P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 1 MINOS WBS 2.3: Electronics, DAQ and Database Status Accomplishments since May review Near Detector Electronics production Costs Peter Shanahan Department of Energy Review of the NuMI Project MINOS Parallel Session Nov. 15, 2003

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 2 Overview of 2.3 Status Schedule Status (BCWP/Total Budget): 96.7% complete Electronics, DAQ, and Database Steady progress on Data Acquisition, Detector Control System, and Database Thorough workout at CALDET Near Detector Electronics Near Detector – Assembly of all items wrapping up *Exceptions: MINDER crate, minor clock components Checkout in Progress

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 3 WBS 2.3 Accomplishments Since May 2003 Review MINOS WBS Milestones: WBS MS.7 Complete shipping for CALDET *completed on time, 7/10/03 WBS MS.2 Near Electronics Ready for Installation *completed 1 month early, 9/15/03 – includes equipment in use at CALDET Successful calibration run with Near Detector (ND) Electronics at CALDET First time DAQ used 2 ND readout crates Tested Spill Mode of ND FEE, and other features for 1 st time Assembly and checkout well along on all major components Exception: Problem with MINDER (“Front End”) Crate production

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 4 Upcoming Schedule Milestones WBS TaskScheduleFloat MS.4Electronics Production Complete – Near03/02/ d MS.8Begin Near FE Electronics Installation05/10/ d Grain of salt for Floats: MS.4 is last card completed – doesn’t distinguish 50% done from 99% done MS.8 allows for commissioning detector planes with electronics long after they go in

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 5 DAQ Progress and Status CALDET Run Major effort for DAQ group Experience being fed-back into planning for Near Detector Commissioning. Far Detector Data taking since 2001 Operations mode since August, 2003 Near Detector DAQ Workshop at RAL Scheduled for December to plan for intallation FNAL Control room has been commissioned Shifts taken for CALDET at CERN and FARDET

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 6 Near Detector Electronics MASTER Module MINDER Crate Trigger/Keeper MINDER modules MASTER Crate Component Count (not counting ~10% spares, light injection): 9328 MENUS 583 MINDERS 81 MASTERS

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 7 Near Detector Electronics Status Schedule Status (BCWP/Total Budget): 93% September 03 (85% March 03) Highlights Met CALDET schedule MENU production and checkout nearly complete MASTER, KEEPER, MINDER production 98% complete *Checkout held up on MINDERs for feedback from CALDET Issues MINDER (Front End) Crates *Poor mechanical structure in 1 st articles *Apparent resolution failed to translate into production quality. *End of CALDET travel will allow more focus on this problem

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 8 Near Detector Electronics Status

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 9 MENUs Earlier production problems resolved Checkout help from IIT undergrads High pass rate on checkout

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 10 CALDET Sept.-Oct side of each channel read-out with Near Detector Electronics Tested SPILL mode (continuous data taking for 10  s) Thorough test of system at 15% level Provided much feedback for diagnostics and firmware Time of Flight Cerenkov ,e,p Steel/Scintillator GeV/c

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page CALDET Run Preliminary look at electrons in detector Compare sum of energy for Near Det and Far Det electronics, event-by-event With preliminary calibrations, ND and FD agree to <2% Expect improvements with full analysis P (GeV/c) FD-ND/0.5(FD+ND) Known miscalibrated channel causes this shift

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 12 Cost Variance in WBS 2.3 WBS has $384 K favorable cost variance $994 K in May 2003 review was known to be largely artificial *Due to statusing of production orders when placed Possible true favorable cost variances Estimated ~$140K on parts and assembly in May 2003 review *Now appears ~$100K. MENU Checkout *Faster, with less project labor than anticipated *Used existing components for much of teststand systems in budget. *Possible $100+K favorable variance

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 13 Budget Overruns Travel for FNAL engineers and physicists to CALDET: ~$20k Tech and Engineer Labor Clock system – possible c. $50k overrun Checkout of rest of system – implementing lessons learned from CALDET (may still be within budget) Other MINOR overruns We expect that these will be offset by true underruns.

P. Shanahan Nov 15, 2003 Page 14 Summary Great progress in WBS 2.3 since May 2003 Review Near Detector Front End Electronics reaching end of assembly NDFEE checkout well along CALDET RUN: *ND DAQ given thorough workout at CALDET *1 st Test of beam mode for NDFEE Data taking *Quality of data appears much better than 2003 Overall budget appears sufficient Need to clean up individual cost accounts for over- and under- runs