MICE Collaboration Meeting No. 28

3 Oct 2010, 08:00 → 8 Oct 2010, 19:00 Europe/Sofia

Sofia Hall (Bankya Palace Spa Hotel)

Galina Kirilova, Roumen Tsenov (University of Sofia), Yordan Karadzhov (University of Sofia)

Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Collaboration Meeting No. 28 

 

Sunday, 3 October

08:00 → 20:00 Arrival day

Monday, 4 October

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:30 Goals & News Session

09:30 Welcome from the Mayor of the Bankya municipality

09:35 Goals of Meeting

Speaker: Alain Blondel (University of Geneva)

Slides bdl-goals-2010-10-04.pdf bdl-goals-2010-10-04.ppt

09:50 Highlights of MAP Review

Speaker: Mike Zisman (LBNL)

Slides MAPreview-10-4-10-R0a.pdf MAPreview-10-4-10-R0a.ppt

10:10 Project Manager Report

Speaker: Andy Nichols (RAL)

Slides pm4_10_10.pdf pm4_10_10.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Overview and Beam Line Session

11:00 MOM Report

Speaker: Linda Coney (University of California, Riverside)

Slides CM28_Bulgaria_Coney_MOM_Report.pdf CM28_Bulgaria_Coney_MOM_Report.ppt

11:30 Rate vs Beam Loss

Speaker: Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London)

Slides ADobbs_CM28_2010-10-04.pdf

11:55 MICE Beam Line

Speaker: Marco Apollonio

Slides BeamLineSummary_CM28.pdf BeamLineSummary_CM28.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Welcome & Beam Line Analysis Session

14:00 Welcome from the Rector of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

14:15 Beam Characterization & Emittance Measurement

Speaker: Mark Rayner (Oxford)

Slides cm28-1-v5.pdf

14:40 Data Quality Check of Reference Runs

Speaker: Summer Blot (University of Chicago)

Slides SummerBlot_MICECM28.pdf SummerBlot_MICECM28.ppt

14:55 Study of Q3 = 0 Data

Speaker: Chris Rogers (RAL)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:20 Welcome & Beam Line Analysis Session

16:00 Target Update

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides 2010-10-99-Long-Target.pdf 2010-10-99-Long-Target.pptx

16:20 → 17:30 Run Planning for 2011 Session

16:20 Run Plan Organization for 2011: Review of 2010

Speaker: Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)

16:35 Run Plan Organization for 2011: Running a Better MouseWheel

16:50 Operations: Better Communication and Knowledge Transfer with Redmine

Speaker: Christopher Tunnell

Slides

• mice_sofia_collab.pdf
• mice_sofia_collab.pdf
• mice_sofia_collab.ppt

17:00 Run Plan Organization for 2011: EMR Data Proposal

Speaker: Mr Vassil VERGUILOV (DPNC - University of Geneva)

Slides EMR.pdf

17:10 Run Plan Organization for 2011: Beam Optimization Needs

Speakers: Mr Chris Rogers (RAL), Marco Apollonio

Slides BeamLineRequest2011_CM28.pdf BeamLineRequest2011_CM28.ppt

17:15 Run Plan Organization for 2011: DISCUSSION

17:30 → 18:30 Technical Board

Tuesday, 5 October

09:00 → 10:30 Engineering Parallel

09:00 Electrical Engineering

Speaker: Ian Mullacrane (Daresbury Lab)

Slides Mice_Collab_Meeting_CM28_RAL_Elec_Presentation.pdf Mice_Collab_Meeting_CM28_RAL_Elec_Presentation.ppt

09:05 Open Questions on Cooling Channel Controls

Speaker: Ian Mullacrane (Daresbury Laboratory)

Slides Questions_for_CM_28.doc Questions_for_CM_28.pdf

09:20 Engineering Integration

Speaker: Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)

Slides 001_06Oct10_MICE_Integration_Engineering_v2.pdf 001_06Oct10_MICE_Integration_Engineering_v2.ppt

09:40 EMR

Speaker: Franck Cadoux (universite de geneve)

Slides MICE_EMROct10.pdf

10:00 Vacuum System Update

Speaker: Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL)

Slides CM28_-_VacuumSystemUpdate.pdf CM28_-_VacuumSystemUpdate.ppt

10:15 RF Preparation in the MICE Hall

Speaker: Timothy Hayler (Particle Physics)

09:00 → 10:30 Software Parallel Session

09:00 Software Overview/Plan

Speaker: Dr David Colling (Imperial College London)

Slides MICE_Computing_and_Software.pdf MICE_Computing_and_Software.pptx

09:35 G4MICE

Speaker: Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)

Slides G4MICE-Status-and-Plans.pdf

10:00 Configuration Database

Speaker: David Forrest

Slides Configuration_Database.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 RF Parallel Session

11:00 RF Cavities

Speaker: Alan DeMello (LBNL)

Slides CM28_DeMello_RFCC_Module_Update_10-05-2010.ppt

11:25 RF Power

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides mice_RF_status_October_2010.pdf mice_RF_status_October_2010.ppt

11:00 → 11:45 Software Parallel Session

11:00 Online Reconstruction

Speaker: Linda Coney (University of California, Riverside)

Slides

• Coney_OnRec_CM28_RAL.pdf
• Coney_OnRec_CM28_RAL.ppt
• Coney_OnRec_CM28_RAL.ppt

11:15 Data Mover/GRID

Speaker: Henry Nebrensky (Brunel University)

