2022/08/11 (Thursday)
- Lab in-personnel: Giulia
| Status | Run 76 in progress |
|---|---|
| Setup | Cables 2/3/1 → diverter/nothing/nothing → Side2-readout HV CONN 1/3/2 → HV 1(L)/2(R) → DCRC50(3)/DCRC55(1), DCRC33(2)→HV control, NaI trigger signal → DCRCX(4) Lead/poly shield fully assembled. Boron-filled socks covering NaI detectors. PuBe behind lead wall on West side of lead/poly shield. |
| 1120 | MC/Coldplate = 29.8/152 mK, Still = 1.14 K / 0.130 mbar / 0 mW, G1/G2 = 167/150 mbar, 1K Pot = 50° / 1.64 K / 26±2 mbar, MB = 31.7% |
| 1132 | Fill LN2 cold trap bath |
| It looks like MC temperature started decreasing and the new lowest value is again 29.6 mK, very close to what it had been before we started noticing the spikes. | |
| Now there are smaller spikes with rises of about 1-2 mK, spaced around an hour apart | |
| 1420 | Start MIDAS and pulse viewer. Terrible looking waveforms. |
| 1430 | Zap SQUIDS with DCRCs 1&3 |
| 1445 | Try flashing detector through DCRC1 but it doesn't seem to work, MC temperature doesn't increase much |
| There are some good pulses mixed in on some channels, interspersed with ugly stuff and oscillations | |
| 1515 | We have been pumping the IVC continuously. Turbo on IVC = 1.6 nbar. With Turbo valved out for 1 minute, IVC = 12 nbar. Let's leave it valved out for now. |
| IVC rose to 16 nbar a bit later. When we started the LHe transfer, it dropped down to 6 nbar. At the end of transfer it was back up to 16 nbar. | |
| 1530 | Begin LHe transfer @ MB = 26.1% |
| 1621 | End LHe transfer @ MB = 92.8% |
| 1645 | Noticed that HV is no longer ~ 0V, it's suddenly high, so external control must have failed… |
| 1650 | Restart DAQ programs with DCRC2 enabled. This knocks HV right back down to 0-ish volts. I guess DCRC2 maybe lost power at some point and reverted back to default settings or something |
| So all those observations about pulses earlier were at something like 300V bias. Now we're back to zero-ish bias. Seeing only weak pulses on DCRC3pD. Should check mini-IbIs tomorrow. |

