Phobos
InstallationCompleted Items
Up to March 9, 2000
March 2000Survey plan of TOF and paddle trigger counters finalized.
Final installation of octagon and spectrometer for commissioning run.
Mount and test octagon and vertex modules on support frame.
Trigger paddle counters re-installed.
Final survey and alignment of beam pipe.
Bake out completed, removal of equipment, fixing of various leaks.
February 2000Mylar covers for rings completed (tested on enclosures sitting on the floor).
Beam pipe protection system cardboard/foam components completely assembled.
Dry air system testing complete. Documentation, drawings, and training of local experts approved.
Long term testing of water cooling system completed. Documentation, drawings, and training of local experts approved.
Begin various long-term stability and repair work on the magnet power supply.
FEC cable supports for octagon FEC crate designed and installed.
Latchup circuitry installed.
Grounding scheme finalized.
Install heater blankets and control system for beam pipe bake out, start heating.
Slow controls (software and hardware) monitoring of Si water cooling system fully wired to meters and tested.
All supports for mylar windows installed.
Detector enclosure air handling system assembly and installation in tunnel continues.
Dry air system hoses all run and monitoring wired, system testing starts.
Rewiring of busy/strobe circuitry for triggers from DAQ. Install and test new trigger boards. Leave old trigger intact until new system fully debugged (needed for electronics testing).
All supports for mylar windows installed.
Dry air system hoses all run and monitoring wired, system testing starts.
Rewiring of busy/strobe circuitry for triggers from DAQ. Install and test new trigger boards. Leave old trigger intact until new system fully debugged (needed for electronics testing).
NESLAB chiller repaired.
FEC crate and fan movable support system fabricated and installed on outer spectrometer.
Slow controls (software and hardware) monitoring of magnet fully wired and tested.
Mylar covers for magnet enclosure completed.
Start to pump out and leak check Be beam pipe.
Surveyors check alignment of Be beam pipe.
Start to install and align Be beam pipe.
Install heater blankets on outer sections of beam pipe. {Thu/Fri}
Final preparations for beam pipe installation.
Trigger and anything else in the way removed for beam pipe installation.
Slow controls (hardware) monitoring of Si water cooling system fully wired on rack.
Detector enclosure air handling system assembly and installation in tunnel begun.
Complete machining of carbon plate.
FEC crate and fan movable support system fabricated and installed on octagon.
Extensive magnet tests of new enclosure windows and carbon small plate.
Enclosure inside magnet with new steel window and possibly modified frame fully installed.
Outer Al small plate and all associated hardware (except mini-cable-trays) complete.
Full set of power supply to FEC crate cables assembled.
Put DMU crate in its final location and install cable strain relief and fans.
Preliminary design of FEC cable support outside all enclosures.
Survey plan for octagon/spectrometer/rings fine-tuned and tested.
Survey of old octagon and small plate(s?) into magnet.
Pre-survey of old octagon and outer spectrometer Al (and inner carbon?) small plate with added survey markers.
Entire detector enclosure inside the magnet removed, windows replaced with stainless steel, frames and supports modified to increase window separation.
Water cooling system plumbing and controls finished. Begin long-term testing.
Enclosure frames machined for mounting mylar window frames.
Removal and storage of center section of the steel beampipe
January 2000All paddle and high-eta trigger counter cables in the tunnel moved to final locations.
Second wave of Krakow people arrives, work starts on enclosure away from magnet.
Aggressive test of beampipe supports and beampipe protection system.
Remove octagon, spectrometer, and rings for detector enclosure work.
Survey plan for octagon/spectrometer/rings finalized. Additional survey markers defined.
Trigger system tunnel electronics changed to its final configuration.
First wave of Krakow people arrives, work starts on completing water systems.
Tests of full detector systems done again, last chance to get it right for now.
Install all low voltage supplies in their support frames or racks.
Install back contact supplies in their final location and run some of the cables.
All paddle and high-eta trigger counters mounted in the tunnel and hooked up.
Mount and testing of all ring counter, including the one behind the octagon.
