Lightning Triggered Shutdown

 

 

 

Schedule Information

 

•     Store 8594 terminated on a quench due to a lightning strike

•     Accelerator experts were unable to re-establish Tevatron ramp at 980 GeV

•     Experts report a suspected failed Tevatron dipole at D16-2 (turn to turn short in winding is suspected)

•     Warm-up of the Tevatron D sector is in progress

•     Likely down for at least seven days to replace the failed dipole magnet and a spool piece

•     Current projection is that stacking will resume on Tuesday 29 March 2011 during the day shift

•     The Tevatron will be cold again on Wednesday morning 30 March

•     Shot setup estimated for Thursday evening 31 March

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•     Run magnet off cosmics through 0700 on Thursday 24 March

–      Ensure that calorimeter calibrations runs are successfully completed

–      Then arrange to have the solenoid and toroid ramped down and locked out

–      Ramp SMT and muon systems to full

–      Record magnet off cosmic triggered data (only TTK prescales including CAL noise monitoring) with standard configuration of readout crates included in the run

–      Shift crew should routinely monitor dataflow and examines, filling out checklists regularly, with runs transition at least every eight hours

–      Requests for other activities or access to the collision hall should be directed to the run coordinator team, but expert activity anticipated during day shifts

•     Open North EF and cathedrals Thursday morning

–      Expect access available by 1100

–      While detector is open run zero bias or cosmics with all crate that are not required to other purposes by subsystem experts, but ensure that recording is OFF

•     Verify detector ready for closing by Monday evening at 1800

•     Close detector again at 0700 on Tuesday 29 March

•     Ramp magnets after detector closing (to ensure that detector is fully closed)

–      Acquire Calorimeter and SMT calibrations

•     Record magnet on cosmics

–    Monitor examines and alarms and address features asap to ensure that the detector is ready for collisions when they arrive

 

 

The Fermilab program planning schedule is available via this link.

 

All requests for survey and/or alignment crew support during the shutdown should have been submitted through Bill Cooper (Cooper@fnal.gov) with copies to d0rc@fnal.gov.

 

 

 

Candidate Task List for This Shutdown

      

          Infrastructure

·       Complete repairs on Trane chiller and test?

·       Chiller maintenance (not this shutdown)

·       Replacement of Mycom relief valves during power outage? (not this shutdown)

·       Eliminate remaining daisy chained extension cords during power outages (not this shutdown)

·       Perform surveys/alignments  (not this shutdown)

·       UPS maintenance—Cryo and HVAC  (not this shutdown)

·       Address warm electrical panel?

·       Improve radiation shielding at low beta quads? (not this shutdown)_

·       Further stabilization of the low beta quad girders? (not this shutdown)

·       Routine maintenance

o   Check transfer line vacuums and pump as appropriate

o   Warm up solenoid lead?  (not this shutdown)

o   Warm up VLPC cryostats to 40K  (not this shutdown)

o   Warm up west VLPC lid gasket?

o   Check Freon charge on silicon chillers?

·       Investigate possible water leak in east cathedral between SMT power supplies

·       Perform safety system tests (not during this shutdown)

o   Test remote power down buttons?

o   Check torques on solenoid bus connections?

o   Test rack protection systems?

·       Crate/Rack maintenance

o   Verify blanks in open slots of crates?

o   Clean heat exchangers as appropriate

o   Check status of fans/blowers

o   Check status of Cal preamp fans

 

          Silicon Microstrip Tracker

·       HDI recovery effort ---in progress

o   Download failures

o   Investigate currently disabled chips

·       Continue investigation of response as a function of Time since Level 1 accept ---in progress

·       Continue preparations for optimization of operating parameters (disk HV and SVX parameters)

·       Add resistance to SMT AVDD power supply feedback to eliminate possibility of oscillation?

·       Adjust SMT IB voltage limits to reduce possibility of oscillation?

·       Verify stability of HV system and check HV calibrations

·       Adjust Sequencer PS voltage levels

·       Complete R2D0 installation and commissioning ---installation complete 25 March 2011

·       Address LVPS readback issues?

·       Check silicon chiller setpoint calibration and adjust as appropriate?

·       Updated calibration

 

 

          Central Fiber Tracker

·       Continue investigation of updated AFE readout firmware ---offline verification underway

·       Replace AFE with failed TripT ---complete

·       Update VRBC firmware (noise immunity for buffer counts after SDAQ verification)?

·       Address light leak in FPS readout system

·       Adjust 5V in AFE power supply 2B?

·       Stabilization of AFE power supplies?  (not this shutdown)

·       Thermal cycle of cryostat—reset heater operating points to 9K  (not this shutdown)

·       Complete Temperature Control fix implementation   (not this shutdown)

·       VRB re-assignments to balance loads—for high lumi running (not a preferred activity)?

·       Testing AFE spares on the platform?

·       Hunt for source of occasional AFE power supply trips when platform is occupied

·       Hunt for sources of rare coherent discriminator noise?

·       Check on the power distribution for the AFE fans?  (not this shutdown)

·       Investigate re-biasing of VLPCs?   (not this shutdown)

·       Preventative replacement of aging LVPS in cathedral???  (not this shutdown)

 

          CALorimeter

·       Monitor for calorimeter noise ---in progress

·       Top off liquid argon levels?

