Present: Chris Allgower, Andy Bacher, Hermann Nann, Tom Rinckel, Sitaram Shastry, and Ed Stephenson
FUTURE MEETINGS:
The septum magnets with coils and vacuum box has been assembled. The constructions appears solid. The vacuum box is leaktight. The temperature switches on the magnet leads have been installed and covered with shrink-wrap. Polyflow water connections are next.
The paperwork for borrowing electronics from Brookhaven is at the stage of needing an official MOU before proceeding. Chris would like to add some LeCroy 4508 programmable logic units to the request. Discussions with MSU about borrowing FERAs are at a standstill since they do not feel thay can release what we need for a year at a time. Suggestions are solicited if anyone knows of some FERA modules that might be available. By January we should decide if we need to buy a different system.
At the NSF site visit, Ed will give a talk on CSB and Chris will present a poster on the data acquisition plans.
By January, IUCF will have a new Web site. It would be good if this experiment was represented there with a collaborator list, meeting minutes, and other historic documents.
Chris discussed Pb-glass progress. Four more counters have been fixed, bringing the detector inventory to 160 IUCF, 94 ANL, and 8 large IUCF items working up to spec. Chris anticipates more will be added as better PMTs are tested.
Chris has also started to accumulate electronics in the Cooler. A cosmic ray system will be used as a trigger to exercise the data acquisition. There was some discussion of inspecting the silicon luminosity signal upstairs while leaving the main electronics in the downstairs racks. Other items included inventories of patch and delay cables as well as critical modules.
It was pointed out that the delta-E(1) scintillator is being constructed as one piece. Earlier discussions had favored dividing this into four sections to allow for some multiple hits in the early part of the channel to be separately recorded. It was decided to continue with the present construction and see what rate issues arose later.