Costa Mesa Muon Arms Collaboration Meeting
February 28 - March 2, 1997
Agenda
Agenda Overview
Once the agenda is developed, you will find it here. In the mean-time, a sumamry of the agenda and list of major topics is given.
- Friday, 28 Feb.: Muon Tracking
- Status Reports planning exercises.
- Saturday, 1 March: Muon Identification
- Status Reports and planning exercises
- Sunday, 2 March: Muon Arms Electronics and Simulations
- Development of Conceptual Design for Muon Tracking FEE
Status of Simulations
- Status Report on 10K Simulations
- Evaluation of BeO Nosecones
In the Muon Tracking session, we will make decisions on the following items:
- Angle of cathode strips (large or small angle stereo)
- How to segment the HV in the chambers (equal number of wires or ability to turn off inner radius)
- Half-gap on the chambers
- Gas choice criteria
Additionally, we will spend some time during the workshop on the following issues:
- Manufacturing plans for Muon Tracking (facilities needed, tech needs, time-scale for facility set-up)
- Understand the timing and scope of upcoming design reviews (address status of action items from preliminary design review)
- PHENIX Management requests for information (to be provided soon from PM)
A number of outstanding issues in the Muon Identification Mechanics must be settled before we can proceed to construction. These issues have been addressed by R&D studies in Kyoto and/or Oak Ridge. The results of those studies will be presented and we will make decisions on these issues. Items on that list will include the following:
- Operational mode, limited streamer or proportional, for Ioracci tubes
- To have or not to have a simple preamp included in the detector panels for the Muon Identifier
- Whether X and X' (and Y and Y') tubes can be wired together into one read-out channel inside the panels
- The type of gas to be used in the tubes: whether CF4, and thus a re-circulation system, will be used is the issue here. We will also come to agreement on the criteria which will be used to make the final choice on the actual gas.
Additionally, time will be spend on the following items:
- Manufacturing plans for Muon Identification at BNL and how it relates to construction in Japan
- Requirements for the upcoming design review (include status of addressing the action items from preliminary design review)
- PHENIX Management requests for information (to be provided soon from PH)
A newly formed team has begun to work on the conceptual design of the Muon Tracking FEE. The current status of that design will be presented and input requested from the rest of the Muon Arms team. Some specific issues will include:
- Electronics requirements on mechanical designs and vice versa
- Integration issues with respect to the electronics designs
The status of the simulations of both Muon Tracking and Muon Identification and triggering will be presented.
Author: W. Wayne Kinnison, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA Email: <wwk@lanl.gov>
Last Updated: Sun, Feb 23, 1997 13:06 MST