MICE Collaboration Meeting No. 28

from Sunday, 3 October 2010 (08:00) to Friday, 8 October 2010 (19:00)
Bankya Palace Spa Hotel (Sofia Hall)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Oct 2010
4 Oct 2010
5 Oct 2010
6 Oct 2010
7 Oct 2010
8 Oct 2010
AM
08:00
Arrival day (until 20:00) (Sofia Hall)
09:00
Registration (until 09:30) (Lobby area)
09:30
Goals & News Session (until 10:30) (Sofia Hall)
09:30 Welcome from the Mayor of the Bankya municipality   (Sofia Hall)
09:35 Goals of Meeting - Alain Blondel (University of Geneva)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:50 Highlights of MAP Review - Mike Zisman (LBNL)   (Sofia Hall)
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10:10 Project Manager Report - Andy Nichols (RAL)   (Sofia Hall)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Overview and Beam Line Session (until 12:30) (Sofia Hall)
11:00 MOM Report - Linda Coney (University of California, Riverside)   (Sofia Hall)
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11:30 Rate vs Beam Loss - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London)   (Sofia Hall)
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11:55 MICE Beam Line - Marco Apollonio   (Sofia Hall)
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09:00
Engineering Parallel (until 10:30) (Bankya Hall)
09:00 Electrical Engineering - Ian Mullacrane (Daresbury Lab)   (Bankya Hall)
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09:05 Open Questions on Cooling Channel Controls - Ian Mullacrane (Daresbury Laboratory)   (Bankya Hall)
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09:20 Engineering Integration - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)   (Bankya Hall)
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09:40 EMR - Franck Cadoux (universite de geneve)   (Bankya Hall)
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10:00 Vacuum System Update - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL)   (Bankya Hall)
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10:15 RF Preparation in the MICE Hall - Timothy Hayler (Particle Physics)   (Bankya Hall)
09:00
Software Parallel Session (until 10:30) (Sofia Hall)
09:00 Software Overview/Plan - Dr David Colling (Imperial College London)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:35 G4MICE - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)   (Sofia Hall)
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10:00 Configuration Database - David Forrest   (Sofia Hall)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
RF Parallel Session (until 11:45) (Bankya Hall)
11:00 RF Cavities - Alan DeMello (LBNL)   (Bankya Hall)
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11:25 RF Power - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)   (Bankya Hall)
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11:00
Software Parallel Session (until 11:45) (Sofia Hall)
11:00 Online Reconstruction - Linda Coney (University of California, Riverside)   (Sofia Hall)
11:15 Data Mover/GRID - Henry Nebrensky (Brunel University)   (Sofia Hall)
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11:45
Detector Plenary Session (until 12:30) (Sofia Hall)
11:45 Luminosity Monitor Analysis - David Forrest   (Sofia Hall)
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12:05 Tracker Update - David Adey (Warwick University)   (Sofia Hall)
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08:30
Absorber Systems & MICE Magnets Session (until 10:30) (Sofia Hall)
08:30 Spectrometer Solenoid Magnets - Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:10 Coupling Coils - Dr Derun Li (LBNL)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:30 Magnetic Measurement Plan - Pierrick Hanlet (IIT)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:45 Magnet Measurement Device - Felix Bergsma (CERN)   (Sofia Hall)
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10:05 Magnetic Measurement Discussion - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC)) Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Sofia Hall)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Absorber Systems & MICE Magnets Session (until 12:30) (Sofia Hall)
11:00 LiH Absorber Update - Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (Sofia Hall)
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11:25 LH2 Infrastructure - Matt Hills (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (Sofia Hall)
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11:50 Diffuser Hardware Report - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)   (Sofia Hall)
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12:05 Focus Coils - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:00
DAQ, Software & NuFact Plot Review Session (until 10:30) (Sofia Hall)
09:00 DAQ - Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:25 Controls & Monitoring - Hanlet Pierrick (IIT)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:50 Software Summary - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)   (Sofia Hall)