All high-eta counters at BNL.
Everyone survived the dawn of a new (or maybe not) Millenium.
December 1999 Merry Christmas to:
and to all
a good job!
Installation Manager declares temporary victory, goes home to get reintroduced to his wife and to spin a cocoon to metamorphose into Second Arm Manager.
Magnet and detectors secured with temporary air system for holiday break.
Tests of full detector system begin.
Full installation of fully assembled octagon and spectrometer arm ends.
Test installation of ring counters, installation and hookup of ring counter FEC crates.
Last spare FEC crate delivered to BNL.
Octagon FEC crate support fabricated and installed.
Octagon flex cables hooked up.
Octagon installation around beam pipe.
Final preparations for octagon installation, practice with old frame.
Hookup of spectrometer flex cables tested.
Fully loaded spectrometer small plate installation in magnet.
FEC crate and fan support system for rings completed.
All power supplies (including one for testing and one for outer arm) at BNL.
FEC crate fans installed on ring and octagon crates.
Octagon FEC crate support designed.
Fan units for crates with cables at BNL.
The shield wall has been closed.
Practice for spectrometer small plate installation.
Reinstall and align steel pipe to learn to work around.
Major cleanup of tunnel area.
Complete any remaining tunnel work.
Full UPS and transformer power system for Si electronics complete.
Finish most infrastructure for installation of fully assembled octagon and spectrometer..
FEC crate and fan fixed support system fabricated and installed on spectrometer and octagon.
Phobos protection fence installed.
Latchup cables from counting house to tunnel routed.
Installation of ring counter enclosures tested (concrete block and rail installations).
Additional floor holes for TOF stand tie-downs drilled.
Preliminary survey of octagon.
Spectrometer arm assembly with full Si modules completed.
November 1999High-eta counters and mounts delivered to BNL, test installation in tunnel.
TOF cables all dressed and strain relieved.
Survey of spectrometer modules on cooling frames complete.
Phobos protection fence design completed.
Translation of water cooling system documentation (including users guide).
Complete installation and cabling of 2 TOF walls.
TOF-testing version of DAQ and on-line fully implemented and tested.
Preliminary TOF cable dressing work done.
Everything needed for TOF installation in place.
Precision floor holes for TOF stand surveyed and drilled.
Install final cable tray covers on outside trays.
Mounting of spectrometer modules and flex cables on cooling frames complete.
Full set of electronics cables including: flex cables, FEC-DMU G-link, and ribbon cables assembled and at BNL.
Full set of FEC crates delivered to BNL.
Mounting of full component of Si modules, readout boards, and flex cables on new octagon structure complete.
Last batch of 10 production FEC's with power boards and latchup tested and at BNL.
Full set of power supply to FEC crate cables and bias cables at BNL (some assembly needed).
Remaining octagon D cables delivered
Outer spectrometer small plate and related structures (including cantilever) for spectrometer outer arm fully machined. Some assembly required. Cable supports along arms (and support screw holes) not done.
Remaining Krakow crew (Stodulski, Michalowski, Straczek, Blaszczak, and Bogucki) depart.
Cable supports along spectrometer cooling frames fabricated.
Installation of all mechanical structures (with no Si) for one arm complete.
Test installation of partially assembled octagon and spectrometer arm.
Machining of spectrometer small plate completed.
Electrical distributions for air/water cooling systems completed.
Beam pipe protection system completely installed (solid components).
FEC crate and fan support system design approved.
Octagon frame assembly complete.
All ring enclosures finished, ready for final assembly.
October 1999
Magnet tests to start decision of what to do about vibration and crash problems.
Parts for new octagon delivered to BNL, assembly begins. Old one repaired.
FEC-testing version of DAQ, database, and online fully implemented and tested.
FEC 8-slot crates with power supplies at BNL.
First batch of 10 production FEC's with cables, power boards, and latchup tested and at BNL.
Cable pulling party III: Finish trigger HV cables, start latchup and extra L1/2 cables.
Kotula returns to Krakow.
