2009 Shutdown

 

 

 

Shutdown Schedule Information

 

DETECTOR is CLOSED.

COLLISION HALL is SECURED.

 

The start of HEP is now expected later next week on or before Saturday 19 September.

Store 7183 delivered on 15 September

The latest AD Run Coordinator schedule is available here.

 

Propose to install NETAPP upgrade on September 10.

 

The current expectation is that the 2009 shutdown may be the last several month scheduled shutdown of Tevatron Run II.   Assuming that the program runs through the end of Fiscal Year 2011, there may be an order four week additional scheduled downtime for maintenance late in 2010.

According to the Program Planning Office, the 2009 shutdown is required for necessary maintenance, civil construction in the Main Injector area, and other work.  The Accelerator Division will make use of the available shutdown time to re-align Tevatron components and warm six houses to improve vacuum quality.   Power distribution maintenance will also be performed.

 

As of November 2008, the Fermilab Program Planning Office announced that the 2009 accelerator shutdown was scheduled for the ten weeks from Monday, 15 June, through Sunday, 23 August.    As of April 2009, the drivers of the shutdown duration were expected to be the MiNu civil construction and the booster improvements, leading to a ten week shutdown duration (with alignment activities during the eleventh week).   As of the May 2009 meeting, the plan to warm-up six Tevatron houses drives the shutdown duration to 12 weeks, with booster and Main Injector commissioning during the 12th week of the shutdown.

 

The start date for the shutdown is fixed as 14 June 2009.  An overview of the DZero shutdown schedule is available here.  

 

Half hour site wide power outages scheduled for Monday 22 June and Monday 27 July at 0700.   The  (multi-hour) power outage at DZero to perform maintenance on the local power distribution was completed on Saturday 20 June between 0700 and 1530.  

 

The current Accelerator Division Shutdown Schedule is available here.

 

All requests for survey and/or alignment crew support during the shutdown should have been submitted before 10 April.  Please contact Bill Cooper (Cooper@fnal.gov) regarding such requests (with copies to d0rc@fnal.gov).

 

Shutdown Schedule Overview xls  pdf  

 

Accelerator Division Schedules

 

 

Candidate Task List

      

          Infrastructure (including Mechanical Ops group activities)

·       Perform surveys/alignments---Monday June 15

·       Address LN2 Dewar 39 vacuum issue---scheduled to begin July 13—cooldown scheduled for 19 August

·       UPS maintenance—Cryo and HVAC---completed Tuesday June 16

·       Install wooden steps to center platform on west side--complete

·       Improve radiation shielding at low beta quads?—AD installed shielding

·       Improve stability of low beta quads

·       SNEG bake-out?

·       Routine maintenance

o      Check transfer line vacuums and pump as appropriate

o      Warm up solenoid lead

o      Warm up VLPC cryostats to 50K—natural consequence of power distribution maintenance

o      Warm up west VLPC lid gasket

o      Replace ODH heads in collision hall

o      Check Freon charge on silicon chillers

·       Address water leak in MCH1—tightened on June 20

·       Investigate water leak in east cathedral between SMT power supplies—not observed on opening

·       Perform safety system tests

o      Test remote power down buttons--complete

o      Check toroid bus connections—in progress

o      Check torques on solenoid bus connections--complete

o      Test rack protection systems?

·       Refurbish all collision hall blowers that have not been refurbished in past three years—complete

·       Crate/Rack maintenance

o      Verify blanks in open slots of crates?

o      Clean heat exchangers as appropriate

o      Check status of fans?

o      Check status of Cal preamp fans

·       Volk’s water level work again

 

LUMI Monitors

·       Replace luminosity monitor scintillators--complete

             

          Silicon Microstrip Tracker-- v1---many activities require gap access

·       Complete R2D0 installation and commissioning

·       Check silicon chiller setpoint calibration and adjust as appropriate

·       Investigate possibility of reducing chiller operating setpoint?

·       Investigate possibility of increasing humidity?

