1. Muon Institution Board 29 March 2011 Pigi Paolucci RPC project status

2. 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 2 Project Manager P. Paolucci M. Tytgat & G. Pugliese Project Manager P. Paolucci M. Tytgat & G. Pugliese Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowski C. Carillo DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowski C. Carillo Upgrade G. Iaselli A.Sharma S. Buontempo Upgrade G. Iaselli A.Sharma S. Buontempo Institution Board L. Litov Resource manager P. Paolucci ad interim Steering committee W. Van Doninck, M. Maggi H. Hoorani, A. Colaleo, A. Sharma (PM+DPM+RC+TC+DPG) Conference Committee S. Park, B. Pavlov Conference Committee S. Park, B. Pavlov Editorial board S. Qian, M. Abbrescia S. Bianco Editorial board S. Qian, M. Abbrescia S. Bianco Tech. Coordination S. Buontempo A. Dimitrov Tech. Coordination S. Buontempo A. Dimitrov RPC organization chart 2011-2012

3. DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowsk C. Carillo DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowsk C. Carillo Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis SoftwareValidation/ Data Certification J. Gho SoftwareValidation/ Data Certification J. Gho Detector perfomance C. Calabria Detector perfomance C. Calabria Online K. Bunkowski Online K. Bunkowski Offline D. Piccolo Offline D. Piccolo Detector & trigger analysis C. Carillo Detector & trigger analysis C. Carillo Phys Valid Tool S. Costantini Phys Valid Tool S. Costantini Detector impact on trigger Resp. Detector impact on trigger Resp. Calibration Streams M. Maggi Calibration Streams M. Maggi WBM U. Berzano WBM U. Berzano Run Quality Tae Jeong Run Quality Tae Jeong Noise tools S. Costantini Noise tools S. Costantini DQM A. Cimmino DQM A. Cimmino Skims S. Tupputi Skims S. Tupputi Simulation B. Pavlov Simulation B. Pavlov Local Reco C. Carrillo Local Reco C. Carrillo DataBase M. Maggi DataBase M. Maggi Trigger DB M Szlepper Trigger DB M Szlepper Configuration K. Bunkowski DCS Detector DB Manpower needed Not covered Covered 8/02/2011 3 RPC organization chart Non event data P. Petkov Non event data P. Petkov DPG-POG Min Suk Kim DPG-POG Min Suk Kim Upgrade Resp. Upgrade Resp.

4. 29/03/11 4 RPC IB meeting - Pigi Paolucci Technical Coordination S. Buontempo A. Dimitrov Technical Coordination S. Buontempo A. Dimitrov Mainten. & repair. (RE,RE) Dimitrov & Shahzad Mainten. & repair. (RE,RE) Dimitrov & Shahzad Upgrade G. Iaselli A. Sharma S. Buontempo Upgrade G. Iaselli A. Sharma S. Buontempo Bakelite HPL CERN test stand CERN CERN test stand CERN Gap production Chamber mechanics Chamber mechanics Ghent site M. Tytgat Ghent site M. Tytgat India site L. Pant India site L. Pant CERN site CERN CERN site CERN Chamber QC at CERN Chamber design Off-detector electronic Off-detector electronic Cooling J. Crotty Cooling J. Crotty Gas Benussi Gas Benussi Trigger Warsaw Trigger Warsaw Documentation Dimitrov Documentation Dimitrov Equipment DB D. Uzunova Equipment DB D. Uzunova Electronics F. Loddo Electronics F. Loddo DCS hardware Resp. DCS hardware Resp. Test beam Nicolas Test beam Nicolas R&D N. Zaganidis R&D N. Zaganidis GIF activity Power system Power cable Signal cable Chamber production High eta Chamber instal. Cable instal. Commissioning at P5 Commissioning at P5 RE1/1 at P5 Run coordination & Upgrade Manpower needed Not covered Covered

5. Organization chart 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 5 All the positions are now covered but not for the upgrade I’m glad to have many phd student and post-doc in the LV3 Most of them are in the DPG and are participating to the data analysis of the RPC and Trigger performances Bari, Ghent, Korea, Sofia, Uniandes……. Let me underline the perfect integration of the 6 Korean Phd and post-doc. 3 of them are already in the DPG chart.

