[Moller] MOLLER collaboration meeting - Aug. 12 - 13, 2015 - Registration link

[Mark L. Pitt]

Dear MOLLER collaborators,

This is a reminder of our upcoming collaboration meeting on Wednesday 
August 12 - Thursday August 13 at Jefferson Lab.  Please register for 
the meeting at this link:

https://misportal.jlab.org/Ul/conferences/generic_conference/registration.cfm?conference_id=COLLAB-MOLLER-AUG2015  


We will be contacting people to arrange talks this week, and we will be 
circulating a draft agenda sometime the following week.

As noted below, a major focus of this meeting will be preparation for 
the fall Director's technical feasibility review.

Regards,
Mark and KK

On 6/25/15 1:32 PM, Krishna Kumar wrote:
> Dear MOLLER collaborators,
>
> Mark and I are sending this email to announce our next collaboration 
> meeting and to update you on recent activities.
>
> We will have our next collaboration meeting on Wednesday August 12 - 
> Thursday August 13 at Jefferson Lab.  More details will follow soon, 
> but please mark your calendars now.
>
> As you all probably know, we will soon have the report from NSAC on 
> the latest long range planning exercise. As many of you know, MOLLER 
> was quite prominently mentioned both in the QCD and the Fundamental 
> Symmetries and Neutrinos White Papers. During the LRP meeting in Kitty 
> Hawk, there was an open session in which future potential MIE’s were 
> discussed. A MOLLER presentation was solicited and was presented as 
> one such initiative and it was very well-received. We are optimistic 
> that a strong endorsement will result in MOLLER being folded into the 
> planning in DOE/NSF NP as an MIE over the next few years.
>
> If you were not at the JLab User's Group meeting, we encourage you to 
> listen to Tim Hallman's comments on MOLLER and the likely next steps 
> by going to 1:18:09 of the User's Group video archive of the meeting 
> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-ufmCUUEbNwq)
>
> We have also been working with the lab to define the next steps for 
> the experiment. While MOLLER is not still a formal project i.e. we are 
> have not entered the CD-N process, we are working under the assumption 
> that the Science Review served as the CD-0 review and we are beginning 
> to operate under the management structure that would ensue when we do 
> enter the formal project stage:
>
> 1. The Level 2 managers have provided information that went into the 
> preparation of a pre-R&D request to the lab for support in the FY16 
> and FY17 time frames.  This is for items considered essential to 
> making critical technology choices for the MOLLER experiment.  The 
> request is currently being considered by the lab. In parallel, we are 
> preparing (at the request of Gulshan Rai at DOE) a 
> Research Management Plan that will describe the R&D that is being done 
> at various collaborating institutions that is critical to the 
> development of the MOLLER design. It is hoped that the combination of 
> JLab support for pre-R&D and directed User grant support from DOE/NSF 
> will allow us to continue our positive momentum in the development of 
> the technical aspects of the MOLLER design over the next two years.
>
> 2. After our successful DOE Science Review in September 2014, the lab 
> management would like to have a Director's technical feasibility 
> review in late September 2015.  This will help us prepare for the 
> likely next step from DOE, which would be a technical feasibility 
> review late in this year, after the NSAC long range planning activity 
> is complete. We expect that these reviews will loosely conform to the 
> parameters of a CD-1 review for a conventional DOE project.
>
> In preparation for the September Director's review, we will need to 
> prepare a draft project management plan (PMP) and an updated version 
> of our MIE proposal that was last updated in preparation for the 
> September 2014 DOE Science Review.  Javier is preparing a template 
> section for the PMP (with input from Rolf, Thia, and Allison Lung of 
> the 12 GeV project) that L2 managers can use to prepare their sections.
>
> The existing MIE proposal already has a significant amount of 
> information about technical feasibility that is primarily in the 
> appendices.  Before updating begins, it is being restructured to bring 
> the technical feasibility information forward into the main body.  We 
> will be in touch shortly with the L2 managers with details of what 
> needs to be done on these two documents and a timetable for completing 
> it over the next two months.
>
> Regards,
> KK and Mark
>
>
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Department of Physics
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