Minutes of DRAGON Meeting of Feb. 25, 2004

Present: Art Olin (AO), Mike Lamey (ML), John D'Auria (JDA), Cybele Jewett (CJ), Lothar Buchmann (LB), Dave Hutcheon (DH), Goertz Ruprecht (GR), Dave Ottewell (DO), Josh Slater (JS), Jonty Pearson (JP), Chris Ruiz (CR), Dario Gigliotti (DG) - recorder.

Corrections to last minutes
-reference to "slip" box corrected to "slit" box.
Facility
-new EPICS controls are in for the new turbo pump #9
-system has been tested to be leak tight after installation of new pump
-ion gauge D4 shows a 3x improvement in vacuum and the power levels in
turbo #5 are down
-turbos #1 and #3 show same power levels, ~400W, at ~4.5T He
-there was some uncertainty to the max pressure attainable before a trip
-fan cooling has been installed on all gas target turbos
-CCD camera needs to be remounted and alignment needs to be checked with
new pumping tubes in place
-gas target installed with single elastic monitor
DAQ
-JP has modified the DAQ for the "AO" Catania detector tests
-on the day of the meeting some components were still missing for ML's
tests
-there was some question as to the new harddrive in midmes01 being mounted
and formatted
-at some point a new version of Linux (v9) and MIDAS will be installed on
midmes01
-DG agreed to do the calibration for the gamma detectors for the upcoming
run
-Catania detector still need pedestals to be set (AO).
Beam Status
-DRAGON should be setup on Thursday morning-afternoon for Ne-21 beam
expected later than evening
-a beam request is still required for this upcoming run
Run Plan for ML MCP tests
-ML outlined his run plan for the MCP tests (See attached for details)
-some points that were raised were:
-attenuated beam runs should include the use of all available
attenuators
-a full beam run should be done with gas in the target
-DSSSD box needs to be removed before the run to allow mounting of
the plastic scintillator/PMT. Some assistance with this task will be needed
-runs calling for the SSSSD in the run plan should be changed to
DSSSD
Run Plan for Catania detector
-run plan not finalized
-Ne-21 beam will be used
-software needs setup for E/dE measurements
-timing vs. MCP will be measured at some point
C12C12 Run
-more definate details will be discussed at next Monday meeting with David
Jenkins (spokesperson)
-solid target ladder needs to replace gas target for Monday
-BGO's need to be calibrated for 25 MeV full scale
Other Business
-JDA raised the point of participation in NIC conference for those
interested
-for students the SNIT conference will involve an astrophysics program
-C-11 experiment has been approved