Most D flex cables (spectrometer, octagon, and ring) and some spectrometer C cables delivered to BNL.
FEC 3-slot crates power supplies for octagon at BNL.
Design issues concerning mylar windows addressed.
Stand for module assembly on spectrometer arms 5-8 complete.
Shelf system for UPS's and transformers complete, three UPS's and transformers hooked up.
Austrian-assisted test-fest of Si electronics (FEC->DAQ) begins.
Clean power distribution along beam line done.
Water system indicators built.
Connection of water cooling system for thermal shields, octagon, and spectrometer begin to be tested.
Cable supports along spectrometer cooling frames designed.
Water system collectors built.
Movable parts of detector enclosure done.
Installation of detector enclosure inside magnet complete.
Flex cables (octagon, ring, spectrometer C) lengths all final.
Final versions of beam pipe stand installed and tested.
Godlewski returns to Krakow.
September 1999
Michalowski arrives from Krakow.
Water cooling system rack installed in tunnel.
Labyrinth access door expansion work completed.
Beam pipe stand design finalized.
Godlewski arrives from Krakow to help with cooling systems.
Cantilever systems for +Z ring counter installed.
Tests of magnet simulating filter effect, also ramp-down circuit.
Beam pipe protection system design and safety approval complete, fabrication starts.
Clean power distribution (UPS system) along beam line finalized.
TOF/trigger cable pulling party II, completing all ADC and TDC cables.
Blue boxes for cooling frames modified for new cable supports.
Water cooling system leak checked.
Installation of detector enclosure begins.
Double door barrier system installed.
Cooling system expert from Krakow arrives (Bogucki).
Thermal shields installation on magnet pole tips tested.
Mounting hardware for thermal shields completed.
Thermal shields unpacked and inspected.
Spectrometer module and small plate surveying procedures tested.
Complete any necessary minor modifications to TOF ADC cable supports for excess cable.
Installation crew from Krakow arrives (Stodulski, Kotula, Straczek, Blaszczak).
August 1999
TOF/trigger cable pulling party I, completing all TOF ADC, TDC, and calibration cables.
Remove all cables installed in "non-standard" fashion (including ALL TDC cables).
ODH restrictions removed, RHIC badges still required to enter tunnel.
Remove TOF wall, TOF wall support plate, and Camac crate from inside magnet.
Rough survey of spectrometer and octagon Engineering run locations.
Tests of Si system requiring access performed.
Finalize routing and lengths of all electronics related cables.
Health Physics survey of area to clear TLD requirement. Note that this does clear the requirement to survey removed equipment.
Remove octagon module support structure with modules, spectrometer modules, and all trigger counters.
Test mechanics of TOF rail installation and cart alignment fixtures.
Ship octagon structure to Chicago for final modifications.
Remove stainless steel beam pipe.
Engineering run crew morphs back into assembly crew.
July 1999
Installing a few spectrometer modules on small plate inside magnet.
Installing more TOF wall modules outside the magnet.
Spectrometer Si module delivery to BNL completed.
Spectrometer module assembly for one arm complete.
June 1999
Reconnection of octagon in box inside tunnel.
Mounting of octagon around beampipe.
Installation of mini-detector enclosure, octagon only.
Slow controls continues to work on GPIB communication issues.
Si readout with cosmic ray trigger tested.
Establish TOF Fastbus ADC and TDC connections.
Fabrication of tooling for mounting cooling frames on plate and transporting assembled plate complete.
May 1999
Network fiber terminated, network installed
Clean power distribution in counting house done.
DAQ (without Mercury) installed in counting house.
Mount manifolding and plumbing of water cooling system.
Install temporary barrier fences.
Reinstallation and final hand alignment of octagon and arm structures
Reinstallation of the removable parts of the detector enclosure.
Online computer moved to BNL.
Minimal clean power distribution along beam line done.
Lots of people get RHIC access cards.
Preliminary surveying of octagon and arm structures.
Preliminary shield wall rigging finished, double doors left clear.
Equipment unloaded into tunnel.
Location of electronics room floor penetrations finalized.
Phone installed.
