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Message ID: 68     Entry time: Fri Jun 27 14:23:39 2025
Author: Nils, Wilfried, Carsten, Julian 
Category: Runs 
Subject: Runs afternoon shift 27.06. 
15:30 We have a break due to an issue at UNILAC (quadrupole failed). Also radiation safety interlock was triggered at the fragment separator. This also pushed a faradaycup into the ESR (GE01DC3VP).
Just before the issue during the last bunching, the peak was misaligned to the marker in the Schottky. The marker was sitting on the right flank. So the electron-cooled 229Th did not match with the bunching frequency anymore. We are preparing to adjust the cooler voltage to fix this. For some reason the frequency recovered and is back to its original position. However, our accumulations do not seem to work as well as before, we stagnate much earlier and at a much lower level.

15:50 Beam is back, Carsten is still investigating the drop in intensity we saw before the UNILAC failure.

17:15 TE slits were on -8 and +8, opening to -11 and +11, no change to acquisition pattern, something is still wrong

18:00 We were locked out by HHT people for 30+ mins

18:27 We had to call in ESR support

Time Part. Det. Int SIS-intensity accumulations in ESR cooler-HV PTB K250 cooler-HV PTB red cooler-HV orange LMD-DAQ1 Files LMD-DAQ2 Files scan range(nm) number of positions dwell time (laser shots) n loops checked laser position mesytec rate ok comments
14:24 15800 2.74 e9 30 104524 104527 104528 196 224 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes Carsten optimizing beam at HKR with ESR colleagues
14:24 6800 1.16 e9 30 104524 104527 104528 197 225 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes Carsten is back in measurement hut
16:30 1100 1.1 e9 40 104524 104527 104528 198 226 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes Searching for reason for small particle number
17:00 1200 0.5 e9 30 104524 104527 104528 199 227 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes
19:57 7800 1e9 30 104524 104527 104528 200 228 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes Restarting some things at ESR
20:16 6800 1.5e9 30 104524 104527 104528 201 229 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes Restarting some things at ESR
20:41 7200 1.5e9 30 104524 104527 104528 202 230 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes Restarting some things at ESR
21:28 6000 2.65e9 30 104524 104527 104528 203 231 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes
21:47 6600 2.7e9 30 104524 104527 104528 204 232 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes
22:08 17000 2.5e9 30 104524 104527 104528 205 233 551.91 - 549.41 501 15 1 yes yes TE slits -7 +7
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