The dome and east door of the BSC 3 chamber was removed and walking plates were placed on the work platform. These have not been installed because we have not located the C channel pieces that bolt to the walking plates so the C 3 cover can be secured to the walking plates. We also installed the permanent flooring in BSC 3 chamber. We installed the soft roof that was on the BSC 3 clean room onto the clean room over the cryo pump spool. The SEI soft roof "sock" is on the clean room over BSC 3.

HughR, HugoP, 

Here is the current status of the aLIGO SEI work at Hanford. Everything in red is a change from last status. Everything in green is available.

WP#4183 

To test the data content of the science frame (requested by Hugo) I have reconfigured h1nds0 to read only the science frames for the duration of this test. h1nds1 (which is the default NDS) is unchanged and continues to serve the full commissioning frames. When this test is completed I will revert h1nds0 back to commissioning frames.

(Sheila, Alexa)

532nm power:

@ laser = 52mW

@ M11 = 32.5mW

We inserted a dichroic mirror after M11 in the green path and found the transmitted 532nm light to be 32.1mW and the reflected 1064nm light to be .54mW

I've created a large OSEM overview medm screen, accessible from the sitemap under the CDS tag. It shows all the OSEMS which are currently in the DAQ system.

It can only be displayed on a high resolution iMAC screen (e.g. control room workstations).

(Sheila, Alexa)

See D1201448 for reference. 

We inserted ALS-L1 (ROC=75mm), which we had temporarily removed. Then, with the Mode Master (silicon detector), we spent the day mode matching the telescope along the green path (ALS-L6 and ALS-L7), which were placed for the OAT configuration and not the nominal configuration.

First, we examined the beam profile with the table in the OAT configuration and the mode master 28.5inches from ALS-M11. Image 'OneArmTextEndX' portrays the result. We subsequently removed ALS-L6 (ROC=-100mm) from the path and took another beam profile with the mode master in the same position. Image 'OneArmNoLens' portrays the resullt. We used this data to determine the seed waist of the beam. This seed waist matched that of the optical layout. We proceeded to create an "a la mode" matlab script to determine the proper positions of L6 and L7 with the target waist size of 2.2mm at 184.6inch from M11. Note: the target wasit size was determined via T1200200; the location was determined by measuring the distance from the TransMon secondary mirror to the chamber viewport (TransMon layout (D0902163, D1201457) and assuming the TransMon chamber was 2ft from the ALS table. We determined that L7 was 7inch from M10 and that L6 was 37inch from L7. This gave us a 99% overlap.

In this nominal configuration, we placed the mode master 660mm from M11 (we wanted to better stablize the MM). We noticed that the MM kept giving different results. Images 'ISCEXMM660mm2M11...' are snaptshots of four runs of the beam profile with everything in the exact same position. We were a bit unsure why the MM kept giving such different results. The waist size seemed close enough to 2.2mm; however, the location was drasitically off. We concluded for the day in this puzzled state...(more work tomorrow)

I have also attached the matlab script.

The dust monitor software has been moved to met_one_227b_comp_ctrl-1.0.0 for device support and dust_met_one_227b_comp_ctrl-1.0.0 for the IOCs. The targets in /ligo/lho/h0/target were backed up to /ligo/lho/h0/target_archive and updated. The sitemap has been updated to link to modified medm screens.

The primary change is that the software now controls the timing and puts the dust monitor into 'standby mode' between samples. The sample time and hold time durations can be set from EPICS. I also added code to attempt to reconnect on TCP/IP disconnects.

The IOCs are running in 'screen' on a new virtual machine that Cyrus created, h0epics.

I updated the H0EDCU_DUST.ini file to remove the MODE, TEMP and RELHUM channels and add ACTSAMPLETIME, HOLDTIMEMON, SAMPLETIMEMON, STATE and ISENABLED channels. Dave has rebooted the DAQ and these changes are now in place.

Each dust monitor location is now enabled/disabled by toggling the on/off switch on the medm screens.

I tried to update the alarm configuration file to use the ISENABLED channels to mask the dust monitors that are not running, but could not seem to get this to work.

The wiki pages have been updated.

This should complete WP 4172.

Jim did the hard work and I did the brain thing.  We could only get our level rod to just past half way to the west side from the East door and Jim was really stretching.
We found the vertical level runout from the East side to the center portion of the table to be about 0.047" or about 2.4mm over the whole table.  May have been good enough (per comm RAbbott) but you're talking about SEI & HCR here.  We weren't about to be satisfied.  The elevation was about 1/64" low and that is close enough.  So to level the table we moved one stack of 20kg 2x2" (diagonally NW to SE) to get our calibration.  We then move 10kg 24" ultimately to put us very level.  I redlined a pdf and added this to the DCC, D1200524, to show the as-built of the masses.

