1. HPS EC Report John Jaros
HPS Collaboration Meeting at JLAB October 28, 2015

2. Outline EC Activities / New Member Scheduling Decisions
HPS Thesis Possibilities
Next HPS Collaboration Meeting
Questions/Discussion

3. HPS Executive Committee
Members: Tim Nelson, F-X Girod, Takashi Maruyama, Raphael Dupre + Spokespeople
ORSAY election: Tim Nelson and Raphael Dupre were elected to a new 2 year term.
Bylaws
Thesis Policy
Shift Policy
Meeting minutes available to all

4. EC Business since the ORSAY Meeting
Membership
Approved HPS Collaboration membership for student Matt Solt (Stanford) Congratulations to Matt and welcome to HPS!
Policy (on hold)
Waiting on finalized JLAB schedule before defining next shift policy
Time now to consider and approve future thesis proposals.
Running the Experiment
Named Nathan Baltzell and Matt Graham Co-Leaders of HPS Analysis Group
Requested interim reports from detector subgroups describing upgrades, updated procedures and manuals, and plans for documentation.
Approved plan for HPS Physics Readiness Document

5. Shifts
No shifts this Fall. All time is devoted to machine development, including multi-hall operations.
Spring Shifts TBD EC will revisit the run plan and shift plan following finalization of JLAB CEBAF schedule. For now, lobby like hell. Proposed schedule is unworkable.
Questions, discussion, comments?

6. Present HPS Thesis Proposals
Sho Uemura Searching for Heavy Photons with Separated Decay Vertices-approved
Omar Moreno Searching for Heavy Photons with a Bump Hunt-approved
Holly Vance Heavy Photon Search with Separated Decay Vertices using Ecal-Improved Momentum Resolution-approved
Kyle McCarty Heavy Photon Bump Hunt Enhanced with Recoil Electron Reconstruction-approved
Ani Simonyan Heavy Photon Bump Hunt Enhanced with Ecal-Improved Momentum Resolution-submitted
Luca Colaneri under protracted discussion
Bradley Yale ?
Sebouh Paul just submitted
Matt Solt ?

7. Thesis Discussion
Theses based on 2015 Engineering Run Data Sho, Omar, Holly, Luca, Ani, Kyle?
Theses to be based on 2016 Physics Run Data Sebouh?, Bradley, Matt?
Proposed topics for 2016?
Remember that thesis student’s advisors must submit a thesis proposal to the EC for consideration and approval Needed for Bradley, Luca, and Matt.

8. Next HPS Collaboration Meeting
Next meeting will be at SLAC, April 25-27,2016. We have lots of rooms reserved at the SLAC Guest House, and SLAC finally has a cafeteria once again.
The meeting date was chosen to be just before the Hidden Sectors 2016 Workshop, April , 2016, also at SLAC. The workshop is the next in the series of Dark Forces Workshops, and will be of interest to HPS collaborators interested in the next round of hidden sector experiments.

9. Discussion: Other Collaboration Business?
Concerns?
Complaints?
Issues?