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Ray, We should set aside next week for talking about this. Peter On May 28, 2009, at 5:57 PM, 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