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

General: Wednesday morning

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

1 Welcome & agenda

Speaker: Katerine Pachal

2 E-linac status

3 Update on related experiments

4 Coffee break

5 Beam optics plans and status

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

Speaker: Aveen Mahon

6 Shielding: design & simulation

Shape, amount, FLUKA results

Speakers: Ethan Cline, Ethan Cline

7 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

General: Wednesday afternoon

8 Trigger detectors

9 DAQ and controls: SBU

Speaker: Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University)

10 DAQ and controls: TRIUMF

Speaker: Konstantin Olchanski (TRIUMF)

11 Coffee break

12 Software and simulation status overview

Speaker: Laura Miller

13 GEM and trigger simulation

Speaker: Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

14 Framework and data flow

15 Working & discussion time

16 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

General: Thursday morning

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

17 Vacuum chambers and spectrometers

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

18 GEMs

19 ARIEL and beam schedule

20 Coffee break

21 Required project reviews and documents

Speaker: Katerine Pachal

22 Funding plans (30 MeV)

Grant renewals for Canada, SBU

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

23 30 MeV timelines: discussion

Speaker: Everyone

General: Thursday afternoon

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

24 50 MeV: recirculating ring concept and design needs

25 50 MeV: interplay with ARIEL & THz

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

26 50 MeV: magnet sourcing prospects

Speaker: Thomas Planche (TRIUMF)

27 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)

28 Coffee break

29 50 MeV: Funding and personnel constraints

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

30 General discussion

31 Working & discussion time

32 Dinner at East is East

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

Friday, 12 July

General: Friday morning

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

33 Integration with e-linac

34 Installation logistics

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

Any concerns with shipping?

35 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?

36 Coffee break

37 Commissioning plan

Speaker: Douglas Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

38 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)

39 AOB