[Halld-jlab] Hall D Staff Meeting Notes, February 11, 2013

[Mark M. Ito]

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Private:Hall D Staff Meeting, February 11, 2013

    Present: Fernando Barbosa, Eugene Chudakov (chair), Hovanes Egiyan,
    Mark Ito, David Lawrence, Lubomir Pentchev, Yi Qiang, Elton Smith,
    Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Glenn Young, Beni Zihlmann

Announcements, Eugene

      * appraisals and promotions: meeting of supervisors has not happened
        yet
      * medical and dental plants: 11% increase starting March
      * LDRD program
           + tax on funds for all activities at the lab
           + R&D proposals solicited
           + about 500 k$ (direct)
           + Feb. 28, letters of intent accepted
           + proposals due Apr. 13
           + possible area of Hall D proposal: Cerenkov upgrade
           + PI must be JLab staff
      * NSAC sub-committee
           + two scenarios to be evaluated
               1. flat-flat
               2. inflation adjusted
           + committee also evaluated budget above inflation adjusted but
             below President's, three-lab program can be maintained with
             cuts at all three
      * DOE initiating facilities planning exercise
           + main items:
               1. CEBAF
               2. ATLAS (isotope beams)
               3. FRIB
               4. EIC
           + committee includes Zein-Eddine Meziani, Keith Griffeon
           + JSA meeting this week on this

Re-Baselining

    Eugene on Re-baselining
      * several peer review before DOE review in May
      * we need to provide new schedule, starting in March
      * present to management by end of Feb. including basis of estimate
        and manpower profiles
      * May DOE review, if approved, starting in June we live by new
        schedule
           + until then we mark progress against the old
      * acknowledged that performance will drop due to diversion to
        re-baselining

Online and DAQ, Hovanes

      * DAQ part
           + more or less the same as before
           + some splitting of lines
           + increases in fiber optics, cameras
      * Online part
           + completely re-written
           + amount of labor did not change much
           + several types of activities
                o computing
                o installation of software
                o monitoring
      * activities categorized as priority 1, 2, or 3
           + due by Apr. '14, Oct. '14, or later if at all, respectively
      * manpower: Elliott, David, Hovanes, new hire, Dave Abbott, Bryan
        Moffit, Paul Letta, Vardan Gyurjyan, and visitors (3 from Yerevan,
        Dmitry from MEPHI)
      * Eugene: detector group personnel will contribute
      * all magnet control work from Accelerator other than solenoid
      * will need money for active collimator read-out
      * interface between online tasks and detector groups efforts will
        take planning and communication

Electronics, Fernando

      * need to establish a plan for installation of racks, cables, and
        electronics
      * Tim: start BCAL rack installation mid-Feb.
      * must have schedule that can be defended
      * will use space in data center for cable bundling and labeling
      * Gerard's contribution to design and coding of firmware for
        Flash-125 to be defined

Engineering, Tim

      * better view than a year ago
      * labor involved in installation and check-out of equipment need to
        be reviewed
      * repair of solenoid leak will be put in
           + one nitrogen leak, air leaks
           + solenoid may go to July
      * testing of electronics and detectors needs input from detector
        groups

BCAL, Elton

      * construction going well
      * light guides on four modules last week, about on track
      * getting help from FEL
      * FEL technician will work on BCAL cooling tubes

FDC, Lubomir

      * FDC production on track
      * will finish all packages by end of month, then on to the spare
        package
      * testing in EEL going apace
      * basis of estimate being prepared

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Mark M. Ito, Jefferson Lab, marki at jlab.org, (757)269-5295