MICE Collaboration Meeting

October 30-November 2, 2003 -- Abingdon

The RAL page for the meeting with all the details is here.

The agenda with links to the talks is given below.

Speakers can upload talks here.

Thursday, October 30
Safety Meeting at RAL
Zisman	Introduction
Ivaniouchenkov	MICE hydrogen system
Zisman	Plans for the December review
AFCSWG Session
Green	Vacuum volume concept
Black	Vacuum volume issues and details
Ishimoto	Bolted absorber
Lau	Welded absorber
Detector Session
Roberts	Beam rates
Bonesini	TOF walls
Rochford	Fields and forces from solenoids
Torun/Wilson	Beam sizes at downstream detectors
Gregoire	Downstream cerenkov
Summers	Upstream cerenkov
Tonazzo	E/mu tagger
Tracker Session
Long	SciFi prototype
Sakamoto	Fiber measurements at KEK
Yoshida	Fiber measurements at Fermilab
Ellis	SciFi simulation
Long	SciFi cost and schedule
Radicioni/Gschwendtner	TPG status
Gastaldi/Gschwendtner	Rf test of TPG prototype
Sandstrom	TPG digitization
Sandstrom	TPG background simulation
Long	SciFi answers to referees
Gastaldi	TPG answers to referees
Friday, October 31
Introduction
Blondel	Aims of the collaboration meeting
Drumm	Project manager report, WBS
Beam
Tilley	Status of beam studies at RAL
Roberts	G4 and ICOOL simulations of MICE muon beam
Blondel	Beam tracking detector requirements
Tracker
Torun/Norem	Summary of results on dark currents and noise levels
Ellis	SciFi results and comparison with tracker document
Bross	Comparison of noise and background capability
Blondel	Comparison of tracking capability and systematics
Gregoire	Referees' report
Saturday, November 1
Lattice and Magnets
Bravar	Alignment and constructional tolerances for the magnets
Palmer	Design principles of MICE with and without flips
Green	Magnets overview
Barr	Focus coils
Rochford	Forces, stray fields and shielding
Gregoire	Shielding the detectors against magnetic fields
Filthaut	Magnetic field measurements
Rf Sytem
Church	RF power sources
Blondel	Financing rf power sources
Li	200MHz rf prototype production
Absorber System
Lau	Absorber windows
Ishimoto	MICE absorbers
Black	Absorber interchange
Black/Cummings	Liquid hydrogen safety
Baynham	Summary of discussions with RAL safety
Errede	Cooling cell instrumentation
Collaboration Board
Torun	Proposal for future video/phone meetings
Sunday, November 2
Software and Detectors
Tonazzo	Summary of detector session
Torun	Status and plans of software project
Kahn	Heat deposition in absorbers and coils
Tonazzo	Calorimeter optimization
Infrastructure and Integration
Zisman	Report from AFCSWG
Virostek	Integration of rf module
Black	Cooling channel to detector integration
Ivaniouchenkov	MICE at RAL
Kaplan	Closing comments and action items