Detector 9 anneal 2012

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Some "historical record searching" has revealed that noisy intervals have occasionally shown up in D9 ever since the March 2010 anomaly. It is not clear that these were associated in any way with the anomaly, but no instances have been found before it. These noisy intervals are easiest to see in the rear slow monitor rates or rear event rates. See a presentation (2013-04-17_Detector_9_weirdness) by Albert Shih for more info.

• 15 Feb 2012: Final stages of the anneal, all detectors, are back to 4000 V, except for detector 9 (which showed some arcing after SAA passages).

• 7 - 14 March 2012: Some noise was observed on detector 9. On March 8 at 01:24 UTC detector G9 HV was lowered by ten counts. Some sporadic noise was observed, but the detector appears to fixed it-self.

• 11 - 18 April 2012:
  • Rear fast threshold from 0x45 -> 0x60
    • /IDPUDUMPTABL DIBTBL9
    • /IDPUTABLE9 REARFASTDAC  ;Load address 0x262C
    • /IDPULOAD VALUE=0x60  ;Byte 10, Rear Fast threshold

• March 4-19, 2013, March 29-April 11, 2013: Noise on D9; see Tohban_Report_2013-04-17 for more info.

• May 3-7+ 2013: Noise is back on D9. Once again, it's occasional short intervals (a few minutes) of noise in the event rates. This usually shows up as dropouts in the rear slow monitor rate plots. The occurrences this week were short and not severe. They happened around the following times:

 May 7: 11:09
 May 6: 11:19, 9:42
 May 5: 9:54, 1130
 May 4: 1937, 1803, 1625, 1004
 May 3: 1152, 1015

No action was taken since the problem was not severe. See more notes in the Tohban_Report_2013-05-08 tohban report.