·       Turn off the CAL HV during a long shutdown  (not this shutdown)

·       Address cal preamp power supply failures  PA02P, PA11P and perhaps PA05P---in progress

·       Check the status of cal preamp fans

·       Check CAL HV supplies calibration

·       Another round of CAL pulser tests to check for SCA failures

·       Address individual channel issues

o   Isolate sparking channels

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

o   Individual channel recoveries

o   PMT replacements

o   HV stabilization

o   HV adjustments

o   Additional ICD high voltage optimization

o   Check on status of potentially mis-routed ICD pulser cable

·       Opto-isolator check for all BLS supplies???  (not this shutdown)

·       Improve calorimeter feedthrough port monitoring? (not this shutdown)

 

 

Central MUON

·       Remove two PDT wires and inspect  (not this shutdown)

·       Hunt for potential PDT gas leaks (not this shutdown)

·       Clean HV service cards as appropriate

·       Prepare dry air compressors for routine summer service---in progress

·       Investigate sources of data flow interruptions---in progress

·       Add water to A Layer PDT gas?  (not this shutdown)

·       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

·       Recover failed A Layer PDT channels ---complete

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

·       Recover disabled A layer scintillator channels if any develop

·       HV supply calibrations?

·       In-situ tests of SRC spares---in progress

 

 

Forward MUON  MDT

·       Monitor radiation aging via cosmic ray response

·       HV dark current measurements

·       Test dead and noisy channels and adjust list of masked channels

·       VME LVPS maintenance (including fans and replacement of fuses)

·       Measure ADB PS output voltages

·       Verify calibration of all HV PS---complete 22 March 2011

·       Inspect MDT gas system

o   Test calibrations and levels of gas losses

·       Reprogram CPLD in FE electronics

 

Forward MUON pixels

·       LVPS maintenance (including fans and fuse replacements)

·       Verify calibration of all HV PS

·       Individual channel recoveries

o   Replacement of failed PMTs and bases

·       LED calibration of all counters

o   Verify stability of gains and timing

·       Radioactive source check on calibration of selected channels

·       Install spare synch cables

·       Investigate/address First Crossing Errors

·       Test spare SRCs in collision hall

·       Survey pixel octant locations

 

 

Level 1 Central Track Trigger

·       Recover failed mixer board

·       Investigate events with large numbers of discriminators fired in cosmics ---in progress

·       Investigate satellites in zero bias discriminator fired distributions---in progress

·       Retire FPS triggering to reduce probability of downtime during running?

 

Level 1 CALorimeter

·       Hunt for individual cell noise sources

·       Investigate and recover disabled trigger towers (if any)

·       Run VME I/O stress test?

 

Level 1 Muon

·       Perform high rate tests

·       Replace L1 Muon trigger board (to address BCERROR)

·       Check for bad cable connections, parity errors and re-terminate cables as necessary---in progress

·       Verify spare status

·       Perhaps replace onboard batteries?

 

Level 2

·       Fix waterleak in M121 ---complete 25 March 2011

·       Test spare SLICs (in online system) ---in progress

·       Investigate source of global mismatches

·       Investigate source of trigger rate dips

·       Enhance tools to identify source of FEBs

 

Level 2 Silicon Track Trigger

·       Investigate file descriptor issue in IOCs

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

·       Verify error handling and busy assertions?

 

Trigger Framework

·       Investigate SMT busy

·       Update VME scaler firmware

·       Test spare TCC?

·       Trigger rate tests (deadtime investigations)?

 

          DAQ/Online

·       Update kernels of all online nodes, farm nodes and DAQ cluster---in progress

·       Upgrades/maintenance as appropriate

·       Test “new” SBCs (in CFT crates on Tuesday) --- status of spares mounted on extenders remains uncertain

·       Test DAQ functionality with network link disconnected (~2 hour test)?

 

 

 

Collision Hall Access Plan

 

Current plan is to attempt to maintain the collision hall interlocks at least until decision is made regarding whether to reconfigure detector

 

–     Rad safety authorized collision hall activities include

•      Routine maintenance

•      Inspections

•      Troubleshooting

•      Installation and removal of equipment in accordance with procedures

–     Prohibited collision hall activities include

•      Eating, drinking and smoking

•      Cutting, drilling or grinding on radioactive materials

•      Work in areas posted as “High Radiation and/or Contamination Areas”

 

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

 

 

Shift Coverage (and responsibilities) During the (Unscheduled) Shutdown

 

Anticipate that detector shifters may be allowed to go on-call for a portion of this shutdown (from 1800 on 21 March 2011 through at least 1600 on Monday 28 March 2011).

 

Reduced shift coverage is as follows:

·       On-call support for each subsystem should be available as usual.

·       Captains in control room during the day (with additional responsibility to attempt to keep DAQ running when possible), and DAQ shifter in the control room around the clock on evening.

o   During periods of reduced control room presence, captains and DAQ shifters are expected to also monitor SMT IDVDD and heartbeat guis to ensure that the SMT is appropriately protected.

·       If detector shifters are on-call, they must report to the control room at the beginning of their shift (as scheduled---tracking farmer may report in at 0800), and verify the status of the subsystem (including alarms), perform checklists, and leave a contact number.

o   While cosmics are running tracking shifter is also asked to post CTT examine plots and verify that special examine is running at CFT console

§  If examine is not running please restart it in the following way: 1) click on 'upper arrow' , 2) type 'init', 3) click on 'Enter', 4) type 'start', 4) click on 'Enter'. All this from top rightmost field of desktop windows manager on d0ol102:0:0.    When Comics end stop this examine using Ctrl_c.

o   CALMUO shifter should monitor for calorimeter noise, post plots as appropriate, and check for alarms, paging experts for problems they cannot solve.

 

If the transition to supervised access is made, the control room shifter is asked to verify that the issued supervised access keys are accounted for at the beginning and end of each of their shifts.

 

 

Additional Reference Information

 

       DAQ tutorials

                   Running the DAQ

COOR

                   Data Flow

 

2011 Com Ed  Scheduled shutdown web page

 

2010 shutdown web page

 

2009 shutdown web page  

 

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: 26 March 2011    G. Ginther  numeric page 1-630-218-3217