Weekly Meeting Minutes - June 6, 2003
Attending: Ashot, Dave L., Yar, Mark, Raphael, Kevin, Brian, Jason, Rafael, Itaru, Sam, Anatoly, Doug, Dave K., Mabub, Galen, Josh, Aram, 2 students who’s names I didn’t get
On Phone: Dan Dale
Announcements:
Office situation is bad and not getting any better. Suggestion of cubicles above Counting House.
Dan: Luminosity workshop this coming Tuesday, 9am in VARC 47.
Engineering:
Doug: Upstream face plate done.
14 sleeved assemblies, 1 complete. Discussion of work schedule and need for students. Need George’s test box: Dave will give it to Tom Carstens.
Vvendors for deck rescheduled.
HyCal frame mostly done; PrimEx personnel should study it and make any changes now.
Lifter work in progress.
All G10 parts for the PC boards are here.
Mark Ito responsible for all motion control.
Safety:
Burt gave a presentation. If anyone has any questions or safety issues he’s in Trailor City room 24, or see any of the supervisors.
HyCal:
Ashot: Wrapping material ordered.
Lead-glass Detectors: 450 modules done & all PMTs checked. HVD needs cabling & mu-metal needs cutting.
Lead Crystal Detectors: all 1200 modules soldered.
Optic Test:
Galen: Presented selected results. 2 bad ones also identified by visual inspection. Apparatus still giving high-end spikes; Karl Zorn apparently unwilling to help. Problems with computer and time it takes to parse data files.
Geometrical Test:
Josh: 72 dones this week, all within tolerances.
Rate Test:
Kevin: 500 dones this week, all acceptable.
Temperature Monitoring:
Yar: HyCal-0 currently cooling down with monitoring system in place.
High Voltage:
Dave L: Unlikely to have LabVIEW solution so switching to Linux code - remote control readout already done. Meeting with CAEN folks on-site about modules in mid-July.
LMS Review:
Yar: Physical layout.
Sam: Discussion of technical aspects.
Results: Force aging of the UV glue, if not possible we need a non-aging glue.
Put a few fibers into HyCal-0 frame and see what it looks like.
Buy our own PMTs designed for stability.