Status of Supermodule Production Tom Dietel WWU M unster TRD - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Status of Supermodule Production

Tom Dietel

WWU M¨ unster

TRD Status Meeting — 3.11.2008

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Timeline of SM-III

• 21. April – 28. May

construction in 5 weeks, 4 days per layer June/July cosmics running delivery delayed due to lack of electronics for SM-VI August noticed HV problems, suspected HV filter box → disassembly to L2 September rebuild, debugging of stresstest crashes

• 15. October

shipment to CERN several million cosmics events available 1 layer in 4 days is possible, but leaves no time for problems

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High voltage problems in SM-III

All L2C1 chambers showed currents at some point when operated with first suspicion: faulty capacitor in HV filter box (like TPC) high currents only under Ar/CO2 (82:18), disappear under CO2 problem is internal to ROC! One chamber could not be brought to operational voltage (1500V) manual conditioning and reversed current (field emission) did not help chamber replaced and returned to GSI for further testing Gas mixture currents show under Ar/CO2 (82:18) no currents were visible with Xe/CO2 during testbeam no currents were reported by Bukarest (tested with Ar/CO2 70:30) is our test too strict?

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Stresstest crashes

Rare crashes of stresstests (after several hours of running) Stable running if LVDS cells between BM and HCM stay on Venelin came to M¨ unster to debug problem BM misinterprets tristated trigger signal from HCM bugfix: keep LVDS cells on between tracklets and full read-out Unclear why some SMs run stable while others need patch

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Broken voltage regulators (Thomas Janson)

Several ROBs died during debugging with Venelin broken voltage regulator possibly due to broken MCM configuration Thomas Janson investigated and repaired ROBs in Heidelberg likely reason: overcurrent for long time (minutes) reason for overcurrent not clear VRs were replaced and ROBs retested How to prevent this: minimal current limits adjust current limits to expected load further suggestions?

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SM-VI started

Hull for SM-VI has been prepared in August Integration started 16.10. with goal of 3 days per layer 1 week delay due to: mistake in hull preparation (wron orientation of cooling profiles) problem with gas connection between two chambers Meaning of label “diameter of feedthrough too big” on one of the ROCs was not clear, call in Frankfurt could not clarify HV: an L1C1 ROC drew current – replaced with spare, several other ROCs needed some conditioning Goal is delivery before end of November

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Long-term planning

After SM-VI, 14 more SMs need to be build (2 rebuilds, 12 new) Optimistic scenario: 3 days per layer → 4 weeks of integration 1 week of final tests / cosmics / lead time for Hasenkamp transport 1 Supermodule every 5 weeks → 70 weeks in total finish in spring 2010