Sheila, Camilla, Elenna, TJ

• Picking up where we left off in 84554, we started by checking our alignment:
  • ran TMS + ITM baffle PD scripts
  • both ETMs were off in yaw, adjusted, locked green and ran ETM + TMS green WFS. ALS-C_TRX is at 1.2, TRY is at 1
  • Camilla realigned IMs, to where they were according to top mass osems at our last DRMI lock before the vent.  She adjusted IM3 to bring the position on IM4 trans QPD back to where it was at that time, and we had flashes of 0.6 in the LSC_TR_X channel (normal value is 1, this should be good enough to lock).
• Pop45 has no error signal.  Turned on sidebands (!), reset POP 45 dark offsets, which are hardcoded in ALIGN_IFO for this state, adjusted POP45 demod phase by 90 degrees, realized this was the wrong sign and finally adjusted it to -78 degrees which is accepted in SDF, then xarm locked. 
• TJ and I went to the table in the meantime, and aligned the PSL beam through the ALS SHG. TJ aligned the COMM beatnote easily, +3dBm, took a break for a big EQ.
• The SHG green power monitor PD doesn't seem to be working, we tried to follow the cable but got confused, the digital channel doesn't respond to room lights or phone. 
• Locked PRX, Elenna aligned PRM by hand, Sheila and TJ realinged REFL air path (for the first time).
• After  lunch we aligned DIFF beatnote getting to -11dBm, easiest to start by co-aligning the ghost beams off the PD.  Camilla found this new technique for this normally difficult alignment that seems much easier than our usual approarch. 
• The POP and RELF air beams were only ~1.5" or so apart on the top periscope mirrors. We are unsure why this changed and checked the alignments from when they were we aligned to the top periscope mirrors 84344.
• Camilla and I couldn't bring the mirrors close enough to have one mirror on each beam so we moved the periscope ~1" in +X and 1" in -Y to ge them both on the +X top periscope mirror. They are on their separate lower periscope mirrors.
• We aligned the REFL path and checked all stray beams were dumped
• We aligned the POP path onto, the beam was hard to see but we got some signal on POP A,  we expect enough to lock with, we can optimize alignment later.

TITLE: 05/23 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Commissioners continued making progress with being to align more cavities/states of H1.  And the plan is to continue with more alignment work (Maybe locking tonight for Elenna & Ibrahim?).
LOG:

• Sheila sorting through H1 alignment enough to make ISCT1 alignment work better.
  • 1451 Issues with POP is making this H1 alignment work tough; Sheila is now taking H1's IMC to OFFLINE
  • 1511 Going on floor to see if sidebands are on.  (they were not, so Sheila turned them ON)
• 1433 EX Wind Fence (mitch.randy)
• 1533 LVEA cleaning (kim, nellie)
  • 1606 kim out, 1615 nellie out
• 1622 isct1 table alignment continued (sheila,tj)
  • Stop when EQ arrived
  • 1830 Return to alignment work (sheila, tj)
• 1706-1732 H2 room (kim,nellie)
• 1734 EQ trips several ISIs
• 1952 Setting up camera to monitor new HAM1 pump. After getting the go-ahead with Gerardo. (dave)
• 2010-2320 Continuing ISCT1 alignment (sheila, camilla)
• 2035 TCS Chassis being toggled on/off (tj)
• 2115-2147 Tour in Control Room (ibrahim)

TITLE: 05/23 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Corey
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 9mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.10 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is in ENGINEERING and aligning

Now with all chambers vented, we are aligning cavities with the following done today and yesterday:

• ALS
• PRX
• Beatnotes
• Input
• Mich

Continuing to align cavities until we can make it through an initial alignment (and if the stars align too, potential full IFO locking)

Camilla, TJ

I went to turn on the CO2 lasers to prep for locking today. I found both power supplies on the mechanical room mezzanine needed to have their outputs turned on. For TCSX, I then was able to turn the controller on, turn the key, hit the gate button, then turn on the laser via medm as usual. For TCSY though, the controller complained of a Flow Alarm as soon as the unit was turned on, and turning the key or hitting the gate would not clear it. The flow was reading 2.45gpm according to the paddle wheel flow meter on the floor, and before the vent we were just above 2.5gpm on the floor and 3.4gpm at the chiller. We had reduced the flow of this chiller back in December with Robert (alog81246), so I tried bumping up the flow slightly to 2.6gpm on the floor in the hopes to clear the flow alarm. Now, the flow alarm wasn't present when turning the unit on, but then when I turned the key and hit the gate button, the flow alarm came back.

At this point Camilla and I checked cable connections, tried turning the chassis off and on while waiting a bit, patting our heads while rubbing our bellies, and some other non-fruitful things. Eventually we moved the flow back up to 3.8gpm at the chiller and 2.8gpm at the floor and the flow alarm never showed up. We tried to bring the flow down a bit, but the flow alarm would return. We have no idea why the controller isn't happy with us running the flow at levels that we have been for all of 2025. For now, sorry Crab Nebula.