Slides CM28nebrensky.pdf CM28nebrensky.pdf

11:45 → 12:30 Detector Plenary Session

11:45 Luminosity Monitor Analysis

Speaker: David Forrest

Slides Luminosity_Monitor.ppt

12:05 Tracker Update

Speaker: David Adey (Warwick University)

Slides TrackerCM28Detector051010.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:05 Analysis Session

14:00 TOF Calibration

Speaker: Mr Yordan Karadzhov (University of Sofia)

Slides TOF_CM28.pdf TOF_CM28.ppt

14:15 TOF Stability: Analysis of Data Over Time

Speaker: Mark Rayner (The University of Oxford)

Slides stability.pdf

14:35 Comparison of Old/New Diffuser Designs

Speaker: Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)

Slides VBlackmore_OldNewDiffuserComparison.ppt

15:05 → 16:05 Analysis Session: MICE Geometry

15:05 MICE Geometry: Software

Speaker: Matthew Littlefield (Brunel University)

Slides CM28_Pres.pdf CM28_Pres.pptx

15:20 MICE Geometry: Analysis Requirements

Speaker: Mark Rayner (The University of Oxford)

Slides geometry.pdf

15:25 MICE Geometry: TOF Detector Survey Results

Speaker: Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)

Slides cm28_graulich_survey.pdf cm28_graulich_survey.ppt

15:35 MICE Geometry: MICE Hall

Speaker: Prof. Roumen Tsenov (University of Sofia)

Slides RoumenTsenov-CM28.pdf RoumenTsenov-CM28.ppt

15:45 MICE Geometry: Discussion

16:05 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Collaboration Board

Wednesday, 6 October

08:30 → 10:30 Absorber Systems & MICE Magnets Session

08:30 Spectrometer Solenoid Magnets

Speaker: Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides spectrometer_solenoid_cm28.pdf spectrometer_solenoid_cm28.ppt

09:10 Coupling Coils

Speaker: Dr Derun Li (LBNL)

Slides CM28_CC_DL.pdf CM28_CC_DL.pptx

09:30 Magnetic Measurement Plan

Speaker: Pierrick Hanlet (IIT)

Slides cm28-hanlet-MagMap.pdf

09:45 Magnet Measurement Device

Speaker: Felix Bergsma (CERN)

Slides Bergsma-device.pdf Bergsma-device.ppt

10:05 Magnetic Measurement Discussion

Speakers: 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)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Absorber Systems & MICE Magnets Session

11:00 LiH Absorber Update

Speaker: Alan Bross (Fermilab)

Slides LiH_Absorber_Program.pdf LiH_Absorber_Program.ppt

11:25 LH2 Infrastructure

Speaker: Matt Hills (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides CM28_-_LH2_Infrastructure.pdf CM28_-_LH2_Infrastructure.ppt

11:50 Diffuser Hardware Report

Speaker: Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)

Slides VBlackmore_DiffuserHardwareReport.ppt

12:05 Focus Coils

Speaker: Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)

Slides AFC-CM28.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 19:00 Excursion to historical places in Sofia

20:00 → 23:00 Banquet

Thursday, 7 October

09:00 → 10:30 DAQ, Software & NuFact Plot Review Session

09:00 DAQ

Speaker: Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)

Slides cm28_graulich_daq.pdf cm28_graulich_daq.ppt

09:25 Controls & Monitoring

Speaker: Hanlet Pierrick (IIT)

Slides cm28-hanlet-CAM.pdf

09:50 Software Summary

Speaker: Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)

10:15 Review of Plots for NuFact 2010

Speaker: Prof. Vittorio Palladino (Univ. & INFN Napoli, Italy)

Slides

• Apollonio.pdf
• Apollonio.ppt
• Palladino.pdf
• Palladino.ppt
• slides
• Yagmur.html

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Analysis Session: Step III-IV Discussion

11:00 Step III/IV Introduction

Speaker: Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))

Slides bdl-stepIII-stepIV.pdf bdl-stepIII-stepIV.ppt

11:05 Step III - IV Comparison: Accelerators

Speaker: Timothy Carlisle

Slides CM28_Carlisle.pdf CM28_Carlisle.pptx

11:25 Step III - IV Comparison: Absorber Changing Logistics

Speaker: Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Paper 2-2-MICE-Mech-integration-Jan2010.mpp

Slides stepIV.pdf stepIV.pptx

11:40 Discussion: Do we restart with Step III or Step IV?

Speakers: Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC)), Dr John Cobb (Oxford University), Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

12:05 Engineering Summary

Speaker: Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)

Slides engsumm.pdf engsumm.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 Concluding Session

14:00 Schedule & Risks

Speaker: Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides shedrisk.pdf shedrisk.ppt

14:25 Collaboration Board Report

Speaker: Alan Bross (Fermilab)

Slides CB_summary.ppt

14:50 Concluding Address

Speakers: Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC)), Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides WrapupTalk-10-7-10-R0a.pdf WrapupTalk-10-7-10-R0a.ppt

15:20 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Executive Board

18:30 → 19:30 Public lecture

18:30 From the Sun to the Earth: are humans descended from neutrinos?

Speaker: Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))

Friday, 8 October

09:00 → 19:00 Excursion to Koprivshtitsa