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Totem T1 ESR 17 Sep 10. Observations from Electrical Inspection of T1. S. Lusin. Installation Requirements. Installation of T1 inside the structure of CMS must be consistent with maintaining: Safety Personnel and equipment safety must be assured Performance of CMS
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Totem T1 ESR 17 Sep 10 • Observations from Electrical Inspection of T1 S. Lusin
Installation Requirements • Installation of T1 inside the structure of CMS must be consistent with maintaining: • Safety • Personnel and equipment safety must be assured • Performance of CMS • Introduction of the T1 detector must not compromise the physics performance of CMS • Operational readiness of CMS • Introduction of the T1 detector must not compromise the CMS or LHC schedule • Operation of the T1 detector must not compromise the operation of CMS
Electrical Issues … • Power connections to the cathode and anode front-end boards are made through flat cables intended for signal transmission • These are fine-pitch cables • Adequacy of cross-sectional area devoted to the power conductors needs to be demonstrated • Have asked S. Minutoli to confirm. • Even with adequate copper, quality of the crimp connections between the cable and connector contacts is variable. • Experiences with this use of flat cable at Fermilab have not been positive • M. Johnson has pointed out that reversal of polarity is a concern • Potential for polarity reversal exists in the form multiple screw-terminal connections during installation • Electrical protection of these cables must be provided • Otherwise I would consider this to be a safety risk
Electrical Issues II … • These same cables are used to read out the cathode front-end boards • Cables are 25-40cm long and are completely unshielded • Possibility for noise pickup or emission • CMS CSCs had appreciable noise pickup in the installed environment even though they used shielded cables, only 10-20cm long, with half their length being inside an aluminum enclosure. • In the end, the CMS CSC group had to modify the aluminum covers over the cathode front-end boards in order to provide additional shielding • TOTEM electrical designers should consider providing shielding over the ROC-CFEC connections • There will be no possibility to add it later • Lack of shielding presents a potential operational readiness risk
Electrical Issues III … • The lack of line protection on the LV fanouts is a serious concern • Each MARATON channel, capable of delivering up to 50A, is connected via two 16 mm^2 conductors to a patch panel where it is fanned out via two 1.5 mm^2 conductors per ROC board • At the ROC boards there is then a further level of fanout to the CFEC and AFEC boards via the flat cables mentioned earlier • Apparently, there is no line protection to prevent the full allowable channel current from flowing through a single low-area conductor • If this is true, I would consider it a safety risk • Similar to issue #1 but more general
Electrical Issues IV … • With the exception of the unshielded flat cables in item #2, the LV and HV distribution and remote sense cables are all shielded • Shields are terminated not by bringing out the braid, but by ~ 0.5-1.0 mm^2 wire pigtails, approximately 10cm long • These are high inductance connections that may defeat the purpose of using shielded cable • These connections are left dangling • The documentation shows these connections as jumper options • There is no default grounding configuration; all options remain open • When T1 is installed on the HF platform there will be no time to optimize ground jumper configurations • There should be a baseline configuration ready-wired on T1 and reflected in the documentation • Otherwise I would consider it an operational readiness risk as well as a detector performance risk
Electrical Issues V … • Ground connections between the T1 detector elements, the T1 support frame, and the CMS steel are undefined • Any useful grounding connections will involve a fair amount of mechanical design and fabrication • That work should be done now, as it will not be possible to do it during installation • I would consider any attempt to design and fabricate the mechanical grounding scheme in situ to be both an operational readiness risk as well as a detector performance risk
Operational Readiness… • CMS must come back online following the end-of-year technical stop fully ready to take data • During CMS running, Totem T1 must be able to operate without resulting in any loss of data-taking to CMS • Expected performance parameters of T1 should be described to CMS technical team prior to start of data-taking