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Entry  Thu Jun 6 19:47:01 2024, Carsten, DAQ, Exchange of Mesytec CFD/shaper - noise on signal lines from ESR magnets 
Jan exchanged the Mesytec CFD/shper since it could not be "remote controlled" anymore. The new one has different shaping times and delays.
It is noted the threshold range is rather small. 
With the new  shaper only the x100 signals could meaningfully discriminated etc.
After start of the ESR (magnets etc.) the signals of the 10x channels see quite some noise that makes it more difficult to adjust the thresholds for the low signals.
Entry  Thu Jun 13 14:56:09 2024, Stefan Schippers, Accelerator, Estimated beam lifetime: About 150 s 
Estimate of storage lifetime using my code 'hydrocal':

 ion mass in u ...................................: 229
 ion nuclear charge ..............................: 90
 ion charge state ................................: 89
 beam energy in MeV ..............................: 45501.1
 beam energy in MeV/u ............................: 198.695
 beam beta .......................................: 0.566309
 beam rigidity in T m.............................: 5.4944
 ring circumference in m .........................: 108.36
 ring acceptance in mrad .........................: 2
 ring temperature in °C ..........................: 25
 ring vacuum pressure in mbar ....................: 3e-11
 residual gas density in m^-3 ....................: 7.28767e+11
 residual gas composition 
  Z   %
  1  93.43
  6   2.23
  7   0.75
  8   3.29
 18    0.3
 cooler length in m ..............................: 2.5
 electron current in A ...........................: 0.2
 magnetic expansion factor .......................: 1
 electron-beam diameter in mm ....................: 50.8
 electron density in cm^-3 .......................: 3.62844e+06
 cooler cathode temperature in meV ...............: 110
 cooling energy in eV ............................: 109000
 space_charge (0th iteration) in eV ..............: 44.3477
 space_charge (1st iteration) in eV ..............: 44.341
 transverse temperature in meV ...................: 110
 longitudinal temperature in meV .................: 0.2
 RR nmin .........................................: 1
 RR lmin .........................................: 0
 RR nele [no. electrons in subshell (nmin,lmin)] .: 1
 RR nmax .........................................: 128
 RR enhancement factor ...........................: 2.5
 RR alpha in cm^3 s^-1 ...........................: 8.04602e-08

 beam lifetime due to multiple scattering in s ...: 1.86e+06
 beam lifetime due to single scattering in s .....: 7.51886e+07
 beam lifetime due to charge capture in s ........: 3.5516e+06
 beam lifetime due to stripping in s .............: 1e+99
 beam lifetime due to recombination in cooler in s: 148.466
 beam lifetime with electron cooling in s ........: 148.46
 beam lifetime without electron cooling in s .....: 1.20121e+06

 detector count rates for 1E6 stored ions and a residual gas pressure of 3e-11 mbar: 

       recombination detector from ecool (Hz) ....: 4575.41
     recombination detector from res.gas (Hz) ....: 0.0545666
    total rate on recombination detector (Hz) ....: 4575.46

        ionization detector from res.gas (Hz) ....: 1.93798e-94
Entry  Thu Apr 25 16:34:05 2024, Rodolfo, Laser, Efficiency of Fluorescein27 Fluorescein27_Efficiency.png
The figure below shows the efficiency of Fluorescein27 vs. Wavelength. Each point was averaged over 500 laser shots.

Dye Laser: Sirah, Cobra Strech.
- Solvent: Ethanol + H2O.
- Concentration Oszillator: 0.4 g + 0,2 g/l NaOH.
- Concentration Main Amplifier: (1/8) Concentration Oscillator .

Pump Laser: InnoLas, SpitLight 1500-30
- Seeding energy: 550 mJ / Pulse.

Note. Dye was mixed on 28.04.2022
Entry  Thu Jun 6 19:51:11 2024, Carsten, Accelerator, ESR crew left after persisting problems with ESR magnets 
No beam today.--.
Entry  Wed Jun 5 14:17:36 2024, Carsten, Accelerator, Distance Cooler Detector 
Calculation from Helmut Weick (copied from E142)
Distance e-cooler to particle detectors chamber:
“This is half of ESR plus distance target - detector. This even is on the web page”
54.28 m + 21.64 m
Entry  Fri Jun 14 13:14:29 2024, Konstantin, Bernhard, Peter, Lukas, General, DAQ crashes at :10 
10 Minutes past a full hour (XX:10) the windows PCs (sometimes) loose connection.
This causes the labview server & the laser remote ctrl to crash.

reset:
- "sto ac" on first DAQ1
- restart labview server (medusa - run - make data available for mbs off/on)
- "sta ac" on first DAQ1

