Name: MICE Collaboration Meeting 38
Start: 2014-02-23T09:00:00-08:00
End: 2014-02-26T16:00:00-08:00
Location: Embassy Suites Hotel -- Napa Valley

MICE Collaboration Meeting 38

from Sunday 23 February 2014 (09:00) to Wednesday 26 February 2014 (16:00)
Embassy Suites Hotel -- Napa Valley

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

23 Feb 2014

24 Feb 2014

25 Feb 2014

26 Feb 2014

09:00	Engineering Parallels - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde) (until 10:30) (Chardonnay Room B)
09:00	RF tuning system measurements and simulation Slides
09:15	RF System HPRF Drivers - Timothy Stanley (S) Slides
09:30	RF Cavity Simulations and Multipactor Slides
09:45	RF Cavities Test Plan at MTA - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology)
10:00	RF Cavities Visual Inspection System Slides
10:15	RF Planning and Discussion - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde) Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology) Dr Derun Li (LBNL) Timothy Stanley (S)
09:00	Operations - Steven Boyd (U) (until 11:50) (Chardonnay Room C)
09:00	Magnet commissioning - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London) Slides
09:30	Tracker - Dr Melissa Uchida (Imperial College London)
10:00	EMR - Ruslan Asfandiyarov (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Slides
10:50	TOF - Durga Rajaram (IIT, Chicago) Slides
11:20	Target - Paul Smith (University of Sheffield) Slides
09:00	Software and Analysis -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 10:20) (Chardonnay Room A)
09:00	EMR Reconstruction - Ruslan Asfandiyarov (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Slides
09:20	EMR Physics Analysis - Francois Drielsma (University of Geneva) Slides
09:40	Pion contamination paper - Dr Domizia Orestano (Università Roma Tre and INFN) Slides
10:50	Physics and analysis - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Room A)
10:50	Step IV beam line currents with and without field - Maria Leonova (Fermilab)
11:20	Step IV.0 physics possibilities - Dr Melissa Uchida (Imperial College London) Slides
11:50	Step IV with reduced focus coil currents - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology) Jean-Baptiste Lagrange
10:50	Software and computing -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Room B)
10:50	MAUS Status - Durga Rajaram (IIT, Chicago) Slides
11:10	SciFi MC - Christopher Heidt (University of California Riverside) Slides
11:30	Global Track Reconstruction - Peter Lane (Illinois Institute of Technology) Image Slides
11:50	Batch production and Monte Carlo - Janusz Martyniak (Imperial College London) Slides

08:30	Software and Analysis -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 10:30)
08:30	dEdx in Step IV - Dr Pavel Snopok (IIT/FNAL) Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology) Slides
09:00	G4BL models of Step I - John Columba Nugent (University of Glasgow (GB)) Slides
09:30	Geometry - Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow) Slides
10:00	Global PID Reconstruction - Celeste Pidcott Slides
09:00	Engineering Parallels - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Room C)
09:00	Operations - Steven Boyd (U) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Room B)
09:00	MOM report - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology) Slides
09:30	MOM role changes and discussion - Steven Boyd (U) Slides
10:50	Operations teams, organisation and discussion - Steven Boyd (U)
11:30	Operations plan and discussion - Steven Boyd (U)
10:50	Software and Analysis -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay Room A)
10:50	SciFi Track Reconstruction - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London) Slides
11:10	Experiment alignment (discussion) - All
11:30	Tracker alignment studies - Dr Melissa Uchida (Imperial College, London)
12:00	TOF 'rate' effect - Maurizio Bonesini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

08:30	Cooling cell - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London) (until 10:30) (Chardonnay AB)
08:30	Absorber/focus-coil module - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) Slides
09:00	Coupling coil - Allan DeMello (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Slides
09:30	RF: cavities - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology) Slides
10:00	RF: power and power distribution - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde) Slides
10:30	Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00	Integration and infrastructure -Dr Witte Holger (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 12:30) (Chardonnay AB)
11:00	Partial return yoke - Jason Stuart Tarrant (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
11:30	MICE Hall and R9 - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs) Slides
12:00	MICE Local Control Rooms - Mr Steve Griffiths (STFC, DL) Slides

08:30	Operations -Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) (until 10:00) (Pino Noire AB)
08:30	MICE Operations; scope, staffing and planning - Steven Boyd (U) Slides
09:00	Operations needs; first cut - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)
09:30	Discussion
10:00	Coffee (until 10:30)
10:30	Software and computing - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology) (until 12:00) (Pino Noire AB)
10:30	Overview, s/w infrastructure and plans - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) Slides
10:50	Maus - Durga Rajaram (IIT, Chicago) Slides
11:15	Online - Ian Taylor (Warwick University) Slides
11:40	Controls and Monitoring - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology) Slides

