E907 Installation Conference Call Minutes

7 February 2002

Contents

Agenda

Progress Updates and Issues

  1. Upstream Beamline
    1. BEAM - Beamline
    2. UBL - Upstream Beamline Detectors
  2. Targets
    1. TGTW - Target Wheel
    2. CTGT - Cryo Targets
    3. NTGT - NuMI (MINOS) Target
  3. TPC - Time Projection Chamber
  4. Magnets
    1. JGG - Jolly Green Giant
    2. Rosy
  5. CKOV - Cerenkov
  6. DC - Chambers
  7. TOF - Time of Flight
  8. RICH - Ring Imaging Cerenkov
  9. NCAL - Calorimeter
  10. DAQ - Data Acquisition
  11. MC - Monte Carlo
  12. Installation
  13. MC7 - Enclosure and Counting House
  14. Meetings
  15. Project Management

Next Call


Agenda

Time (CST)

Dur (min)

Lead

Topic

4:00

5'

call setup

4:05

5'

PDB

Format/agenda

Starting time OK? Could move up 30 min.

4:10

15'

RR

Collaboration MeetingSat 2/16/02 Agenda

4:25

15'

all

System Issues

- New geometry

4:40

15'

PDB

Engineering meetings Fri 2/15/02 Agenda

4:55

5'

AOB


Progress Updates and Issues

Upstream Beamline

BEAM - Beamline

UBL - Upstream Beamline Detectors

Beam Cerenkov - Mike Heffner

I visited Gordon Koizumi @ FNAL and looked at 2 differential ckov detectors.

  • I have pictures and prints
  • We have the mirrors but they need recoated
  • Looks good...may extend identification to 120 GeV
  •  ToDo
    • do the calculations to determine if the detectors will work for us
    • identify the owner of the detectors and verify that we can have them
    • start the refurbishment
    • Since I have just been assigned to all upstream detectors, I need to determine what the other detectors are

Targets

TGTW - Target Wheel

CTGT - Cryogenic Targets

NTGT - NuMI (MINOS) Target

Brief discussion of target and TPC interactions.

Do targets have to be at the center of the TPC window? Soltz: no. We are going to reconstruct the vertex event by event anyway; offsets within the window region won't matter.

Do all targets have to be at the same place? Soltz: yes, so we only use one beamline tune and can (potentially) pool the target out data.

TPC - Time Projection Chamber

Magnets

JGG - Jolly Green Giant

Rosy

CKOV - Cerenkov

DC - Drift Chambers

TOF - Time of Flight

RICH - Ring Imaging Cerenkov

NCAL - Calorimeter

Most of my efforts to date have been to try to get some funding so we can function. I have submitted a Stewardship Science Academic Alliances Program Preapplication. It is based on the relevance of E907 to Proton Radiography. I have no idea as to its chances.

I have had e-mail contact with Ingrid Fang about the NCAL stand and I believe this can go ahead.

I also have recruited a new graduate student who may work on the experiment if I can secure funding. I might point out to the non-university people that graduate students cost us almost as much as postdocs because we have to pay their out-of-state tuition from our grants plus overhead on that and on their stipend. Thus it will not be possible to support a grad student to work on E907 if I don't get the Stewardship Science award. Even my own participation is questionable.

DAQ - Data Acquisition

MC - Monte Carlo

Installation

MC7 Enclosure and Counting House

Meetings

Engineering Meeting 15 February 2002
Collaboration Meeting 16 February 2002

Draft agendas

Add to Collaboration Meeting Agenda:

  • Raja - Overview
  • Barnes - Upcoming Issues
  • Heffner - Beam Cerenkov detectors
  • Kilmer - Cryo Targets
  • Cole - E907 and E910

Add Beam Cerenkov gas requirements to Engineering Meeting Gas System Discussion.

Project Management

LLNL-FNAL ICO is wending its way through LLNL purchasing. Currently out to DOE.

Three Stockpile Stewardship Academic Alliance pre-proposals submitted. No response yet.

Next Systems Call

Moving this call 30 mins earlier will help a few people; no objections.

The next call will be Thursday, 21 February 2002 at 3:30 CST.


Contact

on

Peter Barnes

on

Leon Beverly

absent

Ed Hartouni

on

Mike Heffner

on

David Lange

absent

Mike Longo

absent

Sanjib Mishra

absent

Jerry Peterson

on

Rajendran Raja

on

Ron Soltz

absent

Earl Swallow


PDB, 2/7/02