IB2  Endcap Muon Chamber Meeting
Below are the minutes for the Endcap Muon Chamber Meeting. If you find errors or
wish to correct them, please contact me at apollina@fnal.gov.

Agenda by Nelson Chester

The Agenda of the meeting is as follows:                Primary Respons.

1.      Status of Panel Skin order                      DE, RE

Skin Order ready to go out, slight problems on the sole sourcing" will be
solved at L2 (Dan Green).

2.      Status of Panel Specification and Panel
        Order                                           NC, DE
        A.      Plans for Teleconference with UF

Technical Specs ready to be discussed with Gena and Andrei.
Video Meeting On Thirsday, Aug. 6th at 9:30.

        B.      Planned trip to Plascore
                        When and who is going?

Nelson Chester, Dave Eartly, Greg Kablinska and Nelson Sample will go to PLASCORE by Aug. 20th to discuss their QC/QA system and the options available to optimize the panel cost.
 

3.      Lab 8 Setup and Production Readiness;
                Panel Lifting and Handling Equiment     YP

Yuri described a floor plan for the production in Lab 8. He will also explore the "vacuum lifter" to pick-up panels. Some of these lifters have been used at FNAL, and he will contact the appropriate people to see if they can be re-used. He will also be in contact with Great Lakes, a company the provide vacuum lifters. PPD will probably assume responsability for these lifters, and that has to be agreed on a MOU.  He mentioned a 6k$ laser-head for the Axxion machine that could allow us to make quick scans for the tickness measurement of the panels.

4.      MP-9 Building readiness and CMS occupancy
        A.      Schedule for moving in                  GS
        B.      Setup Plans                             All
        C.      Setup of Budget Code                    DE
        D.      Office Area Update                      NC

The SOW for  MP9 occupancy has been setup. Dave claims the Wire Winding machine will be ready after September 8th.  A trailer will be used  to provide office space.

5.      Status of Cosmic Test Stand Design and
        Lab 7 space.                                    YP
 
 The design of the cosmic ray setup is converging. Pending final safety review, it will be realeased to UF and UCLA. From a private discussion with Andrei, the respective universities will procure and assemble the cosmic stands.

6.      Status of Preproduction Large Chamber           DE
        A.      Axxiom and Gerber work Done?
        B.      Panel Gluing, Winding, etc
        C.      Manufacturing Plan, Labs 6, 7 vs.
                MP-9.

Action Item
Dave and Oleg will start writing a plan for PP2 production. Oleg will discuss it next week.
 

7.      Panel Cleaning- Current developments and needs  DE
        Is space available in Lab 8?

Action Item
A  lot of discussion is going on for the panels cleaning issue.  Oleg appears to be the only person where knowledge is stored ! He will report on it next week. There are a number of basic R&D issues to address; following are some of them:

will start writing a plan for PP2 production. Oleg will discuss it next week.
 

8.      FY1999 Budget

No discussion, really.

9.      Status of ME 2/1 PNPI PreProduction Model       DE, OP
        A.      Design
        B.      Parts
        C.      Production Status

No discussion, really.

10.     Misc. and new items.                            All

No discussion, really.
 
 
 


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