Feb 14, 2012 Calorimetry

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Teleconference Time: 11:00 a.m. EST'

  • ESNET (Number is 8542553) and EVO session (GlueX Calorimetry meeting room)
  • Phone connection only upon request.
    • +1-866-740-1260 : US+Canada
    • +1-303-248-0285 : International
    • then enter participant code: 3421244# (remember the "#").
    • or www.readytalk.com (and code without the #)

Participant Direct Lines

  • JLab Phone: in CC F326 is 757-269-6337 (usual room)
  • JLab Phone in CC L207 is 757-269-7084
  • Phone in the Regina Videoconference Suite is 306-585-4204
  • Athens Phone: in Christina's office is 011-30-210-727-6947


Items for followup from previous meeting(s)

  1. Monitoring
    • Send additional SiPMs to Athens for tests (Elton). Electronics is out for fabrication
  2. TDR
    • Create outline to assign writing homework (Elton)

Draft outline

Existing (old) outline

  1. Global Design
  2. Forward Calorimeter
    • The E852 Experience
    • The RadPhi Experience
    • Estimating the GlueX pi0 and eta Mass Resolution
    • Electromagnetic Backgrounds
    • Radiation Damage
    • Heat Curing of Damaged Blocks
    • Assessing Lead Glass Blocks and PMT's
      • Lead glass block evaluation
      • PMT Evaluation
    • Other Issues
      • Electromagnetic Rates in the LGD
      • Magnetic Shielding
      • Monitoring
      • Calibration
      • Triggering
  3. Barrel Calorimeter
    • Design Considerations
    • Pb/Sci Barrel Calorimeter
    • The GlueX BCAL
    • Construction of Prototype Modules
      • Production of Lead Sheets
      • Module Construction
    • Scintillating Fiber Tests
    • Fiber Light Transmission Tests
    • Silicon Photomultiplier Test
  4. Upstream Photon Veto

Proposed outline for revised section

  1. Global Design
  2. Forward Calorimeter
    1. Geometry
    2. Lead Glass Modules
      • Lead glass
      • Photomultiplier tubes
      • Light guide design
      • Module assembly
    3. Support structure
      • Stacking
    4. Calibration
    5. Monitoring
    6. Triggering
    7. Expected Performance
      • The E852 Experience
      • The RadPhi Experience
      • Background, lifetime and rates
      • Energy and time resolution
      • Mass resolution (+ other physics quantities)
  3. Barrel Calorimeter
    1. Geometry
    2. BCAL Module construction
      • Scintillating fibers
      • Lead
      • Fabrication
    3. Readout
      • SiPMs
      • Operation (e.g. temp compensation etc)
    4. Calibration
    5. Monitoring
    6. Expected Performance
      • Prototypes and tests
      • Background, lifetime and rates
      • Energy and time resolution
      • Mass resolution (+ other physics quantities)

Tentative Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Review of Action Items
  3. Collaboration Meeting
    1. Friday at 2:30pm, 4 30 minute talks.
  4. Monitoring.
  5. FCAL
    1. Construction Status: mechanical, bases (notes from Matt)
    2. Beam tests in Hall B (John)
  6. BCAL
    1. BCAL Beam Tests 2012
  7. USM update
  8. TDR update
    1. Instructions for the TDR (You must be logged into the wiki to access this page).
    2. We need to start revising Chapter 4 Detector, Section 4.3 Calorimetry. The old outline is the following
  9. Simulations/Reconstruction
  10. Any other business

Minutes

Attending: