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Re: your mail
I agree with all your comments
Alex
At 1:44 PM -0400 5/9/03, Elton Smith wrote:
>HI Alex,
>
>Generally this looks good. I have a few commnets below:
>
>Elton.
>
>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Alex Dzierba wrote:
>
>> 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
>> hard copy.
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> **************************************************
>> ----- Charge and letter ------
>> **************************************************
>> We start here w/ Elton's draft charge:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> 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?
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>this is fine. however, we should also start putting together a draft of
>possible milestones.
>
>> Also we should ask for guidance on management/manpower
>>
>>
>
>good idea.
>>
>> **************************************************
>> -----Format and Agenda (Prelim - subject to discussion) ------
>> **************************************************
>> 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
>
>Fernando Barbosa could also address some front-end electronic issues
>
>> TDC's - 20 min - JLab person?
>
>Ed Jastrzembski (or Fernando) would be the right choice
>
>> Trigger - (level 1) - 30 min - Dave
>> Data formating/sparsification/DAQ - 30 min - Paul
>
>Ed and David Abbott have been thinking about data formatting issues
>related to the TDC
>
>> Manufacturing, quality control, maintenance - 30 min - Elton
>> Summary - review of issues - 30 min - Curtis
>>
>
>Missing from the list is a discussion of
>infrastructure/grounding/cabling/etc. Chris Cuevas has background in many
>of these issues and perhaps could provide a draft/guidance here.
>
>
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>
>--
>Elton Smith
>Jefferson Lab
>elton@jlab.org
>(757) 269-7625
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