[Halld-pid-upgrade] RICH2018 abstract

[Maria Patsyuk]

Dear all,

please find below a draft for the abstract I intend to submit for the upcoming RICH2018 conference in Moscow:

“This year we start assembling the DIRC detector to upgrade the particle identification capabilities in the forward region of the GlueX detector in Hall D at Jefferson Lab. The main components of the GlueX DIRC are the four radiator boxes (reused from the decommissioned BaBar DIRC) and two optical boxes, which were designed based on the prototype for the SuperB FDIRC. The first radiator box has already arrived to JLab from SLAC, where the delicate BaBar bar boxes have been stored for the last 20 years. It will be attached to the newly built optical box and installed in the Hall D already for the 2018 fall run. We present the status of the GlueX DIRC project including the ongoing R&D and the plan for the future."

Comments are welcome.

Best regards,
Maria