From: Bob Webber [webber@fnal.gov] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:42 PM To: 'PD-Meson-planning@fnal.gov' Subject: Minutes of 2/9/06 Proton Driver Meson Planning Meeting Minutes of 2/9/06 Proton Driver Meson Planning Meeting Maurice reported that water header work, scheduled to begin today, is underway. Al Moretti described results of 325 MHz klystron tests conducted in Japan last week and witnessed by himself and Peter Prieto. It appears all is well with the klystron. Projected shipping date is Feb. 13 and anticipated arrival date is possibly the first full week of March. Al and Leon Beverly will work together to arrange delivery and unloading at Meson Detector Building. Al reminded us that once the klystron is in the building and filled with water that it cannot be allowed to freeze. The anticipated arrival of the klystron in a small number of weeks impresses that it is time to begin serious design of waveguide supports and "tents" to cover equipment areas. There is no technical reason not to prepare for start of waveguide installation as soon as the klystron is here. Jim Steimel has begun to consider system issues at Meson including controls, timing, LLRF, high power RF safety, etc. He will be holding focused meetings in the future to plan and organize these aspects of Meson operations. He imagines one meeting focused on mechanical, environmental, and high power issues; one meeting on Controls and LLRF issues. These can be integrated into the Thursday meetings where it makes sense or be held in my 1:00 Wednesday LOFT time slot where a smaller group can work on a specific area. Mike Andrews suggests early meeting with group of safety and interlock people to familiarize them with our Meson plans. We need Steve's layout drawing and high level block diagrams of systems to be prepared for this meeting. I will work with Jim et al. to compile these. Peter Lucas indicated that he will shortly have purchase requisitions for two HRMs, controls crate, and basic timing system hardware. Next Thursday: Terry Anderson will report on his preliminary vacuum system design. Steve Wesseln on Meson 325 MHz waveguide support structure. Bob Webber mailto:webber@fnal.gov phone (630)840-5415 pager (630)722-0085