MICE Collaboration Meeting CM20

10 Feb 2008, 09:00 → 13 Feb 2008, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

RAL

Alain Blondel (University of Geneva)

Sunday 10 February

09:00 → 12:30 tracker meeting

09:00 Tracker mechanical, integration, and installation

Speaker: Geoffrey Barber (High Energy Phys.Group Blackett-Lab Imp.Coll.)

Slides

• cm20_barber_tracker_mechanical.pdf
• cm20_barber_tracker_mechanical.ppt
• cm20_barber_tracker_mechanical.ppt

09:15 Cryo-system status

Alan Bross

Speaker: Prof. Alan Bross (Fermilab)

Slides VLPC_system_Update.pdf VLPC_system_Update.ppt

09:30 Electronics/readout

Terry Hart

Speaker: Mr Terrence Hart (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides

• feb2008_mice_meeting.pdf
• feb2008_mice_meeting.ppt
• feb2008_mice_meeting.ppt
• feb2008_mice_meeting.ppt

09:45 Slow controls

James Leaver

Speaker: James Leaver (Imperial College London)

Slides Tracker_Slow_Control_and_Monitoring.pdf Tracker_Slow_Control_and_Monitoring.ppt

10:00 QA status and results

James Leaver

Speaker: James Leaver (Imperial College London)

Slides cm20_stationQA_sakamoto.pdf cm20_stationQA_sakamoto.ppt

10:15 KEK analysis -- A. Fish

Speaker: Mr Aron Fish (Imperial College)

10:30 Infrastructure build in the MICE Hall -- Andy Nichols for Tim Hayler

Speaker: Timothy Hayler (Particle Physics)

Slides infrastructurecm20.pdf infrastructurecm20.ppt

10:50 Schedule and plans K. Long

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides cm20_long.pdf cm20_long.ppt

14:00 → 19:30 Software

14:00 Software Introduction

Slides software_intro_20080210.pdf software_intro_20080210.ppt

14:30 Accelerator Physics Tools

Slides CM20_software_chris.pdf

15:00 GRID

Slides grid_20080210.pdf grid_20080210.ppt

15:30 break

16:00 Database

Slides db_talk.pdf db_talk.ppt

16:30 Database Discussion

17:00 Preparation for Software Review

Slides review_preparation_20080210.pdf review_preparation_20080210.ppt

17:30 Discussion

14:00 → 19:30 beam line

agenda BLAgendaCM20v1.doc BLAgendaCM20v1.pdf

14:00 0.status

Speaker: Mr Kevin Tilley (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

14:15 1. outline plan

Speaker: Mr Kevin Tilley (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Paper outline-beamline-plans_10Feb.xls

14:35 2. detailed optics activities

Speaker: Mr Kevin Tilley (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides

• B1&B2only.pdf
• Detectors_agreed_startup.pdf
• Detectors_startup_agreed.pdf
• Detectors_startup_agreed.ppt
• H_alignment_B1B2only.pdf
• H_alignment_B1B2only.ppt
• Initial_proton_beamline.pdf
• Initial_proton_beamline.ppt
• proton_beamline_evaln_in_G4BL.pdf
• proton_beamline_evaln_in_G4BL.ppt
• Proton_optic_evaln_in_G4BL.pdf
• V_misalignment_tests.pdf
• V_misalignment_tests.ppt

16:35 3. g4codes

Speaker: Tom Roberts (Muons, Inc.)

16:55 4. review response

17:15 5. shifters

Monday 11 February

08:30 → 12:45 Plenary meeting

08:30 coffee and registration

09:00 STFC Welcoming address

John Womersley

Speaker: Dr John Womersley (RAL)

09:30 Spokesmouse remarks

Alain Blondel

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

Slides bdl-GOM-CM20.pdf bdl-GOM-CM20.ppt

09:45 MOM report

Mike Zisman

Speaker: Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides MOMreport-2-11-08-R1a.pdf MOMreport-2-11-08-R1a.ppt

10:15 coffee break

10:45 Target commissionning

Chris Booth

Speaker: Chris Booth (Department of Physics)

Slides Status_110208.pdf Status_110208.ppt

11:05 Hall installation

Andy Nichols

Speaker: Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides cm20hall_A.pdf cm20hall_A.ppt

11:25 Beam Line hardware commissionning Long (Bradshaw for decay solenoid)

Ken Long

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides 2008-02-10_Decay_Solenoid_and_Refrigerator.pdf 2008-02-10_Decay_Solenoid_and_Refrigerator.ppt

