Minutes of the March 2-4, 2006 CLAS Collaboration Meeting

	The agenda, together with the ppt or pdf files for some of the 
talks, are available on the web. I will not summarize the talks here, 
but report some elements of discussion.

* Publications:
	There is an exceptionally high activity in the collaboration 
since the last meeting. Increase in the number of adhoc reviews and 
accepted papers.

* Completed (even not so recently) and on-going PhD work:
	Please check the info available on
	http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/general/clas_thesis.html
and send the chairman an e-mail for any update and/or link to the written
document. 

* High energy operation:
	Charlie Reece (deputy director of Supraconducting Radio-Frequency
Lab at Accelerator Division) presented a plan for recovering CEBAF operation
at 5.75 GeV, and then 6 GeV. This plan was at variance with what had been
presented on the day before in front of the Users Board, which triggered
many questions and generated some uproar.
	What is clear is that the refurbishing of cryomodules is very labor 
intensive, and thus linked with budget and priorities.
	The collaboration recommends to its representatives within the
Users Board to maintain pressure on the lab management to make this 6
GeV operation a true short term priority.

* CLAS Approved Analyses
	The 2 CAA presented were approved.

* PAC29:
	The collaboration as a whole was not very successfull at last PAC,
with less days granted for Hall B than available. Still there was a serious
review process, but within the PWGs and by the CCC. Some lessons to be
drawn for this: criticism voiced within the collaboration should be 
listened to, and the review process should be still more demanding.

* PAC30:
	See Larry Cardman's message to users (March 10). Upon our request,
Larry is making an exception for Hall B which will enable our collaboration
to submit a limited number of proposals at a maximum energy of about 5 GeV.
	According to Larry (in a talk with Michel), the main purpose of 
PAC30 is to get users involved and show interest in the physics and/or in 
the base equipment. From this point of view, there was some discussion on 
Saturday morning whether the users had enough time in the next 3 months to 
elaborate solid proposals. On the other hand, some collaborators pointed out 
that proposals could be based on what is already written in the pCDR.
	We tentatively agreed on the following procedure concerning PAC30
proposals:
		- dress a list of anticipated proposals by the end of March.
		- identify for each of them the core of people involved for
		  the redaction and related studies.
		- depending on the nature and extent of the proposals, 
		  discuss between CCC and CLAS12 Steering Committee of the 
		  best way to proceed for internal review (PWG or other).
		- in all cases, the proposals must be in an almost final
		  form and be presented to the collaboration at our June
		  meeting (see date below).

* Pentaquarks. The CCC had recommended to gather several results in few 
comprehensive papers (in other words, not one publication per channel 
analyzed). The chairman noted that this is not the path which is being 
taken.

* Membership (see MC summary for names)
	The CCC approved 5 new term members entering probation
and 21 new limited members. The increase in limited membership requests
correspond either to involvement in recent runs (BoNuS, eg4) or to
participation of theoreticians in analyses or interpretation. The
CCC welcomes this trend and hopes it will attract new collaborators for
a longer time.
	
* CLAS Speaker Committee: the systematic coverage by CSC chairman
of various conferences seems to pay off, if one judges by the
number of positive response from the part of organizing committees.
In a few cases, the collaboration was not able to identify speakers
to answer a given invitation. 
PLEASE again, notify the CSC when you give a talk.

* Next collaboration meeting: the date was chosen in order to have at
least two weeks before the deadline for submission of PAC30 proposals
(July 6) and to avoid overlap with GPD Workshop in Trento and QCD-N'06
in Frascati. Unusually, the meeting will be held on Monday to Wednesday,
June 19-21. It will probably include at least 1/2 day devoted to 
CLAS12 (both plenary and parallel sessions for CLAS12 technical working 
groups).