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| Session leader(s): | Steve Scott |
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| Engineering Operator Run Comment |
| MP491 MSE-DNB Angle Calibration |
| Session Leader Plans |
| Entered: Mar 10 2008 01:50:59:510PM |
| Author: Steve Scott |
| MSE-DNB angle calibration * MP491. * All shots: DNB fired into a gas-filled torus with no magnetic fields. * Reference shot = 1070816025. * 6 PSI gas pressure, deuterium. * Close torus valves except for DNB. * Desired torus pressure = 3 mTorr. * DNB: modulated. Objective of modulation is to get a DNB current waveform that is constant in time, and as high in current as possible. Hope to get 5+ amps. * MSE fibers from various channels will be connected to Bill Rowan's spectrometer, to measure the wavelength of the Halpha line. From this we can infer the Doppler shift and thus the angle between the DNB and the MSE sightlines. * Number of shots: in neighborhood of 7-20. * DNB timing (for short-pulse beam): starting at 0.5 sec. |
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| Session Leader Summaries |
| Entered: Mar 10 2008 05:48:59:100PM |
| Author: Steve Scott |
| We carried out a successful calibration of the MSE-DNB relative angle. Fired the DNB into gas-filled torus while various MSE fibers were inserted into the spectrometer to measure the Doppler shift. the nominal pressure for this expt is 3.0 mTorr. We varied it a little at the request of Igor to facilitate evaluations of the BES absolute calibration. It turns out that 1.0 mTorr is too low, so we had to re-take the last two channels. shot chan dnb pressure spect comment 001 0 ok ok xxx spectrometer not working 002 0 ok ok ok reduced torus pressure a little 003 0 2+ ok* ok only two good dnb pulses. torus pressure a little low 004 0 4+ ok ok only one small fault on dnb. pressure like 002 005 1 ok ok ok 006 2 ok ok ok 007 3 4+ ok ok only one small early dnb fault 008 4 ok ok ok 009 5 4+ ok ok only one small dnb fault 010 6 ok reduced ok pressure reduced to 2.0 on purpose 011 7 4 reduced ok 4 pulses, one of which had small fault 012 8 2.5 1.0 weak only 2 good dnb pulses. pressure reduced again 013 9 ok 1.0 weak 014 8 ok 1.9-2.0 ok 015 9 ok 1.9-2.0 ok |
| Physics Operator Summaries |
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| Mar 10 2008 01:50:20:027PM | Steve Scott | Status 1:45 PM 1. Logic problem with DNB. 2. Other miscellaneous computer issue, being investigated by Josh. Run is on hold pending resolution of these problems. | |
| Mar 10 2008 03:12:44:300PM | 1080310001 | Steve Scott | Good shot. MSE spatial channel 0 into spectometer. DNB = 0.5 to 1.0 sec, modulated. G-side MKS = 3.0-3.2 mTorr. Alas, no signal was observed on the spectrometer. |
| Mar 10 2008 03:30:41:677PM | 1080310002 | Steve Scott | Repeat shot 001: MSE spatial channel 0 into spectrometer. Also, try to reduce the torus pressure by about 15%. result: same dnb as shot #1: good. torus pressure is 2.9-3.0 mTorr: good spectrometer: good. signal level is OK, but might benefit from increasing the slit width. So next shot: increase slit width, otherwise same conditions |
| Mar 10 2008 03:36:57:677PM | 1080310003 | Steve Scott | MSE spatial channel 0. DNB: only two good pulses. something wierd happened to torus values. torus pressure a little lower than previous shot: P_torus = 2.6 - 2.8 this shot. will have to repeat this shot once more ... |
| Mar 10 2008 03:49:54:490PM | 1080310004 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 0 dnb: pretty good (one small fault) torus pressure: identical to shot 2. good |
| Mar 10 2008 04:02:12:333PM | 1080310005 | Steve Scott | MSE spatial channel 1 dnb: good. torus pressure: good. |
| Mar 10 2008 04:15:02:443PM | 1080310006 | Steve Scott | MSE spatial channel #2. dnb good. pressure good. |
| Mar 10 2008 04:27:45:097PM | 1080310007 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 3. dnb good. torus pressure good. |
| Mar 10 2008 04:41:40:130PM | 1080310008 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 4. dnb good. torus pressure good. |
| Mar 10 2008 05:22:35:287PM | 1080310009 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 5. one small fault on dnb. good torus pressure |
| Mar 10 2008 05:03:43:707PM | 1080310010 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 6. dnb = good. torus pressure: at Igor's request, torus pressure was reduced to 2.0 mTorr. It will remain at this value for the remainder of the afternoon. |
| Mar 10 2008 05:12:31:910PM | 1080310011 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 7. dnb had 4 pulses, one of which had small fault. pressure = 2.0 mTorr again |
| Mar 10 2008 05:34:16:350PM | 1080310012 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 8. dnb was poor. just 2 clean pulses. Later, we realized that the torus pressure is insufficient. So we will have to repeat this shot. |
| Mar 10 2008 05:34:37:397PM | 1080310013 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 9 dnb is good. torus pressure 1.0 mTorr as requested. But torus pressure is really insufficient. Will have to repeat this shot. |
| Mar 10 2008 05:40:20:800PM | 1080310014 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 8 dnb good. pressure raised successfully to 2.0 mtorr |
| Mar 10 2008 05:49:54:723PM | 1080310015 | Steve Scott | mse spatial channel 9. dnb good. torus pressure = 1.9-2.0 = ok ***** this is the end of tonight's experiment ****** |
| Physics Operator Comments | |||
| Mar 10 2008 02:57:12:113PM | 1080310001 | Steve Wolfe | Loaded shot #1070816025 (beam into gas no field) for Steve Scott Load at 10-Mar-2008 14:55:30.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done |
| Mar 10 2008 03:16:24:897PM | 1080310001 | Steve Wolfe | For shot #2, reduce gas puff from 1.13 to 1.0sec Load at 10-Mar-2008 15:16:02.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done |
| Mar 10 2008 05:09:04:707PM | 1080310011 | Steve Wolfe | For shot #12, reduce gas puff from 0.667 sec to 0.333 sec (Bob made the change to .667) Load at 10-Mar-2008 17:08:27.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done |
| Mar 10 2008 05:33:36:410PM | 1080310013 | Steve Wolfe | For shot #14, increase gas puff from .333 back to 0.667 sec Load at 10-Mar-2008 17:32:54.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done |
| Engineering Operator Comments | ||||
| Shot | Time | Type | Status | Comment |
| 1 | 03:05:49:067PM | Test | Ok | |
| 2 | 03:23:13:893PM | Test | Ok | |
| 3 | 03:32:19:380PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 4 | 03:46:34:753PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 5 | 03:59:31:380PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 6 | 04:12:20:410PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 7 | 04:24:08:457PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 8 | 04:37:15:927PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 9 | 04:46:20:800PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 10 | 04:56:00:707PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 11 | 05:06:06:830PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 12 | 05:16:18:567PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 13 | 05:25:50:410PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 14 | 05:37:12:347PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
| 15 | 05:46:12:863PM | Test | Ok | dnb test |
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