Oct 31 2019 ArgonCube2x2 Electronics and Readout Integration

US/Central
Quarium (WH8XO)

Quarium

WH8XO

Ting Miao (FNAL)

Minutes and Action Tasks from Oct 31 2019 Electronics and Readout Integration Meeting

·  Attendees: Steve, Francesco, Linda, Cindy, Anne, Dan and Ting

  • Status of action tasks from last meeting:
    • Tentatively we schedule mid of November to pull the three minutes racks to open space at MINOS hall, document the contents using rack-building tool,  clean the racks and move them to downstream end under the west catwalk
      • Two electrical techs are needed for the labor work
      • Clarence to check cable length issue -- want racks in space in between the two groups of Minerva modules
      • Ting is to discuss with Cryogenic group to relocated cryocooler at downstream end for the three racks
    • Steve mentioned that the network and ACNET rack are at the upstream end of the hall, on the west before catwalk stair
      • The network switch there is Gbit switch
      • Not easy to move those racks around -- will leave them at the current location
      • Need to check Minerva cables to access ACNET signal there
    • Steve got the info on the Minerva DAQ servers
      • they are out of warranty already
      • we will use them for DAQ teststand until we procure new servers
  • 2x2 feedthrough, readout and grounding consideration
    • Francesco's presentation is posted in the indico. I only listed below some specific issues discussed
    • We like to know the detail of grounding return of the HV feedthrough cable
    • We need electrical schematics of  charge readout and light readout system to understand the grounding scheme fully
    • How is the pump inside cryostat electrically isolated?
    • Is the cable for temperature sensors shielded? 
    • It will be nice to measure the potential between cryostat and building
    • Linda may has a spare saturable inductor she can send to BERN
    • ProtoDUNE at CERN has a spare impedance monitor. Linda will talk to Terri Shaw to see whether this is can be used at Bern during 2x2 testing
    • Linda describe the grounding connection scheme for cold electronics of LArTPC
      • The APA frame is initially isolated from the cryostat.
      • The cold electronics cards are mounted to the APA frame with the circuit common solidly connected to the frame.
      • The connection between the frame and the cryostat occurs with the cold electronics LV power return wires by means of the warm electronics crate backplane, mounted on the flange.  
      • For DUNE, no other sub-system may share the APA frame reference.
      • Each sub-system works independently from all others.
      • This prevents noise, return current sharing,  from one detector type interfering with another.
    • Is it beneficial to do the same for LArPixal Pad?
    • The isolation material between cryostat vessel and building floor needs to use electrical insulation material such as G10.
    • Linda is to calculate G10 thickness -- similar practice done for previous LArTPC
  • We have a brief discussion on the SLED and schedules Steve obtained. He will post the material to DUNE docDB
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    • 10:00 10:10
      Status of action tasks from last meeting 10m
      Slides
    • 10:10 10:40
      Feedthrough design and grounding consideration 30m
      Speaker: Francesco Piastra (LHEP,BERN)
      Slides
    • 10:40 11:10
      MINOS hall existing AC power - Single Line Electrical Diagram (SLED) 30m
      Speaker: Dr Stephen Hahn (FNAL)
    • 11:10 11:20
      AOB 10m