It can make sense to try to avoid laser scans in this time window if those crashes occur more regularly.
Entry  Sat Jun 1 18:14:01 2024, Carsten, Analysis, DAQ and analysis directories 
DAQ1 (original):
-user atplaser
-runs on lxg1297
-go4 in ~/go4/229Th
-mbs in /esr/usr/atplaser/mbsrun/E0052/DAQ1
-data in lxg1297:/data.local2/229Th/
filenames follow the style 229ThDAQ1_nnnn.lmd (where nnnn is 4 digit integer number)
Data backup on WDBook lxg0155 local:
/media/stoe_exp/WDBook/E0052daq1 (/dev/sdc2)


Since the Go4 Code is still under development (clean up etc.), I still plan to submit regular updates, the last version before is always in ~go4/229Th
It is planned that all essential settings can be done via the automatically loaded script files SetParamters.C and SetConditions.C, so that no recompilation (and change of code) is required (work in progress).
Values in SetParamters.C and SetConditions.C have to be adjusted to the actual run.

DAQ2 (new / enhanced):
additional 25ps TDC, ADC and Vulom Scaler
-user stoe_exp
-runs on lxg0155
-go4 in ~/E0052/go4
-mbs in /esr/usr/atplaser/mbsrun/E0052/DAQ2
-data in lxg0155:/data.lcoal2/E0052/
filenames follow the style ThDAQ2_nnnn.lmd (where nnnn is 4 digit integer number)
Data backup on WDBook lxg1297 local:
/media/stoe_exp/WDBook/E0052daq2 (/dev/sdd2)


The following .scom in the directories will help to run the experiment
@startup in mbs -> Generic startup of all mbs tasks for data acquisition
@shutdown in mbs -> Ceans up everything before leaving mbs
@connectdisk -> connects to the rfio server on the data local disks.
or this, rawDispRFIO64, has to be started (locally __IN__ the data directory).
@openfile -> automatically opens a new file in the data local disks
@closefile -> closes the file
@disconndisk -> disconnects from the rfio server


Please note that the different path and file names are on purpose, so that they can be distinguished after the run.
Entry  Fri Jun 14 11:44:23 2024, Carsten Brandau, Accelerator, Cooling Time in SC7 increased from 9s to 12s 
Cooling Time in SC7 increased from 9s to 12s
Entry  Thu Jun 13 18:03:36 2024, Afternoon shift, Runs, Continuation: First scans 2024_06_13_229Th_Lifetime_at_190MeV_afterscraping.png2024-06-13_23-13-55-242.png
Time Part. Det. Int ESR-intensity cooler-HV LMD-DAQ1 Files LMD-DAQ2 Files scan range(nm) number of positions dwell time(s) n loops comments
00:01 3e5 104438 13 27-29 550.1 - 550.9 201 2s 4 40 injections, there is still a fast decaying component, may be due to the higher electron current of 200 mA. Going back to 100 mA in next run and also put a "loose" scraper on the inside.