Video Decay_Solenoid_Installation_January_2008.wmv

11:45 TOF & KL detectors installation

Maurizio Bonesini

Speaker: Maurizio Bonesini (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN))

Slides CM20_110208_inst.pdf

12:05 Spectrometer Solenoid construction

Steve Virostek

Speaker: Dr Steve Virostek

Slides

• Spectrometer_Solenoid_CM20.pdf
• Spectrometer_Solenoid_CM20_v2.pdf
• Spectrometer_Solenoid_CM20_v2.ppt

13:30 → 16:00 DAQ controls and monitoring

Jean-Sebastien Graulich

13:30 Detector DAQ: Hardware Status

Speaker: Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)

Slides cm20_graulich_detectordaq.pdf cm20_graulich_detectordaq.ppt

13:50 Readout and Online Monitoring Software status

Speaker: Vassil VERGUILOV (DPNC - University of Geneva)

Slides DAQ_Software_-_CM20.pdf DAQ_Software_-_CM20.ppt

14:10 CAM parameters list

Speaker: Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)

Slides cm20_graulich_parameterList.pdf cm20_graulich_parameterList.ppt

14:30 Control and Monitoring Status

Speaker: Dr Brian Martlew (STFC Daresbury Lab)

Slides Controls_Status.pdf Controls_Status.ppt

14:50 break

15:10 Joined Session with PID

13:30 → 16:00 Engineering and Integration

Wing Lau

document Engineering_and_Integration_Agenda.doc Engineering_and_Integration_Agenda.pdf

13:30 Status and Issues relating to LH2

Speakers: Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Matt Hills

Slides 2008-02-10_Hydrogen_R_and_D_System.pdf 2008-02-10_Hydrogen_R_and_D_System.ppt

13:50 RF Project plan / status

Speaker: Dr Andy Moss (DL)

Slides

• CERN_ramberger_MICE_200802.pdf
• CERN_ramberger_MICE_200802.ppt
• RF_PLan_and_status.pdf
• RF_PLan_and_status.ppt

14:20 Remaining Infrastructure

Speakers: Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Timothy Hayler (Particle Physics)

Slides infrastructurecm20.pdf infrastructurecm20.ppt

14:55 Status of MICE Diffuser

Speaker: Marco Apollonio (University of Oxford)

Slides

• CM20_110208_diffuser.pdf
• CM20_110208_diffuser.ppt
• CM20_-_Diffuser.pdf

15:15 Services

Speaker: Andy Nichols (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides serv11-02.pdf serv11-02.ppt

15:35 Geometry layout with dimensions of all sub-systems

Speaker: Wing Lau (Oxford University)

15:45 Cooling Channel interfaces

Speakers: Steve Virostek, Wing Lau (Oxford University)

Slides SS_Integration_CM20.pdf SS_Integration_CM20.ppt

13:30 → 16:05 Particle ID

13:30 Introduction

Speaker: Vittorio Palladino

Slides cm20PIDIntro.pdf cm20PIDIntro.ppt

13:35 Building the TOFI cage

Speaker: Ghislain Gregoire (Universite de Louvain)

Slides Shielding_cage_11_02_08.pdf

13:55 Drawing of TOF II, KL and SW on their trolley (tbc)

Speaker: Ludovico Tortora

Slides LT-CM20-TOF2-Trolley.pdf

14:15 Status & prospects for SW

Speaker: Gianrossano Giannini

Slides cm20-Giannini-SW.pdf

14:35 Test in magnetic Field of TOFI-II PMTs

Speaker: Maurizio Bonesini

Slides CM20_110208_PID.pdf

14:50 Planning final steps of downstream shielding design

Speaker: Discussion time

Slides cm20PIDDiscusson.pdf cm20PIDDiscusson.ppt

15:10 CKOV Software

Speaker: Yordan Karadzhov

Slides Yordan_CM20.pdf

15:20 Stretcher-splitter: design, test results, production

Speaker: Ilko Rusinov

Slides Ilko_CM20.pdf Ilko_CM20.ppt

15:40 TOF Software (tbc)

Speaker: Mark Rayner

Slides Mark.pdf Mark.ppt

16:30 → 19:00 Technical board

paper MICE_TB_agenda.doc MICE_TB_agenda.pdf

16:30 agenda

Paper MICE_TB_agenda.doc MICE_TB_agenda.pdf

20:00 → 23:00 COLLABORATION DINNER

McKenna room in Christchurch college

Tuesday 12 February

09:00 → 12:30 Analysis and first look at MICE data (if any)

agenda CM20-analysis-agenda.txt.txt

09:00 M.Apollonio Absorber sizes for Step III

Speaker: Marco Apollonio (University of Oxford)

