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   RASNIK:  
 
         UCLA is building a relative alignment monitor called RASNIK ("Relative Alignment  System of NIKhef") for the CDF tracking detectors. This is an inexpensive system that was invented by NIKHEF in Amsterdam. It is an optical device, but does not use lasers, only an infrared light-source, a mask, convex lens and CCD camera, as shown on the right.

   PhotoMulipliers  
 
         We have chosen to use Hamamatsu R5900 16-Channel photomultiplier tubes based on their excellent performance characteristics. In excess of five-hundred tubes will have to be tested before being shipped to the CDF experiment at Fermilab, and we have a number of requirements that each tube must meet.

   Plug Shower Max  
 
        We are responsible for maintaining, calibrating, etc., the Plug Shower Maximum.
  Trigger Electronics  
 
      UCLA is building electronics boards for the CDF Level 2 Trigger.  We are designing and building the interface boards for the Track Triggers, including the displaced vertex trigger and the track extrapolator.
   "TRIGMON and XMON"   
 
     UCLA is developing the online monitoring system for the Run 2 trigger at CDF.  We monitor the performance of the trigger online using TrigMon, and measure the trigger rates using XMon. These tools will allow real-time debugging of the trigger hardware during Run 2, and online measurements of trigger rates and efficiencies.

 
  Trigger Working Group  
 
     UCLA is co-responsible for determining the content of the "trigger tables". These decisions impact the physics heavily since we can only trigger on 50 events/second from the 8 million collisions per second. The Trigger Working Group takes input from all the collaboration's physics groups.

 
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