1. Alain Blondel – introduction MICE CM 18 @RAL Collaboration meeting 12-16 June 2007 at RAL Complete review of the project Organization of efforts towards PHASE I Status of Phase II thanks to John Cobb and Marco Apollonio for organisation of the meeting and agenda

2. Alain Blondel – introduction GOALS of the Meeting 1. status of preparations for step 1 2. get the hardware built and running 2. organize ourselves to run the experiment 3. run plan 4. DAQ plan (monitoring?) 5. software plan 6. analysis plan still a few decisions and unknowns to solve: -- beam tuners collimators and configurations remains -- size of extremities: diffuser and downstream shield -- clear the issue & decide! done -- SW calorimeter? can we have it for septembre? a nice project...should form collaboration to build it. synergy with T2K ND280 and NF baseline&BBL detectors ongoing -- TOF issue not completely solved done -- personel organization for the run! people have to be ready to spend sizeable amount of time in UK starting august 2007 remains -- organize safety training! remains From cern meeting in march:

3. Alain Blondel – introduction Towards phase I 1. Target 2. In-vault beam line 3. Decay solenoid 4. In-hall beam line 5. Beam optics, the matrix, alignment, correctors, collimators 6. Hall preparation, shielding, safety 7. TOF0, TOF1 8. CKOV1 9. Tracker 10. Spectrometer Solenoids 11. Diffuser 12. DAQ and monitoring 13. Software and analysis 14. Run plan 15. Common fund and shifts

4. Alain Blondel – introduction Organize ourselves to run the experiment Following suggestions by Paul Drumm: 1.Reinforcement of project management with Wing Lau and Steve Virostek 2.Initiation of regular meetings of MICE Installation and Commissioning group (“MICO”) (first with mostly detectors on 10 Mai 2007) (second complete attendance in person 12 June) both meetings were very successful-- concept will continue and intensify Will report every month at MICE video conference Will have special meeting in person once a month in between VCs Also: reporting at VCs was already done along this scheme MICE news initiated thanks to Malcolm Next: organize presence at experiment and, eventually, shifts etc..

5. Alain Blondel – introduction Main info stemming of yesterday’s MICO meeting (Paul will produce an action list) 1.Beam line -- much progress on target – now able to activate at full current and to catch target back without dropping it out of control. 700k pulses at full swing recorded. Black dust issue needs to be solved before installation in ISIS. -- major issue with muon decay solenoid! (see C. Nelson’s talk) Leak found. Can it be repaired? Will require repair which cannot be done before closing date 1st August. Next window for installation is Christmas2007 shutdown. Very recent. Consequences need to be evaluated. Should understand whether it is feasible (and desirable) to have a ‘weak’ beamline installed nevertheless for October for the sake of shaking down beam line, detectors, DAQ, production of results, etc… with operation at low rate.

6. Alain Blondel – introduction Main info stemming of yesterday’s MICO meeting (II) (Paul will produce an action list) 2. Detectors and DAQ are following schedule -- CKOV second half of July -- beam monitors end of August -- Tracker 2/3 complete. Tests with MICE DAQ starting in July in RA12 -- TOF0 and TOF1 being built, ready early october +TOF2 in march 2008 -- KL and prototype SL layer end of october -- DAQ workshop will be organized in 4th week of july at RAL Supports, cable lengths, layout, ground loops etc… were discussed 3. Spectrometer solenoid is progressing well but some schedule slip (mostly under control) SS1 should arrive at RAL in March 2008 and SS2 in June. Count one month more for unwrapping, connections etc.. Will require one upstream but two downstream magnetic shields to be built.

