<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Dear Colleagues in APEX:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Greetings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">I congratulate you all on your wonderful work and efforts for setting up the experiment. I thank you for making it all possible, especially</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">the spokespersons, Natalia, Phillip, Rouven and Bogdan and the post-doc's and students. Great job.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">I regret my being physically away from the site precluded me from being able to contribute momentously to the work</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">and from playing an active part in the collaboration. Although as the spokespersons are aware I did make a few attempts during last one and half year to visit JLab to assist the collaboration with this work.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">I have read the readiness review report (I also appreciate the points raised by Jack Segal in his mail last month I believe). I was pleased to see that the committee has acknowledged and commended your efforts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">I was wondering if I can assist the collaboration with the thermal issues etc. raised by the committee.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">These seem to be quite important issues. The radiation flux and temperature gradients could damage the target.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">If the collaboration is planning to implement any tests or procedures, such as the array of </font><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">electrical switches to the motion mechanisms<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">and their integration with the FSD system, as proposed, and need someone to help, I could assist you. I can also</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">help with the DAQ work and integration of various things. I am an experimentalist and could help with electronics and instrumentation.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">I have recently designed and developed some instrumentation for my grant work at my home institution and got to work first hand on things like Halbach magnets and special cavities etc. This is something which you might look at for the magnetic field issues. If these ideas could be helpful to the experiment, I would be glad to assist.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">I shall be visiting Jlab for nearly a month in August, mainly to work with my collaboration work at Hall C.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">Although I will be occupied with a lot of work, I wish to devote whatever time I could to APEX preparations and analysis.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">I shall be traveling from next week onward but would try my level best to attend the 6th June meeting, if the local time where I was let me to.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">I wish you all great summer and look forward to hearing from you, wherever I could be of any help.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">Kindest Regards</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">Masroor Hassan Bukhari,</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Department of Physics,</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Faculty of Science,</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Jazan University,</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Gizan 45142, PO Box 114,</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Saudi Arabia.</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Room# 2403, 2nd Floor, </font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Faculty of Science Building</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Telephone x 571</font><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><div style="line-height:20px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,121,193)">"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">-- Roger Bannister</span></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Natalia Toro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toron@jlab.org" target="_blank">toron@jlab.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear APEX collaborators,<br><br></div>I'm happy to share with you the final report from our readiness review in April. Many thanks to all the presenters for their efforts in preparing for the review and for their excellent talks! <br><br></div>While the report was generally favorable, there are a few important items that will need more work, which we will need to report at follow-up reviews in 2017. We'll be re-starting our Monday morning meetings on June 6 (details to follow) with a discussion of the plans to address the comments and recommendations in the review report.<br><div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>Natalia<br></div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Patrizia Rossi</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rossi@jlab.org" target="_blank">rossi@jlab.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:13 AM<br>Subject: APEX ERR: final report<br>To: Bogdan Wojtsekhowski <<a href="mailto:bogdanw@jlab.org" target="_blank">bogdanw@jlab.org</a>>, Natalia Toro <<a href="mailto:ntoro@slac.stanford.edu" target="_blank">ntoro@slac.stanford.edu</a>>, Rouven Essig <<a href="mailto:rouven.essig@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank">rouven.essig@stonybrook.edu</a>>, Philip Schuster <<a href="mailto:schuster@slac.stanford.edu" target="_blank">schuster@slac.stanford.edu</a>><br>Cc: Cynthia Keppel <<a href="mailto:keppel@jlab.org" target="_blank">keppel@jlab.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:gomez@jlab.org" target="_blank">gomez@jlab.org</a> Gomez" <<a href="mailto:gomez@jlab.org" target="_blank">gomez@jlab.org</a>>, Rolf Ent <<a href="mailto:ent@jlab.org" target="_blank">ent@jlab.org</a>>, patrizia rossi <<a href="mailto:rossi@jlab.org" target="_blank">rossi@jlab.org</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear APEX spokespersons,<div><br></div><div>the final report of the APEX ERR which took place on April 7, 2016 is attached.</div><div>In the report, the answers to the charges are presented and separated into Answer, Findings, Comments, and Recommendations.</div><div>First of all I want to congratulate the APEX collaboration for the work done so far in the preparation of the experiment.</div><div>I was very much pleased about the redesign of the target/ladder arrangement which is a significant improvement over the original design from operational and ALARA point of view. </div><div>Also I want to recognize all the work done to evaluate the radiation level expected to be generated in the hall and its impact in the equipment and infrastructure.</div><div>However, as you can see from the recommendations (and comments) a lot of work still has to be done.</div><div>As it was already announced at the closeout of the ERR, we would like to have another ERR where the APEX collaboration should answer all the recommendations (and comments). An acceptable time frame for carrying it out would be towards the end of 2017. In order to track the preparation to the review it would be useful to have a meeting where Bogdan (no need for the other spokespersons to come to Jlab) can summarize where you are with the preparation. We can schedule this meeting around middle of 2017. There will be just one presentation.</div><div>In the meantime you are allowed to submit your request for scheduling the experiment.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>patrizia</div><div></div></font></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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