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Dear Colleagues

Now that the dates for the GlueX electronics review are set (July 23-24) we need
to organize our preparation. In the short term this includes:

1. Draft of letter from Larry to Andy and Glenn specifying the charge and the
format of the review. - It would be nice to close on this today so that the letter
could be sent early next week from Larry.

2. A preliminary agenda with topics and possible speakers.

Both issues discussed below in more detail. Please make comments

Alex already Fedex'd copies of the DR to both Andy and Glenn. We should arrange

to send additional material to them by July 7 which means that we should

documents ready for internal editing done by July 1.

Finally, you might want to look at this nice review note by Andy Lanford. It

is precisely the type of overview appropriate to a review at this stage. We

will try to find an electronic version but in the meantime we can send out

DEVELOPING AND COMMISSIONING BABAR ELECTRONICS.
A.J. Lankford for the collaboration. SLAC-REPRINT-1999-137, 1999.

Prepared for 5th Workshop on Electronics for the LHC Experiments (LEB 99), Snowmass, Colorado, 20-24 Sep 1999. In *Snowmass 1999, Electronics for LHC experiments* 23-35.

Alex Dzierba and Paul Smith

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----- Charge and letter ------
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We start here w/ Elton's draft charge:

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Is our electronic design sound, and are any special areas of concern that
deserve special study?

Do we have a roadmap, including milestones, which will guide us to a final
electronics design which will meet the needs of the GlueX experiment?

Are there any major items missing in our list of R&D tasks, and is the
priority given to each appropriate at this stage?

Are there technologies or developments which we have overlooked and may
allow cost savings and/or improved technical performance?
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We think that this is fine with the exception of item #2 to which the answer is
clearly no at this stage. Instead we should ask for guidance on what we need to
concentrate on in preparing for a serious Lehmann review. Alex mentioned this to
both Andy and Glenn and they agreed this is a good approach.

Also we should ask for guidance on management/manpower

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-----Format and Agenda (Prelim - subject to discussion) ------

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Format: Day 1
Start at 8:30 am - Day 1 with 4 hours of presentations.
Executive lunch and session for 2 hours
Reconvene with collaboration for questions
Format: Day 2
Collaborators respond to questions (2 hours?)
Reviewers meet to write review report
Closeout with lab management and GlueX personnel

Agenda:

Welcome and charge - 15 min - Larry
Overview - 30 min - Alex
        - minimal discussion of physics
- minimal overview of detector
- rates, data sizes
     - storage and computational chllenge
    - management
Front end electronics and FADC's (Paul) - 30 min

TDC's - 20 min - JLab person?

Trigger - (level 1) - 30 min - Dave
Data formating/sparsification/DAQ - 30 min - Paul
Manufacturing, quality control, maintenance - 30 min - Elton

Summary - review of issues - 30 min - Curtis

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