Thanks Ray -
--
Best regards,
Frank
Frank E. Taylor
CERN MIT
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On Thu, 28 May 2009, Ray F. Cowan wrote:
> 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
>
> Frank E. Taylor
>
> CERN MIT
> ATLAS Collaboration Bldg. 26 - Rm 569
> 188-3-015 77 Mass. Ave.
> Route de Meyrin 385, CH-1211 Geneva 23 Cambridge, MA 02139
> Switzerland USA
> Office: +41-22-767-6373 Office: 617-253-7249
> FAX: +41-22-767-8350 FAX: 617-258-6923
>
> CELL: 857-891-8579 (USA & Europe) CERN CELL +41 76 487 3563
> email: [log in to unmask]
> web: http://www2.lns.mit.edu/~fet/atlas_mit.html
>
> 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
>
