[Halld-jlab] Hall D Scientific Staff Meeting Notes, July 8, 2019

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

Please find the notes here 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_July_8,_2019> 
and below.

   -- Mark

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  Hall D Staff Meeting, July 8, 2019

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Present: Thomas Britton, Eugene Chudakov (chair), Mark Dalton, Alexandre 
Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito, David Lawrence, Lubomir 
Pentchev, Elton Smith, Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Beni 
Zihlmann


    Announcements (Eugene)

  * Two safety incidents:
     1. electrical shock from power supply, experienced engineer,
        knocked down
     2. laser not turned off, impinged safety goggles of student, no
        harm done due to PPE
  * budget for FY20 about the same as for FY19
      o Hall D will get funds for the insert, 560 crystals this FY,
        perhaps 1200-1600 in total eventually
  * Marco Battaglieri is the new Hall B leader. He starts in September
  * Open positions:
      o Technician I: Tim has submitted the paperwork, replaces Tom Carstens
      o Staff Scientist: should be advertised soon
      o Postdocs: two position open, candidates have been identified and
        and offers being prepared
  * New Proposals: K_L and short-range correlations
  * Accelerator:
      o will install a refurbished C100, should get to 11.6 GeV for Hall D
      o Replacement for Arne Freyberger will be taking up position soon,
        coming from Fermilab
  * Users' Group Meeting: interest/attendance fractured by interest in
    either 12 GeV or EIC
  * Windows 7 will be phased out, alternate solutions must be devised


    Hall Status (Tim)

  * DIRC
      o problem with optical box, carbon steel and aluminum surfaces
        reacting, lower mirror stained. Greg Kalicy trying to clean it
      o doing experiments to try to seal metal surfaces
      o upper optical box to go in in 2 weeks
      o mirrors may have to be replaced
  * Next task TOF upgrade
  * Hole made in pair spectrometer shield well for detector tests on
    north side if upstream platform
      o detectors under test may inhibit personnel access
  * Hall D refrigerator will start cool-down next week


    Other Items

  * Beni: new propanol behaves like previously used alcohol
      o Tim: perhaps add pressure sensor near mass flow controller
  * Eugene: need to make end-of-fiscal-year purchases
  * Elton: Bert Yost contacted lab about available "free" electronics,
    NIM, CAMAC, FastBus. Chris Cuevas looking into it
  * LOI theory technical reviews: received by Elton (neutral pion
    polarizability) and Alexandre (GDH sum rule)

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