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Entry  Thu Apr 7 10:10:31 2022, Ragan, Yuri, Danyal, Accelerator, Problem in UNILAC 
The power supply of the UNILAC magnet is broken. The repair will take up to 6-7 hours.
Entry  Tue Apr 5 12:17:12 2022, Ragan, Rui-Jiu, DAQ, Instructions to start and stop NTCAP Start_data_taking.pdfStop_data_taking.pdfStart_data_taking.pngStop_data_taking.png
Attached are the instructions to start and stop data taking using the NTCAP.
Entry  Fri Apr 8 09:13:38 2022, Ragan, Danyal, Accelerator, No beam 
Cathode is being changed at the ion source. So no beam for the moment.

Sergey has been contacted to change from two ion bunches to a single ion bunch in the ESR.
Entry  Fri Apr 8 06:53:29 2022, Ragan, Runs, NTCAP data taking IMG_0936.jpg
NTCAP is taking data since 07.04.2022 23:53:47

Carrier Frequency: 242.2 M
Entry  Fri Apr 8 09:32:32 2022, Ragan, Runs, NTCAP stopped 
Since there is no beam, NTCAP is stopped.

Carrier Frequency: 242.2 M
Entry  Fri Apr 8 09:39:04 2022, Ragan, Runs, NTCAP started 
Carrier Frequency: 242.2 M
IQ Rate (S/s): 10 M
Reference level (dBm): -30
Entry  Fri Apr 8 12:04:13 2022, Ragan, Runs, NTCAP started IMG_0947.jpg
NTCAP is started for the data taking.

Carrier Frequency: 242.02 M
    Reply  Tue Apr 12 14:11:52 2022, Ragan, Detectors, Sideband in Schottky 
> Sometimes we see a broad sideband at lesser Schottky frequencies to the high-intensity thorium beam.

> Pic 1 shows the relative broad sideband on the left.
Entry  Thu Apr 7 05:44:40 2022, Pierre-Michel, Ragan, DAQ, NTCAP settings 
Carrier Frequency: 244M
IQ Rate: 10M
reference Level: -30
Entry  Mon Apr 11 14:45:11 2022, Paul, Konstantin, Sarper, David, Runs, Afternoon shift runs 11.04 
We continue scan the new wavelength scan range is  322.41 - 322.00 nm 

Entry  Thu Apr 7 14:04:36 2022, Paul Indelicato, General, no beam until 17:00 
10:10  There is a problem with the UNILAC. 
The repair will take several hours. (4 hrs?) 
Entry  Sun Apr 10 22:47:05 2022, Patrick, Volker, Prannay, Danyal, Alexandre, Sebastian, Kristian, Runs, Runs night shift 10.04 + morning shift 11.04 
These are the measurement runs of the night shift (10/11.04.).

Wavelength range is still 322.81 - 322.40 nm.
Entry  Thu Apr 14 22:44:40 2022, Patrick, Simon, Danyal, Max, Runs, Runs night shift 14./15.04. 
Runs of the night shift. The wavelength range is 320.62 - 320.10 nm.

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Entry  Sat Apr 16 04:19:05 2022, Patrick, Simon, Alex, Sarper, Runs, Runs night + morning shifts 16.04. 
Runs of the night shift 16.04. after changing the wavelength range. The new range is 320.12 - 319.859 nm. The step size was decreased from 0.002 nm to 0.001
nm.
The goal was to have the same number of scans as before (261), however, the scan range in the labview program could not be set accordingly. We decided
Entry  Fri Apr 1 23:12:37 2022, Patrick, Detectors, Scraper positions "only primary beam" 

Scraper positions where there is only primary beam for detector tests. Use only one outer and one inner scraper at the same time.
[B]Move detectors out before new beam![/B]
Entry  Wed Apr 6 22:29:55 2022, Patrick, Accelerator, ECooler voltages 
ECooler voltages:

[B]06.04:[/B]
Entry  Thu Apr 7 00:15:11 2022, Patrick, Laser, Laser timing adjusted 220407-Laser-ion-timing.png220407-Laser-ion-timing-full-period.png220407-ParDetSO_PMT-middle.png
We have adjusted the laser timing using PMT-middle. Bunching freq. is 3.90362 MHz.

PD NO: 7.79
Entry  Thu Apr 7 01:19:05 2022, Patrick, Laser, Laser scanning 2022-04-07_Wavemeter_during_scan.png2022-04-07_Wavemeter_during_scan2.png2022-04-07_Wavemeter_during_scan3.png2022-04-07_Wavemeter_during_scan4.png
We did some laser scans. The wavemeter shows spikes during scans. This may be just while the frequency changes. See picture.
Entry  Thu Apr 7 03:06:15 2022, Patrick, DAQ, DAQ file sizes 
The file sizes of DAQ1 (229Thor) and DAQ2 (229Th, "Carstens DAQ") are different.
During 20min of laser scanning DAQ1 saves 4 files while DAQ2 saves 2 files which was 3.3 GB and 2 GB, respecively.
[B]The file sizes of DAQ2 should always be greater than those of DAQ1, because of extra ADC data![/B]
Entry  Thu Apr 7 03:44:21 2022, Patrick, DAQ, Measurement procedure 
[U][B]Measurement procedure[/B][/U]

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