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Mon, 19.06.2017 23:11:56 |
E. Kaptur, S. Pulawski | p + Pb @ 30 GeV/c | [IMG]elog:199/3[/IMG][IMG]elog:199/2[/IMG][IMG]elog:199/1[/IMG] |
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198
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Tue, 6.12.2016 03:56:03 |
S.Pulawski, E.Kaptur | Pb+Pb at 150A GeV/c | Intensity is low. |
9x |