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Status of MICE Brief news

Status of MICE Brief news. Collaboration meeting will take place 8-11 June 2006 at Fermilab and will involve a complete review of the project. today: -- reviews and progress -- new collaborators. main news on reviews -- tracker review : 20 April 2006 good progress.

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Status of MICE Brief news

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  1. Status of MICE Brief news Collaboration meeting will take place 8-11 June 2006 at Fermilab and will involve a complete review of the project. today: -- reviews and progress -- new collaborators

  2. main news on reviews -- tracker review : 20 April 2006 good progress. Understanding of light loss at 10% level, procedures proposed to fix it and to implement quality control. Will go through construction of scintillating fiber planes and verify quality once the first one is ready (exp date: September) Pointed out the need for a good definition and methodology for MICE alignment. EXPECT TRACKER TO BE WELL ON TIME. -- Beam line review: to take place at the MICE collab. meeting 12 June -- Target review: to take place at the MICE collab. meeting 12 June test was delayed to October 2006. This is only acceptable because start of MICE slipped… but no more slippage acceptable. -- Spectrometer solenoid review: to take place at the MICE collab. meeting 9 June SC wire has been purchased. Bids for construction of the magnet have been received. To be chosen by LBNL. Consistency of chosen offer with MICE requirements will be reviewed.

  3. -- PID: EMCal preparation for the test beam. Two KL prototype units, 4 cm thick, 80 cm long, 13.5 cm wide are ready. To be polished and dressed up now. They will be followed in the beam by scintillators 1.5 cm thick, 20 cm wide, 120 cm long scintillator units, representative of the fully active back-end of EMCal. Courtesy of ATLAS. TOF preparation TOF0 BC420 counters and lightguides are ready. Some cheaper Ukrainian scintillator will also be tested. Two FEE options ( 1) TDC+CF discriminator, 2) splitter+TDC +ADC ) will be tested. The test beam period July 2006 EMCal & TOF responses to 50-250 MeV/c electrons. -- DAQ: ALICE OK for us to use their DAQ framework (DATE) with condition that a group from MICE participates (as training) in implementation of the readout of the ALICE Central Trigger Processor (CTP). VB (PhD student) and JSB (Postdoc) from Gva can do this. will be discussed Readout of ADC/TDC modules progressing (modules in Milano now readout from GVA) in view of Frascati beam test in July 2006

  4. MICE RF power station from CERN Request was submitted to CERN AB division and approved - 170kCHF and 3 man months response from CERN DG: Dear Steve, -  MICE: your memo of 13 April 2006 Contribution to the refurbushing and commissioning of two 200 MHz high power RF amplifiers Agreement from the DG to use resources from CERN to the level of 3 man/month of CERN staff and 173 kCHF and only if UK is contributing for CLIC

  5. New collaborators and funding news: Bad news: Japanese bid (led by Y. Mori U. Kyoto) was not approved for 2006  contribution to trackers will be limited. Other funding source of about $10k is available for MICE this year. Hope to  use it for light guide construction. Also lost the US-Japan  program cannot continue to support the LH2 absorber R&D by Shigeru Ishimoto (KEK) U- Osaka can continue supporting some of the salaries, for Makoto Yoshida for 1-1/2 years more. + doctor student, Hideyuki Sakamoto, will take his PhD on  MICE. --> will re-apply.

  6. New collaborators and funding news (ctd): Better news: -- DOE has agreed to 300k$ of supplemental funds for the MUCOOL Coupling Coil (CC) (still waiting for the answer of NSF on the CC request) New collaborators will apply to join MICE at the CM 15: -- New Hampshire (U. Bravar et al.) simulation, optics, analysis -- Cockcroft Inst.& Lancaster University (R. Seviour) RF cavity surface studies -- ICST Harbin in People’s Republic of China (Lin Jia, Li Wang)

  7. Dr Lin Jia Director Dr Li Wang Associate-Director Dr Lin Jia (also US passport) will be joining the collaboration meeting in Fermilab to apply to the MICE CB great credit to be given to Mike Green(LBNL) !

  8. funding and manpower for engineering is available, funding for construction will need to be submitted to government. expected time to completion ~18-24 mo. If this goes through, one of the main uncertainties for MICE phase II will have a solution in sight.

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