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This Wiki site is intended to provide a collaborative authoring environment for documentation on how to use the 8π spectrometer at TRIUMF. It is written for the users, by the users. It is a living document. If you would like to contribute, please see the section on Contributing Content.

If you want to go to the Experiment Run Control Window, click here now.

8pi operation

• Run Control Window
• Experiment Preparation Checklist
• On-Shift Duties

DAQ Systems

The 8pi runs the MIDAS data acquisition system, http://midas.triumf.ca

• MIDAS Clients Overview
• Killing Everything
• EPICS interface
• DVM
• 8pi Striptool
• 8pi Data Backup and Storage
• Known Problems and Fixes

Experiment Control and Monitoring

• Setting up Beam, Tape & Trigger Enable sequences and cycles (JORWAY)
• Setting the Trigger
• FERA Driver Setup
• Scalers -- what they are, how to view them
• Gain Matching 8pi Detectors
• Copying Data to Data Tape (like anyone still uses it)
• LSU Tape System and PACES - Ed Zganjar's notes on how to use them.
• Precision Deadtime Calibration

Hardware

• Array Positions
• Status of Ge Detectors
• BGO High Voltage
• LN2
• 8pi Vacuum Procedures
• PACES
• Electronics Overview
• Triggering and Suppresion
• Electronics Inventory
• MTC Documents

Detector Testing

• 8pi Ge Detector Testing
• DANTE (BaF₂) Detector Assembly & Testing

Other useful links

• OLD MIDAS DAQ for 8π pages. OLD AND DEPRECATED! Use the wiki pages first!