MICE Collaboration Meeting 29

from Tuesday, February 15, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Friday, February 18, 2011 (6:00 PM)
RAL (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Feb 15, 2011
Feb 16, 2011
Feb 17, 2011
Feb 18, 2011
AM
8:00 AM
Welcome Session (until 9:40 AM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
8:00 AM Registration   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
9:00 AM Welcome Address - Dr John Womersley (RAL)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
9:20 AM Goals of the meeting - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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9:40 AM
Installation, Operations & Beamline Commissioning (until 12:30 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
9:40 AM MOM Report - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:00 AM Target - Paul Hodgson (University of Sheffield)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:20 AM ORBIT simulation of beam loss in ISIS - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:40 AM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Schedule of Installation & Work in the MICE Hall (2011 -- 2012) - Tim Hayler (STFC)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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11:20 AM Beamline: What have we achieved and what more is there to do? - Marco Apollonio Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) Mark Rayner (The University of Oxford)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
11:40 AM Discussion   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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12:00 PM Target Run Plan - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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9:00 AM
Analysis -Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) (until 11:00 AM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
9:00 AM Field errors/measurement requirements - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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9:30 AM Magnetic measurement plan (physics & analysis requirements) - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:00 AM Magnetic modelling of the MICE hall (analysis implications) - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:30 AM Normalised rates through MICE - David Forrest   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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11:00 AM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
11:15 AM
Analysis -Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) (until 12:45 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
11:15 AM Solid absorbers -- what can we do? - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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11:35 AM Step IV and solid absorbers - Timothy Carlisle   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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12:05 PM Experience with tracker reconstruction - Timothy Carlisle   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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9:00 AM
Detectors (until 11:00 AM) (CR13)
9:00 AM Cherenkov: Short Report - Lucien Cremaldi (University of Mississippi)   (CR13)
9:10 AM TOF: Short Report - Maurizio Bonesini (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN))   (CR13)
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9:20 AM KL: Short Report - Ludovico Tortora (INFN, Sezione di Roma III - Terza Universita di Roma)   (CR13)
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9:30 AM Tracker: Short Report - Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (CR13)
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9:40 AM Tracker system test - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) Linda Coney (University of California, Riverside)   (CR13)
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10:00 AM EMR construction and tests - Ruslan Asfandiyarov (Université de Genève)   (CR13)
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10:30 AM EMR simulation - Mr Vassil VERGUILOV (DPNC - University of Geneva)   (CR13)
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9:00 AM
Engineering - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs) (until 11:00 AM) (CR12)
9:00 AM Hydrogen system - Matthew Hills (STFC (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory))   (CR12)
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9:25 AM Discussion   (CR12)
11:00 AM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
11:15 AM
Engineering - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs) (until 12:35 PM) (CR12)
11:15 AM EMR and MICE hall integration discussion - Ruslan Asfandiyarov (Université de Genève)   (CR12)
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11:35 AM Integration discussion - Jason Stuart Tarrant (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science & Technology Facil)   (CR12)
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11:15 AM
Software -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) (until 12:30 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
11:15 AM Geometry - Matthew Littlefield (Brunel University)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
11:35 AM Tracker - David Adey (Unknown)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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11:55 AM Config DB - Ivan Reid (Brunel University)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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9:00 AM
Open Floor Session (until 9:40 AM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
9:00 AM Collaboration Board Summary   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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9:20 AM Speakers Bureau - Prof. Vittorio Palladino (Univ. & INFN Napoli, Italy)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
Paper
9:40 AM
Session Summaries (until 11:00 AM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
9:40 AM Engineering Summary - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:00 AM Magnet Summary - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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10:30 AM Detector Summary - Maurizio Bonesini (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
11:00 AM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Session Summaries (until 12:30 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
11:30 AM Run Plan Summary   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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11:50 AM Schedule Summary - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Run Plans (until 4:00 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
1:30 PM Cherenkov - Lucien Cremaldi (University of Mississippi)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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1:45 PM BPM: Making a quantitative detector - Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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2:00 PM TOF Calibration Needs - Maurizio Bonesini (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Mr Yordan Karadzhov (University of Sofia) Yordan Ivanov Karadzhov (Univ. of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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2:15 PM EMR Plan - Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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2:30 PM Additional beamline commissioning experiments - Marco Apollonio Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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2:45 PM 2011 Run Plan Summary   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
