proposal draft (with link to bookpage)
SDU iTPC blog (Qinghu Xu)
Chinese iTPC project (part of Project 973 for RHIC physics)
mailing list: (itpc-l@lists.bnl.gov)
September 2016 NP iTPC review
September 2017 DOE Progress Review
A talk on the iTPC was given to the instrumentation group on December 03 by FV. The talks is attached to this page.
The iTPC was developed into a proposal. The technical design report is available as a STAR note SN0644.
Historical remarks:
We propose to upgrade the inner sectors of the STAR TPC to increase the segmentation on the inner pad plane and to renew the inner sector wires which are showing signs of aging. The upgrade will provide better momentum resolution, better dE/dx resolution, and most importantly it will provide improved acceptance at high rapidity to |eta|<1.7 compared to the current TPC configuration of |eta|<~1.0. In this proposal, we demonstrate that acceptance at high rapidity is a crucial part of STAR’s future as we contemplate forward physics topics such as p-A, e-A and the proposed phase II of the Beam Energy Scan program (BES II). Unlike the outer TPC sectors, the current inner TPC pad row geometry does not provide hermetic coverage at all radii. The inner pads are 11.5 mm tall yet the spacing between rows is variable but always greater than 5 cm, resulting in "missing rows". Approximately, only 20% of the path length of the charged particle traversing the TPC inner sector has been sampled by the electronics readout.
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2014/02/10/star-rd-2014-and-itpc-review
internal review:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2015/02/05/itpc-internal-review
New Electronics
optimize strongback for more electronics readout channels and for reducing materials.
Drawings from the original TPC design
prototype iTPC strongback machining at UT Austin:
machining strongback 10/15/2013
TPC insertion tool:
Fabrication of wire chambers
Pad size vs anode wire distance to padplance
STAR Note #0263
Design of a prototype mini-drift TPC at SDU:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/iTPCmtg_0912.pdf
tools for measuring wire tension:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/wire%20tension%20measurement_1.pdf
wire tension parameters:
Wire Distortion calculations:
Searching for the possible tri-critical point in the QCD phase diagram is one of the major scientific tasks in heavy-ion physics.
Elliptic flow of identified particles has been used to study the properties of the strongly interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma.
Directed flow (v1) excitation functions have been proposed as promising observables for uncovering evidence of crossing a first-order phase transition, based on hydrodynamic calculations.
In addition to the above highlights of physics impact of the iTPC upgrade, the upgrade improves the tracking efficiency at low momentum.
The upgrade also significantly enhances STAR’s physics capability at RHIC top energy. The improved dE/dx resolution allows better separation of charged kaons and protons at high momentum.
This page have been repurposed to be the main page for management for the iTPC that was approved as a BNL Capital
project (< 5M%$). The subpages will contain the main point for iTPC manegement. The old pages have been deleted at this point.
Following the DOE review the project files are being updated.
November 20, 2016
Draft milestone table from current WBS excel file
The greyed out lines are poposed not to be in the Project Management Plan
Older files:
Management Forms from BNL; Project and cost files
The cost spreadsheet is from March 21, 2016. The numbers are used in the project management plan
Project Management Plan:
Version 12: updated version for September review.
Verdion 20: updated with KPP and clarification- changes since December marker in red.
Version 21: updated org chart (Feb 2018)
Reports quarterly.
Reports quarterly.
The material here is from several ES&H reviews and their follow ups.
compiled by Robert Pak 8/15/17
Attached is a folder of documents regarding safety reviews with C-AD you requested for distribution to DOE. There were the following meetings (additional internal meetings and discussions with vendors occurred that are not included here):
i) ASSRC meeting on March 8th (Robert presented for Rahul).
ii) Engineering review of the installation platform on March 29th (Rahul presented remotely).
iii) ESRC meeting on May 8th (Flemming and Tonko presented).
iv) ASSRC meeting for enclosure with fire safety engineer on August 4th (Robert presented).
v) Installation platform inspection by C-AD on August 15th (no formal presentation).
Upcoming meetings include:
i) Meeting on tests in the clean area.
ii) ESRC meeting once power requirements for the new detector are finalized.
iii) ESRC walk through before turn on.
Review was held at BNL
Here are the final reports
The review was held on September 13 & 14 in Washington DC
All the talks and background material is available at the BNL indico page
The closeout report will be posted once finalized.
