Active Collimator Installation Pictures
Active Collimator
The active collimator has been delivered to JLab by John Bartolotta. As of July 1, 2014 Alex Barnes is in charge of the assembly, testing, installation and analysis of the active collimator and the data collected with it.
The active collimator is a beam position monitor that consists of a set of machined tungsten wedges placed in two concentric rings about a central hole of 5mm. When the beam hits a wedge it creates a current which can be readout through a preamplifier. Each ring consists of 4 wedges corresponding to +X, +Y, -X, and -Y directions.
Assembly
Components
- Screws
- brass
- round-headed
- 4-40 type
- 3/4 inch long
- Nuts
- brass
- 4-40 type
- 1/4 inch
- Drill bit used to drill out screw head
- 1/32 inch drill bit
- ream out the hole after using the drill bit to give it a taper
- the process is trial and error; drill and mount the RF connector until satisfied
- test connection by measuring the resistance from the RF signal connector to the screw
Pictures
Below are pictures of the assembling process
A machined screw for the RF connector.
The back of the active collimator with only 4 installed wedges.
This is another view of the back of the active collimator with only 4 wedges installed.
The active collimator with only 4 wedges installed. This was taken on the bench at JLab.
The spare wedges provided by FSU.
The fifth wedge has been installed.
Closer shot of the fifth wedge. Notice how the wedge covers the hole slightly. This was noticed and fixed during the assembly process.
The sixth wedge has been installed in the active collimator.
The inner wedges have been adjusted to prevent blockage of the central hole.
The seventh wedge of the collimator has been installed.
All wedges have been installed in the active collimator.
A closer view of all eight wedges of the active collimator.
Installation
The active collimator has been installed in the collimator cave in Hall D. A shielding box was constructed out of plexi and placed above the active collimator.
Active collimator preamps mounted and cabled inside of the plexi shielding.
An overhead view of the active collimator preamps inside the shield box.
Active collimator installed and cabled.
Scheme for active collimator cabling.
Initial noise measurements
Initial noise measurements were recorded by Trent Allison on October 6, 2014. Below is a gallery of the waveforms from each wedge at each gain.
Monitoring screens
Acronyms
- EPICS - Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
- IOC - Input Output Controller (software component)
- CSS - Control System Studio (application development environment)
- OPI file - Operator Interface file (application within CSS)
- AC - Active collimator
- Monticello - the MEDM main display gui that pops up when medm is started
- MEDM - Motif-based Editor and Display Manager (see here) used for graphical displays of active EPICS components by the accelerator, and accessed from the counting house by shift workers.
Viewing AC waveforms in Monticello
Accessing CSS AC GUI
Analysis
Analysis software can be found on the hdops account on the gluon machines in the directory ~/acanalyzer