Dragon Meeting Minutes of Tuesday Jan 22, 2003:

Present: Shawn Bishop(scribe), Lothar Buchmann, John D'Auria, Sabine Engel,
Dave Hutcheon, Allison Laird, Pater Machule, Art Olin, Dave Ottewell,
Catherine Neish, Aaron Begington

Business Arising:
DH - New power supples for MD1/MD2 need be connected to electrical power yet.
Electrician is working to this task. Controls group are still
looking into how they are to be interfaced to computer (EPICS) control.
JDA -  informs us that Dario's BGO array calibration with a known
source is "still in progress" and that Dario may be in a position to
present first results at Jan 28 meeting.
JDA - Mentions that dedicated computer for CCD camera is set-up and ready.
DH - reports that will still need to determine what the colour-coding
of the camera's file format is.
Catherine - mentions that she may be able to help in this regard from her
experience with the HST data files.
AO - reports that the ODB, and other relevant software has been
transferred onto isdaq04; the only exception being that the main
"front-end" code has been left on midmes01.
CN - Gave an overhead presentation of her study investigating beam
normalizations. Finds that the ratio of elastics to betas is fairly
constant, but that ratios of elastics to FC4 and betas to FC4 vary
considerably moreso. Concludes that installation of a Faraday Cup
between MD1 and ED1 to measure beam charge state simultaneously with
elastics is probably the best way to go. See attached pdf file for
particulars.
JDA - raised the issue of 15O(alpha,gamma) in light of results from B.
David's Netherlands experiment. In the opinion of many, this measurement may
not be as important to measure (at DRAGON). More discussion with Hendrik
Schatz and others to follow next week during HS visit.
February run-time was discussed and the 12C(alpha,gamma) was vigourously
discussed as a run possibility. Follow-up discussions on how to proceed
to be done at a following meeting.