Collaboration Board Summary

Alan BrossMICE CM 26

Collaboration Board – CM26

Agenda:1.Intro2.Approval of minutes Booth3.Spokeʼs remarks Blondel4.PM report Nichols5.Spokesperson Election Bross6.Common Fund Long7.NSF Update

Hanson/Kaplan8.UC Request Kwang-Je

Kim9.SB report Palladino

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Spokesmouse

Spokesmouse Report 2010 Goal of completing Step I has made excellent

progress Still a lot to do, however & problem with DS frig has

slowed things down Pressure now to complete before August 15 & will be

running shifts up to the end PLEASE SIGN UP FOR SHIFTS!!

2010 Goal MICE Online Group: Graulich, Graulich, Leaver, McWaters, Ellis, Hanlet, Coney

Crucial group doing great job! But The situation of some members is uncertain Please think of more people who could take part in

DAQ/trigger/Operations

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No Longer Likely

MICE as recognized experiment @ CERN

Recognized Experiment Committee met on 23Feb2010

Approval recommended by REC and approved by Research Board

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MICE as recognized experiment @ CERN

Once an experiment is recognized- the groups involved will be able to open visiting team accounts at CERN- the members of the experiment will be allowed to become registered as CERN users; this would not, however, imply automatic assignment of office space- CERN would allow such teams the use of CERN's premises to organize meetings, and to use basic services, provided that

the cost to CERN is truly marginal, and on the condition that

approved CERN activities would always take priority. Additional services could be provided by mutual

agreement, on the understanding that CERN will charge if there are costs for the Organization.

Discussion to be defined rapidly is contribution of CERN to RF power station beyond refurbishment (help in Commissionning/Maintenance/Operation)

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PM Report

Project Status Summary

Progress in general is good:– Presently dominated by preparations for Step II– Mostly depends on delivery date of first spectrometer

solenoid – rest of integration schedule will plug into this date

– Infrastructure and electrical is as ready as possible– Problems with magnet being understood– Decision point for options now shifted to end April, 2010 –

Review Committee to re-convene at that pointCoupling coil contract is signed – good news

– Schedule details awaited from contractor– AFC #1 module date is now December 2010– Delay partly caused by absorber/coil interface/envelope

difficulties, now fixed– Liquid hydrogen infrastructure work has re-started in UK– RF infrastructure design has resumed at low-ish level

Project Organisation

UK MICE came out of STFC programmatic review well– Now trying to work out how to deliver the project and

fit with the international subsystems schedule– This week will help a lot with that– After the UK cost & schedule review, project planner

has been appointed – Chris Bulloch of Magna Parva Ltd– He has a six-month contract – will be replaced by STFC

employee, already earmarked– Has already started with UK cost & schedule plans– Will come to next CM– Also appointed Integration Engineer, Jason Tarrant– Process has also begun to recruit a cryogenics

engineer/technician - may take some time

Staffing level is now reinforced in right areas hopefully

Project Organisation

• Chair of proposed MICE Project Board, Steve Peggs, visited RAL, 22nd March– Spoke to some people, UK initially– Toured R5.2– Now has an idea of the project and its constraints

•Risks & Worries

• You will hear about them next from Andy

MICE Spokesperson Election

The MSE committee (Cobb, Coney, Tsenov, Ishimoto) studied whether or not there was a consensus to keep the present leadership

YES! The CB confirmed! Alain & Mike have enthusiastically agreed to continue

Suckers

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K. Long, 18 April 2023

Common Fund• Common Fund:

• Reprise:• Classification of allowed expenditure• 2009/10 census• 2009/10 estimate

• Status of 2009/10 levy• Income and expenditure

2009/10 census:

• Working on Update• Have polled collaboration• Finalize by April 1 (Please respond)

• ‘Preliminary’ summary

• Based on info from R. Hayes on 17Mar10– Check and revise

at CM26 next week

• Also, discuss outstanding:– Payments– In-kind

contributions– Status of Harbin

Country Institute Levy (£) CommentTotal 19-Mar-10

Paid Unpaid Paid UnpaidBulgaria Sofia 9000 9000 9000China ICST Harbin Remains undefinedItaly INFN: 12000 12000 Minitech for compressor stands

Milano 3000Napoli 3000Pavia 3000Roma III 6000

Japan KEK 3000 3000 3000Kyoto 3000 3000 3000Osaka 6000 6000 6000

Netherlands NIKHEF 3000 3000 3000Switzerland CERN 3000 3000 3000

Geneva 6000 6000 6000UK STFC: 54000 63000 63000

BrunelCockcroft/LancasterDLGlasgowImperialLiverpoolOxfordRALSheffieldWarwick

US DOE labs: 39000 39000 39000ANLBNLJLab LBNLFermilabIITIIT/FNALMississipi

US NSF labs and universitiesIllinois Institute of Technology 6000 6000 6000Iowa 3000 3000 3000Mississipi 3000Muons Inc. 3000 3000 3000New Hampshire 3000UC Riverside 9000 12000 12000 Riverside and NewhampshireUCLA 3000 3000 3000

Totals 171000 135000 18000 12000 9000 174000

Total income received 147000

2009/10 MICE Common Fund levy: preliminary review of incomeContribution (£)

Invoiced In kind

Common Fund: Accounts for 2009/10:

• Outturn forecast:– 11 (of 12 months):

• Linear extrapolation gives outturn forecast: £154.65k

Income and expenditure 2009/10 (£k) Levy Income Expenditure (£k)

2009/10 COMMON FUND LEVY 171.00Invoices paid ('cash income') 135.00In-kind contributions 12.00

MICE - USER SUPPORT COSTS 48.54MICE UTILITIES, INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES 28.12MICE TECHNICAL SUPPORT 25.00MICE BEAM LINE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 21.23MICE OFFICE FACILITIES 0.29MICE ELECTRONICS, DAQ CONSUMABLES 18.58

Totals 171.00 147.00 141.77

Based on spend/income received to end Feb10

NSF Update

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BREAKING NEWS: Mississippi MRI Request Approved (Tentative)

MICE Members

Trieste and Como EMR Work: most scientist effort

still in Como/Trieste. However, Not formally part of

MICEResolve this by CM 27

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MICE Members II

Kwang-Je Kim made presentation: University of Chicago request to join MICE.

KJK & Young-Kee Kim Graduate students interested in MC

One 1st year (HE) One starting Autumn 2010

Undergraduate students A few junior students interested in going to RAL A couple first year students

Can send a couple of students ( various cobination of grad and unders) to RAL this summer for 2-3 months, if someone can supervise them

A full time post doc will help to kick start the U of C effort in MICE

Vote Taken at CB meeting: Yes (unanimous), but no Quorom.

Email vote: Welcome: University of Chicago!

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Speaker’s Bureau

Vittorio reviewed the status of Talks Abstracts, etc MICE is doing Very Well!

However He is still having trouble finding

Speakers! Please suggest/find speakers! Please Respond to his emails!

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