[Olympus] OLYMPUS status

[frullani@iss.infn.it]

Thank you Richard,
the first big step has been achieved, congratulations.
all my best regards.
Salvatore
> 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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