Minutes of Hall A Group Meeting May 17, 2011
1)	Run Report:(Doug Higinbotham for Xiaohui Zhan and 
Nadia Fomin)
a)	For full slide show see: 
http://hallaweb.jlab.org/news/minutes/RC_Summarie
s/RC_may13_2011.pdf
b)	X > 2 was done on Sunday (5/8). Got very nice 
data.
c)	Gives day by day summary for 5/10 through 5/13
d)	End of run party is in the works. Stay tuned.
2)	Bob Michaels
a)	There is a library renovation meeting tomorrow, 
5/18, at 10:30in F224-5. They are considering a 
major reconfiguration, i.e. downsizing, of the 
library. The meeting is open so anyone interested 
can and should attend.
b)	Working on a 5 year outlook plan for major 
projects. Will be discussed more at the Thursday 
staff meeting
3)	Robin Wines
a)	Making progress on g2p
4)	Installation: (Ed Folts)
a)	Making progress on g2p
5)	Doug Higinbotham
a)	The counting house has been cleaned up. Thanks to 
all who participated. There also was some serious 
housekeeping in the testlab.
6)	Alexandre Camsonne
a)	Working with a student on Flash ADC’s
b)	Doing raster work
7)	Jixie Zhang
a)	Doing g2p simulations, trying to finalize the g2p 
kinematics
b)	Planning for g2p target field measuring
8)	Kalyan Allada
a)	Trying to identify the electronics needed for the 
3rd arm
b)	Getting g2p students to help with de-cabling
9)	John LeRose
a)	Had a long teleconference on Thursday with Hall’s 
A and C Hypernuclear people making plans for a 
future Hypernuclear program in the 12 GeV era
b)	Helping with g2p optics issues
10)	Bogdan Wojtsekhowski
a)	Working on target and detectors for the A1n 
experiment
b)	SBS response to the technical committee should be 
ready by the end of the week
c)	Looking at a scintillating fiber detector for HRS 
optics
11)	Ole Hansen 
a)	Preparing for the IT review on Friday (5/20)
i)	It’s been an interesting exercise
ii)	Requirements are all over the place
iii)	Beginning to converge on a consistent picture
iv)	Has learned that the DAQ group is working on 
an event reassembly package, funded by Hall D
v)	Parallelization of the analyzer is still needed
12)	Dennis Skopik
a)	Asks us all to keep safety on our minds going 
into the shutdown
-JJL