November 1-3, 2007

EDM Collaboration Meeting at MIT-Bates

Attendance:  Ricardo Alarcon (Arizona State), Rick Allen (ORNL), Larry Bartoszek (Bartoszek Engineering/Illinois), Doug Beck (Illinois), Elizabeth Beise (Maryland), Michael Betoncourt (MIT), Jan Boissevain (Caltech), Herbert Breuer (Maryland), Matthew Busch (Duke), Vince Cianciolo (ORNL), Pinghan Chu (Illinois), Steve Clayton (Illinois), Martin Cooper (LANL), Dipankgkar Dutta (Mississippi State), Brad Filippone (Caltech), Haiyan Gao (Duke), Bob Golub (NCSU), David Haase (NCSU), Doug Hassell (MIT), Mike Hayden (Simon-Fraser), Paul Huffman (NCSU), Ernie Ihloff (MIT), Jim Kelsey (MIT), Chen-Yu Liu (Indiana), Ivan Logashenko (Boston U), Josh Long (Indiana), Brian Mcallister (MIT), James Miller (Boston U), Richard Milner (MIT), Andrew Park (Berkeley), Jen-Chieh (Peng), Brad Plaster (Caltech), John Ramsey (LANL), Bob Redwine (MIT), Lee Roberts (Boston U), Riccardo Schmid (Caltech), George Seidel (Brown), Walter Sondheim (LANL), Shigeyuki Tajima (LANL), Steve Williamson (Illinois), Quiang (Alan) Ye (Duke), Jacob Yoder (Illinois), Xiaofeng Zhu (Duke)

Collaboration Business (Martin Cooper)

      a) Results of the DOE annual review

      b) NSF proposal (Brad Filippone and Doug Beck)

      c) Budgetary information

      d) Funding for optimizing the design

      e) Collaboration communication

      f)  MOU

      g) Engineering and safety reviews

      h) The hotel experience

      i) The next collaboration meeting

Summary of the summit meeting on operating temperature/3He transport (Bob Golub)

4He Evaporative Purification (David Haase)

3He relaxation time (Alan (Qiang) Ye)

3He relaxation time (Jacob Yoder)

Progress report on the dual use cryostat (Shige Tajima)

Preparations for the 3He injection test (Xiaofeng Zhu)

3He NMR with a SQUID (Michelle Espy)

Valve progress (Steve Williamson)

PMT performance at 4K (Martin Cooper for Hans-Otto Meyer)

UCN storage time measurement (Martin Cooper)

SQUID performance in a HV environment (Chen-Yu Liu)

Status of engineering preparations for CD-2/3a (Jan Boissevain)

Calculating the EDM sensitivity (Betsy Beise)

An overview of a nEDM simulation program (Martin Cooper)

Simulation work and coding standards? (Vanya Logashenko)

Scheduling the CD-2/CD-3a review (Discussion moderated by Martin Cooper)

Magnet development (Brad Plaster)

Dressing coils (Riccardo Schmid)

Upper cryostat B-field design (Ricardo Alarcon)

Dressed-spin measurements with polarzied 3He in a cell (Ping-Han Chu)

Mitigation of birefringence in the Kerr E-field monitor (Andrew Park)

Implementation of the Kerr E-field monitor (Jan Boissevain)

High voltage stability and pressurization (Josh Long)

Specifications for the integrated tests, an encore (Paul Huffman)

 

Supplementary Material

 

Sussex Cryo-EDM Experiment (James Karamath)