13:30	Software and Analysis -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 15:00) (Chardonnay Room A)
13:30	RF timing in the context of analysis - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University) Slides
14:00	RF timing and DAQ - Yordan Ivanov Karadzhov (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde)
14:30	Other RF analyses and practicalities - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde)
14:50	RF discussion - All
14:00	Engineering parallels - Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB)) (until 18:00) (Chardonnay Room C)
14:00	Tracker Installation and Step IV Preparation - Melissa Uchida (I) Slides
14:30	Spectrometer Solenoids - Mr Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) Slides
15:00	VLPC Readout - David Adey (Fermilab) Slides
15:30	Overview, Reconstruction and Documentation - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London) Slides
16:00	Break to attend Controls Talk at SW session (Pierrick Hanlet)
16:30	Monte Carlo and Geometry - Christopher Heidt (University of California Riverside) Slides
16:50	Tracker efficiency study Slides
15:20	Physics and analysis - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 18:00) (Chardonnay Room A)
15:20	Step V vs Step VI Slides
15:50	Step V vs Step VI (discussion) - All
16:20	Field maps - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) Slides
16:50	Analysis 'wish list' (discussion) - All Slides
15:20	Software and computing -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) (until 18:00) (Chardonnay Room B)
15:20	Online Group Work Plan - Ian Taylor (Warwick University) Slides
15:40	DAQ + Trigger Test Plan - Yordan Ivanov Karadzhov (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Slides
16:00	Controls and Monitoring - general - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology) Slides
16:30	Controls and Monitoring - Ian Taylor (Warwick University) Slides
16:40	Online Monitoring - Mr Rhys Gardener (Brunel)
16:50	Discussion

13:30	Welcome and introduction -Dr Alan Bross (Fermilab) (until 15:00) (Chardonnay AB)
13:30	Welcome - Dr Derun Li (LBNL)
13:40	Spokesman's introduction - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) Slides
14:00	Project Manager's report - Mr Roy Preece (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Slides
14:30	MICE Muon Beam and summary of operations - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London) Slides
15:00	Coffee (until 15:30)
15:30	Instrumentation - Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB)) (until 17:30) (Chardonnay AB)
15:30	EMR - Ruslan Asfandiyarov (Universite de Geneve (CH)) reconstruction Slides
16:00	Beam-line instrumentation - Lucien Cremaldi (University of Mississippi (US)) Slides
16:30	Tracker - Melissa Uchida (I) Slides
17:00	Spectrometer solenoids - Mr Steve Virostek (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) Slides
17:30	Cooling and particle-beam facilities -Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) (until 18:30) (Chardonnay AB)
17:30	Cooling and particle beam facilities - Robert Palmer (Brookhaven Nat Lab) Slides

12:30	Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30	Physics - Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 15:30) (Chardonnay AB)
13:30	Overview and 'missing physics' - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) Slides
14:00	Step IV Readiness - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)
14:30	Step V vs Step VI - Dr David Speirs (University of Strathclyde)
15:00	Discussion
15:30	Coffee (until 16:00)
16:00	Ionization cooling -Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) (until 17:00) (Chardonnay AB)
16:00	The physics of ionization cooling - Robert Palmer (Brookhaven Nat Lab) Slides
17:00	Collaboration Board - Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 19:00) (Chardonnay AB)
17:00	1. Presence and proxys
17:05	Matters arising and Adoption of agenda Draft Agenda
17:10	Actions and minutes from previous collaboration meeting. minutes CB-37
17:15	Spokesperson's remarks & Executive Board report - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) panel to review the constitution
17:35	Project Manager's report - Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Slides
17:45	Shifts for data taking and MOM policy - Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Steven Boyd (University of Warwick) shift-policy-proposal-v1
18:00	Publication Policy - Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB)) Slides
18:10	UK approval/funding update - Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB))
18:20	Other funding updates INFN,CH,US DOE,US NSF - Maurizio Bonesini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Mark Palmer (FNAL) Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
18:40	Common fund report - Stefania Ricciardi (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
18:45	CM39 - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)
18:50	CM40 in ROME - Dr Domizia Orestano (Università Roma Tre and INFN) Slides
18:55	a.o.b
19:00	Collaboration dinner -Dr Derun Li (LBNL) (until 22:00)

12:00	Summary and closing -Dr Alan Bross (Fermilab) (until 12:30) (Pino Noire AB)
12:00	Collaboration Board summary - Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Slides
12:15	Closing remarks - Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) Slides
14:00	Executive Board -Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London) (until 16:00)