NorduCLIC board meeting

Monday 29 Nov 2010, 13:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

Telephone (CERN)

Minutes of Meeting : NorduCLIC board meeting, November 29, 2010

 

 

Abbreviations:

 

TBTS: Two-beam Test Stand

12TS: 12 GHz Stand Alone Test Stand

TBM: Two-beam Module

 

 

Agenda

 

Draft Agenda

1. Attendance of the meeting

2. Approval of agenda

3. Minutes of the last meeting

4. Discussion and approval of draft of the long term plan for NorduCLIC consortium to be sent to the Nordic CERN Council delegates (updated draft attached)

5. Report on progress in the CTF3 test program

6. Date of next meeting

7. Any other business

 

 

 

1. Attendance of the meeting

Present :

 

Tord Ekelöf (TE)

Kenneth Österberg  (KO)

Erik Adli (EA)

Kyrre Næss (KN) 

Volker Ziemann (VZ)

Steinar Stapnes (SS)

 

Partial attendance :

 

Absent :

 

Roger Ruber (RR)

Flyura Djurabekova (FD)

Kaj Nordlund (KN) 

Søren Pape Møller (SM)

Ulrik I. Uggerhøj (UU)

Jakob Esberg (JE)

Ole Røhne  (OR)

 

 

 

2. Approval of agenda

 

Approved.

 

 

3. Minutes of last meeting

 

Approved.

 

 

4. Discussion and approval of draft of the long term plan for NorduCLIC consortium to be sent to the Nordic CERN Council delegates

 

Discussion on new draft provided by TE (updates by KO still to be updated).

 

SS: the idea was to have a discussion with the funding partners ideally not only about CLIC, but a general discussion about accelerator physics in the Nordic Countries.  We have many (partly) common points, ESS, TIARA.

 

TE: what should we ask for in the text/in the meeting?  

 

SS: which opportunities do the funding agencies (represented by delegates) see for accelerator physics in the Nordic Countries.  

 

TE: a example of a real Nordic CERN organisation NDGF (Nordic DataGrid Facility) budget on 20 MSEK/year, run by NOS-N.  NDGF is something of a crisis due to disagreement on who pays how much.

 

TE: neither NOS-N nor NORFORSK have the money needed to support a common Nordic accelerator activity.

 

SS: suggest  for council delegates

- present short NorduCLIC common work, budget, plans, status of 2009 application (we saw no sign of Nordic cooperation)

- possibilities for cooperation ESS

- TIARA

 

SS: maybe we should wait for the council meetings in March 2011 instead (eventually national preliminary discussions in December).

 

 

SS: do we consider it worthwhile pushing the Nordic cooperation, instead of working nationally alone?

 

KO: consider it important for Finland to be a part of a Nordic activity.  

 

TE: question to all, good idea to front breadth?

 

VZ and EA: good idea to include e.g. ESS in cooperation

 

KO: comment on broadening the perspective: note that Finland is not part of ESS (should not therefore highlight ESS in this context)

 

TE: what should we present?

 

SS: mention CLIC, TIARA, also ESS, we want to continue the activities, maybe including education and training.  Then simply ask delegates: is this a good idea. 

 

TE: maybe, instead of asking whether this is a good idea:  better to formulate to ask delegates to "investigate the possibilities".

 

 

Summary:

-> TE to write up "execute summary" of original text to be distributed to delegates, with the original (eventually modified) as appendix

-> agreement that the national parties have bilateral discussions with their respective delegates

-> NorduCLIC meeting in January (after bilateral discussions)

-> eventual official common meeting with delegates postponed to 2011

 

 

Actions:

 

TE: to circulate new version by Thursday 2/11.

 

 

 

 

5. Report on progress in the CTF3 test program

 

EA:

TBTS: 100 MV/m reached, working to find why acceleration wrt. power ~ 2 off

TBL: delayed, no more PETS until 2011 (only one PETS)

Drivebeam: last month: optimized for drive beam and current phase

 

 

6. Date of next meeting

 

Tuesday, January 18, 2010, 10h-12h.

 

 

7. Any other business

 

None.

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