10:15 Review of Plots for NuFact 2010 - Prof. Vittorio Palladino (Univ. & INFN Napoli, Italy)   (Sofia Hall)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Analysis Session: Step III-IV Discussion (until 12:30) (Sofia Hall)
11:00 Step III/IV Introduction - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))   (Sofia Hall)
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11:05 Step III - IV Comparison: Accelerators - Timothy Carlisle   (Sofia Hall)
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11:25 Step III - IV Comparison: Absorber Changing Logistics - Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (Sofia Hall)
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11:40 Discussion: Do we restart with Step III or Step IV? - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC)) Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)   (Sofia Hall)
12:05 Engineering Summary - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)   (Sofia Hall)
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09:00
Excursion to Koprivshtitsa (until 19:00) ()
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Welcome & Beam Line Analysis Session (until 15:30) (Sofia Hall)
14:00 Welcome from the Rector of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia   (Sofia Hall)
14:15 Beam Characterization & Emittance Measurement - Mark Rayner (Oxford)   (Sofia Hall)
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14:40 Data Quality Check of Reference Runs - Summer Blot (University of Chicago)   (Sofia Hall)
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14:55 Study of Q3 = 0 Data - Chris Rogers (RAL)   (Sofia Hall)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Welcome & Beam Line Analysis Session (until 16:20) (Sofia Hall)
16:00 Target Update - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)   (Sofia Hall)
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16:20
Run Planning for 2011 Session (until 17:30) (Sofia Hall)
16:20 Run Plan Organization for 2011: Review of 2010 - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)   (Sofia Hall)
16:35 Run Plan Organization for 2011: Running a Better MouseWheel   (Sofia Hall)
16:50 Operations: Better Communication and Knowledge Transfer with Redmine - Christopher Tunnell   (Sofia Hall)
17:00 Run Plan Organization for 2011: EMR Data Proposal - Mr Vassil VERGUILOV (DPNC - University of Geneva)   (Sofia Hall)
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17:10 Run Plan Organization for 2011: Beam Optimization Needs - Marco Apollonio Mr Chris Rogers (RAL)   (Sofia Hall)
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17:15 Run Plan Organization for 2011: DISCUSSION   (Sofia Hall)
17:30
Technical Board (until 18:30) (Sofia Hall)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Analysis Session (until 15:05) (Sofia Hall)
14:00 TOF Calibration - Mr Yordan Karadzhov (University of Sofia)   (Sofia Hall)
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14:15 TOF Stability: Analysis of Data Over Time - Mark Rayner (The University of Oxford)   (Sofia Hall)
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14:35 Comparison of Old/New Diffuser Designs - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)   (Sofia Hall)
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15:05
Analysis Session (until 16:05) (Sofia Hall)
15:05 MICE Geometry: Software - Matthew Littlefield (Brunel University)   (Sofia Hall)
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15:20 MICE Geometry: Analysis Requirements - Mark Rayner (The University of Oxford)   (Sofia Hall)
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15:25 MICE Geometry: TOF Detector Survey Results - Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)   (Sofia Hall)
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15:35 MICE Geometry: MICE Hall - Prof. Roumen Tsenov (University of Sofia)   (Sofia Hall)
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15:45 MICE Geometry: Discussion   (Sofia Hall)
16:05 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Collaboration Board (until 18:30) (Sofia Hall)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Excursion to historical places in Sofia (until 19:00) ()
20:00
Banquet (until 23:00) ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Concluding Session (until 15:20) (Sofia Hall)
14:00 Schedule & Risks - Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (Sofia Hall)
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14:25 Collaboration Board Report - Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (Sofia Hall)
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14:50 Concluding Address - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC)) Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Sofia Hall)
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15:20 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Executive Board (until 17:30) (Sofia Hall)
18:30
Public lecture (until 19:30) (Lecture-hall A315)
18:30 From the Sun to the Earth: are humans descended from neutrinos? - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))   (Lecture-hall A315)