7. Alain Blondel – introduction Updated Schedule Summary From Steve Virostek

8. Alain Blondel – introduction -- USA: funding from the NFMCC (DOE baseline scenario 4.125M$) + 4MW RF source + NSF grant (IIT) 300k$ + MRI grant (tracker + tracker solenoid) 750k$ (NB tracker part was reduced substantially by D0 electronics deal) + DOE suppl. for MUCOOL coupling coil 300k$ + Fermilab 800k$ + NSF tracker proposal by Pr G. Hanson 400 k$ (postdocX3 years) (+ equal amount of startup fund) also UNH with Ulysse Bravar further request submitted: NSF MRI for MUCOOL CC (should know by june) + other avenues being investigated (e.g. PIRES) Summary of funding situation (I) -- UK: PhaseI = 9.7M£ (OST+ rolling grants + CCLRC contributions) Phase II bid submitted in July 2007. Peer review positive; recommended 100% of support for engineering 2 + option for 3d focus pair modules support for exploitation Merge of CCLRC and PPARC into STFC leads to general review during next year  reconcilitation for one year funding. Authorization to post official notice for FC module in EU journal (1st step in call for tender process) preselection of vendor ongoing.

9. Alain Blondel – introduction -- Japan: Very important contribution by Osaka and KEK was interrupted in 2006 Bids have been resubmitted for US-Japan coll. and Japan No effect on tracker. Affects absorber bodies and controls. -- Switzerland: PSI solenoid Uni-Geneva+SNF (DAQ, trigger + TOF0 PMTS + 2PhD+1RA ~ 1000 kCHF so far) small additional request for online (20kCHF) submitted +Bulgaria collaboration (travel, PID electronics) (74kCHF granted) -- CERN: 1 RF station providing 4MW (173kCHF or 110k€ + 0.3 FTE) agreed on 3 Nov 2006: Maurizio Vretenar charged of execution -- Netherlands: (Mag probes) -- Italy: (TOF, Calorimeter) 500 k€ from INFN + 200 k€ from RAL end-of-year 2006 to completion project recognized within INFN NTA (New Techniques of Acceleration) -- China: (MICE coupling coils) propose to build first coupling coil with US funding (MUCOOL coupling coil) + bid submitted from ICST to HIT for + delivery of two MICE coupling coils (requires NFMCC to purchase the conductor and power supplies) Summary of funding situation (II)

10. Alain Blondel – introduction Summary of funding situation (III) Missing but requested: 1. UK: Phase II bid 2. US: Mucool coupling coil MRI bid (rest is within MICE 2005 5yrs plan) 3. China: MICE coupling coils (review passed with flying colors!) 4. Japan: Absorbers bodies and controls + everywhere: manpower Globally the funding situation has improved to the point where we have reasonable confidence in having resources for the MICE hardware to be completed end of 2009. Only major piece missing: UK Phase II.

11. Alain Blondel – introduction  Aspirational MICE Schedule now (unchanged since march 2006) 15 September 2007 STEP I November 2007 STEP III: begin winter 2008 STEP II STEP IV: fall 2008 STEP V: summer 2009 STEP VI end 2009 PHASE I PHASE II R&D beam line commissionning starts August 2007! From cern meeting: UK PHASE I

12. Alain Blondel – introduction  We should revisit our MICE Schedule: as of june 2007 (unchanged since march 2006) 1 October 2007 Or january 2008 STEP I April 2008 STEP III: July 2008 STEP II STEP IV: Delivery of 1st FC May 2009 STEP V: summer 2009 STEP VI end 2009 PHASE I PHASE II R&D beam line commissionning starts august 2007(?) UK PHASE I

13. Alain Blondel – introduction Goals of meeting -- re-baseline the schedule and understand how to best use our time and resources -- status of software and analysis: are we ready to receive data? -- understand progress wrt phase II (Lh2 R&D, RF power source, RF R&D, etc..) My pet questions: -- do we have the full settings for the beam that would be used as starting points? -- do we have all the tools to tune the beam? (correctors, collimators) we can chose to reweight the beam to zero averages and the right emittance etc... but this is a rather heavy programme. are we able to do this or do we need to be able to minimize the effects that we need to reweight away? -- establish run plan for commissioning, step I and II -- can we get “online” results ? How reliable can they be?