Richard, Jonathan, Erik, Dave:

To help the vacuum team remotey monitor HAM1's ion pump controller over the weekend pump-down, I have set up a temporary web cam, attached to a ladder and positioned close to the Varian front panel. This is a fish-eye camera, originally in the MSR and called msrcam. The camera is connected via POE ethernet to the Mech Room VAC rack ethernet switch (port 13 of sw-mech-aux , 106 VLAN). The POE injector is on the top of the rack.

Erik created a virtual FOM on cdsws12 display 5, which captures a chromium browser viewing the camera. This image updates every minute.

For timestamping, I've borrowed a wall clock from the OSB.

FOM_image

This is for FAMIS #26416.
Laser Status:
    NPRO output power is 1.842W
    AMP1 output power is 70.19W
    AMP2 output power is 140.3W
    NPRO watchdog is GREEN
    AMP1 watchdog is GREEN
    AMP2 watchdog is GREEN
    PDWD watchdog is GREEN

PMC:
    It has been locked 4 days, 6 hr 50 minutes
    Reflected power = 23.09W
    Transmitted power = 105.5W
    PowerSum = 128.6W

FSS:
    It has been locked for 0 days 0 hr and 14 min
    TPD[V] = 0.82V

ISS:
    The diffracted power is around 3.9%
    Last saturation event was 0 days 3 hours and 31 minutes ago

Possible Issues:
    PMC reflected power is high

On May 15, 2025, "close-out" photos were taken of everything on the new HAM1 SEI ISI Optics Table a few days before HAM1 was sealted up & pumped down.  Took almost 300 photos/videos (~66Gb)!  These photos/videos have been uploaded to this google drive location:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w4GwB5H2c7Dgw37FxRgLK0ganJ1nycxs?usp=sharing

Notes:

• Cameras Used:  Canon 60D & iPhone13
• Types Of Photos:  Took a variety of photos (various wide angles, and then close-up Top Views of most of the optical components).
• Photo Names/Info:  To help give information for each photo, renamed each photo with info of the image
  • For names of optical components I used a few documents:  
    • Layout drawing D1000313---specifically looking at the Added File of Camilla's Cartoon image which has all components labeled.
    • Also used Camilla's google document, G2501073.
  • Photos are numbered and sorted in a way which makes sense (i.e. all wide shots are listed fiirst, next are top views from the west side of HAM1, top views from the east side, and then masses.
• Orientation:  Top view photos are oriented so the west side on the "top" (similar to the layout drawings mentioned above).
• "Before" Photos:  For comparison, "before" photos from April 7th are in this photo folder (posted in alog #83790)

Fri May 23 10:19:34 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 19min 30secs

TITLE: 05/23 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 4mph Gusts, 1mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.10 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

Sheila is sorting through the state of alignment which will then lead to continuing ISCT1 alignment work out on the floor.  Mitch and Randy are at EX starting on the wind fence.

Janos

Today morning the pressure in HAM1 rose quite quickly to ~1E-3 Torr. As I was driving to the site, Richard found out that the new Agilent leak checker, which backed the turbo, stopped. So he valved out the turbo via its main gate valve.
After arrival, I valved out the leak checker, valved in the Supersucker cart's Anest Iwata ISP500 pump, and restarted the turbo, then valved it back again. The pressure very quickly dropped to ~7E-6 Torr (roughly where it was before the incident). Since then, everything is nominal.

In the afternoon around 3 pm I valved in IP13 (500 l/s Starcell) to HAM1. The pressure nicely dropped to the low E-6s, however, it started growing. I checked the controller in the MER, and found that it is unable to hold the usual -7000 Volts, in fact, it was around -3000 Volts, and dropping (towards 0). Moreover, I found that the controller's comm cable is not wired properly to CDS, its channel reads IP1/B ion pump. So I valved out the Ion-pump.
With Dave, Fil, Richard, and Patrick we looked into the problem, and we quickly found that the Ion-pump's comm cable physically was not wired in at all.
I quickly plugged the valved out Ion-pump to an IPC mini, which obviously hardly could hold the pressure, but the voltage still slowly converged to -7000 V. After this, I located a spare controller (brand new, identical to the one we used), also attached a bypass connector to the comm outlet, and plugged the Ion pump to this one. It quickly reached the nominal -7000 Volts. (See the new (left) and old, broken down (right) controller on the IP-controller rack in the MER).
Early next week, after (hopefully) a successful leak check on HAM1, the Ion-pump will be valved in permanently. The comm cable wiring will also be finalized later.

TITLE: 05/22 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: Another busy day! After some pumpdown troubleshooting this morning, ISCT1 was rolled back into place, its bellows were attached, and beam alignment on the table is ongoing. Cycled ISC_LOCK through DOWN and SDF_REVERT, but ran into an issue where ETM ESD chassis needed to be restarted after the power outage last night. I also ran a quick rotation stage calibration.