·       Replace suspect Interface Boards—in progress

·       HDI recovery effort---underway

o      HDIs that failed as gap was closed last time

o      Recover B1-6-9

o      Data in wrong order

o      Chips with 00 data

o      Chips with 00 ID

o      Download failures

o      Investigate currently disabled chips

·       H disk efforts—in progress

o      H3-2-12 and H3-1-14 IB issue

o      Investigate HV problems

o      Investigate Interface Board problems

·       Complete watchdog installation and commissioning

·       Weiner Power supply diode upgrade—completed June 19

·       Address LVPS readback issues

 

          Central Fiber Tracker

·       Thermal cycle of cryostat—reset heater operating points to 9K----complete

·       Address cold spots in cryostat?  (test and run both heaters simultaneously for 8A7, 2A5, and 9A5)---complete

·       Test automated shutdown of AFE power on AFE temperature excursion—complete

·       Investigate possibility of external crash button for AFE power

·       Evaluate and deploy readout improvement (to save 200 nsec per L1 accept)—CFT and CPS implemented

·       Complete Temperature Control fix implementation?—only installed on boards removed for other reasons

·       VRB re-assignments to balance loads?—will not be implemented this shutdown

·       Testing AFE spares on the platform—complete

·       Replace 12 tript in CFT with occasional readout issues—(three FPS boards too!)--complete

·       Hang curtains?---investigated and see no evidence that curtains will be beneficial—complete, no need for curtains

·       Hunt for sources of rare coherent discriminator noise

·       Address AFE LVPS readback issues—complete

·       Check on the power distribution for the AFE fans?

·       Investigate re-biasing of VLPCs?

 

          CALorimeter

·       Top off liquid argon levels on SEC and CC---complete

·       Address cal preamp power supply failures---complete

·       Replace bricks in pulser power supplies---complete

·       Investigate root cause of HV related fall 2008 purple haze---complete

·       Replace CAL HV supplies that were out of spec---complete

·       Address individual channel issues---in progress

o      Isolate sparking channels

·       Investigate ICD channels that are still not performing up to expectations

o      Individual channel recoveries—fixed 64 channels

o      PMT replacements---30 PMTs replaced

o      Improve NW pulser connections---complete

o      ICD preamp connector update?---not addressed

o      HV stabilization---25 pods replaced

o      HV adjustments—48 channels adjusted

·       Verify output voltages and voltage trip limits for all HV supplies—complete

·       Improve shielding of cable paths against muon noise

 

Central MUON

·       Remove two PDT wires and inspect—scheduled for Tuesday June 23 and complete

·       Address Crate 0x35 and 0x3a readout issues (if not previously addressed)

·       Complete the process of cleaning up 1553 communications paths?

·       Test control boards in attempt to improve hot link reliability

·       Verify thin FEBs in all locations in upper cathedral---complete

·       Recover failed A Layer PDT—complete

o      PDT 025 L1 Errors and FEB

o      PDT 036 disabled

·       Install additional (second) dry air purge  for PDT HV

o      A Layer PDTs

·       Clean PDT HV service cards---in progress

o      PDT 222, 232, 212 HV distribution---scaffolding on the west side or over the edge?

o      Install additional dry air purge

o      Including PDTS 115, 135, 116, and 136

·       Install FEB bypass firmware in any bottom PDTs that are pulled out---complete

·       Relocate PDT FEBs to optimize location of FEBs with ATMEL chips

·       Recover disabled A layer scintillator channels--complete

·       Repair two APhi Scintillation Counters

o      At least one phototube that needs to be replaced in A Layer

 

Forward MUON

·       Check all Front-Ends and refresh MDT firmware—should start this week

·       Verify calibrations

o      Repair a broken wire for pixel LED calibration--complete

 

Level 1 Central Track Trigger

·       DFEF investigations and revival?

·       Implement remote power cycle capability for the Mixer?

·       Eliminate master slave configuration of power supplies (if not previously addressed)

·       Blower replacements

 

Level 1 CALorimeter

·       Hunt for individual cell noise sources during prep for power outages?