Final position: -200.45mm Gz level to +-0.1mm over the span of the Optical Table per D1200524.  Attached is my log book page for this survey.  The numbers there are in local elevations.  At HAM1 subtract the 14.1mm vertical offset to get to the Gz: -186.35-14.1 = -200.45mm

PeterK and RickS
We intended to make weekly PSL performance assessment measurements this morning, but we found that the FSS had not locked since about 4 PM yesterday afternoon.

After 6 hours of so of investigating, we found that there was a mouse in the RF distribution rack (one that likes Swiss chocolate!).

It seems that the 80 MHz RF distribution is being reconfigured.  After restoring the RF drive to the VCO and FSS AOM, the FSS locked right up, the ISS locked, and the system appears on cursory inspection to be operating as expected.

Both HAM2 and HAM3 chambers are now fully controlled (HEPI+ISI). 

Those chambers feature:
- Standardized ISI damping loops (defined in: SeiSVN/seismic/HAM-ISI/H1//Scripts/Control_Scripts/Version_2/Step_4_Damping_Filters_H1_ISI_.m)
- Standardized ISI blend filters (SeiSVN/seismic/HAM-ISI/Complementary_Filters_HAM_ISI/HAM-ISI_Generic_Comp_Filters.mat)
- Hybrid aLigo/eLigo blend filters are available (SeiSVN/seismic/HAM-ISI/Common/Blend_filters/Filters_HAM_ISI_Blend_Hybrid_24_Jul_2013.mat)
- All 3 levels of ISI isolation loops (UGF=10Hz, 25Hz, 35Hz - LHO aLog # 5355). Performance is mostly limited by the blend filters. Level 2 controllers give similar amount of isolation as Level 3. Level 2 controllers are prefferred for now - ISI Perfomance can be found in LHO aLog #7414

- HEPI position blend filters (IPS signals are multiplied by 1, L4C signals are multiplied by 0)
- HEPI position loops. UUG = 2 Hz. Should be set to 5Hz soon. HEPI position loops performance plots, and controllers, can be found in LHO aLog #8037.

Trun on Process:

Prepare:

1. Use the command button to shut down any kind of control on both HEPI and ISI.
2. Make sure the border of the ISI screen is green. If not, check the Watchdogs (model, Dackill, IOP dackill, SUS) and the master switch.

Damp ISI:

1. Use the command button to turn on the damping loops on the HAM-ISI.

Turn on HEPI:

1. Make sure that the following are in the correct state for HEPI: Watchdogs (model, Dackill, IOP dackill, SUS, ISI) and the master switch.
2. Open the IPS screen. Be careful there are 2 of them. One for the vertical sensors, and one for the horizontal sensors. 
3. In this screen, make sure that the alignment offsets are loaded and engaged. We want them to be set at the opposite of the locked hepi IPS redouts referrenced in LHO aLog# 7180
4. Open the DC bias screen and make sure that everything is disengaged - it should be.
5. Repeat (4) for the Sensor Correction screns, the ISC mon, the feedforward (FF) and the Twist.
6. Make sure that offsets are disengaged ont he OUTF screens. Be careful there are 2 of them as well. 
7. Push both gain sliders to 1.
8. Engage the Blend filters named "Pos"
9. Make sure signals come out of those filters. If not, refer to LHO aLog #7299, and follow Sebastian's instructions
10. Check the IPS 2CART matrices. For now, they should look like that. If not, use SeiSVN/seismic/HEPI/Common/MEDM_Functions_HEPI/Populate_Matrices_HEPI.m to fill them out. Do not use Populate_MEDM_Screen_HEPI.m instead, as it will reset a lot of the things you just worked on.
11. Use the "Isolate <Chamber> Lvl1" button of the HEPI command screen, to engage the position loops

Engage the isolation loops, on the ISI

1. Open the Sensor correction block and make sure that everything is disengaged.
2. Open the blend filters block. Make sure that filters named "01_28" are selected. These are the generic blend filters mentioned above.
3. Open the command screen of the ISI ou are working on
4. Wait for the readouts to stabilize
5. Use the "Reset CPS offset button" to reset the CPS biases. 
6. Press the "Store Target offsets" button. This will store the current position so the ISI can be steered back there once the isolation loops are engaged
7. Use "Turn on Lv. 2 isolation loops for ...." button, and wait for the isolation loops to get engaged.

