TOTEMino Status and Planning Beam 1 Beam Schedule

TOTEMino Status and Planning: Beam 1. Beam Schedule: • From 26. 05. to 11. • No official user schedule available yet • Main user time offered: 2 weeks: 13. – 26. 08. , perhaps also 10. – 16. 09. or 17. – 23. 09. • But: big problem: Crystal Channelling Experiment gets 7 weeks; incompatible with us (primary protons, no muons, not even access!) parasitical beam time significantly reduced • I have now asked for: - separating the first 2 weeks - 2 more weeks: 1 in September, 1 in October - equipment of our zone for closed access operation to enable us to run with primary protons (requires lateral concrete walls, search boxes, …) Mario Deile – 1

TOTEMino Status and Planning: T 1 1. T 1: • • GIF tests ongoing; currently both CSCs there With current H 8 setup: Tests with DAQ (perhaps using cosmics) To be done on short notice; no planning presented • Final goal: quarter of a telescope (15 chambers): Aim: installation end of June Needs major infrastructure changes (concrete platform to be partly removed): operations have impact on the other subsystems’ running has to be started a month earlier I need detailed input data about this project even earlier (not after early May) No medium-term cooling water requirements. Mario Deile – 2

TOTEMino Status and Planning: T 2 1. T 2 group almost self-sustaining (can operate detectors and DAQ) Successful tests in February (system stabilisation, noise studies started) Next steps: • Continue noise studies (from 26. 03. until Easter) • Threshold optimisation Needs threshold fine tuning in SW (not yet available) This is in Emilio’s plan (probably right after Easter) • Trigger performance, time resolution needed to define gas mixture Trigger information not yet available More difficult but planned Problem: no long-term planning (always just a month ahead) Mario Deile – 3

TOTEMino Status and Planning: RP 1. RP First data received from stiff and flexible RP hybrids: to be validated by Jan Next steps: • threshold scans, S-curves: planned for end of this week and next week • broken VFATs to be replaced • then detector to be mounted, scans to be repeated with detector • for detector operation full DCU information needed needs additional SW functionality (before Tuesday or after Easter) Mario Deile – 4

TOTEMino Status and Planning: DAQ 1. DAQ Short-term: Improvements of • VFAT control panel (e. g. scan several VFATS in parallel) • Monitoring (catch cases of missing events, detector-specific features) • Trim. DAC procedure Longer-term: Automation of calibrations: much more difficult, no clear time estimate possible Mario Deile – 5

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A Different Subject The LHC Article !!! I need your contributions. The first raw but complete draft is due for end of March. So far I have only: • Skeletton and some text on electronics • Preliminary version on T 1 Prepare your spam filters for a flood of reminders and complaints, otherwise your mail box will drown. Or just write the stuff. Mario Deile – 7