Minutes of the dragon meeting on june 4th, 2002.

Present: Chris W., Jenn F., Joel R., Don H., Dave H., Mohan C., Art O.,
Allison L., Sabine E., Lothar B., Alan C., Sean B., Dave O., Dario G.

Recorder: Michael L.

1. Minutes from previous metting adopted.

2. Barcelona highlights were presented by Art O., and Barcelona was highly
recommended. 

3. Status of analysis
Sean B. gave a brief review of his preliminary data analysis on the 212
KeV/u data set. The possibility of using some of the data runs which had no
FC4 reading is good. This will potentially be done by using previous runs
which had FC4 readings and comparing the elastics from these runs with the
runs with no FC4 readings. Sean will look into this.

Sabine E. is working on analysis of the stable beam commissioning runs.

Dave H. showed a plot of Elastics/beta/pressure vs beam energy for the 822
KeV/u data, Sabine E. had a similar plot which showed that the elastics,
after a dip, rose with increasing beam energy which is puzzling. This plot
was shown with the intention by Dave H that we might have elastic
scattering data to present in addition to the radiative capture cross
sections.

Joel R. showed his progress on the data analysis of the verification of the
energy scale near 822. This was done by an independent method of measuring
the time from the DTL to the target (not corrected for gamma time to
detector: assumed negligeable). This data showed that there may be phase
slippage in the r.f. phase between  different run periods (nov, may and
april). Joel will talk to Bob Laxdal and will try to resolve this issue.

In the near future Dave H. will put in a stable beam request for june
and it was agreed that the top priorities were:  to test the MCP, confirm
leaky-beam rates at 360 and 480 keV/u with 21Ne, test mis-tune with Q10 at
double strength, re-try to measure beam energy by time-of-flight, do an
MD1 energy calibration on the lowest-energy 24Mg+p resonance.

Jenn F. mentioned a web interface for intra-group messaging which might be
useful for state-of-the-experiment postings.  Art O. has experimence with
a different program used by TWIST.  Jenn will look into these options
further.

No records broken today (meeting lasted 75+ minutes).