LAT Quarterly

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GLAST Large Area Telescope LAT Quarterly
Review ACD Subsystem Jonathan Ormes / Rudolph
Larsen NASA GSFC ACD Management
Jonathan.F.Ormes.1_at_gsfc.nasa.gov Rudolph.K.Larse
n.1_at_gsfc.nasa.gov
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ACD Subsystem

• Outline
• LAT and ACD Design Overviews
• ACD Organization and WBS Charts
• Tile Detector Assemblies (TDA) Design Status
• Tile Shell Assembly Design Status
• Base Electronics Assembly Design Status
• Studies Requested from February Review
• Issues, Risks and Mitigations
• ACD Near Term Milestones
• Conclusions

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LAT Design Overview
Instrument
16 towers ? modularity height/width 0.4 ?
large field-of-view Si-strip detectors 228 mm
pitch, total of 8.8 x 105 ch.
hodoscopic CsI crystal array ?
cosmic-ray rejection ? shower leakage
correction XTkr Cal 10 X0 ? shower max
contained GeV segmented plastic scintillator ?
minimize self-veto 0.9997 efficiency
redundant readout
Tracker
Calorimeter
Anticoincidence Detector
3000 kg, 650 W (allocation) 1.75 m ? 1.75 m ?
1.0 m 20 MeV 300 GeV
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ACD Design Overview
Lip to "hide" thermal blanket and micro-meteorite
shield
Y
X
Tile Shell Assembly (TSA)
Base Electronics Assembly (BEA)
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ACD Organization Chart
ACD Subsystem Code 600
Jonathan Ormes - Lead Investigator
ACD management Code 700
Rudy Larsen - Manager Cristina Doria-Warner -
Financial Resources Code
400.1 Dennis Wicks - Scheduling
ACD Design and Science support Code 661
Alexander Moiseev,Lead David Thompson, Robert
Hartman
David Bertsch, Jay Norris
ACD Reliability and Quality Assurance Code 303
Patricia. Huber, Lead
ACD Simulations Code 661
Tavi Alverez, Quality Tony DiVenti,
Reliability Nick Virmani,Thom Perry, Parts
(560) Fred Gross, PilarJoy, Materials (543) Bo
Lewis,Jim Anderson, Safety Chris Lorantson,
Contamination
Heather Kelly
Taro Kotani
Alexander Moiseev
Ground Support Facilities Equipment Code
543/564 Thomas Johnson / TBD Electronics Lead
Base Electronics Assembly Code 564
Flight Software R. Schaefer Code 664 moved
to LAT Flight Electronics SLAC
LAT Insrument Integration Test Code 568
Tile Shell Assembly Code 543
Micrometeroid Shield / Thermal Blanket Code 543/
545
Hardware/Software Integration Test Code 543 T.
Johnson, Lead
Mission Operation Data Analysis Code 661
Mission Integration Test Support Code 568
TBD, Lead
Thomas Johnson, Lead
Thomas Johnson, Lead Lou Fantano, Thermal
Lead
D.Sheppard, S. Singh,
John Lindsay, Lead
John Lindsay, Lead
David Thompson, Lead
Scot Murphy
Robert Baker
Tile Detector Assemblies Code 661
A. Moiseev, Lead
Code 600 - Space Sciences
Directorate 661 - Gamma Ray and Cosmic
Ray Astronomy 663 - Instrument Development 664 -
Data Management Programming
Code 543 - Mechanical Engineering
Branch 545 - Thermal Engineering
Branch 564 - Microelectronics and
Signal Processing Branch 568 - Flight Systems
Integration and Test Branch
Code 700.1 - Systems Technology, And
Advanced Concepts Directorate 740 -
Flight Instrument Division
Code 302 - Systems Reliability and Safety
Office 303 - Assurance Management Office
Code 400.1 - STAAC Business Management
Office
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ACD Work Breakdown Structure
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Tile Detector Assembly (TDA) Design
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Tile Detector Assembly (TDA) Design
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Tile Shell Assembly Design
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Tile Shell Assembly Design

