Hall C Weekly Meeting - February 4, 2013

Minutes Hall C Meeting 2/4/2013

• Steve Smith: -
  • A brief safety culture discussion.
  • Showed 2 slides – Safety Trend Analysis.
  • Safety culture survey results were presented.

• Andy Kenyon:
  • Cutting continues on SOS Hut. Back wall and floor remain. “G0” gas lines mostly down, but not all. C cans removal awaits crane in hall.

• Joe: Electrical
  • Nitrogen tank is empty and needs to be refilled.
  • Polyflow chamber gas lines appear structurally sound.
  • Will replace interdict sieving only.
  • Starting to assembly new Hoffman duct routing together so SHM can clear.
  • Start soon G0 patch panel removal.
  • Roll of ribbon cable sent to Hampton.
  • Old G0/Qweak cables are still too hot to send off site.

• Mike Fowler:
  • SHMS rail plates in place on rods.
  • Need tighten bolts, place and align rails and grout.
  • Expect completion in of this month.
  • SHMS structure assembly contract still in bidding stage with a planned start date in March.

• Andy Kenyon:
  • Lockwood starting SOS steel support structure cutting in March

• Paul Brindza:
  • Design work on Noble gas Cherenkov detectors underway.
  • Design work on SHMS vacuum exit spool piece proceeding, but is tricky.
  • New Moller Quad coils will be wound using new copper which has yet to be ordered.
  • SHMS door opening hardware being designed so as to function similarly to existing HMS door.
  • Accepted alignment report form Craft for SHMS double boggie wheel assemblies.
  • Last 3 Danfisik power supplies at factory waiting final manufacture tests. Should be here by May 1st. of this year.
  • A major break through appears to have occurred in the Sigma-Phi magnet manufacturing schedule. The dipole is now expected end of 2014.
  • Q1 and Michigan State quad also expected to arrive by the end of 2014.
  • Last SHMS quad delivery expected the middle of 2015.
  • Sigma-Phi developed new thermal champing scheme to allow coil winding to proceed. It has not yet been tested in a production setting. Some 20 heat expanded rings must slip onto coil assembly. 2nd coil winding station is now part of manufacturing schedule.
  • Formal contract modifications likely only weeks away.
  • Greg’s concern about “strange” anaconda routings addressed by Paul.
  • It is also possible that the engineers may have simply got their available spigot count wrong.

• Brad:
  • 3 VSX crates arrived.
  • Flash-ADC test stand being set up.