Betsy, Travis

This afternoon, we connected the 5 ETMx SUS cables and the ringheater cable to the inside of the feedthru flange.  We then had issues with signal faults.  We investigated and found the out-of vac cables not plugged in well at the outside of the feedthru.  Apon fixing, all looked well with the signals.  The suspension is still not fully suspended although we pulled out all of the extra teflon stopping brackets and prepped it for full unlock after SEI is done float/balance, after IAS is done figuring out where to put us.

** LVEA has been laser safe throughout the day
** Praxair delivered to CP8 this morning.  The CP8 value on the HOVE overview screen remained near 104 through the lunch hour and now sits at 101.
** Roofers have worked all day on the LVEA roof except for a period this afternoon when the storm was active.
** See John's entry about water leaks in the LVEA this afternoon because of the storm.
** Alexa and Sheila have worked in the HAM6 bay through the day.
** Betsy entered the chamber at EX late this morning.  The ETMX speedometer needles on SUS_OSEM_OVERVIEW are now active.
** The cartridge is bagged on the LVEA test stand.
** Lots of dust alarms through the day at a number of locations.  In most cases the alarms correlated with human activity in the affected areas.  We saw alarms this afternoon from the beer garden dust monitor (5) near 30,000 and it wasn't clear from the cameras if there was activity near BSC3 that was the cause.  Patrick is checking the area to see if there might be a water leak nearby.
** The EX dust monitor went white this afternoon.  Filiberto was in the VEA; he tightened the cable on the rack side and the monitor turned back on. 
** Rick has been working on the ref cav this afternoon

Dan saw the same problems on h1ldasgw0 as he saw on h1ldasgw1 a few weeks ago. He upgraded solaris and rebooted to fix the QFS file system. h1fw0 got into a stuck state, unable to unmount or remount the NFS file system, I had to reboot it using the front panel reset button (it got stuck rebooting too). Unfortunately I accidentally restarted the DAQ in the process.

The data gap on h1fw0 is:

Oct  8 13:44

Oct  8 15:17

h1fw1 was running the entire time, except for the DAQ restart.

(Rich, Stefan)

We installed jumpers in the coil drivers (D1100117) to permanently enable input on/off switch and the run switch. The affected the following coil driver serial numbers:

S1106044 (RM1), S1200612 (RM2), S1106043 (OM1), S1200608 (OM2), S1200614 (OM3)

For proper operation H1:ASC-RM2_BIO_M1_STATEREQ needs to be set to 2, and the anti-dewhitening filters need to be in FM6 of the H1:ASC-RM?_M1_COILOUTF_?? filter modules. (FM1 is reserved for the sim-dewhitenig filter.)

Jason, Tyler and I measured the BSC9 chamber longitudinal position from the face of the gate valve (GV19) nearest to the termination slab and compared it to the drawing position call outs. We found the chamber to be 6.01mm further north than the drawing perfect position. 

We set a new monument on our offset line perpendicular to BTVE-8 and measured longitudinal positions for EX-B1 ,EX-T3, IAM-17.
So far first error found is BX-B1 has a positive error 19.5mm +X which caries over to EX-T2 which we are using to shoot the ETMx from 
When we finish up with the BSC9 chamber centerline we will know more.

Roofing was interrupted this afternoon when a sudden thunderstorm came through. The crew covered what they could before scrambling off the roof. Some water managed to get into the building - primarily along two open edges and a few other locations at screw holes. The worst hit area was the return air plenum at the north west inside corner of the building. The weather has cleared and the roofers should be able to lay membrane material down for the night in case we get more rain.

If you need rain in your garden just start working on your roof! Or wash your car.

(Keita, Stefan)

We noticed that the feed-back gains of RM2 were the opposite of RM1. So went through all 6 tip-tilts that we have at LHO, and determined their magnet polarity:

As viewed from behind (incl magnetic pole facing backward):
Default:
  UL: N, UR: S
  LL: S, LR: N
The following serial numbers are conform with that: 009 (bad wire), 002, 033, 004, 022 (RM1)

Serial number 024 (RM2) is different:
  UL: S, UR: N
  LL: N, LR: S

For now we flipped the digital coil gains of RM2 to account for that.

Venting completed at ~2:45 pm. The purge valve on the X manifold has been dialed back until a door can be removed.

[Jeff B, Stuart A]

After a few power glitches etc, the triple test-stand was in need of some attention prior to hooking-up OMC suspensions for Phase 1b testing.

Logging in remotely, I noticed that the incorrect model was running, x1sushxts27 instead of x1sushxts05, so I re-started the *05 model. I then BURT restored the safe snapshot (/opt/rtcds3/tst/x1/userapps/release/sus/x1/burtfiles/20130911_x1sushxts05_OMC.snap) I had already previously taken of the OMC configuration (see LHO aLOG entry 7728 for further details). 

The triple test-stand should now be ready to accept OMCS for testing.