Testing of slow controls system in counting house starts.
Counting house trigger electronics installation and cabling begins.
Preliminary surveying of octagon and arm structures finishes.
Steel beampipe reinstalled, aligned by surveyors, and pumped down.
Electronics room floor cable penetrations finished.
Procedures for laying cable established, begin collecting ladders, cable spool holders, etc.
Mercury and other MIT stuff (full electronics chain) initially installed in counting house.
Final shield wall rigging done, double doors now blocked.
Test of Si->FEC->DMU->MDC->Mercury->DAQ in counting house, including FFI through cable and fiber coiled in counting house.
Online computer starts testing with DAQ.
Installation of AC circuits from counting house to tunnel racks begins and finishes.
Paddle counter mount parts delivered from Maryland.
On-line histograms for engineering run established.
Study of interferences between octagon and spectrometer with cooling frames.
Si, FEC, DMU/MDC, bias supplies move to tunnel.
Octagon modules mounted on real frame, final version of flex cables installed
DMU/MDC in rack with cables to FEC
Installation of detector enclosure additional parts begins.
FEC crate, power supplies, etc mounted on rail system
Run fibers and cables for trigger and DAQ communication between tunnel and counting house.
Si electronics and TOF/trigger ORR at 3:30.
Octagon/spectrometer/detector enclosure discussion at 7pm, Apt 8C.
Additional trapezes installed for dressing TOF cables.
Installation of slow controls system in tunnel begins.
Testing of counting house trigger electronics, including communication with DAQ begins.
Start test of Si->FEC->DMU->MDC->DAQ->RCF from tunnel to counting house.
Trigger electronics cabling mostly complete.
Source test of octagon in box.
Covering of outside cable trays.
Full string test of Si (with source) -> On-line histogram (in real time!)
Cabling and testing of Scint+Calib+Random trigger system, enabled from VME
All trigger and ZDC cables have connectors finished.
Second 1/4 paddle counter mount assembled and installed in tunnel.
Sample TOF module mounted in the magnet.
Carpenters cut hole in counting house wall and holes in floor to secure TOF Camac crate.
Test of magnet ripple effects, both mechanical and electrical.
Fastbus crate installation completed.
TOF (1 set of 16 channels) and Trigger+ZDC TDC cables pulled.
Detector enclosure work ends with most parts installed for display purposes.
Stands for paddle counter finished (pinned).
Study and photographs of the detector enclosure.
Assembly and installation of additional pieces of the paddle counter frame.
April 1999
Study installation of octagon and spectrometer rail systems.
Test & certify personnel safety system.
Cable tray system inside tunnel completed.
Detector water cooling system arrives at BNL.
Remaining parts for cooling system delivered (with exception of thermal shield manifolding).
Second spectrometer arm support structures and remaining ring counters delivered to BNL.
Metal plate and concrete block installation and levelling completed
Full rail, support structure, cooling system installation begins (first without Si).
Beam pipe holders installed
Vibration isolation material ordered
Electronics room racks installed, bolted down
Network fiber terminated
Dirty power in tunnel complete.
Test-fit thin steel beam pipe
Finalize mounting of octagon and spectrometer rail systems on concrete blocks
Before April 1999
Magnet delivered to AGS to be assembled, wired with sensors, and tested briefly.
Si module support structures (octagon, 1 spectrometer arm, and 1 ring counter) arrive at UIC and MIT.
Detector rail system assembly starts at MIT.
Counting house and its utilities complete (including ORR).
Water-cooled bus installation.
Detector rail assembly at MIT completed.
Magnet installed and hooked up at RHIC.
Magnet cooling water system and power supply complete.
Setup for magnet mapping begins (including ORR).
Production magnet mapping begins.
Concrete block fabrication.
Production magnet mapping ends.
Concrete block installation.
First parts of detector enclosure fitted on magnet.
Fabrication of tooling for mounting modules on cooling frames.
Design of tooling for mounting cooling frames on plate and transporting assembled plate.
Cable tray in ports and outside berm complete.
All subsystems safety reviewed.