Attendance: Ricardo Alarcon (Arizona State), Septimiu Balascuta (Arizona State), Larry Bartoszek (Bartoszek Engineering/Illinois), Doug Beck (Illinois), Jan Boissevain (Caltech), Herbert Breuer (Maryland), Matthew Busch (Duke), Vince Cianciolo (ORNL), Pinghan Chu (Illinois), Steve Clayton (Illinois), Martin Cooper (LANL), Brad Filippone (Caltech), Haiyan Gao (Duke), Bob Golub (NCSU), Paul Huffman (NCSU), Ernie Ihloff (MIT), Takeyasu Ito (LANL), Ameja Kolarkar (Boston U), Wolfgang Korsch (Kentucky), Ivan Logashenko (Boston U), Michael Mendenhall (Caltech), Hans-Otto Meyer (Indiana), James Miller (Boston U), Jen-Chieh (Peng), Brad Plaster (Caltech/Kentucky), John Ramsey (LANL), Bob Redwine (MIT), Lee Roberts (Boston U), Igor Savukov (LANL), Riccardo Schmid (Caltech), George Seidel (Brown), Chris Swank (NCSU), Shigeyuki Tajima (LANL), Christopher Vidal (MIT), Steve Williamson (Illinois), Quiang (Alan) Ye (Duke), Jacob Yoder (Illinois), Xiaofeng Zhu (Duke)
Collaboration Business
(Martin Cooper)
a) Response to the DOE annual review
b) Impact of DOE guidance and the federal budget
c) NSF news (Brad Filippone and Doug Beck)
d) Budgetary information
e) Status of dispersing funds
f) An August agency review?
g) Preliminary engineering review
h) Teleconferences
i) The next collaboration meeting
3He transport calculations and
feasibility of experimental tests (Bob Golub, George Seidel, Chris Swank)
New upper cryostat
design (Jan Boissevain)
3He
relaxation time (Alan (Qiang) Ye)
3He
relaxation time (Jacob Yoder)
Measurement
Cycle (Doug Beck)
Preliminary engineering
of the main cryostat (Jan Boissevain)
FNPB-UCN building usage by
nEDM (Ernie Ihloff)
Update
on dressed-spin measurements with polarzied 3He in a cell
(Ping-Han Chu)
Dressed
spin simulations (Steven Clayton)
High
voltage stability and pressurization (Josh Long)
PMT
performance at 8K (Hans-Otto Meyer)
Impact of gaps in light
guides (Hans-Otto Meyer)
Light guide transmission
(Ameya Kolarkar)
Progress report on the dual
use cryostat (Shigeyuki Tajima)
Finite element
analysis of the electric field (Septimiu Balascuta)
Early preliminary
engineering of the central detector region (John Ramsey)
Magnetic shielding calculations
(Igor Savukov)
Magnet development
(Brad Plaster)
Superconducting magnet
studies (Michael Mendenhall)
vxE
Monte Carlo studies (Riccardo Schmid)
Prototype magnet for the
splitter-polarizer (Chris Crawford)
Central cell simulations
(Vanya Logashenko)
Light guide simulations
(Herbert Breuer)
Paramagnetic
atom magnetometers (Dima Budker)
Teleconference
Topics
4He
Evaporative Purification (David Haase)
Preparations for the 3He injection
test (Xiaofeng Zhu)
Valve progress (Steve Williamson)
UCN storage time measurement (Martin Cooper)
Specifications for the integrated tests, a second
encore (Paul Huffman)
The He liquefier (Ernie Ihloff)
½-scale dewar design (Brad Filippone/Jan
Boissevain)
A visit to Swiss Neutronics (Geoff Greene/Rick
Allen/Wolfgang Korsch)
Using the TWiki site (Vanya Logashenko)