Minutes of the MICE Steering Group Meeting on July 19, 2002

0. Review of steering group and technical team membership

• Steering group membership: I. Ivaniouchenkov is added as the project engineer. Y. Torun will be invited as webmaster/secretary (and has agreed to generating minutes to be archived on the web and made public following review by the steering group)
• Technical group conveners:
• Concept development and simulation will be split into two
• Concept development: K. Hanke standing in for A. Lombardi, R. Palmer. This includes cooling optics and general configuration issues
• Experiment simulations: M. G. Catanesi, Y. Torun. Includes simulation, reconstruction and general software issues
• Absorbers: M. A. Cummings, S. Ishimoto -- no change
• RF cavities and power supplies: D. Li has replaced R. Rimmer, H. Haseroth should really replace R. Garoby for now, but we really need a RAL person (D. Findlay?)
• Magnet systems: M. Green, J. M. Rey -- no change
• Detectors: A. Bross, V. Palladino -- no change
• Beamline: P. Drumm only
• RF radiation: E. McKigney, J. Norem -- no change
• Engineering integration: E. Black, I. Ivaniouchenkov. This is a new working group on technical specifications, service needs, safety issues and installation.

1. Dates for

• Steering group meetings: will continue in the phone conference format
• August 12, 2002 (Monday), 2pm GMT
• September 6, 2002 (Friday), 2pm GMT
• October 7, 2002 (Monday), 2pm GMT
• Collaboration board meeting: October 25, 2002, 7:30am California time. Will set up video link if necessary. The collaboration board should include a representative from each collaborating institute
• Video conferences:
• August 16, 2002 (Friday), 8pm GMT
• September 12, 2002 (Thursday), 8pm GMT
• October 11, 2002 (Monday), 8pm GMT
• MICE software workshop: tentatively August 5-10, 2002 at CERN. Goals are to discuss/set up the software infrastructure, draw up an explicit workplan with task assignments leading to the proposal

2. Agenda of collaboration meeting in Berkeley

• M. Zisman will supply a detailed version to the steering group for comment and an abridged version to be made available on the web to the technical team leaders and the collaboration for comment
• Joint MUCOOL/MICE dinner Wednesday night, collaboration board meeting Friday morning before/during breakfast
• M. Zisman asked everyone to give him an estimate of the number of people from their institutions/geographical area that would be attending the upcoming meetings at Berkeley in October so he can start negotiating with hotels

3. Status of Fund Hunt Missions

• D. Kaplan and S. Geer will meet with Fermilab directorate next week to formulate a strategy for funding requests in the US
• R. Edgecock expects to get reasonable funding in the UK in the next fiscal year (which starts April 2003)
• V. Palladino will start hunting in September in Italy
• H. Haseroth mentioned the recent decision by the German scientific agency (that I can neither spell nor pronounce) to recommend TESLA to the government. The impact of this for neutrino factory R&D funding in Europe and elsewhere is not clear

4. Other items mentioned during the discussion

• Magnets: M. Green will organize a get-together to come up with timeline and cost estimates. Oxford will do a cost estimate for cooling channel coils, V. Palladino will look into getting an Italian estimate for the diagnostic solenoids
• Beam/host: A. Blondel was asked to present a proposal to PSI, they may be involved in other aspects of the experiment in addition to supplying beamline hardware even if they won't be hosting it. They also need to know if we want the beam solenoid by December, otherwise they need to get rid of it. Disposal is a problem, so is handling at RAL due to radioactivity. PSI will do further measurements to understand which parts are hot, radiation levels will affect handling cost

Yagmur Torun - torun@iit.edu
July 19, 2002