[Halla_min] Hall A Minutes (6/11/2013)

[John LeRose]

Please see: http://hallaweb.jlab.org/news/minutes/minlinks.html
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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 June 11, 2013
1)	Thia Keppel
a)	 From the senior staff meeting:
i)	The reprogramming package has been approved by the senate 
and the house! No furloughs!
(1)	Nevertheless we have a $1M cut
(2)	Austerity measures are still in effect
(3)	Take vacations
ii)	Recent ad re staff scientist I position was a mistake 
on HR?s part.
iii)	SRF moved to the TEDF last weekend. This weekend our 
engineering and design staff will move to TEDF.
iv)	The laser lab is done
v)	2nd floor of the Counting House is suffering from budget 
woes
(1)	New planning is occurring
(2)	1st floor projected to be ready for occupancy by 
July
vi)	The dark light experiment has been formally approved by 
the Lab
vii)	3He stockpile requests are out. We need to supply Chris 
Keith with information.
viii)	Accelerator readiness review has been postponed 
until after hot checkout. They want to hold the review 
after everything is in place.
ix)	MEP comparative review is tomorrow (6/12)
b)	Hall A Collaboration meeting is Thursday and Friday this 
week (6/13-14)
c)	SBS Collaboration meeting was last week. Was well attended. 
There has been much progress
d)	Got CLEO magnet feedback from Will Oren and Mont
e)	Meetings on the AC in the tunnel question are starting. 1st 
one is June 21
2)	Whit Seay
a)	Chamber design modifications are complete
b)	Updating beam line drawings
c)	Al is busy with lots of things
d)	Packing up to move next weekend
i)	Expect inefficiencies next week while unpacking
3)	Ed Folts
a)	Cryo control hardware work
b)	Had some cryo control software support last week
c)	Insulating return lines
d)	Working on magnet power lead guards
e)	Raster work continues
f)	Patch panels work continues
g)	Needs a final beam line configuration
4)	Charles Hightower
a)	Thanks Ed for his write up of machine tool directives
i)	Encourages all to read them
5)	Bogdan Wojtsekhowski introduces two students, Austin Milby and 
Justin Hunneshagen who will be working this summer mostly on 
PMT testing
6)	Julie Roche introduces two students:
a)	Tyler Coy: an undergraduate student working on a new 
experiment idea using SBS with Paul King  
b)	Norman Israel: a master student working on the preparation 
of the upcoming DVCS experiment especially the DAQ.
7)	Jian-Ping Chen gives talk on the status of the Polarized 3He 
target for A1n-A
a)	See 
http://hallaweb.jlab.org/news/minutes/RC_Summaries/polHe3_Ha
llA_June11-2013.ppt

-JJL