Minutes of the DRAGON Meeting of Oct. 4, 2005
In attendance: MT, DO, LF, DF, GR, LB, JC, AHuke (visitor), JDA (recorder)
Time: 14:00

1. Minutes of Meeting of Sept. 27, 2005 were approved

2. Business arising:
	a. DSSSD was installed.
	b. SB0 surface detector has been installed
	c. BGO lead shield could not be found yet
		(note added after meeting: parts were found and will be installed)
3. DRAGON report
	a. IRIS was installed and aligned, however, it was then removed to 
	   attach remote handling (x-y) system. Part of support structure 
	   was damaged however but upon a repair, it will be installed
           by the end of the week. A second unit is ordered but will not 
	   be received for ~2 weeks.
	b. ED units seem to be at zero and need to be conditioned.
	c. All other units need to be checked out.
	d. The gas target needs to turned on and cooled by thursday.
	e. It was not clear that the BGO had been calibrated but this will be 
 	   checked.
	f. LF is in the process of doing calibration of the NaI and Ge detectors

4. Report from Operations
	a. Keerthi indicated that OLIS needed to be cleaned but Mg beam should be
	   ready by thursday.
	b. There is a problem with a P/S on RFQ and parts needs to be obtained from
           off-site. No report on done time at this point. 
	c. Mat Pearson indicated that lasers are in good shape and should be ready 	
           for run. It could only take a few hours to tune them once
	   Al26 is available. There is Al27 in target also.
	d. Gordon Ball had a meeting of beam scheduling committee and
	   has put together a tentative schedule for next week, (circulated previously).
	e. Proton cyclotron is ok after short shutdown and beam expected ok.

5. Stable Beam Plan (JC)

- 24Mg beam, tuned through DRAGON, at E=214+epsilon keV/u
- Checking/debugging/shakedown of ALL detector systems.
- Turn focus to timing of MCP relative to BGO
- Switch to recoils
- Take many runs at a few charge states
- Verify that the yield is what we expect. If system down, fix problems
- iterate previous two steps as necessary to verify nominal operation  
  of DRAGON

	People to assist with initial stable beam operation

	Jac Caggiano, Lisa Fogarity, Chris Ouellet (when he arrives), Dieter Frekers

Meeting ended at 14:25 (a record!)