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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>Please find the notes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_April_6,_2020">here</a>
and below.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
dir="auto">Hall D Staff Meeting, April 6, 2020</span></h1>
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<div id="siteSub">From Gluex PRIVATE Wiki</div>
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<p>Present: Eugene Chudakov (chair), Mark Dalton, Alexandre
Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito, Igal
Jaegle, Keigo Mizutani, Lubomir Pentchev, Elton Smith,
Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Beni Zihlmann
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Eugene">Announcements,
Eugene</span></h2>
<p>Items from the managers' meeting
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<ul>
<li> when restarting operations, TOSPs will need to mention
social distancing</li>
<li> LDRD budget has increased from 0.9 to 1.7 M$</li>
<li> budget outlook for 2021 not bad</li>
<li> JLab collecting ideas for possible CEBAF upgrade
<ul>
<li> increased energy an option</li>
<li> Stepan Stepanyan organizing this</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> HR has not been responsive to inquiries
<ul>
<li> with the exception of those from Tim</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> ideas are solicited for Hall D procurements for this
year, please send to Eugene
<ul>
<li> FCAL upgrade problematic, must be capital money</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="PrimEx_data_processing.2C_Sascha">PrimEx data
processing, Sascha</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> close to ready</li>
<li> making progress</li>
<li> finalizing calibrations for FCAL, BCAL, CCAL, TOF</li>
<li> starting second monitoring launch this or next week</li>
<li> Igal has an analysis scheme ready to go</li>
<li> Sascha working on CCAL analysis, luminosity systematics</li>
<li> Chandra Akondi moving to FSU, will continue to work on
GlueX
<ul>
<li> Sascha helping in search for his replacement at NC
A&T</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> This summer will likely replace active bases on CCAL</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="GlueX_reconstruction_of_data_from_recent_run">GlueX
reconstruction of data from recent run</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Beni: Alex Austregesilo has announced first monitoring
launch complete</li>
<li> Elton: Karthik completed BCAL calibrations last Friday</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="J.2F.CF.88_cross_section.2C_Lubomir">J/ψ cross
section, Lubomir</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> finalizing energy dependence of cross section</li>
<li> will start writing analysis note</li>
<li> then start on paper</li>
<li> questions from workfest and tracking meeting answered</li>
<li> Eugene asked about muon data
<ul>
<li> still in some tension with electron result</li>
<li> uses flux for normalization, not Bethe-Heitler</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Crystals_Received.2C_Eugene">Crystals
Received, Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> a batch has arrived</li>
<li> Sascha expects them to arrive in two batches</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Walk-Throughs.2C_Tim">Walk-Throughs,
Tim</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> daily walk-throughs continue to be conducted, log
entries made each time</li>
<li> RAID in counting room alarming, gluonraid3
<ul>
<li> Sergey: one disk failed, if another fails data will
be lost</li>
<li> need to see if computer center can replace the
failed disk</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> nitrogen ice ball has been dealt with, harshly</li>
<li> CDC gas alarmed, alarm level lowered
<ul>
<li> Beni: monitoring CDC gas, has been stable</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="FCAL_Upgrade_Procurement.2C_Sascha">FCAL Upgrade
Procurement, Sascha</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> light guides and flanges need to be procured</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="JLab_Calendar_access.2C_Beni">JLab Calendar access,
Beni</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> cannot view after desktop reboot, authentication
through office phone</li>
<li> Simon was able to forward office phone to his home for
authentication</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="SRC_Readiness_Review.2C_Sascha">SRC Readiness Review,
Sascha</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> slides are being put together for a possible remote
review</li>
<li> neutron studies will be presented</li>
<li> hoping for beginning of May</li>
<li> RSAD request sent to Pawel Degtiarenko</li>
<li> Need PDL to help with safety documentation: Beni or
Lubomir</li>
<li> March 21 was the original date</li>
<li> Eugene Pasyuk chair of the review committee</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="PAC_Meeting.2C_Eugene">PAC
Meeting, Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> scheduled for summer, will likely be held in some form</li>
<li> GlueX and JEF subject to jeopardy
<ul>
<li> might ask for more time</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> KLF will come back for full approval
<ul>
<li> Hovanes will be Hall D contact person</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Sasha: JEF needs a backup plan if GlueX fails jeopardy
since running time not awarded for a stand-alone JEF run</li>
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