I already extracted the recommendation and the comments that needs some action. Note it is preliminary since we do
not have the final report, but it should still beuseful. See attachment. (9/20/16)
The final close-out report was received on 12/14/2016 nd attached to this page. See list below
The talks from the Jan 2016 Directors review are on the BNL indico page
Response to recommendations
Update on KPP -- we asked for more time on this which was granted
We are suggesting a path forward for adding a KPP that reflects that the UPP dE/dx is achievable. At the review it was suggested, for example, to use the width from using signal from an 55Fe source.
The connection between observed resolution of an 55Fe source and final dE/dx is not trivial. The resolution of the source does e.g. depend on how the signal is read out e.g. via the pads or the wires.
We are pursuing this by simulations of MWPC response to 5.9 KeV electrons, by reviewing historical records since part of the original acceptance criteria was a scan of all sectors with sources, and investigating the just started tests with 55Fe source and X-ray gun at SDU, all to understand what the ideal response to stand alone measurements would be.
We hope you will agree to such a path forward and the plan is to aim for having a quantified proposal by January 30 2017 for this KPP. Enclosed are the suggested table, and text.
The requested material will be collected here. For now it's the list that can be updated
The first response was by Oct 15 to provide an updated KPP. The repsonse that was send in is attached here
By November 1 we have to provide a workforce plans
The iTPC group should work with RHIC management to anticipate and identify workforce needs for construction, installation, and commissioning and develop a plan to mitigate any schedule risk due to a lack of technical and mechanical support personnel. Submit the workforce plan to DOE by November 1, 2016. |
I have worked with a few members of iTPC and STSG to come up with the first estimates. These are contained in two documanents
one describing the activities, and a second with a summary of resources. Its not yet complete.
See the attached documents.
The second items is
Generate a Lessons Learned document from the construction and commissioning of the original STAR TPC and submit to DOE by November 1, 2016. |
This has been discussed and Jim proposes to generated a document with the many-many presenteation that we have assembled, and write an introductionary
document. This may actually serve us well to assemble all this material in a coherent fashion.
Document was submitted on time
The testing plan was submitted to DOE in mid September 2017 ahead of the yearly review.
Meeting will be a BNL in room 2-160.
The call for review is the content of an e-mail send to me by Cassie Dukes of the NP office.
The talks for the review is on the BNL indico pages.
The final report was received in December 2017, and is included here
Nov 30, 2015
A draft version of the risk assesment has been assembled and is available for
comments draft
This page will also have some of the background of the iTPC risk assesment.
Background material
January 2016 Presentations on BNL Indico site
This page will be used to keep track of note, documentation need for preparation of the review.
This page contains the sector assembly QA schedule
Hanseul made a nice webpage that shares all update on the iTPC testing.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11mFkoX1Mu64uL4oYq-vshhRE0bZa8CAqgsL1sToJ354/edit?usp=sharing
This sector had a serious oversight during bonding resulting in a grounding wire caught below the pad plane.
As the wire is 600 microns think there is no way the flatness and bonding with expoxy which is only ~100 microns can be good.
Project have rejected this sector.
Docs from LBL assembly
QA files for article 1.
This sector was found at SDU to have the right GG side mount out of spec, just at limit where the
wire would touch the side mount surface
The figure shows the measurements from SDU and LBL CMM for righthand GG sidemount
The difference is understood due to way measurements are done 30-50 microns
A copy of the SDU traveler is at this location
QA infor from LBL and analysis
QA from SDU
Traveller from SDU production link to Qinghua's blog
LBL survey info
SDU scanned production traveller (upkoad 10/8/2017)
The sector was rejected due to separated plane 8/16/1017 -- returned to LBL
The QA travellers from SDU
QA from SDU
In this page I will also keep the slides for the monthly phone conferences with DOE, as well as brief minutes
It is organized according to WBS. The lead people for each section is given here.
Flemming is responsible for the reports as such.
In general the report should be completed by mid-July, mid-October ,etc...
Quarterly reports
Monthly phone conferences
Final report and experts from the review were received on August 1, 2019
The three documents have been attached
cover letter
Review report
Excerpts from reviewers
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The material for the closeout review including talks are all on
https://indico.bnl.gov/event/5980/
On this page I added the 3 final documents: close-out report, lessons learned, and the transitions to ops.
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The close out review for STAR has been scheduled for May 2. The notice from DOE is enclosed here
This page will be used for the preliminary material, Final talks and material will be put on a BNL indico page
as we did for the previous reviews.
As the iTPC project is neither an MIE no a project for the CD process, I believe the requested closeout and transition to ops documents
can be fairly brief.