6. Main goals – 2011-2012 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 6 Main scientific goals are: In priority order 1. High efficiency of the RPC data takingTC/RC 2. Assure an high quality of the dataDPG/RC 3. Clear set of results (performance and studies)DPG 4. Build the RE4 upgrade systemTC/Up 5. Enlarge the collaborationMB/IB 6. Manpower balance & budget consolidationMB/IB

7. Scientific results to underline 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 7 2010 results: many already approved in March Noise studies: linear dependence rate.vs. luminosity FEB configuration: great improvements (Anton, Karol, Philip) HV scan: great success of the RPC collaboration See next presentations

8. Steering Committee 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 8 Chairman: Hafeez Hoorani Members: A. Colaleo, M. Maggi, A. Sharma, W. Van Doninck The RPC management board will consult the SC to get help on very urgent and crucial tasks and to solve delicate scientific issues. The experience of the 5 senior physicists members is a guarantee for the RPC project and will help us a lot in the future.

9. HV scan – sociological exercise 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 9 Steering Committee was consulted to give us guidelines about the “calculation” of the high voltage working point of every single chamber. The answer was fast, very professional and clear. Let me thanks a lot the committee. Run and Technical coordination did a great job in organizing the data taking and in following it hour by hour (pressure correction, threshold setting….) DPG team was able to provide results in real time (weekend) Info and results circulated in the best way A first exercise of cross-coordination and coherent work in the RPC project

10. HV scan results 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 10 Marcello, Cesare and Juan Pablo are now working and the data analysis in the DPG team. Many chambers were already working in plateau during the 2010 data taking but not all (see Marcello talk) 2011-2010 comparison Working points Cluster size check

11. Noise studies 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 11 Noise group (Silvia, Mihee and Mircho) is doing a great job and it was not so easy to clean the data in order to spot the linear increase

12. FEB configuration 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 12 There was a big effort to improve the FEB configuration in few weeks !! Now parameters are automatically loaded by the database The procedure is 5-6 times faster thanks to a firmware review A WEB GUI allow us to write/read the configuration parameters (different views) HERE THE TEAM Filip - main developer of the C++ part, Karol - main developer of the Java part, also responsible for configurationDB Anton - main tester of the product, main provider of ideas Krzysztof - main developer of the Trigger Supervisor Sajjad Asghar - coordinator of the DB activities. Imran and Atif - developers of the GUI. Let me thanks Hafeez and the Pakistan database experts to join the group.

13. 2010 results 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 13 Many results obtained by the DPG group have been approved by the RPC collaboration (efficiency, cluster size, spatial resolution, muography…)

14. 2011 Agenda 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 14 General Meeting:Thursday at 9:30(1 per month) DPG/RC:Thursday at 9:30(3 per month) Tech coordination:Monday at 9:00(weekly) Upgrade: Tuesday at 9:00(weekly) Management:Wed at 10:00(weekly) restricted ISR meeting:Monday 14:00(weekly) technical 904 meeting:Wed 10:00(weekly) technical GEM meeting: Tuesday 14:00(weekly) technical Upgrade RE4 Workshopto be decided Upgrade High Eta Workshopto be decided Let me ask the 4 coordinators and deputies to actively participate to the 3 weekly meetings. Unique project

15. Conclusions 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 15 RPC project is in good shape Two years of data taking + upgrade is not an easy job for a small collaboration. We are 80 people Let me stress again that we have to improve and stabilize the present project and then eventually move manpower to the upgrade 2013-2014. Right now is still not the case !! It is important to work in a coherent way as we did for the HV scan and FEB configuration