The MFT transition was not tuned well because the gradient field power
supplies were set to local control and this precluded us from setting
the NEGATIVE current remotely. It did not preclude us from setting the
POSITIVE and I don't why. At any rate, when Zhenya set the gradient
current to -1 Amp it was in fact set to zero. This is why he could not
find the transition and had to look for another one, with zero grad
field. He found it but it was very narrow (according to Hauke). I went
into the dtunnel this morning and fixed the problem and them went back
to Hauke's settting. The ligit now seems to drop the same amount for
all target states, which hopefuly means that all transitions have equal
efficiency.
Cheers, Vitaliy
Genya wrote:
> The program of the shift was not quite accomplished. Several incidents
>produced delays, including ring RF failure and some ABS-related issues.
> One of the electrostatic lenses in Ion Polarimeter sparks inside vacuum.
>We had to lower all the voltages on IP, and it might affect the performance of
>the polarimeter.
> Also (as Vitalij already wrote in his message) we found that all power supplies
>for RF transition units were tripped off, for a couple of days. It took a while
>to sort it out.
> I got one clear result: with 6poles out the signal (both mass 2 and mass 4 drops
>by at least factor of 5-6.
> I also noted that one of the MFT transitions isn't tuned well. In fact, LIGIT
>didn't go down at all with this transition on. I changed the static field for this
>transition from 6.4 to 7 , and now it works, but still not very effectively.
>As a result, the target intensity will be somewhat different in these states. I
>left a message for Hauke, may be he'll be able to come during the weekend and try
>to tune the transitions better.
> Genya
>
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