[PEPPo] 12 MSD

[hyde at jlab.org]

Hello,
I dont think scheduling is really in the purview of the PAC.
You can make comments in the text about possible scheduling
scenarios, but I don't think we need it in the abstract.

Charles

> Eric,
>      I am not opposed to moving it out of the abstract.      The
> sentence was placed after the sentences that describe what we plan to do
> with Peppo and before the sentences that describe what will happen after
> the experiment.
>
> The insertion of this sentence does make the abstract flow rather
> jerky.   The flow can be improved by removing the sentence that starts
> with "Following the demonstration....."    Which I think makes more
> sense since we never discuss what we will do following the experiment in
> the proposal.   New abstract:
>
>     We propose to develop and install on the CEBAF injector a beamline
>     and instrumentation
>     appropriate for exploring the feasibility of a new approach for a
> source
>     of polarized positrons: the transfer of polarization from an intense
>     electron beam
>     to positrons by a two-step process (bremsstrahlung followed by pair
>     production) in
>     a single target. Such a source would be an important enhancement of
>     the scientific
>     reach of the 12 GeV Upgrade, and has other uses ranging from high
>     energy to condensed
>     matter physics. This proposal requests two weeks of beam time
>     utilizing the
>     CEBAF injector which if scheduled during the first two weeks of the
>     12 GeV CEBAF
>     upgrade down will not impact the presently scheduled physics program
>     but will require
>     the CEBAF upgrade planning to include provisions for continued
>     operations
>     in the CEBAF injector for the first two weeks of the twelve month
>     shutdown.
>
>
>
> I had additional sentences on scheduling in the first paragraph of the
> Peppo run plan section (as you suggest) that are not in this latest
> release.  Not sure if this omission was an oversight or Larry felt it
> was redundant given the inclusion in the abstract.
>
> Arne
>
> On 06/30/2011 10:27 AM, Eric Voutier wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I just want to share this comment with you and take appropriate action
>> if everybody agrees.
>>
>> The text about the 12MSD is perfect but I find it a bit destructive in
>> the abstract context, Especially
>> talking right after about future other experiments etc... I would
>> prefer to give the reader the
>> opportuntity to be convinced after some pages of the proposal, and
>> then put the hammer on the
>> table with the scheduling issue, better than putting the hammer on his
>> head at the first lines.
>> Maybe my paranoia...
>>
>> So I would propose to move that part of the text from the abstract to
>> the very first paragraph of the
>> PEPPo run plan.
>>
>> Would you agree ? Eric
>>
>>
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