Hi Everyone,

I'm re-sending the email below to the LQS list.  Frank sent it earlier
today regarding a possible Atlas micromegas project that might overlap in 
interest with DMTPC.  It was bounced by the lqs-l listserver (it only 
allows up to 2 MB per message--the attachments exceeded that limit).

I've posted the two attachments on our LQS meeting page for this week at

http://dmtpc.mit.edu/MaKaC/materialDisplay.py?contribId=2&materialId=slides&confId=164

Please see Frank's original message below.

Thanks,
--Ray

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:48:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
To: Ray F. Cowan <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: LQS meeting, *1 PM Eastern*, Thursday, May 28, 2009 (fwd)

Dear All,

Sorry I will not be able to attend the meeting this evening as I have
an ATLAS-related commitment.

As we discussed last time, I attach two talks on micromega work being done
by the micromega muon upgrade group - one talk is by Vinnie Polychronakos
- BNL and the other by Joerg Wotschack - CERN. They, and collaborators,
are proposing an upgrade of the inner layer, high rapidity region of the
small wheel using micromegas. There would be 32 chambers of roughly 1 m^2
trapezoids with multi-layers with 2-D readout and perhaps a cross plane.
Much of the chamber construction of this upgrade project is congruent with
the Dark Matter efforts but the electronics readout would probably be
different (250 micron or 500 micron pitch) ASIC integrated 64 channels
(?).

US ATLAS is soliciting R&D proposals to build prototypes of chambers,
electronics, alignment etc. The interest so far in US ATLAS is BNL and
Harvard (John Oliver, Joao Guimaraes da Costa, John Huth?) to work on
electronics and Hermann Wellingstein on chamber mass production.

Given the overlap with DMTPC there might be a mutual interest in
collaborating on an joint micromega R&D project with ATLAS money (pending a
good proposal and review within ATLAS).

Apologies for this PM's meeting. Things are very busy here now - think
next week will be more free.

Best regards,

         Frank

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On Tue, 26 May 2009, Ray F. Cowan wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> This week we meet at *1 PM Eastern*, Thursday, May 28, for the weekly LQS
> meeting.  Dial-in is 510-665-5437, passcode 7336.
>
> We'll take round-table reports first, followed by discussion BAD 2050,
> a BaBar collaboration-wide institutional review assignment on
> "Measurement of CP violation observables and parameters for the decayss
> B+- --> DK*+-".  Our response is due by June 1.
>
> The meeting agenda and the paper can be found at
> http://dmtpc.mit.edu/MaKaC/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=164
>
> Hope you can join in.
>
> Thanks much,
> --Ray