Report from MICE project teams

1. Report from MICE project teams • Proposed MICE organogram: revised • Revised request for resources for financial year 2003/04 • Review of iMICE schedules – status report • Funding profile for MICE programme – status report • Issues raised

2. Proposed MICE organogram: revised Responsible for Policy, Monitoring & Specification Joint PPARC/CLRC MICE Project Board MICE Institutes Collaboration Board Steering Committee Project Oversight Board RAL Project Board MICE-UK Projects and Groups Cryogenics & Hydrogen Beam Line Infrastructure … RF Detector Target …. Focus Coils Responsible for Technical Specification & Delivery

3. MICE-UK request for resources • Assumptions: • Require to meet iMICE schedule as defined in proposal • Implications: • Beam and infrastructure: • Make maximum use of long shutdown in 2003/04 • Target upgrade: • Design, test and commission for installation in shutdown early 2005 • Focus pair: • Meet design/specification schedule defined in proposal • Tracker: • Prepare for tracker decision point and lay foundations to meet iMICE schedule

4. MICE-UK request for resources • Discussions since last JMPB to address resource limitations: • Funding: • SR funds not available until financial year 2004/05 • CCLRC/PPARC funds that it might be possible to allocate to MICE project limited to something in the region of £500k or a little more • Manpower: • ISIS: beam upgrade project work can not be carried out in addition to work presently scheduled in 2004 shutdown • PPD/University: can not recruit fast enough to fill all posts requested in document for full financial year

5. Revised MICE-UK request for 2003/04 • Assumptions: • Identify minimum funds required that will: • Begin to put in place teams that can build and sustain a programme with a spend of ~£3,000k in 2004/05 • Preserve, as far as possible, iMICE milestone 3 (step 4: running with one absorber) • Protect positions of leadership in: • Focus pair/absorber integration project • Tracker project Note: both projects have major milestones at the October collaboration meeting • iMICE Focus pair/absorber review (chaired by M. Zisman) • Tracker technology decision point

6. Revised request 03/04: beam/infrastructure • Revised capital/staff request • presented by PD at last JMPB:

7. Revised request 03/04: target upgrade • Requisitions: • Target mechanism not required as soon as foreseen  • Specification/purchase of cooling system delayed to 2004/05 • Tests under vacuum may be deferred to 2004/05 • Staff: • Post-doc essential to lead project but can’t recruit by start of financial year • Mechanical/electronic design/technical effort required to: • Agree/specify interfaces with ISIS beampipe and jacking frame • Carry out initial design and prototyping Revised request 03/04: focus pair • Focus pair/absorber design/specification w/g to report Oct03  increase time allowed for conceptual design: • Requisitions: • S/w and licenses essential for conceptual design • Delay purchase of current-lead components and vacuum eqmnt • Staff: • Oxford-CM design effort delayed to 2004/05 • Recruitment delay in Oxford-PP mechanical engineer

8. Revised request 03/04: tracker • Build, commission and operate single-station prototype in time for tracker decision point – Oct03 • Requistions: • Commission etc in D0 cosmic-ray test stand (in September)  do not require to purchase/commission cryostat in UK • Tooling/connectors essential • Staff: • Design effort from IC/Liverpool rolling grant supported staff • Post-doc effort essential  require continuation of McKigney post-doc position plus 0.5 post-doc FTE • Consequence of tracker technology choice: • Clear priority to establish scientific, technical and financial case for sci.fi, option • Should TPG prove to be preferred, MICE-UK would seek to contribute to TPG/associated instrumentation at the same level as current bid for UK element of sci.fi. construction, commissioning etc.

9. Revised MICE-UK request for 2003/04 • Totals, including travel request that is unchanged w.r.t. original request: • Note: figures above for comparison to original request

10. Review of iMICE schedules – status report • 1st iteration with • Beam and infrastructure • Target upgrade • Focus pair and absorber integration • Scintillating fibre tracker included. Other items included as in iMICE proposal • Contacts with iMICE groups providing pieces of the iMICE apparatus have been/are being established. • Seek to take detailed discussions forward next week at iMICE collaboration meeting • Still many open questions – work in progress

11. Review of iMICE schedules – status report • Conclusions: • Evaluated milestones indicate present schedule for provision of beam/infrastructure is a reasonable match to delivery of iMICE components • More work required to further refine iMICE schedule and to adjust it to make optimum use of the muon beam from 2006 onwards

12. Funding profile for MICE programme – status report • Use schedule for UK MICE deliverables to obtain indicative funding profile under the following assumptions: • Staff costed at £80k/year • Stretched profile goes beyond 2007/08: analysis may go on into 2009 • Differences from last time and proposal … Paul can we discuss?

13. Issues raised: • Staff and requisitions costs for installation and decommissioning • Review resource implications • Requires clear specification of iMICE/UK MICE responsibilities in ‘MoU’s • Common fund • Discussion starting in iMICE as to possible common fund items • Need to understand from UK perspective what are desirable common fund items