2011-run-plan for discussion
3:00 PM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM Step IV Run Plan   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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3:40 PM Spectrometer Solenoid Update - Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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4:00 PM
Analysis -Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) (until 5:00 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
4:00 PM Update on beam characterisation - Mark Rayner (The University of Oxford)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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4:30 PM Minimal necessary software for analysis - Christopher Tunnell   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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5:00 PM
Technical Board (until 7:20 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
5:00 PM Hall infrastructure - Tim Hayler (STFC) Alan Grant (Unknown)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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5:15 PM AFC module - Tom Bradshaw (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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5:30 PM Solid absorber program   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
5:45 PM Spectrometer solenoids - Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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6:00 PM Diffuser - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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6:15 PM EMR - Franck Cadoux (universite de geneve)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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6:30 PM Substation upgrade - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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6:45 PM Fibre tracker - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
7:00 PM Global magnet considerations - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL) Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
Slides
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Engineering - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs) (until 3:30 PM) (CR12)
1:45 PM Cooling channel moving platforms - Norbert Collomb (STFC Daresbury)   (CR12)
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2:15 PM Cooling channel and floor interfaces - Andrew James Lintern (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (CR12)
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2:40 PM Magnetic modelling of the MICE hall - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL)   (CR12)
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3:10 PM RF project - Mr ANDREW MOSS (CCLRC DARESBURY LABORATORY)   (CR12)
1:45 PM
Software - Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva) Dr David Colling (Imperial College London) (until 3:30 PM) (CR13)
1:45 PM MOM Handover Summary - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)   (CR13)
Slides
2:00 PM MICE Operations Summary - Linda Coney (University of California, Riverside)   (CR13)
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2:20 PM Controls and Monitoring: Update and Plans - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (CR13)
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2:40 PM Online hardware and software maintenance issues - Henry Nebrensky (Brunel University)   (CR13)
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2:50 PM DAQ handover - Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)   (CR13)
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3:05 PM Discussion - All   (CR13)
3:30 PM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
3:45 PM
Magnets (until 6:30 PM) (CR12)
3:45 PM A common approach to magnet hardware - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL)   (CR12)
3:50 PM AFC update and plans - Michael Courthold (STFC - RAL) Tom Bradshaw (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (CR12)
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4:15 PM Coupling coil update and plans - Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (CR12)
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4:40 PM Spectrometer solenoid plans - Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (CR12)
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4:55 PM Spectrometer solenoid quench protection - Soren Prestemon (LBNL)   (CR12)
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5:15 PM Magnetic measurement plans - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (CR12)
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5:30 PM Magnetic measurement device - Pierre-Ange Giudici (CERN)   (CR12)
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5:50 PM Magnetic measurement discussion   (CR12)
3:45 PM
Software -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) Dr David Colling (Imperial College London) (until 6:30 PM) (CR13)
4:05 PM MAUS - Christopher Tunnell   (CR13)
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4:25 PM Continuous integration - Roger Powell ((TBC))   (CR13)
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4:45 PM Accelerator side - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)   (CR13)
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5:05 PM EMR - Mr Vassil VERGUILOV (DPNC - University of Geneva)   (CR13)
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5:25 PM Configuration Database - Dr Antony Wilson (RAL)   (CR13)
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7:00 PM --- Collaboration Dinner and event ---
12:35 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Software (until 3:10 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
1:30 PM Online summary - Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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1:50 PM G4MICE status - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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2:10 PM MAUS framework - Christopher Tunnell   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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2:30 PM Alignment & Survey - Jason Stuart Tarrant (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science & Technology Facil)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
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3:10 PM --- Tea/Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM
session summaries (Plenary) (until 4:55 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
3:30 PM RF test at MTA - Alan Bross (Fermilab)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
Slides
3:50 PM RF Cavity and RFCC Module Status - Allan DeMello (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
4:15 PM MICE Controls Step by Step - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
Slides
5:00 PM
Collaboration Board - Alan Bross (Fermilab) (until 6:30 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
Agenda
CB29-Ablondel-magnetic-measurements
Common Fund & NSF
Spokespersons comments
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Official Plots and results (until 2:30 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
1:45 PM TBA   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
2:05 PM Discussion   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
2:30 PM
Wrapup & Discussion (until 3:15 PM) (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
2:30 PM Concluding remarks - Alain Blondel (Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (DPNC))   (Conference Rooms 12 & 13)
3:30 PM
Executive Board (until 5:00 PM) (Norton Room)
3:30 PM TBA   (Norton Room)