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CALICE WHCAL testbeam at SPS H8
• 27 sep – 03 oct: 6 days for energies up to 180 GeV (+
polarity)
Setup
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TCMT:Steel/scintillator-strip sandwich calorimeter with 16 layers (~5.5 λ)
Current HCAL setup has 38 W layers.Including active material this is ~4.8 λ
Repairs before the run
• Week before the run, Ivo Polak came to help tune the Calibration and Monitoring Board #20– Six boards however have to be taken out to reach
#20. – After tuning we retested all all OK.
• Weekend before the run, Kurt Francis helped with the tailcatcher– MIPs for TCMT strips– Gains– Mapping problem
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TCMT mapping
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TCMT mapping
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Best guess why the map is wrong: there are 2 different boxes for cabling
TCMT mapping - fixed
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Muon samples
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For MIP calibration and TCMT mapping:In the days before & after our beam time, we scanned the full surface in 9 positions. > 200k muons in each position.
High energy hadron program
Got help from Ilias & Simon on better beam files
Took 200k events at:• 180, 150, 120, 100 GeV
(secondary beam)Took 400k events at:• 180, 150, 120, 100 GeV
(tertiary beam)
Took 4M events at 60 and 4M at 80 GeV: ~ 100.000 Kaon events at each energy.
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Secondary beam runsSeptember vs July
Low energy program
Friday 6 pm - Saturday 8 am: got wobbling set to 50 GeV (with 80 GeV for ATLAS in H6)
• Pion samples (200k each) at 30 & 50 GeV• Electron samples (200k each) at 15, 20 and 30 GeV
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• For the electron runs at 15 & 20 GeV, took sample with & without all scintillators along the beamline
Perhaps an explanation for the long tails we see in June/July samples.
With scint.Without scint.
Problems during run
Saturday morning TCMT 1B started drawing high current on the SiPM. • Replaced total FE board Did not help. • Other monitoring tools looked fine did not touch it anymore.
Forgot to restart LEDs at this point• 3 gain runs (2 days) are empty.
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For three runs layer #33 suddenly gave too many hits and too high energy response.• Do not know why…
Restarted these runs.• Not related to LEDs being
off, it also happened a day before TCMT problem.
Conclusion
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• Beam operation went well, got help for better focussing.
• Detector repairs before run were successful• Some malfunctioning during run:
– TCMT 1B– Layer #33
• We completed full 2011 program.– 11 M events in pion runs.– 2.2 M events in dedicated muon runs.– 1.1 M events in electron runs.
Temperatures• From the T3B team we got a device with 21 Pt_1000
temperature sensors, easily read out via USB.• Placed these on a 1 m2 aluminium plate slided in the free
slot #39;Goal is to obtain temperature profile over the surface, vs time.
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We see the day/night fluctuations, but variations among sensors is max 0.6 °C.• The free slot might be too
far from electronics
We’re repeating this measurement now in slot #20.
Backup
TCMT Front End board 39B
Saturday morning TCMT 1B started drawing high current on the SiPM.• Unplugged all cables• Replaced several FE chips
Nothing worked. After this, could also not configure chips anymore.
Replaced total FE board
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• Could reconfigure again, high current remains. • All other monitoring tools looked fine.
did not touch it anymore.
Unfortunately forgot to reset LEDs for AHCAL! • The 4 gain runs from this point on are empty… (2 days)
μA
HCAL layer #33
For three runs layer #33 suddenly gave too many hits and too high energy response.• Do not know why…
Restarted these runs.• Not related to LEDs being
off, it also happened a day before TCMT problem.
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μA
CMB #20 fine tuning
• Week before the run, Ivo Polak came to help tune the Calibration and Monitoring Board #20– Via LEDs a CMB sends light to the tiles for
calibration.– #20 never functioned properly since installation
at CERN– Each of the 11 LEDs has a potentiometer to be
tuned. LED #8 could not be tuned, light intensity fluctuated
• Six boards however have to be taken out to reach #20.
• After tuning we retested all six– #20 now finally sees light: for ~70% of channels
the gain can be extracted– No significant effect on other 5 modules.
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TCMT MIP peaks
The weekend before the run, Kurt Francis visited CERN and helped with the tailcatcher.
• Extended AngleTrackFinder to find mips in TCMT – extrapolate track to TCMT and allow +- 1 strip
• Additional quality cuts – Consider only hits which form a tower of at least
5 in the TCMT alone Some channels give nice results, however still
have the MIP peak very close to the pedestal
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First night – secondary beam
200k events at 180, 150, 120 and 100 GeV.
Compared to same energies (but negative polarity) runs of July
• Linearity is good• Higher energies of new run
are probably due to lower temperatures
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TCMT MIP peaks
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