January 23, 2019 online meeting minutes

present: Sergey Boyarinov, Graham, Nathan, Raffaella, vpk, Ben, Rafo, Stepan

1. Upcoming run preparations:

• new connector for SPACEFRAME-PIETOWER trigger cable: installed by Armen and checked by Ben; need strain relief, will ask Armen

• VME crates filters were cleaned up (Chris)

• level3 helicity correction, trigger pattern in ET control words, better ROCs sync check:

• new TDs: we have 3 kind of media converters, some couple are incompatible, observed problem wit tdcctof1-td connection; will continue testing and may need to swap between SSP and TD

• electronic cleanup: in progress

• new trigger: HTCC validation, new dictionary with pcalUVW and HTCC: Sergey and Rafo are working on C++ HTCC validation, some issues have to be resolved with missing banks in simulated data, December validation data were cooked and will be used for validation; on new road trigger, 3 different road dictionaries in process of generation: Raffaella created factmc-based dictionary with extra pcalUVW column, Silvia created grim-based dictionary and working on data-based dictionary, first 2 passed to Ben, we decided that Ben will prepared 3 triggers for upcoming run: old one, new with Raffaella's dictionary and new with Silvia dictionary, last two will be validated and old one used until, validation data being processed, detailed plan will be discussed Friday