The document provides information about features of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF) including:
1) It describes several key monitors in the FTBF control room used for running tests and ensuring DAQ is working properly.
2) It explains the differences between test beam (TB) operations, which use hadron beams, and MiniBooNE detector (MD) operations, which use neutrinos.
3) It provides details on how scintillators, gates, CRIM, CROCS, and other hardware are used to detect particles and convert signals to ROOT n-tuple files for analysis.
4) It discusses optimizing sub-runs to balance setup time and number of gates for
The document provides information about features of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF) including:
1) It describes several key monitors in the FTBF control room used for running tests and ensuring DAQ is working properly.
2) It explains the differences between test beam (TB) operations, which use hadron beams, and MiniBooNE detector (MD) operations, which use neutrinos.
3) It provides details on how scintillators, gates, CRIM, CROCS, and other hardware are used to detect particles and convert signals to ROOT n-tuple files for analysis.
4) It discusses optimizing sub-runs to balance setup time and number of gates for
The document provides information about features of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF) including:
1) It describes several key monitors in the FTBF control room used for running tests and ensuring DAQ is working properly.
2) It explains the differences between test beam (TB) operations, which use hadron beams, and MiniBooNE detector (MD) operations, which use neutrinos.
3) It provides details on how scintillators, gates, CRIM, CROCS, and other hardware are used to detect particles and convert signals to ROOT n-tuple files for analysis.
4) It discusses optimizing sub-runs to balance setup time and number of gates for
To do a Shift there, follow the instructions in the DocDB 10682:
"Minerva_TB_Manual.pdf". MAIN QUESTIONS & ISSUES: 1)Understand all monitors in the Control-Room (Also how to make sure DAQ is working). 2)What is a Pedestal & what a LI? 3)How to convert RAW to DST? 4)Difference between TB & MD working mechanisms? 5)What the Test-Beam does and measures? 6)CRIM & CROCS at the FTBF. 7)Run-->Subrun--->Gates. Death Times. 8)Root-Manual wrote by Anne Norrick. 9)Difference between HV & TripXACQ?
AFZB, 02/25
Pedestals--->to analyze electric-noise from the FEBs.
LI (Light-Injection)--->To detect failures in the scintillators.
OBS: Pedestals can be made during 2 beam-spills
because during that times no events are generated so the status of the electronic devices can be studied by analyzing their noise-distribution.
Some monitors in the Control-Room
Elog--->The 1st thing to do when doing a Shift.
Run-Control
When the Run-Control is running, the monitor for the SC
shows:
PMT HV Distribution
Counter & Beam-Status Monitor
Arachne-monitor: To see tracks of particles
Minerva Counters Monitor
Differences TB & MD
TB: Uses a Beam of Hadrons (& some electrons, depending on the
energy-range). MD:Uses the neutrino NuMI Beam. At the TB: Protons from the Main Injector (120GeV) collide on Al-Target and then the beam is bent with the aid of magnetic-fields, and collimator are used to select specific values of P (momentum) related to the Radius of Curvature of that Beam. The collimated beam (with fixed P) has many particles (mainly hadrons). At very low-Enery (1.5-2Gev) we have 70% of electrons in that collimated beam. As the energy increases we have less electrons but more protons. The electrons are harder to identity by muons because they can be captured by atoms. At the TB-detector, we have really few neutrinos (most of them are cosmic).
Controlled Access--->Radiation % Safety Division is
in charge of this. Inside the Control-Room we are safe (when the beam is ON).
Scintilliator---->Light is delivered to the PMTs, there
the photoelectric effect & the CW permits to convert Light--->Q. In a Gate: We have a given amount of Charge at a given time. CRIM: Controls Times & Gates. We have 3 CROCs beside the CRIM, for each CROC there are up to 4 CHAINS (=channel-1) & for each CHAIN up to 5 FEBs. CROCs---->Deliver a Binary File (RAW) to the PC, this file has to be decoded by a Shell-Script (Based on GAUDI-framework): Binary File--------->Root-File & n-tuple (series of events, for each event time & charged are stored).
Scintilliator---->Light is delivered to the PMTs, there
the photoelectric effect & the CW permits to convert Light--->Q. In a Gate: We have a given amount of Charge at a given time. CRIM: Controls Times & Gates. We have 3 CROCs beside the CRIM, for each CROC there are up to 4 CHAINS (=channel-1) & for each CHAIN up to 5 FEBs. CROCs---->Deliver a Binary File (RAW) to the PC, this file has to be decoded by a Shell-Script (Based on GAUDI-framework): Binary File--------->Root-File & n-tuple (series of events, for each event time & charged are stored).
TB-CRATE
The longer the Sub-Run---->The longer it takes
to set-up (Death-Time) but we have more Gates. We can reduce the # of gates per SubRun but we will need more Sub-Runs and in between there are many Gaps (each contributes a specific Death-Time). For this reason, an OPTIMUM value is needed: ~ 3'000 Gates/Subrun. Order: Run--->Sub-Run--->Gate.
About the Slow-Control
Here one can analyze the Hardware
downloading some specific-Files (in the Manual they are specified). Some numbers: 5(Trip-T chip), 3(FEB), 2(Channel=Chain+1), 3(CROCE), 0(CRATE) in that order can be read to specify a piece of hardware. There is an option where we find a specific order in which some numbers have to appear(shown in the next slide), otherwise there is a problem.