-- notes from DOE NP
As you know, the dates for the STAR iTPC Project Closeout/Transition to Operations Review has been confirmed for May 2, 2019. Attached, please find a list of the reviewer panel and anticipated DOE participants. For your information, the web-conference info is included below for distribution to the panel via the review website.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://science.zoom.us/j/737668005
And/or join by phone:
+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll) or +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 737 668 005
Note: with the ZOOM web-conference, if the equipment you are using is not equipped with a microphone, you will need to use the link to log into the meeting to share/view presentations, as well as call-in via phone for voice participation.
Please draft an agenda and a list of proposed documents to be sent to the review panel prior to the review (for example, previous review report, response to DOE Review Recommendations, etc.). Please note: background documents should also include a draft Project Closeout Report, draft Transition to Operations Report, as well as a draft lessons learned document. Once the draft agenda and the list of proposed documents have been prepared please send this input to me for comments – I will collect comments from all applicable individuals within the NP office and will iterate with you on the agendas to ensure all topics are covered. Once the materials have been finalized, please make the background materials, as well as presentations, available to review participants in electronic form as soon as possible but no later than two weeks prior to the review (presentations can be made available at a later date, however, we request no later than 5 days prior to the review).
The panel members are in the attached document
-- as previous e-mail the charge for review content is
Please hold May 2, 2019 for the Project Closeout/Transition to Operations Review of the STAR iTPC. We are happy to schedule the meeting as early as possible, however, this is likely to be one-day starting no earlier than 9:00 am ET with an executive session, 9:30 am ET for presentations to start. For your information, suggested topics for talks and the schedule for the one day close out meeting would be as follows:
- Project status and deliverables
- Project commissioning results
- Cost and Schedule
- Management and Safety issues
- Transition to operations
- Working lunch and executive session to write a few page report
- Close out (early afternoon, between 2-3 pm)
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I should point out all t6he charge bullets is what any project from 5M$ and up is subject to.
An iTPC production readiness review was held on January 22, 2018
The agenda was:
the review will take place tomorrow at 1 pm EDT at 1-224 in the physics department.
Agenda:
Introduction 10 min F.Videbaek
Electronics 40 minutes Tonko Lubicic
Discussions; questions and answers 20 min
Commitee discussions 40 min
The committee will write a report to be send following the meeting to the iTPC group.
Report was received on January 23, 2018
Phone Dial-in +1.408.740.7256 (United States) +1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free) +1.408.317.9253 (Alternate number) (Global Numbers) Meeting ID: 832 810 289 Moderator Passcode: 6253 Room System 199.48.152.152 or bjn.vc Meeting ID: 263 878 370 Moderator Passcode: 6253 |
Description: weekly iTPC for status updates |
The page will contain material presented at the itpc software meetings,
or circulated with the group. Material will be in reverse order
The meeting will be on Mo and Th 11 in general.
The bluejeans information is
Phone Dial-in
+1.408.740.7256 (United States)
+1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)
+1.408.317.9253 (Alternate number)
(Global Numbers)
Meeting ID: 634 285 245
Moderator Passcode: 6253
Room System
199.48.152.152 or bjn.vc
Meeting ID: 634 285 245
April 23, 2018 A few pictures comparing iTPC and TPC by Yuri
April 18, 2018 Update on Gain on iTPC (Tonko)
April 16, 2018 Further analysis of clusters and distribution (Flemming)
File on Monday meeting https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2018/04/16/itpc-software-monday
March 29, 2018
Analysis of 86040 . Charge distribution plots
Entry April 2, 2018/ update by 4/8/18
Adc vs pad for different rows (FV)
Yuri' update after gating grid leak fix
Entry March 29,2018
Charge distribution per row for inner sector The profile has been fitted with a landau distribution
Similar plot for the outer sector
March 2018 Tonko analysis of iTPC pulser run
This page is meant to have reference links, suggested plots, tables etc.
- From Zhangbu
Last week, Robert brought to my attention that iTPC is one of the greatest accomplishments STAR did in the last decade, and
now that the BESII data have been taken, and analyses are on-going,
we should write a NIMA paper to document:
mechanic structure and pad/electronic layouts,
Operation and performance,
Online/offline Calibration and Physics technical performance
It is also important to document this for future physics paper references and also
serve as a historic document before everyone moves on and forgets about all the details.
From Robert -
outline based on DNP talk NIM_outline
Reference documents
The technical design report is available as a STAR note SN0644.
The iTPC closeout report with KPP and performance plots
The Shandong group wrote two NIM performance papers
1) F. Shen et al., MWPC prototyping and performance test for the STAR inner TPC upgrade, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 896, 90 (2018).
2) X. Wang et al., Design and implementation of wire tension measurement system for MWPCs used in the STAR iTPC upgrade, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 859 (2017) 90–94.