ntcap 2024-06-12_21-47-54

Time Part. Det. Int ESR-intensity cooler-HV LMD-DAQ1 Files LMD-DAQ2 Files scan range(nm) number of positions dwell time(s) n loops comments
00:50 ? 3e5 104438 14 28- 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 6 30 injections, e-cooler current at 100mA, scraper GE01GD2ID (north arc, inner scraper) now at position +30mm, medusa crashed when started, laser position was lost and retrieved by resetting the beam position stabilization
01:43 25700 3e5 104438 15 31-32 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 6 e-cooler current 100mA, NA position -30 activated, NI +28, SA -28, DS3HG +10
02:32 21750 4e5 104417 16 33 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 reduced iterations due to short life time
02:54 29200 4e5 104417 17 34 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
03:16 (?) 4e5 104417 18 35 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
03:40 33700 5e5 104417 19 36 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
04:03 31600 5e5 104417 20 37 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
04:25 29200 4e5 104417 21 38 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
04:46 27500 4e5 104417 22 39 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
05:08 30400 4e5 104417 23 40 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
05:31 31300 4e5 104417 24 41 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
05:56 30000 3e5 104417 25 42 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
06:18 24500 4e5 104417 26 43 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 Morning shift took over: Constantine, Peter, Lukas, Jonas, Dounia
06:43 27 44 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 Medusa crashed when starting the laser scan
06:57 4e5 104417 28 45-46 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 DAQ1 started a bit later since we needed to restart and connect the file server again; after starting laser scan we noticed that the beam is gone on glass disk, reason was likely user error as medusa was set to send the laser to 500.9nm instead of 550.9nm
07:27 11800 4e5 104417 29 47 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
07:51 23500 4e5 104417 30 48 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
08:14 15000 5e5 104417 31 49 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
08:37 35300 5e5 104417 32 50 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
08:58 32800 5e5 104417 33 51 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
13.06.2024 17:32 23 500 5e5 104412 35 52 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3First scan of afternoon shift. 30 Injections. Electron current was set to 30 mA. (Note added 2024.06.14 17:55 - Carsten: To what I remember electron current is 80mA) Dye was changed before this scan. Wavemeter overexposed on the second scan for 2-3 steps, not sure if during the stepping or actual measurement. In the middle of the third scan, medusa crashed.
13.06.2024 xx 5e5 104417 36 53 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 25 Injections 75Hz particle detector south, medusa crashed immediately, laser controller was locked up. Restarting the laser controller solved the issue.
13.06.2024 18:30 28 200 5e5 104412 37 54 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 25 Injections , DAQ1 no data collected (no start acquisition pressed)
13.06.2024 18:50 26 000 5e5 104412 38 55 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 23 of 25 Injections, two were empty injections from SIS
13.06.2024 19:13 31 600 5e5 104412 39 56 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 29 of 30 Injections, one was empty injections from SIS
13.06.2024 19:45 34 700 5e5 104411 40 57 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 30 of 30 Injections
13.06.2024 20:07 33 300 6e5 104411 41 58 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 30 of 30 Injections. Note: before and after run, the laser was exactly in the middle of the screen, but went to its proper position (slightly left of the middle) during the scan.
13.06.2024 20:36 29 900 7e5 104411 42 59 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 30 of 30 Injections. Note: Before the run ad during the first scan, the laser was above the middle. In the third scan, it was back in its proper position.
13.06.2024 20:57 28 900 7e5 104411 43 60 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
13.06.2024 21:18 26 000 7e5 104411 44 61 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 27 of 30 Injections
13.06.2024 21:40 18 000 6e5 104411 45 62 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 out of the first injections 4 were with low energy and 4 did not arrive at all, for the rest, pretty much every second injection is missing. Checking with HKR.
13.06.2024 22:02 24 900 7e5 104411 46 63 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 Same thing with injection.
13.06.2024 22:23 31 700 7e5 104411 47 64 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
13.06.2024 22:46 30 900 7e5 104411 48 65 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
13.06.2024 23:09 33 100 7e5 104411 49 66 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 Laser shifted to the left
13.06.2024 23:33 25 200 7e5 104411 50 67 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3
13.06.2024 23:55 28 600 7e5 104411 51 68 550.1 - 550.9 201 1s 3 We moved the laser back to the original position using the MRC
14.06.2024 00:52 33 100 8e5 104410 52 69 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3 Widen scan range to account for the difference between wavelength vac. vs. wavelength air; Laser shifted to the left
14.06.2024 01:20 29 800 8e5 104410 53 70 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3
14.06.2024 01:44 -- 7e5 104410 54 71 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3 Medusa crashed and was restarted; measurement interrupted; connection of MBS to Labview server crashed and MBS and go4 were restarted (DAQ1)
14.06.2024 02:03 34 700 8e5 104410 55 72 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3
14.06.2024 02:26 31 400 7e5 104411 56 73 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3
14.06.2024 02:49 -- 7e5 104411 57 74 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3 Medusa crashed and was restarted; measurement interrupted
14.06.2024 02:51 -- 7e5 104411 58 75 549.85 - 550.9 239 1s 3 Medusa crashed and was restarted;


The Medusa crash also crashed the Cobra Laser. We tried to restart it but afterwards the power of the Laser was more than one order of magnitude lower than before. It is not clear what caused the problem, Rodolfo is on his way to GSI now to fix the issue.
Entry  Sat Jun 1 19:00:57 2024, Carsten, DAQ, Change of (offline) frequency for common stop (CS) of VUPROMs (and 2nd TDC) and scaling factor 
Temporarily, for tests of the second DAQ I changed the frequency from the frequency generator and scaling factor that is used for the common stop signal to a value that is close to the expected value in the experiment.
Reason: For the second TDC (CAEN 25ps) TDC the time between to CS events must be of the order of 45 us. The TDC can store events up to about 51,x us and allows for overlap of these regions to be able to stitch together the events to a continuous time axis.

Since we plan to run at ~ beta= 0.5566 the revolution frequency is about

f=1.540974 MHz (0.6489 us)
This value is used in the frequency generator.

The scaling factor is set to 68.
=> 68 x 0,6489us = 44,1252 us between to CS.

Of course later the real RF value from the accelerator will be used.

Please leave or, if required to change, mark in ELog.
Entry  Wed Jun 12 22:48:55 2024, Carsten, , Beam Halo 
The seamingly short live time reported in entry 53 is due to a halo from a different isotope (?). It can be scraped away from the outside. The 229Th89+ primary beam can be scaped away from the inside and the halo stays. There is some spacial headroom between the two components.

