Transcript MICE selected NEWS: Future meetings Safety review Study of controls Gateway I & Toward Gateway II Rebaselining MICE – Video conference Alain Blondel, 17 December2003

MICE
selected
NEWS:
Future meetings
Safety review
Study of controls
Gateway I & Toward Gateway II
Rebaselining
MICE – Video conference Alain Blondel, 17 December2003
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Since collaboration meeting
Executive Board discussions and decisions
(2 and 20 nov 2003)
(Highlights:)
-- future collaboration meetings
-- rebaselining
-- initiate study of controls
-- keep hunting for funding and new collaborators
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Future Meetings:
1. MICE Collaboration Meeting (March 29-April 1, 2004 - CERN)
Organisers:
local: AB+Rikard Sandstrom
program: Dan Kaplan
2. Video conferences
We discussed the issues of lack of participation etc…
Felt that a long term planning was needed (also as part of rebaselining)
Ken Long has agreed to organize the agendas of Video Conferences
Planning is now in place. Send him suggestions!
3. Meetings of Executive board are on Thursday following video conferences
4. Technical board meetings every two weeks
(felt necessary given the huge job that rebaselining represents)
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Safety review
Excellent work by AFCSWG
(G. Barr, E. Baynham, E. Black, T. Bradshaw,
M. A. Cummings, M. A. Green, S. Ishimoto,
Y. Ivanyushenkov, W. Lau, M. Zisman)
Review in Berkeley 9-10 December
D. Allspach, G. Benincasa, M. Seely,L. Starritt, J. Weisend, J. Wells
"We believe that the MICE collaboration is ready to proceed
to detailed engineering design and eventual review by the
RAL External Safety Committee".
( + A few suggestions for further investigations.)
The AFCSWG report and the reviewer's report are on the web.
=> A good example on how to operate a working group in MICE.
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MICE controls:
We need to understand which ancillary measurements/controls
will be necessary to
-- be sure we take good data
-- be sure we have the necessary ingredients to compare data and theory
with a high precision (10-3)
ref: proposal and answers to referrees
safety controls will be independent we may find some redendancy
but will advise at a later stage
There will be a dedicated session at the March Coll. Meeting
to discuss these issues and organize future work
Call for interested people was issued. Response from four institutes so far.
I will need a volunteer to draft a first proposal to trigger discussion.
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Gateway I
12 December 2003
This was to establish the business case for MICE
Comments from Ken Peach:
On the question of whether MICE passed, the answer is that (apart from the finances)
I think it passed –
we still have to produce the WBS and a few other documents, but I think that went
well.
On the finances, I think we did not do quite as well as I had hoped, although the review
team were well aware that, without some sort of signal from the UK, it will be difficult to
get others to commit. The difficulty is the shortage of UK funding. I did explain (as
was strongly supported by Andy Parker) that we in particle physics are very well used
to working in this way, and producing a project within the available resources.
What I think that will conclude is that we will have gone through the
Gateway 1 at "amber"
(but very close to "red"),
and that the Gateway 2 review will have to be more detailed - several days
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REBASELINING (See Paul's talk later)
It would be desirable to have a new technical baseline by the
next collaboration meeting including engineering and ***cost***
estimates and revised tasks and schedule. Detector solenoid
ends need to be studied in more detail following an approach
similar to what was done for absorber/focus coil integration.
Gateway 2 is around summer of 2004, we should have a stable
new baseline by then. (***cost***)
- many changes have taken place in the design of the experiment,
AFCSWG/RF cavities and PowerSources/detectors/Beam line etc…
Need update and change control. (reference is still the MICE proposal)
-- submit change request forms to technical board who will advise on action
-- reports and documents for the collaboration meeeting in March 2004
at CERN
-- interim reports at the VC until then
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