Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• CLAS at Jefferson Lab
  • The Accelerator
    • The Halls
  • CLAS, the Hall B detector
  • Experiments with CLAS
  • The Beam Line
    • The beamline devices
      • Accelerator division devices
        • Machine Protection System
        • Vacuum system
        • Beam position monitors
        • The rastering Magnet
      • The Möller polarimeter
        • The Möller Polarimeter quadrupole magnets
        • The Möller Polarimeter detectors
      • Devices used for generating and controlling the photon beam
        • The Harp
        • The Tagger Magnet
        • Photon tagger
        • Collimator system
      • Some other important beamline devices
        • Mini torus
        • Faraday cup
        • Faraday cup viewer
• The EPICS environment for Slow Controls
  • A short introduction to EPICS and it's implementation in Hall B
    • EPICS in a few words
    • EPICS hardware
    • Software
    • Operation system and development tools
    • Typical application
  • Some of the record and hardware used
    • What is a record ?
    • Simple records
    • The Stepper Motor record and hardware
      • The hardware
        • The driver
        • The motor
    • The scaler record and hardware
      • The Hardware
      • Important remark about the scaler record code
• Beamline EPICS applications
  • General information for developers
  • The GUI_launch GUI
    • Overview
    • How to launch it
    • How to use it
    • Hardware and Software
      • File informations
  • The Harp GUI
    • Overview
    • How to launch it
    • How to use it
      • What to look at ?
        • Electron beam run
        • Photon beam run
      • What to do ?
      • Many buttons and some displays
    • Hardware and Software
      • File informations
  • The Scaler GUI
    • Overview
    • How to launch it
    • How to use it
      • What to look at ?
      • What to do ?
    • hardware and software
      • File informations
  • The Collimator GUI
    • Overview
    • How to launch it
    • How to use it
      • What to look at ?
      • What to do ?
    • Hardware and Software
      • File informations
  • The Forward Scaler GUI
    • Overview
    • How to launch it
    • How to use it
      • What to do ?
    • Hardware and Software
      • Files Information
  • The Converter GUI
    • Overview
    • How to launch it
    • How to use it
      • a few buttons and some displays
    • Hardware and Software
      • File informations
  • Fast Scan
• Scans
  • Why scanning the beam ?
  • Some Basic theory
    • Presuppositions
    • A perfect beam
    • The ellipsoidal beam
  • The actual implementation
    • The SNL routine
    • Software to analyze the scans
    • Configuration
  • Analysis of the beam scans
    • A first look at the scans zoology
    • Methodology for scans analysis
    • Non fitted scans
    • Cuts on the reduced $\chi^2$
    • Cuts on the errors of the fit
    • Acceptable sigma
    • The Quality Factor
• Conclusion
• References
• Source files

List of Tables

• Total of Approved Experiments by Physics Topic From PAC-9 [#bib:pac##1###]
• The Beam-Line Popup Menus : Motor devices
• The Beam-Line Popup Menus : Other devices
• Targets nature and position
• The Harp Position Control Panel
• The Harp Display Panel
• The Harp Scan Window
• The Harp Warning Message Area
• The Scaler Summary Panel
• The Scaler Upstream PMTs Panel
• The Scaler Downstream PMTs Panel
• The Scaler Tagger PMTs Panel
• The Scaler Raw Data Panel
• The Scaler Latched Raw Data Panel
• The Scaler Control Panel
• The Collimator Position Control Panel
• The Collimator Help Pane
• The Collimator Calibration Panel
• The Collimator Position and Switches Panel
• The Collimator Graphic Position Indicator Panel
• The Forward Scaler Panels
• The Converter Panel
• The Converter Calibration Panel
• The Converter Home Panel
• The Converter Scan Panel
• The Converter Help Panel
• Sample from a scan file