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<p>People,</p>
<p>Please find the note <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_September_28,_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, September 28, 2020</span></h1>
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<p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Eugene Chudakov (chair),
Mark Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Mark Ito, Elton
Smith, Sascha Somov
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Eugene">Announcements,
Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> before coming into the Lab:
<ul>
<li> notify the work coordinator
<ul>
<li> email to Mark Stevens and Scot Spiegel</li>
<li> make a log entry in HDSAD</li>
<li> write a message to halld-sad.jlab.org</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> send Eugene an email reporting negative result of
COVID self-test
<ul>
<li> if result is positive, don't come in</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Tim Whitlatch is off for the week</li>
<li> The Lab has made a request to the DOE to increase the
on-site personnel count from 200[?] to 350.
<ul>
<li> represents 45% of staff</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> time-sheets are due early this time due to the end of
the fiscal year</li>
<li> performance appraisal cycle starts Oct. 8</li>
<li> IUTF achieved 1 nA current at 5 MeV for the first time
<ul>
<li> long-standing plan to use it to test the HD Ice
target</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> EIC is moving forward
<ul>
<li> virtual groundbreaking held
<ul>
<li> "attended" by JLab senior management</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> yellow reports due soon
<ul>
<li> how to justify a second interaction point</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> need for 1-11 GeV electron test beams
<ul>
<li> Hall D complex is ideal</li>
<li> many issues to resolve</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Lab budget on a continuing resolution
<ul>
<li> research money has not increased; solution being
worked on</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Hall D budget
<ul>
<li> PRs are in saturating all available funds</li>
<li> hopefully all will be obligated this FY or funds
may disappear</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="KLF.2C_Hovanes">KLF, Hovanes</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Hovanes is coordinator from Hall D side</li>
<li> collaboration starting to organize work to build
equipment
<ul>
<li> roles being assigned</li>
<li> management plan being developed</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> compact photon source (CPS)
<ul>
<li> being developed in Hall C</li>
<li> 15 mm gap for photon beam[?]</li>
<li> Todd Satogata: focusing not an issue</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Igor Strakovsky working on the K<sub>L</sub> target</li>
<li> original proposal: 64 ns bunch separation
<ul>
<li> 128 ns separation: discussions underway</li>
<li> bunch charge density an issue</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> jeopardy experiments re-approved
<ul>
<li> GlueX</li>
<li> CPP</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> upgrade of CEBAF Center
<ul>
<li> Hall D staff will move to cubicles on second floor
expansion</li>
<li> construction finishes in 2024</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="GDH_polarized_target.2C_Alexandre">GDH polarized
target, Alexandre</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> meeting two weeks ago with Chris Keith
<ul>
<li> target group occupied with Moller tasks</li>
<li> 3 years of work at high priority</li>
<li> GDH target will take 3 years to design and build</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Dustin Kellar of UVA has been contacted
<ul>
<li> he is interested</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> target cost: $600k
<ul>
<li> funding discussion with Eugene to be had soon</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> option: refurbish Hall D FROST target
<ul>
<li> Chris not enthusiastic</li>
<li> leak in that device, never fixed</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> cooling power an issue</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="CPP.2C_Elton">CPP, Elton</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> need help with implementation of trigger
<ul>
<li> summer run: test run with random trigger</li>
<li> data analyzed to estimate rates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> next step: implement trigger in hardware
<ul>
<li> requires involvement of Sascha and Fast Electronics</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> run scheduled for 2022
<ul>
<li> but these things take time</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> mechanical design and construction on a good track
<ul>
<li> Tim et al. working on it</li>
</ul>
</li>
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