Where to find QA check list file

Here:

• for August 2011: /u/hades-qa/Desktop/QA Check List - Aug11/QA_check_list_Au_Au_aug2011.pdf (see also attachement)

Where to get informations for check list

Magnet

If major problems appear, call:

• Wolfgang Knig: 0172/8775049
• Torsten Heinz: 0175/3884066
• Go to Magnet Control Computer in the second floor above the HADES experiment and check computer screen for:

START/VETO

• Go to DAQ monitors
  • Read values from Start Display (window not labeled, but the diamond-shaped Start detector is clearly identifiable)
  • Take values from RIGHT column, not the left one as shown in the picture.

RICH

• Check Pad mult./evt in the corresponding RICH online monitoring pictures
• Open epics window
  • Click on "rich" button
  • Click on "Rich HV" button
  • Click on "HV Control" button

• Go to the RICH rack in front of the lower counting house

MDC

• MDC
  • "HV settings changed", "Thresholds changed" -> ask experts
  • "ERROR-BITS" -> check in QA plots (MDC panel, ErrStat tab)
  • "Gas bubbler" -> see picture below
  • "Interlocks enabled"
  • "Gas - System", "Temperature" ???
• MDC Gas-System readings
  • Go to the MDC rack in front of counting house

• • Open epics window ( NOT NEEDED ANYMORE FOR 2012 BEAMTIME, BUT ASK MDC EXPERT TO CHECK THE PRESSURES )
  • Click on "MDC" button
  • Click on "Mdc gaspressure"

TOF

• Check in your QA plots
• "TOF counts/s " -> check CTS window -> See the six TOF sectors -> Check for scalers during a spill -> estimate average

RPC

• Open epics window
  • Click on "RPC" button
  • Click on "Gas System" button
  • Check values:

• Open epics window
  • Click on "MDC" button
  • Click on "MDC gas scales" button

• Go to the RPC rack in front of the lower counting house

• Check "Currents in SC"
  • Open epics window
  • Click on "RPC" button
  • Click on "HV" button
  • Click on "Monitor (1ua)" button
  • 6 different colored histograms appear in two windows -> If the six histograms are more or less the same -> ok!

SHOWER

• Go to the balance near the stairs to upper counting house

• Go to SHOWER rack in front of lower counting house

• open epics window
  • Click on "shower" button
  • Click on "SHWR HV" button
  • Click on "ALL SECTOR" button

Forward Wall

• Check your QA plots

HADES VACUUM

• Open epics window
  • Click on "misc." button

ICINGA

• ???

Online Vertex

• Go to lower monitors on QA operator place
  • Click "Open VertexMon" button
  • Click "Start VRC Server.deskt op" button -> Vetrex Reconstruction pictures pop up

Slow Control (Archiver)

To check if the file archiver is running go to http://lxg0434:4812

-- RafalLalik - 10 Aug 2011