1. Executive Board Meeting Roy Preece 23rd May 2014
Report from MIPO
Executive Board Meeting
Roy Preece
23rd May 2014

2. Package Managers Meeting 001
13th January 2014
Organisation
Project Manager: R. Preece (Chair)
Spokesperson: K. Long
US Map Director : M. Palmer
MICE-US Construction Project Manager: A. Bross
Experimental Integration Scientist: P. Hanlet
MICE-UK Capital Project Associate: A. Grant
Accelerator Integration Scientist: J. Pasternak
MICE-US Financial Manager: P. Garbincius
MICE-UK Principal Investigator: P. Soler
All meeting minutes can be found on the MIPO WIKI -
Agenda is changeable – focusing on the hot topics of the moment and future
Meets every two weeks

3. Package Managers Meeting 001
13th January 2014
Milestone Tracker
Dashboard link -
Version at this link has no been updated yet
UK-US Project teams working on expedited scenario

4. Package Managers Meeting 001
13th January 2014
Recent progress
Commissioning Plan proposed by MAP has been accepted by Magnet task force, led by Jaroslaw
USS training in the morning
DSS training in the afternoon
Re-cool overnight and stabilise
Bring all magnets up together
Day for AFC to re-cool
Partial Return Yoke
Purchase order for the JFE iron is out.
South side materials milestone mid August
Purchase orders for the lower sections, in to trench, are out.
Some materials are on site
Lithium Hydride Absorber
Transfer of ownership
Top level STFC approval letter required
Magnet power break out box
Proposal by the Electrical group to have power break out boxes
All mode changes can be made at these positions
A meeting to discuss will be organised by Andy N

5. Package Managers Meeting 001
13th January 2014
Recent progress
Step V cost and schedule
Discussions next week during the MAP collaboration meeting
Gain an expedited schedule, cost profile and risk transfer document
This is a RLSR recommendation
Assumptions document
Preparation will continue
To define who owns or is responsible for areas of the experiment, eg spares for detectors, operational gasses / cryogens……
MTA testing
There will be a team from the UK attending the RF workshop at Fermi Lab
While there they will help and take part in the MTA testing
Focus Coil
Mapping equipment is at RAL, arrangements underway for mapping.
FC#1 will be used in Step IV (Unless FC#2 sufficiently outperforms FC#1 and it can be installed to the experiment without disrupting or extending the current schedule for the construction of Step IV.
FC#1 will be mapped in Flip mode (current mode) and then in Solenoid mode
If required, FC#1 will be re-trained in Flip mode and will be the first mode used in the experiment