[Olympus] OLYMPUS status

[Frank Maas]

Dear Richard,

thank you very much for your update.
These are great news.
vers best regards
Frank




Am 15.06.2009 um 04:05 schrieb Richard G Milner:

> Dear OLYMPUS colleagues,
> I am writing to bring you up to date on progress towards realizing  
> the OLYMPUS
> experiment.  In the last several weeks, we have had feedback from  
> funding
> agencies in Germany and the U.S. on the requests which we submitted  
> early this
> year; we had a meeting with DESY management in Hamburg; and we had a  
> conference
> call last Friday with the DESY PRC. The bottom line is that we are  
> making
> significant progress towards realizing OLYMPUS.
>
> Funding:
> DOE carried out a mail review of our proposal.  The result is that  
> the science
> case for OLYMPUS is judged to be strong.  Assuming the DOE funding  
> request is
> appropriated by congress, DOE expect to begin funding of OLYMPUS in  
> FY2010
> (begins October 1, 2009).  DOE requests a technical review to  
> approve costs and
> establish that there are no technical issues.  DOE is happy for DESY  
> to carry
> out the review.  Together with DESY management and the PRC, we have  
> agreed on
> the call last Friday that this review should most likely take place  
> at DESY the
> week of September 14th, directly after our next OLYMPUS  
> collaboration meeting
> earlier that week.  We discussed the names of possible reviewers.   
> Feedback
> from NSF to Michael Kohl on his request for funds for the luminosity  
> monitor
> has also been positive.
> In Germany, BMBF has indicated that the OLYMPUS request was denied  
> for the
> formal reason that it did not fit the solicitation.  DESY management  
> and the
> German groups are pursuing this with BMBF.
> At the DESY meeting, the group leaders from the Russian, U.K., and  
> Italian
> groups reported that they will be submitting funding requests for  
> OLYMPUS later
> this year.
> At the DESY meeting, we made significant progress is identifying in- 
> kind
> contributions from the collaborating institutions which has the  
> effect of
> reducing the cost of the experiment to DESY.  This process is  
> continuing.
>
> Schedule:
> A detailed schedule for the OLYMPUS experiment has been developed by  
> Doug
> Hasell, Uwe Schneekloth, and Frank Brinker.  A summary overview of  
> the schedule
> is attached. DESY is proceeding with removal of the ARGUS  
> experiment, the
> modification of DORIS quadrupoles and is committed to collaborating  
> on all
> OLYMPUS design work until the end of 2009.
>
> Technical design:
> We must be ready to defend the experiment at the technical review at  
> DESY in
> mid-September. We have decided to prepare a Technical Design Report.  
> A draft
> should be ready at the end of August for consideration by the  
> reviewers.  I
> will coordinate the preparation of the TDR.  I have attached a  
> proposed outline
> where I have taken the liberty of assigning coordinators for  
> different sections.
> To make progress on the design we are in the process of setting up a  
> meeting at
> MIT the week of July 13th where key DESY personnel will attend, work  
> with Bates
> engineers, and have the opportunity to view the assembled BLAST  
> detector at
> Bates.  We would like to see US OLYMPUS collaborators at MIT during  
> this time.
> There are three significant tasks which we have to carry out over  
> the summer:
> -	Design of the support system which couples the BLAST detector to  
> the ARGUS
> rails
> -	Design of the target system including the target chamber, vacuum  
> system and
> collimators
> -	Design of new supports for the TOFs
>
> Memoranda of Understanding:
> Uwe Schneekloth is preparing MOU drafts between collaborating  
> institutions and
> DESY. DOE identified this as an issue also.
>
> Next OLYMPUS Collaboration meeting:
> This is planned for the week of September 14th at DESY.  This is the  
> optimal
> time based on your feedback to Doug?s poll. As I indicated above, it  
> also
> looks like the best time for the technical review from the  
> perspective of the
> DESY management and the PRC.  We likely need two days for the  
> collaboration
> meeting and the technical review could occur on the third day. We  
> would like
> every group in OLYMPUS to have representation at this meeting. The  
> major goals
> will be
> -	To prepare for the technical review. We would like the engineers  
> from the
> institutes to attend.
> -	To finalize MOU?s
> -	To discuss organization of the collaboration
>
> Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia has joined the OLYMPUS  
> collaboration.  This
> group is well known as a potent force in hadron physics in Europe  
> and the U.S.
> and they have a strong presence at DESY.  Already, together with the  
> St.
> Petersburg group, they are active participants in the disassembly of  
> ARGUS.
>
> As more details of the upcoming meeting at MIT in mid-July and the  
> collaboration
> meeting/technical review at DESY in mid-September become fixed, I  
> will be in
> contact.  In the meantime I will be making individual contacts  
> concerning work
> on the technical design and the preparation of the TDR.
> Best regards,
> Richard
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