Hall C Weekly Meeting - December 10, 2012

• Walter Kellner
  • The cleanup of the concrete dust residue starts Tuesday, using the Polydown compound.
  • A jig to remove the SOS rail plates has been fabricated.
  • The cutting of the SOS shield house will start January 7. This cutting should be able to be done in parallel to SHMS rail installation.
  • The G0 rails have been removed

• Mike Fowler (as technical representative for SHMS rail and structure construction)
  • The SHMS rail will be installed at a radius just beyond the radius of the innermost of the 3 HMS rails
  • Bids for SHMS structure assembly are due December 18th.
  • Hall survey to layout rail locations should happen soon.

• Joe Beaufait
  • The HV, BNC and UHF connectors for the SHMS have arrived and have been inventoried
  • Counting house renovations have started
  • Waiting for more N2 gas to flush out more of the HMS signal cables that were flooded.

• Mike Fowler (as representative of Hall C Engineering group)
  • Bert is working on SHMS Noble gas cerenkov design
  • Paulo is working on the design of replacement coils for the large Moller quads. The copper for these coils has been ordered.
  • SMI, the vendor building the SHMS Q1 magnet suffered a theft of steel lamination plates. Could affect Q1 delivery date?
  • Dan is working on suppports for the flexible cryogenic line for the SHMS (Anaconda).
  • Gary, Eric and Steve L. are working conductor tests and FEA studies for the Q2/Q3/D magnets.

• Bert Manzlak
  • The General Radiation Work permit for 2013 is posted
  • There was a back injury requiring first aid treatment in Physics division.