• Worked on minimizing the volume of the ACD. This
  was in response to an increase in LAT Grid size
  and an increase in the height of the LAT
  Trackers.
• Refined the TDA placement on the sides to
  minimize the overall volume of the ACD.
• Continuing to work on routing of the fibers in
  the tiles.
• Optimized the design of the shell to increase its
  overall stiffness to 50 Hz
• Performed several trade studies to determine the
  optimum mounting interface between the shell and
  base frame

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Base Electronics Assembly
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Base Electronics Assembly Design

• Photomultiplier tubes competitive procurement
  action initiated
• baseline tube identified with flight heritage
• 10 Qual units 1/02 40 EM units 6/02 210 FM
  units 3/03
• Level IV Requirements Document recently drafted
• Reliabilty Requirements balanced against cost
  have driven the Electronics Design
• Topology of the Event Processor Board established
  with each board servicing 18 PMTs
• Boards are no longer interconnected
• Trigger Primitives are generated in the LAT
• ACD Science team is investigating tile /
  electronics channel failure modes, effects and
  mitigations
• Progress was made in the ACD to LAT electrical
  interface definition

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Studies Requested at February Review

• RD Testing Identify optimum design in terms of
  tile efficiency and light collection and map the
  response (light yield, efficiency) of a
  fiber/tile configuration in detail.
• Determine testing methodology and construct test
  configuration -complete
• Determine optimum fiber spacing in tile -complete
• Determine optimum groove depth -complete
• Determine tile thickness effects on light yield
  (linear with thickness?)
• Determine edge effects -complete-no measureable
  effect
• Determine tile uniformity
• Determine effects of fiber end treatments
  (Alized ends)
• Determine fiber length effects -complete, using
  low attenuation light transmission fibers
• Determine MIP light yield, of PEs, and PMT
  gain requirements -complete
• Production Testing Develop and implement test
  procedure and fixture to verify performance of
  every tile.
• Experience derived from RD Testing will
  determine testing methodology and requirements
• Milestones
• Remaining RD Testing Completed September 1
• Production Test Plan Completed September 1

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Issues, Risks and Mitigations

• Accelerated schedule - Issue risk to readiness
  for the LAT Preliminary Design Review.
  Mitigation hold the ACD Design Peer Review as
  scheduled and work all action items assigned.
• Revised cost estimate - Issue threat to LAT
  budget
• We are still over the proposal cost. Mitigation
  Complete redesign of ACD electronics shared use
  of LAT resources further ACD descope.
• Mass constraint - Issue risk to efficiency,
  redundancy, and margin of the Anticoincidence
  Detector. Mitigation careful design additional
  mass request
• Thermal blanket/micrometeoroid shield
  performance - Issue risk to durability of ACD
  over its lifetime. Mitigation agreement for
  design help from Johnson Space Center, which
  specializes in protection against penetrations.
• Light collection from scintillator tiles -
  Issue affects efficiency throughout the life of
  the mission. Mitigation Tests to optimize the
  light collection and use of clear optical fiber
  transmission lines.

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Issues, Risks and Mitigations

• Gaps between scintillator tiles - Issue Lowers
  Background rejection efficiency. Mitigation
  cover gaps with scintillating tapes in one
  dimension and overlap detector tiles in the
  other.
• Electronics Cost - Different cost estimates
  within GSFC and between GSFC and SLAC. Mitigation
  is all parties meet to understand differences and
  reach agreement.
• Reliability Requirements - To yield higher
  reliability number Micrometeoroid Shield may need
  thickening which could lead to higher background.
  Mitigation is more analyses are needed.
• Background entering at the edge of the bottom of
  the ACD - Mitigation
• is further analyses needed. Preliminary look
  says its not a problem.
• LAT other subsystems ability to compensate for
  loss of effective area - Mitigation is also
  further analyses.

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ACD Near Term Milestones
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Conclusions

• ACD Design Peer Review shows significant progress
  in preparing for the October LAT Instrument
  Review
• Respondees to the Peer Review Action Items have
  been identified along with an internal GSFC due
  date of September 21.
• Major open issue is ACD cost.