[Halla_min] Minutes (4/24/2012)

[John LeRose]

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-JJL

John J. LeRose
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
12000 Jefferson Ave.
Suite 4, MS 12H3
Newport News, Va. 23606
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Minutes of Hall A Group Meeting April 24, 2012
1)	Run Report: Ran Shneor
a)	See link for full report
b)	Running smoothly
c)	Shows some results
d)	Plan:
i)	Energy Change either Monday or Thursday
ii)	Chicane change Friday or Monday
iii)	All depends on Hall C
2)	Robin Wines
a)	Starting the changeover to the new CAD system
i)	People getting training
ii)	Expect to lose 1-2 days per week of design time for 
each person for the next 2 months
b)	Møller:
i)	Outer box drawings being checked
ii)	Inner box drawings should be done this week
iii)	4th Quad is out for bids, due back May 11
iv)	Putting together a parts list (all ordered my mid-May)
c)	Compton: 
i)	Moving along
ii)	Joyce is ordering parts
d)	Supporting APEX and PREX
i)	Septum configurations
ii)	New septum coils (Bob would like a cost estimate)
e)	SOLID magnet TOSCA modeling
3)	Ed Folts
a)	Cryo updates
b)	Etc.
4)	Bob Michaels asks that all check with him before making any 
large machine shop or credit card purchases.
5)	Bogdan Wojtsekhowski is digesting the budget situation
6)	Jixie Zhang
a)	Optics for g2p and GEp
i)	C and H2 elastic peaks are clear.
b)	Møller last night: 89.5%
i)	Problems measuring the bleed-through (current is too 
small)
c)	Now have FADC and old DAQ running together and producing the 
same results
7)	Doug Higinbotham
a)	GEp running very well, have the 1st 2 Q2 points
b)	BigBite NIM paper was resubmitted
c)	Attended the PEPO review 
i)	They are doing pretty well
ii)	Concerned about magnet mapping problem they had.
8)	Alexandre Camsonne
a)	Fixed the leak on the MRPC. Should have signals soon.
b)	Working on the APV25 readout for GEM?s
9)	John LeRose
a)	APEX optics
b)	CREX optics
c)	12 GeV Upgrade miscellanea
d)	SBS: have the go ahead to process PR for UVa GEM work
10)	Kalyan Allada
a)	Updating proposal
b)	Dry run for S&T review
11)	Ole Hansen
a)	Software work:
i)	SOLID tracking
ii)	Collaboration with Hall C on analyzer
12)	Dave Meekins
a)	Re Tritium target, there are design decisions to be made
b)	Will make a presentation in a few weeks
-JJL