MICE CM40

from Sunday 26 October 2014 (09:00) to Wednesday 29 October 2014 (17:00)
Rome (University Roma Tre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014
28 Oct 2014
29 Oct 2014
AM
09:00
Parallel Session 1 - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 13:00) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_ANALYSIS)
09:00 Beam Matching into Step IV - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)  
09:40 FC2 field mapping - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)  
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10:20 --- Coffee ---
10:30 Magnetic Alignment of MICE - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)  
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11:10 Muon polarisation measurements with the EMR - Sophie Charlotte Middleton (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))  
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11:50 Tracker alignment & expectations from analysis - Melissa Uchida (Imperial College London) Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London)  
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09:00
Parallel Session 2 (until 13:00) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_SW_COMMISSIONING)
09:00 MAUS Status - Durga Rajaram (IIT, Chicago)  
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09:20 Tracker Software - Adam Dobbs (Imperial College London)  
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09:40 Global Tracking - Jan Greis  
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10:00 Global PID - Celeste Pidcott  
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10:20 --- coffee ---
10:30 Cerenkov Software - Lucien Cremaldi (University of Mississippi (US))  
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10:50 CDB and Batch Processing - Janusz Martyniak (Imperial College London)  
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09:00
Parallel Session 3 (until 13:00) (Hotel H10, SALA TESTACCIO)
10:20 --- coffee ---
10:30 informal discussions  
09:00
Paralle Session 7 (until 12:50) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_SW_COMMISSIONING)
09:00 Infrastructure Overview and PPD Services - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)  
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09:20 GRID Status - Henry Nebrensky (Brunel University)  
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09:40 Trigger Upgrade and DAQ - Yordan Ivanov Karadzhov (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
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10:00 Controls and Monitoring Status - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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10:20 Daresbury C+M Status - Dr Steve Griffiths (Daresbury Laboratory)  
10:40 State Machine Simulation - Christopher Heidt (University of California Riverside)  
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11:00 Online servers and schedule - Paul Smith (University of Sheffield)  
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11:20 --- coffe break (on your own) ---
11:30 Step IV analyses - Christopher Hunt (Imperial College)  
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11:50 Preparing for Step IV data - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)  
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12:30 Discussion  
10:00
Parallel Session 8 (until 12:00) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40)
10:00 Schedule  
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10:20 Physics requirements  
10:40 Engineering Block Drawing  
11:00 RF Cavities and Chambers  
11:20 RF Power Systems  
11:40 Step IV to Final Re-Configure  
09:00
Plenary Session III: Step IV; AFC and infrastructure - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs) (until 10:30)
09:00 Overview of progress - Andy Nichols (STFC Rutherford labs)  
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09:20 PRY preparations and infrastructure - Jason Stuart Tarrant (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))  
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09:40 LH2 readiness - Steve Watson (STFC RAL)  
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10:00 Focus coil modules - Dr John Cobb (Oxford University)  
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10:20 Discussion  
10:30 --- coffee ---
11:00
Plenary Session IV: Completing the Physics of Step I; preparations for Physics at Step IV (until 13:00) (Aula Magna)
11:00 Summary of papers in progress - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)  
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11:10 Pion contamination paper - John Nugent (U)  
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11:40 EMR Physics Paper - Francois Elie Rene Drielsma (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
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12:10 Step IV Analyses - Christopher Hunt (Imperial College)  
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12:30 The "Physics Block" Challenge - Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow)  
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09:00
Plenary session IV - DMICA - Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde) (until 10:30)
09:20 RF Systems for Demonstration of Muon Ionisation Cooling - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde)  
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09:40 Cavity Test Update - David Speirs (University of Strathclyde)  
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10:00 Final Step Engineering Summary - Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
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10:30 --- coffee ---
11:00
Software and computing -Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) (until 12:30)
11:00 Software and Computing Status - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)  
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11:20 Online Group - Paul Smith (University of Sheffield) Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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11:40 Controls and Monitoring - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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12:00 Offline - Durga Rajaram (IIT, Chicago)  
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PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:40
Paralle Session 4 - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) Durga Rajaram (IIT, Chicago) Dr Chris Rogers (STFC) (until 17:00) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_ANALYSIS)
14:40 KL Monte Carlo & Digitisation - John Columba Nugent (University of Glasgow (GB))  
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15:00 EMR Reconstruction Status - Francois Elie Rene Drielsma (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
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15:20 Tracker Emittance Reconstruction - Christopher Hunt (Imperial College)  
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15:40 Geometry - Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow) Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow) Stefania Ricciardi (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))  
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16:00 "Physics Block Challenge" Status - Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow) Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow)  
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16:20 --- coffee ---
16:40 Geometry Conclusions & Final Plan - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)  
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15:00
Parallel Session 5 (until 18:00) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_SW_COMMISSIONING)
15:00 Planning for commissioning - Steven Boyd (University of Warwick)  
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15:30 Shift planning tool - Jan Greis  
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15:50 Tracker Commissioning Plans - David Adey (Fermilab)  
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16:20 --- coffee ---
16:40 DAQ and Online plans - Yordan Ivanov Karadzhov (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
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15:00
Parallel Session 6 (until 18:00) (Hotel H10, SALA TESTACCIO)
15:00 informal discussion  
16:20 --- coffee ---
16:40 informal discussion  
17:00
Parallel Session 1 - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford) (until 18:00) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_ANALYSIS)
17:00 Step 3Pi/2 mini-workshop  
18:00
H2020 discussion (until 19:30) (VIDYO session MICE_CM40_ANALYSIS)
13:00 --- Lunch (on your own) ---
14:00
Plenary Session I: welcome and introduction -Dr Alan Bross (Fermilab) (until 15:30)
14:00 Welcome - Dr Domizia Orestano (Università Roma Tre and INFN)  
14:05 Introduction - Prof. Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College London)  
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14:30 Project Manager's report - Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
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14:50 Operations Coordinator's report - Steven Boyd (University of Warwick)  
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15:10 Physics Coordinator's Report - Victoria Blackmore (University of Oxford)  
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15:30 --- coffee ---
16:00
Plenary Session II: Instrumentation and Operations - Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB)) Steven Boyd (University of Warwick) (until 17:30)
16:00 PID Detectors (TOF, Ckov and KL) Commissioning and Operation - Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB)) Maurizio Bonesini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
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16:20 EMR Commissioning and Operation - Francois Elie Rene Drielsma (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
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16:40 Tracker Commissioning and Operation - Melissa Uchida (Imperial College London)  
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17:00 General Commissioning and Operations - Steven Boyd (University of Warwick)  
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17:30
Academic training -Prof. Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College London) (until 18:30)
17:30 MICE measurement programme (working title) - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)  
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17:50 RF power and resonators 101 - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde)  
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13:00 --- Lunch (on your own) ---
14:30
Plenary Session V: the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London) (until 16:30)
14:30 Reference design for cooling demo - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)  
14:55 MC results for the reference design - Jean-baptiste Lagrange (Imperial College)  
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15:20 Alternative design for the cooling demo - Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)  
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15:40 Discussion  
16:25 Summary - Prof. Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College London)  
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16:30 --- coffee ---
17:00
Collaboration Board (until 19:00)
20:30
Collaboration Dinner (until 23:30) (Lo Scopettaro, Lungotevere Testaccio 7)
12:30
Plenary Session VII: summary and closing (until 13:00)
12:30 Collaboration Board summary - Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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12:45 Closing remarks - Prof. Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College London)  
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13:00 --- Lunch (on your own) ---
14:00
Executive Board (until 15:30)