Slides CM20_110208_stepIII.pdf CM20_110208_stepIII.ppt

09:25 J.Cobb Statistical errors on emittance measurements

Speaker: Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)

Slides J.Cobb________Statistical_errors_on_emittance_measurements_-_Contribution.pdf

09:45 D.Forrest Effect of spectrometer (mis)alignment on emittance

Speaker: David Forrest

Slides 1st_Study_of_Tracker_Misalignments_with_G4MICE.pdf 1st_Study_of_Tracker_Misalignments_with_G4MICE.ppt

10:15 coffee break R22

10:45 M.Rayner Muon momentum measurement with TOFs 0 & 1

Speaker: Mark Rayner

Slides cm20_pmeas_mrayner_final.pdf cm20_pmeas_mrayner_final.ppt

11:10 R.Sandstroem RF background update since CM19 (** By telephone)

Speaker: Rikard Sandstroem (University of Geneva)

Slides collab2008FebRAL.pdf collab2008FebRAL.ppt

11:35 C.Rogers High Level Analyses

Speaker: Mr Chris Rogers (RAL)

Slides CM20_analysis.pdf

12:00 J.Cobb Spectrometer solenoid mapping - thoughts

Speaker: Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)

Slides Spectrometer-Field-Mapping-CM20.pdf Spectrometer-Field-Mapping-CM20.ppt

13:30 → 16:30 MICE Steps II-VI

13:30 Step III Spool piece

Wing Lau or Eric Perrin?

Speaker: Eric Perrin (Section de Physique)

Slides Spoolpiece_proposal1.pdf Spoolpiece_proposal1.ppt

13:45 Step III absorbers

Speaker: Marco Apollonio (University of Oxford)

14:00 AFC module: magnet status

Speaker: Wing Lau (Oxford University)

Slides AFC_Magnet_Progress.pdf AFC_Magnet_Progress.ppt

14:15 AFC status liquid hydrogen R&D

Speaker: Dr Courthold

Slides 2008-02-10_Hydrogen_R_and_D_System.pdf 2008-02-10_Hydrogen_R_and_D_System.ppt

14:30 AFC module status: liquid Hydrogen absorber

Speaker: Shigeru Ishimoto (KEK)

Slides cm20_ishimoto-AbsR&D-080212.pdf cm20_ishimoto-AbsR&D-080212.ppt

14:50 coffee break

15:20 RF cavity construction

Speaker: Derun Li

Slides CM20_RF_DLI.pdf CM20_RF_DLI.ppt

15:40 RF power source refurbishment at DL and CERN

Speaker: Mr ANDREW MOSS (CCLRC DARESBURY LABORATORY)

Slides

• CERN_ramberger_MICE_200802.pdf
• CERN_ramberger_MICE_200802.ppt
• RF_PLan_and_status.pdf

15:55 MICE coupling coils

Speaker: Li wang

Slides CouplingCoils_Progress-ICST.pdf CouplingCoils_Progress-ICST.ppt

16:10 RF measurements at FNAL

Speaker: Prof. Alan Bross (Fermilab)

Slides MuCool_RF.ppt

17:00 → 19:00 Collaboration board

Wednesday 13 February

09:00 → 13:00 Plenary meeting -- summaries

09:00 report from the collaboration board

Slides 2008-02-13-Long-1.pdf 2008-02-13-Long-1.ppt

09:15 PID summary

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

Slides CM20PIDSummary.pdf

09:35 Tracker summary

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides

• 2008-02-13-Long-1.pdf
• 2008-02-13-Long-2.pdf
• 2008-02-13-Long-2.ppt

09:55 engineering summary

Speaker: Wing Lau (Oxford University)

Slides Engineering_Integration_summary.pdf Engineering_Integration_summary.ppt

10:15 software summary

Speaker: Prof. Malcolm Ellis

Slides software_summary_20080213.pdf software_summary_20080213.ppt

10:35 coffee break

11:00 DAQ controls monitoring report

Speaker: Jean-Sebastien Graulich (University of Geneva)

Slides cm20_graulich_daqsummary.pdf cm20_graulich_daqsummary.ppt

11:20 beam line summary

Speaker: Mr Kevin Tilley (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides BeamlineSummary.pdf BeamlineSummary.ppt

11:40 project manager report

Speaker: Richard Apsimon (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides CM20_PM_Summary.pdf CM20_PM_Summary.ppt

14:00 → 15:00 Wrap up

14:00 Wrap-up

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

Slides CM20_bdl_wrap-up-1.pdf CM20_bdl_wrap-up-1.ppt

15:30 → 17:00 Executive board