[Moller] MOLLER update and collaboration meeting Doodle poll

[Mark L. Pitt]

Dear  MOLLER collaborators,

We hope everybody is enjoying the New Year.  We are sending an update on 
recent and upcoming activities.  We apologize for the delay in this 
update, but things have been moving very rapidly recently.

We and JLab management had a teleconference in mid-December with DOE 
Office of Nuclear Physics. We presented a status update and they 
provided encouraging comments, and the MOLLER project is likely moving 
towards an unpaused state.  At the beginning of this year, JLab 
management has established a MOLLER project management team of Jefferson 
lab staff members to update and expand the cost and schedule estimates 
that were done in preparation for the Dec. 2016 Director's Review.  That 
group has already begun working with collaboration members who were 
responsible for preparing those estimates in 2016.  Over the next weeks, 
we plan to fine tune our collaboration's working group structure to make 
the structure within the collaboration clear as we move to the next 
phase, with a focus on providing support to and liaising with the MOLLER 
project team; the latter will have the ultimate responsibility for the 
upcoming construction project.

As we discussed at the last collaboration meeting, a Director's Review 
is likely in our near future.  We have recently been told by the 
laboratory to anticipate a Director's Review of MOLLER focused on 
technical readiness, risk assessment, and cost of the anticipated 
project in late March.  We don't have further details at the moment, but 
we will let you know as soon as we have more details of what we need to 
prepare.

We need to set our next collaboration meeting in advance of the likely 
Director's Review date and be mindful of the fact that the PREX-CREX 
collaboration meeting is scheduled for Feb. 15 - 16. Please go to the 
Doodle poll at

https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoodle.com%2Fpoll%2Ff3m3gv2re3wd9n5v&data=02%7C01%7Cmoller%40jlab.org%7C8b62cd4ebbd94599237c08d67fb1b568%7Cb4d7ee1f4fb34f0690372b5b522042ab%7C1%7C1%7C636836798562576333&sdata=AQxdlJfMMDYufwrNeYgy4GhCXAbTeEBjBT9nnYcuHCM%3D&reserved=0

  by the end of the day Thursday January 24 and express your preference.

This is going to be a very exciting and busy time for the experiment, 
potentially leading to an even more exciting and busy time for the next 
few years!  We look forward to working with you all on this.

Best regards,
KK and Mark

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Mark Pitt
Department of Physics
Virginia Tech
Robeson Hall
Blacksburg, VA  24061-0435
Phone: (540) 231-3015
Fax:   (540) 231-7511
e-mail: pitt at vt.edu
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