DØ Run Plan Standard Instructions
Last Updated: 08-Aug-2001 by Leslie Groer
The Run Plan Standard Instructions can be found at
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/runcoor/runplans/runplan_standard.html
The Current Daily Plan can be found at
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/runcoor/runplans/runplan.html
There are new standing instructions for
Captains. These involve making sure the Silicon Radiation Monitoring is
running, making SAM dataset definitions at the end of a shift and recording the
quality of data taken with colliding beam for all subsystems. Also
check the Luminosity HV and Monitoring pages for current information.
Access Requests
Check the Control Access Request lists in
the Control Room and written on the White Board on the South side of the
Control Room. Contact the Run Coordinator, Dmitri Denisov, if there is
a chance of access for approval.
Silicon Coherent Noise Problem
SMT has been seeing coherent noise occasionally. Investigation
takes priority if it appears again. The SMT principals should be
contacted if not around and the problem reoccurs (Eric Kajfasz,
Andrei Nomerotski or Harald Fox). In order to eliminate possible sources of
the noise and to understand if it is self-injected, various subdetector
components may need to be turned off. Contact the subdetector coordinators
for assistance.
Forward Proton Detector
The Beams Division and CDF have agreed that the FPD can move their pots in
at anytime. The pots on the proton side can be moved up to 25 mm (beyond this
they start influencing the halo rates) and up to 30 mm on the antiproton
side.
The MCR and CDF must still be notified before any of these studies so they
can watch for losses.
The FPD contacts are:
Michael Strang (strang@fnal.gov), X2691, Carlos Avila (avila@fnal.gov)
x4873 or a shifter pager number (630) 266-2635.
Luminosity HV and Monitoring
Review instructions from Gregor Geurkov
Setting Luminosity HV
How to tell if the Luminosity information is updating in ACNET
Forward Muon
The forward muon systems have been seeing a few channels trip that might
be correlated with flying wires. Please note any such occurences in the
log book.
There are four folders of muon shifter's
instructions in the control room with detailed "step-by-step" instructions
on how to run the system, check lists, Examine "reference plots" as well
as call lists. There are experts (both pixels and MDTs) who will be
watching systems operation daily and to solve problems, if any. They carry
forward muon system cell phone and pagers. They are Igor Vasilyev (x6435) for
pixels and Basar Sabirov (x2989, (630) 399-2367 (cell), x3438 (home)) for MDTs.
Magnets
Before the solenoid or toriod are turned on or off, MCR must be notified.
Contact the Operations Technicians in DAB to ramp the magnets. The
solenoid takes about 20 minutes to discharge and the toriod about 10 minutes.
The shift captain should check that these are interlocked after
they are ramped down.
DAQ
Be aware that we are limited to a total of 32 triggers bits at the moment
(0-31). If takers are configured they reserve bits and the taker might need
to be freed before the global trigger can be defined.
Colliding Beam
The default running condition is to take data with the
global_L1CalMuon-1.2.xml trigger
with all available crates and set
prescales to get the maximum rate possible without killing the DAQ. See the
details in the trigger .xml file from the Trigger Meisters about tuning rates.
No Collisions
If no collisions:
- Allow detector experts to work on commissioning
activities, under the Shift Captain's approval, before
the curfew time (21:00). All experts must return their systems
to working order before they complete their work. Experts
are allowed to continue working through the night but
must ensure the crates are in a stable condition upon completion.
Note: If there are severe conflicts with the use of the
DAQ system because of instabilities and people starting/stopping runs, issuing
SCL inits, etc then it is the Shift Captain's duty to determine priorities
and to enforce them. Contact the Commisisoning Coordinators (Leslie
or Michael) if need be.
- During the curfew time (21:00-09:00) take global runs with all available
crates using the official/proton-halo trigger if there is proton
beam in the Tevatron
(or pbar-halo, if anti-proton store), otherwise use
either the official/cosmics trigger (L1 muon) (preferably) or
official/zero_bias (pulser trigger v1.2).
Contact experts for appropriate repairs.
No Beam in the Tevatron
If there is no beam, then calibration runs should be conducted by the
various subdetector shifters. If no beam is expected for more than one hour,
contact the detector subgroup experts if no shifter is present.
As Quiet Time is fairly precious at the moment, and many
detectors need to
calibrate their systems with no beam, the usual "free-for-all" has to be
severely curtailed. The Shift Captain and the Commissioning/Run Coordinators
will determine priorities for various subsystems to have exclusive use of the
DAQ system in order to complete calibration runs without interference. If
there are unresolved conflicts, contact the Commissioning Coordinators (Leslie
or Michael).
General Shifter Tasks
The Day Shift Captain must attend the Beams Division 9am Meeting in Curia II
in Wilson Hall (2nd floor, West side). The meeting normally lasts about
20 minutes. The Run and Commissioning Coordinators normally attend and
present the report, but the Shift Captain should do so if none are in
attendance.
The Captain should make sure that the Silicon Radiation Monitoring is running.
See the online instructions for details.
(http://www-d0.fnal.gov/~naeema/radmon/shift/procedure.htm)
At the end of a shift, Captains should follow Wyatt Merritt and Heidi
Schellman's
instructions
on how to define a SAM dataset. The definition should define all the
runs that are deemed good from the store that should be run through reco.
The default event display d0ve_web should be run if possible. If this
does not run, use the regular d0ve display.
The ROOT version global_monitor examine should be run as well on d0ol04
(Captain's console), as this feeds
histograms to the web. See the Captain's guide for details. There have been
problems running this examine, but it is supposed to work.
Run Examines and Event displays at all times. In particular:
| Examine |
Shifter |
Node |
| Vertex Examine | Captain | d0ol04 |
| Global Examine | Captain | d0ol04 |
| Event Display (d0ve) | DAQ shifter | d0ol10 |
| Calorimeter Examine | Calorimeter shifter | d0ol06 |
| Muon Examine | Muon shifter | d0ol09 |
| SMT Examine | SMT shifter | d0ol05 |
| CFT Examine | CFT shifter
if present | d0ol08 |
COOR records the begin and end of runs along with the crate configurations.
DAQ shifters must still enter the relevant information in the taker
pop-up windows. For details, see the
message from Alan Stone.
Captains should summarize the runs taken with colliding beam
and indicate their quality:
start end run# trigger #events toroid/solenoid crate list data quality (good/bad/unknown) Comments
(off,for,rev) (CAL,CFT,CPS,MUO,SMT)
These summaries should be put into the shift summary for distribution to
d0shifters and posted to
D0NEWS in the OPERATIONS folder..
At the begin of stores, the store number should be entered into COOR via
-
setup d0online
-
store_begin number.
Similarly, the end of store command is
-
store_end
Captain's should record all the information from
Channel 13 (the Beam's Status page) in the elog.
Note: If you need to make changes in trigger configurations,
contact the Trigger Meisters (Elizabeth Gallas and Levan Babukhadia).
| | | Office | Pager | Cell | Home |
| Run Coordinator | Dmitri Denisov | x3851 | (630) 218-4498 | | (630) 879-6725 |
| Commissioning Coordinator |
Leslie Groer | x5587 | (630) 218-8421 | (630) 399-0024 | (630) 208-8151 |
| Commissioning Coordinator |
Michael Begel | x2263 | (630) 218-4836 | | (630) 406-6061 |
| DAQ On-call Troubleshooter | | | (630) 218-4801 | | |
Send comments/corrections to Leslie Groer or
Michael Begel
Last modified: Tue Oct 22 05:44:44 CDT 2002