December 2-3, 2004 EDM Collaboration Meeting

Attendence: Peter Barnes (LANL), Larry Bartoszek (Bartoszek Engineering/UIUC), Doug Beck (UIUC), Jan Boissevain (LANL), Dmitry Budker (Berkeley), Vince Cianciolo (ORNL), Martin Cooper (LANL), Brad Filippone (Caltech), Tom Gentile (NIST), Chris Gould (NC State), Mike Hayden (Simon Fraser), Paul Huffman (NC State), Peter Kammel (UIUC), Wolfgang Korsch (Kentucky), Bob McKeown (Caltech), Dan McKinsey (Yale), Chris O'Shaughnessy (NC State), Jen-Chieh Peng (UIUC), Brad Plaster (Caltech), Alex Sushkov (Berkeley), Scott Wilburn (LANL), Steve Williamson (UIUC), Qiang (Alan) Ye (Duke)

  • Photographs by Dima Budker (Parentheses are around the names of people in the background)
  •      Bob, Mike and (Martin)      Doug and Bob      (Tom,) Mike, (Alan,) and Dan      Peter and Doug      (Tom,) Peter, Alex, and (Wolfgang)

  • EDM Collaboration Leadership - Steve Lamoreaux, Martin Cooper
  • EDM Collaboration Business - Doug Beck, Martin Cooper, Brad Filippone, Haiyan Gao
            a)    2003-04 R&D Funds
            b)    October 21 visit with DOE and NSF
  • Neutron decay/absorption separation from the HMI test run - Bob Golub
  • Application of VLPCs to EDM - Depangkar Dutta
  • Optics simulation - Steve Williamson
  • Detection of neutron absorption by laser-induced fluorescence - Dan McKinsey
  • 3He relaxation - Alan Ye
  • 3He relaxation - Doug Beck
  • Polarized 3He production (Steve Lamoreaux)
  • Engineering priorities (Scott Wilburn)
  • The latest reference design (Jan Boissevain)
  • Cost and schedule reports I
  • Cost and schedule reports II (10 minutes each)
  • Phasing the experiment - Bob Golub
  • A rough roll up of cost and schedule, discussion - Martin Cooper
  • Equipment/schedule for neutron storage-time test run - Walt Sondheim
  • Geometric-phase/frequency shifts - Jacob Yoder
  • Dressing studies - Andrea Esler
  • CosTheta coil and magnetic shielding - Brad Plaster
  • CosTheta coil and magnetic shielding - Brad Filippone
  • Cryogenic magnetometer utilizing Ag atoms - Alexander Sushkov