[Halld-jlab] Hall D Staff Meeting Notes, April 23, 2012

[Mark M. Ito]

Find the notes at 
https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Private:Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_April_23,_2012 
and below.
_____

Private:Hall D Staff Meeting, April 23, 2012

    Present: John Domingo, Hovanes Egiyan, Mark Ito, Vanik Kakoyan, David
    Lawrence, John Leckey, Lubomir Pentchev, Elton Smith (chair), Sascha
    Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Elliott Wolin, Glenn Young, Beni
    Zihlmann

Summer Projects, Tim

      * solenoid
           + installing yoke, baffle, axial support
           + paint the solenoid
           + solenoid platform
           + power supply for solenoid
           + pick-up coils
      * grounding cables
      * cable trays
      * install pair spectrometer magnet, vacuum box
      * active collimator, install
      * installing primary collimator, testing
      * downstream FCAL platform/carriage
      * FCAL block stacking
      * BCAL rails mounted to solenoid
      * BCAL light-guides, mount on wedges
      * install DAQ system in ESB for BCAL tests
      * tagger building
           + LCW manifolds
           + assemble gantry crane
           + stands
      * collimator cave shielding
      * air pressure lines

Student Support Requests, All

      * Elton: from Regina, mid-July, one undergrad and one grad
      * Sascha: from UNCW, two students last year, at least one this year
      * Tim: 3 engineering students: 2 SULI, 1 co-op
           + one on completing cooling system for BCAL
           + one doing same for FDC
           + one on target design
      * JLab SULI student with Elton and David, start beginning of June,
        BCAL testing
      * CNU students, Ed agrees to send one, no shortage of projects, Dave
        and Elliott
      * Vladimir coming from MePHI
      * Lubomir requested CV's of the students to help decide where they
        should be deployed
      * Lubomir may have jobs in EEL 126, FDC testing
      * Elliott may have some irregular jobs
      * Elliott points out that they need somewhere to sit. Need computers
        as well.

Open House, David

      * one month from open house
      * will get another BCAL module
      * all volunteer slots filled up
      * plenty of volunteers now

No More Oxygen in the FDC, Lubomir

      * 75 ppm in one production cell
           + Viton o-rings and vacuum grease on top, glue on bottom
      * expect different problems with quenching
           + O[2] a good quenching gas
      * next go for three more cells

Software Review, David

      * no charge yet

Upgrade Workshop, Elton

      * a week from Wednesday
      * internal discussions of ideas
           + calorimeter
           + RICH
           + level-3 farm

-- 
Mark M. Ito
Jefferson Lab (www.jlab.org)
(757)269-5295