·       Investigate and recover disabled trigger towers (if any)

·       Insure that sailboat monitoring is fully implemented

·       Weiner Power supply diode upgrade—complete

·       Exercise/swap Weiner power supply---complete

·       Run VME I/O stress test

 

Level 1 Muon

·       Verify spare status

·       Address power supply readback issues

·       Check cabling to make system more robust--complete

·       Perhaps replace onboard batteries?

·       Install cable protection for racks in Platform East entrance--complete

 

Level 2

·       Investigate source of global mismatches—has not been occurring recently

·       Investigate source of trigger rate dips

·       Investigate cause of timeouts on run starts

·       Enhance tools to identify source of FEBs

·       CIC power supply repair--complete

 

Level 2 Silicon Track Trigger

·       Complete investigation of the performance problems when beam is near 0

·       Address Crate 0x70 reliability issue (if not previously addressed)

·       Evaluate status of cable protections

·       Verify error handling and busy assertions?

·       Install cable protection?

 

Trigger Framework—TFW unavailable due to maintenance on Monday 27 July

·       TFW maintenance and stress tests

o      Replace rear fan in M101

o      Install airflow switch in M101

o      Check cooling status in M101, M122, M123, M124

o      How about similar checks in M100?

·       Investigate M122 top scalar crate hangs—in progress

·       TCC maintenance/upgrades?

·       Trigger rate tests?

 

 

          DAQ/Online

·       Upgrades/Maintenance as appropriate

o      NETAPPS hardware/firmware/software upgrade—new NETAPP PO placed

o      Improve cluster robustness?

o      New SATABeasts for data disks—PO placed

·       Test “new” SBCs---underway

·       Additional or larger monitor for ACNET console--installed

·       Test DAQ functionality with network link disconnected (~2 hour test)—scheduled for 8 Sept

 

Shift Scheduling During the Shutdown

 

Expect to operate with reduced shift crew coverage from 16 June through 4 September, with only one shifter scheduled in the control room at a time (in addition to the Mechanical Ops shifter).   This control room shifter will be responsible for monitoring detector status and responding to alarms (contacting experts as needed), powering down the SMT HDIs if the DVDD current draws get too large, powering down the AFEs if the AFE board temperatures get to high, addressing requests for DAQ support, including attempting to maintain the DAQ data flow with as many crates as available in the default global run.  General directions for shifters in the control room during the shutdown can be found here.

 

In addition to the on-call experts, the following shift coverage is anticipated during the majority of the shutdown:

                   0000-0800          DAQ shifter and Ops shifter

                   0800-1600          Captain and Ops shifter

                   1600-2400          DAQ shifter and Ops shifter

 

Supervised access keys are to be issued by only Captains, Ops shifters, or the Run Coordination team.

If a supervised access key is required after 1600, or before 0800, the Ops shifter will issue the key.

The control room shifter is asked to verify that the issued keys are understood at the beginning and end of each of their shifts.

 

 

Access Plan

 

Supervised access keys are to be issued by only Captains, Ops shifters, or the Run Coordination team.  Please make sure to return your key before leaving the area.

 

The DZero collision hall is expected to be in supervised access mode most of the time between Monday 15 June through Friday 4 September.

 

Supervised Access Procedures

 

Don’t forget to frisk yourself and survey anything that comes from the collision hall as you exit.

 

Gap Access Procedures  

Radiation survey in the gap yielded maximum readings of 7mR/hour. Only those qualified for gap access are allowed in the gap.  Pocket dosimeters must be worn while working in the gap.

 

 

Additional Reference Information

 

       DAQ tutorials

                   Running the DAQ

COOR

                   Data Flow

 

       2008 shutdown web page

 

2007 shutdown web page

 

          2006 shutdown web page

 

       Fermilab Environment, Safety and Health Section

 

          PPD Implementation of Integrated Safety Management Policy, Hazard Analysis Procedure and Form

          PPD ES&H Tools

 

 

Last updated: 15 September 2009    G. Ginther  numeric page 1-630-218-3217