[Halla_min] Hall A Minutes (10/15/2013)

[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 October 15, 2013
1)	Steve Smith reports on safety culture survey results:
a)	See 
http://hallaweb.jlab.org/news/minutes/RC_Summaries/PHY%20Saf
ety%20Culture%20Data%2010-9-13.pptx
2)	Thia Keppel
a)	From the senior staff meeting:
i)	Reads direct quote from Rolf
ii)	Lab can run till October 31, but the Office of Science 
can only remain open till October 25. Leaving the 
question, can the lab run ?unsupervised??
iii)	QCD Frontiers Workshop has been moved to CNU
iv)	DNP meeting will go on, but JLab tours are canceled
v)	Next PAC will be dedicated to setting priorities only. No 
new proposals except for exceptional cases
vi)	?Essential? personnel will get 2 days to prepare for 
shutdown
vii)	Comparative Research Review results were very good for 
JLab, highest overall
viii)	Performance appraisal self-assessments should be 
done
ix)	Meeting last week re injector test facility decided to 
focus on parity quality beam tests and HD-ice
x)	Beam to the Hall:
(1)	Hall A internal readiness review is December 9-10 
(Doug gives document status)
(2)	Another external review in January re Accelerator 
readiness will review the process whereby we declare 
the Hall ready to go
b)	Meeting planned next week (Thia, Javier, Arne, Keith, etc.)  
to discuss beam dump capabilities for spring running.
c)	Get your required travel through December to Stephanie
3)	Robin Wines
a)	12 GeV: 
i)	Still waiting on raster tube coating
ii)	GMp/DVCS:
(1)	Machine shop will do some work originally planned 
to send out
(2)	Questions re sieve slits
b)	SBS:
i)	Coil bids are in (4 of them)
ii)	Steel modification drawings are almost done (should be 
to procurement by the end of the week)
iii)	Support structure, preparing for internal engineering 
review
iv)	Working on magnet assembly with associated hardware and 
Cherenkov designs
c)	CAD: switching systems put off till February
4)	Ed Folts
a)	Making good progress on Compton. Vacuum should be completed 
by the end of the week
b)	Good progress on cryo controls
c)	Documentation/ Documentation/Documentation
d)	Finishing up the raster shield hut
5)	Bert Manzlak
a)	Hall D 1st Aid injury: while cabling the barrel calorimeter a 
worker moved a ladder and then didn?t look up before 
ascending. Hit his head on some unistrut. He correctly went 
to health services etc. Lesson is pay attention to changing 
circumstances. 
6)	Alexandre Camsonne gives a talk on Intel Linux VME CPU in 
Hall A
a)	See 
http://hallaweb.jlab.org/news/minutes/RC_Summaries/IntelCPUH
allA-Oct15-2013.pdf

-JJL