June 3, 2010 Readout

Teleconference Time: 11:00 a.m. EST

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Items for followup from previous meeting

1. Serguei agreed to send out a testing proposal for comments, including preliminary circuit designs and list of available equipment at USM for reference.
2. Start a bulleted list of testing for the SiPMs (Serguey).
3. Will to find out if there is any feedback from USM on terms and conditions from our procurement package.

Documents to Review

• GlueX-doc-1474 BCAL Dynamic Range from the Simulation with FLUKA
• GlueX-doc-1432 Trapezoidal guides for the light collection for SiPMs (Fig 22)

Tentative Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Review of Action Items
3. Update - USM
4. USM MOU/contract update (Elton)
5. Simulation runs
6. Cosmic-ray setup at UofR
7. Geometry [| Latest readout assy]
8. SiPM Radiation Hardness Test (Update from Yi)
   • I updated the recovery curves with more data i collected, no major change
   • Hall A is still not ready for beam, hopefully by the end of this week they can take beam;
   • Carl needs a little bit more time to give me the 1x1 mm SiPM and start to test the dark rates of 3x3 SiPMs, hopefully early next week.
9. SiPM - Test Electronics (Fernando)
10. Light guides

Minutes

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