DRAGON Meeting Minutes - 17 October 2006
2pm, board room

Present: CV, MT, JP, PM, CR, JDA, LB, GR (rec.), DH

Agenda:
1. Minutes of previous meeting
    MT: The GSC19 postdoc meeting will be next Wednesday, 10:30.
    No other comments/corrections.

2. Hardware/software/accelerators
    VF48 status (CR):
    Jean-Pierre Martin returns to TRIUMF next week. The firmware
    should be fixed then. Will be tested at TIGRESS first.

    ED2 (PM): SF6 not yet refilled. DH: Re-conditioning now at 145 kV.
    BCM box (PM): Box completed, but no DSSSD cooling provided yet.

    22Na(p,g) (DH): Handed in request for design assistance. Nobody
      available immediately but should expect design done before end of 
      this year. Doug Preddy will help in the LN2 cooling design.
      We still need the target measures!

    RFQ: Conditioning started. They found 10 major leaks.
         17O will be available late in November, produced from
         17O enriched CO.

3. Posters   JDA/CR/CV/GR
    For the GSC19 (next Tuesday): 2 DRAGON posters.
    A group photo will be taken after this meeting.
    The committee will spend 15 minutes for DRAGON.

    For UBC (last Friday):
    Many technical TRIUMF posters. About 5 grad students showed some
    interest in Dragon/Tuda/Tactic. Beer supply was excellent.

4. EEC proposals
    11C(p,g) (DH):
      W.P. Liu may present the proposal remotely. 

    25Mg(p,g)26Alg (CV):
      Setup: 2 MCPs, 50 cm distant, for TOF. End detector (DSSSD)
      surrounded by 2 diametral NaIs or plastic scintillators for
      511 couple detection of the the 26Alm decay (t1/2 = 6 sec).
      See attached sketch from the latest proposal draft.
      The success depends on the efficiency of the 511 detection.
      However, main problem is the beam intensity; 100 pnA are
      needed.

5. Other business
    12C(a,g) (LB):
      - Art Olin new an paper
      - There will be an extra paper for the R-matrix calculations.
      - Another paper for the acceptance tests / GEANT simulations.

Next meeting will be Tuesday morning, exact time to be announced.

Meeting ends 14:53