• Sensor correction is ON
• All chambers are back to their nominal configurations except HAM1, which still needs work done on the ISI's isolation loops
• IMC is LOCKED with 2.2W input (rotation stage still needs to be calibrated)
• ISC_LOCK in READY

LOG:

After ISCT1 alignment worked wrapped up for the day, I ran a calibration sweep of the PSL rotation stage following the steps outlined in alog79596.

The measurement file, new calibration fit, and screenshot of newly accepted SDFs are attached.

TJ, Camilla, Sheila, Elenna

We went out to ISCT1 to realign all ALS paths. The baffle align scripts were successfully run for the ITMs and TMS. I moved the BS to improve the MICH alignment. We then misaligned the ITMs and went to the table.

TJ and I were able to find both green beams and the PSL red beam coming in on the periscopes. The PSL ALS beam was mostly hitting the beamdump that Sheila and Betsy had previously put on the path, but was slightly off. TJ moved the upper periscope mirror to center the green beams and the PSL beam. We got everything pretty well placed on the periscope, and then TJ improved the lower periscope green mirror to get each beam aligned onto the prism.

Sheila and I were able to get the beam aligned for the ALS X path and saw it on the camera. We moved the diode around until we got pretty good alignment. Then, I adjusted ETMX by hand to improve both the diode flashes and the camera image. At some point I hit a wall and found that moving TMSX also helped the alignment considerably. Eventually everything was well-aligned enough that I could let the ALSX guardian run through ETM TMS WFS offloaded.

I tried doing the input align with the X arm, but couldn't get LSC TR norm flashes good enough. I had to move PR2 a lot in yaw. I also tried some moves with IM4. Gave up for the day.

Meanwhile, TJ, Camilla, and Sheila touched up the ALS Y path and the PSL ALS path. The Y arm diode and camera are now well enough aligned that we could run the ALS Y guardian.

The PSL path needs more work, and currently the beam is dumped just before the SHG.

We removed all cables belonging to the analog cameras as well as a 12V power distribution box. Removed the video feedthrough panel and replaced it with a PEM feedthrough panel that previsouly was mounted on the other side.

We removed the cables associated with the 2 original in-air WFS. Removed the 2 feedthrough panels associated with the WFS.

We de-cabled the Mad City Lab PZT steering mirror, but did not remove it yet.

(CoreyG, MitchR, RandyT)

Wind Fence News

Today Location #4 (of6) had fabric panel started it was attached above the middle (so, 3 of 5 horizontal cables were secured to this panel).  The panel was then secured at this stage since the afternoon winds were beginning to pick up.  

At this point we moved to location #5 (of 6) and continued attaching the big/thick horizontal cables (bottom was installed last week, so the remaining 4 were tensioned-up/installed.  

Bee News

After this work was done, several NEW bee swarms were observed along the X-arm as we drove back to the Corner!

(Earlier this week an X-arm bee swarm was observed and a bee person installed a bee hive box; this box seems to be getting populated, but we did see some bees continuing to go into the Beam Tube at this location). 

But today, we saw (3) NEW Swarms at the base of the Beam Tube Enclosure---their swarms appeared within 2hrs!  The bees are entering at the joint between the cement enclosures. Many of the joints have holes in the cauking toward the ground and this is where the swarms were centered; as we drove back to the corner several more of these holes had smaller groups of bees investigating these holes.  Mitch went to notify Richard about the situation when we got back to the Corner Station.

An apparent 10-Hz comb at 1028, 1038, 1048... Hz was spotted while updating the lines lists. The peaks are right on integer frequencies (to within a single bin in 7200s SFTs).

I took a closer look and found that it's actually a single line jumping around in the spectrum. Anybody recognize this?

The line can also be seen in H1:PEM-CS_MAG_EBAY_LSCRACK_Z_DQ. It seems like it started coupling to DARM after the O4a/b break.

Details:

History of the line in DARM:

• 1028 Hz from 2024-03-23 through 2024-03-25
• 1058 Hz from 2024-03-26 through 2024-09-05
• 1028 Hz from 2024-09-06 through 2024-10-21
• 1038 Hz from 2024-10-22 through 2024-11-27
• 1048 Hz from 2024-11-27 through 2025-03-24
• 1068 Hz from 2025-03-25 through 2025-03-27
• 1058 Hz from 2025-03-28 through 2025-04-01

Comparison of magnetometer and strain data (y-axis for all plots is frequency; label got cut off for some reason): 

• Figures 1 and 2 show a narrow region around the 1028 Hz line. Figure 3 shows a zoom in on the early March 2024 strain plot, which is otherwise hard to see. Figures 3 and 4 show a narrow region around the 1058 Hz line.
• Interpretation: Figures 1-3 demonstrate that the line was visible in the magnetometer channel, but not in DARM, prior to March 2024. All four figures show that the artifact in DARM matches that in the magnetometer channel after March 2024.

TITLE: 05/22 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
    Wind: 11mph Gusts, 6mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.09 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: HAM1 pumping continued overnight, but starting about 1.5 hours ago the pressure started rapidly climbing. No cause determined as of yet. VAC team has been contacted.

EDIT: Had the wrong channel trended, corrected in current attachment.