Scraping from the outside using GE02DS3HG @+6mm starts to scrape the halo in the south arc. Please note that the +6mm means that you move past central orbit (scraper starts from -130mm).
Using this scraper allows for using the particle detector behind the e-cooler (GE02DD2_G). Position PD south in event mode is -30mm (has to be verified with higher ion beam intensity and electron current for larger recombination rate=.

The primary 229Th89+ is touched from the inside with GE01DB2IG @+14mm (north arc).

Position of GE02DS3HG in event mode is +8mm.

Electron current in SC8 is increased from 100mA to 200mA for faster cooling at low energy in order to condition after deceleration and before scraping.


positions particle detectors and scrapers
NA position -30 activated
NI +28
SA -28
DS3HG +10
Entry  Fri Jun 14 14:44:51 2024, Afternoon shift, Runs, Afternoon shift 
Pizza shift

the scan direction is from higher wavelength to lower wavelength, even though it is noted otherwise here in the software.
From hardware side, the laser can only scan in one direction: long wave length to short wave length, independent of what is written in the tables.


Time Part. Det. Int ESR-intensity cooler-HV LMD-DAQ1 Files LMD-DAQ2 Files scan range(nm) number of positions dwell time(s) n loops comments
14.06.2024 12:45 38900 2e5 104411 72 89 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 starting with 50 accumulation
14.06.2024 13:13 41400 2e5 104411 73 90 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 there was a :10 crash during the injection, laser scan started normally.
14.06.2024 13:41 39500 2e5 104411 74 91 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3
14.06.2024 14:38 67750 2e5 104412 75 92 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 afternoon shift takes over. After short break from hkr to optimize beam, proceeding with 30 injections, particle number detector might not have been reset, check next run
14.06.2024 15:02 34500 2e5 104412 76 93 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3
14.06.2024 15:38 27500 1e5 104412 77 94 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3
14.06.2024 16:01 25300 1e5 104412 78 95 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3
14.06.2024 16:23 28700 1e5 104412 79 96 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 At around 550.2 nm the wavemeter is overexposed
14.06.2024 16:48 xxx xx xx 80 97 xx xx xx xx empty file , no laser scan, work on laser, while trying to adjust the wavemeter, we tried to move the laser using medusa, at some point, this caused the cobra to go into error mode again, onlz a restart could solve it. As a consequence, we still do not know if the wavemeter coupling is optimal
14.06.2024 17:17 30000 1e5 104412 81 98 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 wavemeter coupling looks good now
14.06.2024 17:41 56900 1e5 104412 82 99 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 ratemeter was probably not reset
14.06.2024 18:04 8100 1e5 104412 83 100 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 really bad injection (looked fine (?)), low ion count from SIS, they exchanged a cathode @UNILAC
14.06.2024 18:42 3200 3e4 104412 84 101&102(automatically opened new file without command after 1GB?) 549.6 - 550.4 201 1s 3 problems with accelerator: after deacceleration the beam is gone. Scraper position has moved(?). The cooling water from GSI is too warm, so we had to shut down the laser. NTCAP restarted. And NTCAP restarted again @20:39 for test data for Shahan.
Entry  Sun Jun 2 00:01:46 2024, Carsten, DAQ, 25ps TDC CAEN V1290N DAQ2 lead to crash in DAQ2 due to a hardware issue 
On the CAEN V1290N TDC the piggy board for the lower 8 channels is not fixed well to the motherboard.
That prevented to the whole DAQ2 to trigger correctly or even crash every once in a while. Long attempt sot find the error in hard and in software.

I fixed/reattached the piggy board, but be careful with the attached Lemo cables. They might loose the board again (it used to fixed with hot glue).

DAQ2 now also seem to run smoothly.
Entry  Thu Jun 13 10:32:29 2024, Konstantin, Accelerator, (Proper) Cooler settings 
We change the acceleration voltage of the electron cooler and observe the platform high voltage and the count rate at the particle detector south.
Cooler current at 100mA.


set voltage measured voltage Schottky width
-40
80
-40
100
120
-40
-60
-80
-100
-120
-38
-40
-42
-44
-46
-48
-40
-38
-36
-34



with scraper driven in (first signal drop in attachment 2):

set voltage measured voltage Schottky width
-40
-38
-36
-34
-32
-30
-20 25kHz
-10 48kHz
-0 63kHz
-40
-42
-44
-46
-56 7kHz
-66 19kHz
-76 40kHz


5kHz Shottky width at proper cooling conditions.

Modified bunching HF in beam process 7 and 10 in Paramodi folder "Ring HF" to get coasting beam conditions.

Afterwards manipilated the electron current from 100mA to 200mA to 50mA in BP8.
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