1. RPC CONSOLIDATION WORKSHOP Pigi Paolucci INFN of Napoli

2. RPC workshop ? Why ? Pigi Paolucci RPC Consolidation Workshop 2  RPC system is working very well and during the 2009/2010 data taking has showed a very uniform behavior with a very high running efficiency (> 98%)  This workshop has been organized “to think about” the following very important questions: 1. What have we learned during the data taking ? 2. How can we improve our hardware, monitoring and software systems ? 3. Are we ready for a very long 2011/2012 data taking ?

3. Workshop Goals Pigi Paolucci RPC Consolidation Workshop 3  Discuss and Identify:  “week parts” of the system  tasks/services needed  core group of people at CERN  Discuss and organize:  how to consolidate our system (from the hardware to the data analysis)  how to cover all the tasks/services needed  support the core group and all the experts  2011/2012 Organization chart  2011 Financial budget commitment  2012 Financial budget plan

4. Manpower & Tasks Pigi Paolucci RPC Consolidation Workshop 4 Manpower Run CoordinationTechnical Cood.DPGUpgrade L. Benussi (LNF)A.Dimitrov (CERN)D. Piccolo (LNF)S. Park (Korea) …………..S. Buontempo (Napoli)M. Maggi (Bari)………. ………….. Tasks Technical CoordDPG ManagerS. Buontempo (Napoli)ConfigurationKarol (Warsaw) Deputy…………..Database? Gas…………..

5. Conclusions & CMS week Pigi Paolucci RPC Consolidation Workshop 5  4 sessions: Technical Coordination, Run Coordination, DPG and Upgrade  All the talks are focused on “how to improve our present system”  We will collect from the sessions all the requests, proposal and tasks.  They will be presented and discussed during the RPC General Meeting of the CMS week (Tuesday 7 Dec 9:30/13)  Tasks/Manpower, people at CERN and Organization chart will be discussed at the RPC IB (Tuesday 7 Dec 15-16:30)  Full picture of RPC project, organization chart, not covered item and problems will be presented at the 3 Feb 2011 Management board