[Hps] Election of New HPS Collaboration Members VOTE BY FRIDAY

[Valery Kubarovsky]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jaros, John A. <john at slac.stanford.edu>wrote:

> Dear HPS,
>
> It is time to vote for those who have applied for membership in the HPS
> Collaboration. They are Chris Cuevas, Ben Raydo, Scott Kaneta, Raphael
> Dupre, and Nicholas Nganga.
>
> Please Vote Y or N for each of the following:
>
> 1. Chris Cuevas    Y
>
> 2. Ben Raydo         Y
>
> 3. Scott Kaneta       Y
>
> 4. Raphael Dupre    Y
>
> 5. Nicholas Nganga     Y
>
> Send your vote to all three spokespeople, Stepan, Maurik, and John (to
> keep them honest). Please vote by Friday, December 7. The election will be
> closed at COB Friday, December 7, 2013.
>
> The applicants statements, which were distributed one month ago, are
> attached below.
>
> Please VOTE!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maurik, John, and Stepan
> For HPS
>
>
>
>
> 1. Statement from Ben Raydo:
>
> Formal request for acceptance into the HPS collaboration
> 10/30/2012
> Dear HPS Executive Committee,
> I was happy to participate in the HPS test run and see the pieces come
> together so quickly. The experience demonstrated the HPS groups' commitment
> to making this experiment happen. I am interested in joining the HPS
> collaboration and to give it the attention it deserves to ensure it is an
> experimental success. In the HPS test run I implemented a significant part
> of the triggering system for the ECAL and assisted in areas I was able to
> provide help (mainly DAQ and trigger). For the future of HPS, I am
> committed to deliver a refined and improved high level triggering system
> for the ECAL. I am also always happy to provide additional help where I can
> and look forward to continued work with the HPS group.
> Thanks,
> Benjamin Raydo
>
> 2. Statement from Scott Kaneta
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to formally request to join the HPS collaboration.  For the
> HPS test run, I was the primary designer of the firmware for the Crate
> Trigger Processor (CTP).  It was at the CTP level that clusters were
> calculated in each of the two halves of the calorimeter to help form the
> trigger for data acquisition.
>
> There are several improvements for the true HPS run that Ben and I would
> like to make.  The limitations of CTP prototypes used in the test run had a
> significant impact on the capabilities of the trigger.  More specifically,
> the data path between the FADCs and CTP limited the energy resolution of
> the trigger and the FPGA was pushed to its limits, preventing the addition
> of requested features (like hits per cluster).
>
>
> While the specifications for the production version of the CTP are still
> being discussed, there are several hardware improvements we hope take
> advantage of.  First, the FPGA will be upgraded so more features can be
> added and timing issues with the previous firmware design can be reduced.
>  Second, while prototype testing is still in ongoing, we have seen
> encouraging progress toward potentially increasing the bandwidth between
> the FADC and CTP.  Among other things, this could provide a much better
> resolution of hit energy for trigger calculations.  Third, we have been
> testing an Ethernet interface on a different prototype that, if added to
> the CTP, could give much better access for control, monitoring, and
> troubleshooting.  New hardware with additional effort on the software
> interface and firmware should yield a drastic improvement of the trigger.
>
>
> It was exciting to participate in my first real experiment here at JLab
> and I look forward to working with you all again in the future.
>
>
> Thank you for your consideration,
> Scott
>
> 3. Statement from Chris Cuevas
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have had good intentions to write sooner, but will take this opportunity
> to let you know that several of us from the JLAB Fast Electronics Group
> would like to join the HPS collaboration.
>
> I am delighted that the new pipeline DAq and trigger hardware that has
> been developed for the 12GeV experimental programs was useful for the HPS
> test run and provided a perfect beam test for the pre-production versions
> of the new hardware.  Other contributions from the group were the complete
> redesign and layout for the Calorimeter amplifier motherboard and
> interconnection board.
>
> The recent HPS collaboration meeting at SLAC was very informative and
> included exciting news regarding the strong possibility to run the HPS
> experiment in Hall B when 12GeV operations begin.  The Fast Electronics
> Group is already delivering production hardware for the other experimental
> halls, so in less than a year, all 12GeV DAq and Trigger modules will be
> ready for installation.
>
> The next HPS run will bring significant changes to the firmware and work
> will be needed to correct or redesign the Calorimeter
> motherboard/interconnection board.  I recognize that there will be
> significant work to integrate a Muon detector into the trigger system and
> many other electronic activities that could use our in house expertise and
> resources.
>
> I admit that I have not read the HPS collaboration by-laws and do not know
> if we would be considered 'voting' members.  In the end, the HPS experiment
> work is technically challenging and is a perfect fit for our newly
> developed pipelined DAq and Trigger system hardware.
>
> Please call or reply if you have questions or require additional
> information.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris Cuevas
> Group Leader - Fast Electronics
>
> 4. Statement from Raphael Dupre
>
> Hello Stepan,
>
> You can find here my letter of application to HPS collaboration:
>
> My name is Raphaël Dupré and I am a newly hired staff member in the JLab
> group of the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay. I would like to join
> the HPS collaboration to participate to the experiment, my focus being on
> two topics. First, I would like to be involved in the calorimeter work
> carried out in Orsay and eventually in Jlab during installation. Second, I
> would like to participate to the data analysis,I am of course interested in
> the A' search, but also in    the true muonium
> search.
>
> I would work on hardware with the engineers in Orsay as a link with the
> collaboration in order to follow the advancement of work, but also the
> technical and financial issues. I would also take the lead for seeking a
> grant of the French organization ANR, in order to secure the participation
> of Orsay to the calorimeter construction.
>
> The physics of dark matter in the "large" coupling region appears very
> appealing to me since it could solve some important issues with the muon
> g-2 puzzle. The capacity to go at very low coupling is also of much
> interests, to explore new grounds, but I would like to focus more on the
> true muonium search. Its implication as a precision QED measurement appears
> to be a powerful test of QED at small distances.
>
> I hope I have convinced you of my motivation to join the HPS collaboration
> and am available for questions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
>
> Raphaël Dupré
> Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
>
> 5. Statement from Nicholas Nganga
>
> I'm interested in being a member of the HPS Collaboration membership based
> on the the electronics design expertise I can contribute during the HPS
> experiment. During the past HPS test run, I was assigned the task of
> designing, manufacturing and testing the Inner Calorimeter Motherboard and
> connection boards. These are the boards responsible for connecting the
> inner calorimeter APDs to the Data Acquisition hardware. The design and
> testing phases required collaborating with mechanical engineers responsible
> for the Inner Calorimeter design. I participated in two of the
> collaboration meetings at Jefferson Lab by presenting my project progress
> during the design review meetings.
>
> There were important lessons learned during the HPS test run both in
> design and manufacturing of the inner calorimeter electronics. These
> lessons will prove instrumental as plans for the future HPS long run
> continue. Preliminary plans discussed involve making design changes to the
> motherboards based on lessons learned and budget constraints. My
> contribution to the future of the HPS run will be to design, coordinate
> manufacturing and testing of these new motherboards. During the initial HPS
> test run, the inner calorimeter required significant troubleshooting and
> design support in the hall, I will provide the same time and expertise in
> supporting the future HPS experiments.
>
>
>
>
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