Collaboration Meeting @ TRIUMF, July 10 - 12, 2024

10 Jul 2024, 06:00 → 12 Jul 2024, 14:30 America/Vancouver

This meeting of the DarkLight @ ARIEL Collaboration will be held July 10 - 12, 2024 at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada.

This meeting's focus will be on preparation for installation and finalising the commissioning plan.

Wednesday, 10 July

09:00 → 12:15 General: Wednesday morning

Conveners: Douglas Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University), Katerine Pachal

09:00 Welcome & agenda

Speaker: Katerine Pachal

09:10 E-linac status

09:40 Update on related experiments

10:30 Coffee break

10:45 Beam optics plans and status

Beam optics simulation and document
PMQ order?
Drawings?
Collimator status?

Speaker: Aveen Mahon

11:15 Shielding: design & simulation

Shape, amount, FLUKA results

Speakers: Ethan Cline, Ethan Cline

11:45 Shielding: TRIUMF implementation

Materials available & plan for manufacture
Also: concrete blocks & shielding hut status
Kate & Doug P (but he doesn't have an MIT account)

Speaker: Katerine Pachal

13:00 → 16:15 General: Wednesday afternoon

13:00 Trigger detectors

13:30 DAQ and controls: SBU

Speaker: Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University)

14:00 DAQ and controls: TRIUMF

Speaker: Konstantin Olchanski (TRIUMF)

14:30 Coffee break

14:45 Software and simulation status overview

Speaker: Laura Miller

15:15 GEM and trigger simulation

Speaker: Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

15:45 Framework and data flow

16:15 → 17:15 Working & discussion time

18:00 → 20:00 Reception @ Sports Illustrated

This is the pub that replaced Biercraft in Wesbrook Village. We can easily walk there in around 20 minutes; the reservation is for 6 pm.

Thursday, 11 July

09:00 → 12:20 General: Thursday morning

Conveners: Douglas Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University), Katerine Pachal

09:00 Vacuum chambers and spectrometers

Speakers: Ernest Ihloff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), James Kelsey (staff@mit.edu)

09:30 GEMs

10:00 ARIEL and beam schedule

10:40 Coffee break

10:55 Required project reviews and documents

Speaker: Katerine Pachal

11:20 Funding plans (30 MeV)

Grant renewals for Canada, SBU

Speakers: Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University), Mike Hasinoff (The University of British Columbia)

11:50 30 MeV timelines: discussion

Speaker: Everyone

13:00 → 16:05 General: Thursday afternoon

Conveners: Douglas Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University), Katerine Pachal

13:00 50 MeV: recirculating ring concept and design needs

13:30 50 MeV: interplay with ARIEL & THz

Need to understand what must happen for these to operate in parallel. Missing components.

14:00 50 MeV: magnet sourcing prospects

Speaker: Thomas Planche (TRIUMF)

14:30 50 MeV: physics scope

What should we do for 17 MeV? What can we do beyond that? How do we sell it if/when a competitor gets there first?

Speaker: Ethan Cline (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:00 Coffee break

15:15 50 MeV: Funding and personnel constraints

What do we need that we don't have? How can we get it?

15:45 General discussion

16:05 → 17:35 Working & discussion time

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner at East is East

Reservation made for 20 people at the Broadway location
Menu: https://www.eastiseast.ca/menu

Friday, 12 July

09:00 → 12:20 General: Friday morning

Conveners: Douglas Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University), Katerine Pachal

09:00 Integration with e-linac

09:25 Installation logistics

Power supplies, cable running, electronics hut, collimator, etc.

Any concerns with shipping?

09:45 Experiment installation discussion

Update given timeline news and status of plans? One versus two phase? Available personnel from MIT etc? Does the personnel availability change with the timeline?

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 Commissioning plan

Speaker: Douglas Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:00 Non-A' physics program requirements

Moller and Bhabha scattering: what beam would we need? What would the impact be of having a smaller range of energies?

Speaker: Ethan Cline (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:40 AOB