2016/09/28 (Wednesday)
| DCRC1 and DCRC3 powered on and connected through HV setup EBoxDIB 2/3 → 3.2 MHz filters → Cables → remapping board I/remapping board II → HVside2board “DIB1”/“DIB2” → DCRC55(1)/50(3). Remapping boards have all possible lines switched off. . | |
| Baking using IR LEDs for 8 hours last night. Base temp held at 545mK until bake ended at 0752, then fell to ~90mK | |
| 0854 | Tower/MC/Coldplate = 86.6/56.6/??(3.1 kΩ) mK, Still = 1.07 K / 95 μbar, G1/G2 = 198/182 mbar, 1K Pot = 1.56 K / 7.0 mbar. MB = 53.1% 1K Pot has been stable. Boiloff rate is bad, fast mode. Yesterday after 80.7% fill (a low fill) pressure was released at 5 and 33 minutes, and possibly a third time though not recorded. |
| 0957 | Fill LN2 cold trap bath. |
| 0910 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 20 minutes data with 12V HV/ -12V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 300 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 0934 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 0952 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 20 minutes data with 12V HV/ -12V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 300 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1013 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1027 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 20 minutes data with 12V HV/ -12V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 300 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1047 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1101 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 20 minutes data with 12V HV/ -12V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 300 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1121 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1136 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 20 minutes data with 12V HV/ -12V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 300 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. Right after series was started trigger threshold was lowered to 200 ADC Bin, hopefully that change will be present in the data. |
| Looking quickly at the data with the newly lowered threshold, there's many noise triggers. Bump the threshold back up to 250 ADC Bins. | |
| 1156 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1330 | Move 57Co radioactive source (borrowed from Kurt Wick) into lab. Source is in a lead castle on the tall wood table on the rolling platform that the HPGe Dewar is usually on. The lead castle has an opening pointed at the cryostat, source is at detector height approximately. |
| 1353 | Repower DCRCs and reestablish timing link now that Co source is in place. |
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| 1355 | Check event rate with 50 ms randoms, counting pulses. With 57Co source 2 m from detector, rate is around 140 Hz, close to background. With source 1 m from fridge, rate is around 260 Hz. Leave source 1 m from detector. |
| 1427 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1446 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 30 minutes data with -20V HV/ 10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 250 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1501 | Stopping this run early. Looking at traces on BatViewer reveals significant pileup in the traces. Almost all events have multiple pulses. |
| 1504 | Pull Co source back to ~1.5m from detector. |
| 1507 | Looking at pulse viewer, some baseline noise has returned. Raise QO trigger to 300ADC to get a decent rate of good pulses. |
| 1509 | Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1524 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 30 minutes data with -20V HV/ 10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 300ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1541 | Event rate still looks high in BatViewer. Without stopping run, pull source back to ~2m from the detector. |
| 1557 | Cease data taking. Baseline Vpp=0.3V. Releasing bath pressure improves things: Vpp=0.1. After ~2mins of dewar bung removed, strong ~150Hz Taconis noise is observed. |
| 1603 | Replacing bung brings back Taconis. LHe level=38.4% |
| 1605 | Releasing pressure further |
| 1607 | Close bathand wait for noise to return. |
| 1609 | Baseline noise returns with Vpp = 0.22V |
| 1613 | In preparation for transfer, took a new LHe dewar off the line. This seems to have no effect on the noise. |
| 1615 | Remove both bungs at top of bath. Baseline noise remains with Vpp=0.2V with high frequency (~15kHz) noise sporadically present. |
| 1630 | Commence LHe transfer (35.7%). |
| 1657 | Commence 5 minute IR bake. |
| 1713 | Cease LHe transfer (91.2%). |
| 1734 | After the transfer Vpp was down to 0.08 without letting out pressure. With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 10 minutes data with 20V HV/ -10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 225ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1745 | Trigger was too low and pileup might have been too high. Ground detector. Flash with IR LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1758 | After the transfer Vpp was down to 0.08 without letting out pressure. With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 10 minutes data with -20V HV/ 10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 250ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1805 | Cease data. See that .13 Vpp noise has returned. Release pressure from main bath. While main bath port open noise appears reduced. |
| 1815 | Pulses look good on pulse viewer. Without flashing first, with bath port open and With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 10 minutes data with -20V HV/ 10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 250 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. |
| 1824 | While still taking data, set Qo trigger threshold to 300 ADC Bin. Close port to main bath. |
| 1849 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Switch to UV LEDs and flash with UV LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1900 | Pulses look good on pulse viewer, no noise seen. With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 30 minutes data with -40V HV/ 10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 275 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. Source is about 2 feet from cryostat, but with “door” closed by lead brick. |
| 1928 | Cease data run. Ground detector. Flash with UV LEDs for 30s, and cooldown for 10 minutes. |
| 1938 | With 33kΩ resistor on DIB1 QOFB line, manually start series of 20 minutes data with -40V HV/ 10V DIB1 with 1000 starting/1000 ending randoms with 200 ADC Bin trigger threshold on DIB1 Qo. Source is about 3 feet from cryostat, and with “door” open. After 10 minutes data looks bad, so we moved up to 275 ADC trigger. |
| 2003 | Cease data and start a 12 hour UV bake. |
| 2005 | Put Co-57 source in its lead container and put that in safe. Turn off Geiger counter. |
| 2018 | Fill LN2 cold trap full. |
| 2019 | Abort bake to perform quick electrical check before leaving. |
| 2035 | Both DIBs look as they did at previous electrical checks. |
| 2038 | Restart 12 hour UV bake. |






