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dan.chen - 15:02 Wednesday 23 July 2025 (34635) Print this report
XPcal calibration

With Marco Meyer-Conde

We performed monthly Pcal-X calibration on.

After the calibration, we updated EPICS parameters related to the Pcal-X system.
No issues were found.

EPICS Key Before After
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_1_PD_BG_TX_V_SET 0.00623 0.00632
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_2_PD_BG_TX_V_SET 0.00525 0.00528
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_1_PD_BG_RX_V_SET -0.00373 -0.00380
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_1_OE_T_SET 0.98412 0.98478
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_1_OE_R_SET 0.98412 0.98478
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_2_OE_T_SET 0.97762 0.97744
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_2_OE_R_SET 0.97762 0.97744
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_1_RX_V_R_SET 0.50229 0.50223
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_2_RX_V_R_SET 0.49771 0.49777
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_WSK_PER_TX1_SET 0.52681 0.52695
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_WSK_PER_TX2_SET 0.38718 0.38723
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_WSK_PER_RX_SET 1.48938 1.48964
K1:CAL-PCAL_EX_2_INJ_V_GAIN 0.94919 0.95074
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dan.chen - 16:25 Thursday 24 July 2025 (34653) Print this report

Detailed memo including time stamp (written by Marco-san)

Plan: 

— Corner station Pcal beam position adjustment 

— Observations with guardian 

— Move to the end station X for calibration measurement

(Transfer function measurement planned today by others after corner station activities)

 

Timeline on 07/23

9:00 daily meeting / commissioning meeting

9:07 discussing today hardware activities 

9:20 being prepare to go to the mine 

9:27 entering the central area

 

controls@k1ctrl7 guardian (requesting CAL_PCAL_EX)

cal-onsite-analysis002/pre_O4/pcal-x:

  • preparing python script for calibration, adjustments scripts
  • Misaligning ITMX to reduce brightness (9:36)
  • checking exposure time (300ms) for EXA
  • took first picture to be analyzed (pcmanfm 9:40) on controls@calcenter01
  • Activating cal37 conda env. 
  • Moving pico1 motor for path1 by 100 (9:45). This increased the EX1 PD Rx intensity
  • Moving pico4 for path2. Checking now EX2 PD Rx
  • Alignment looks nice (9:50), stopping picomotor (9:53) 
  • Actually the EX_1_Rx went down a little by 0.13mm (TBC)
  • WORKING_WITH_OBSERVATION state requested (9:58)

 

10:00 Leaving central area

10:04 taking T3

10:18 arriving at end station

10:23 changing before actions

10:30 ready to work, entering clean room

~ Dan making some bips in the back of the Tx station 

 

10:38 Dan is preparing the Rx workstation

11:23 Placing WSK Rx to path 1

11:59 Switching WSK to path 2

12:08 Measuring dark noise

12:20 Waiting for WSK warmup time at Tx

           Repositioning RxPD

12:45 Measuring TxPD1

12:51 Switching to TxPD2 

~shutter effect discussions 

 

13:08 Preparation for calibrating the readout offset using WSK (by measuring the readout voltage of WSK knowing the true value)

13:28 Measuring now the dark offset

14:00 End of measurement

14:08 Leaving the area

 

14:28 Entering central area, dropping materials for tomorrow measurement at end-Y

14:30 Checking the results

14:40 Updating the EPICS values for PcalX

14:45 klog report writing 

15:05 Leaving the area, going back to Mozumi

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