OPERA Meeting

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

October 18-20, 2000

AGENDA
Wednesday - October 18, 2000
9:00 - 9:30
 Registration
 

9:30 - 9:35

 Emulsion Target WG

Chairman: S. Buontempo

Introduction - S. Buontempo

9:35 - 9:50
 Radioactivity and cosmics measurement at GS - G. Rosa
9:50 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
 Brick Manipulator - P. Mugnier
10:00 - 11:00
 Round table on Responsibilities
11:00 - 11:30
 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15
 Discussion on memo - M. Nakamura
12:15 - 13:00
 Brick handling after trigger - J. P. Fabre
13:00 - 13:30
 Test beam results - G.De Lellis
Test beam results- C. Bozza
9:35 11:00
 Analysis WG

Chairman: P. Migliozzi
11:00 - 11:30
 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30
 Chairman: J. E. Champagne

    Contributions by:
    D. Autiero
    J. Marteau
    S.Katsanevas

  Electronic detector WG

Chairman G. Wilquet

    First part of the session: Progress reports (2:30 h)

9:35 - 10:00
 Liquid scintillators + EBCCD - S. Golovkine
10:00 - 10:15
 Scint progress - J. L. Guyonnet
10:15 - 10:30
 MaPMT - M. Dracos
10:30 - 10:45
 HPD - P. Jonsson
10:45 - 11:00
 75 pixel MCP - V. Khovansky
11:00 - 11:15
 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:25
 Magnet progress - M. Spinetti
11:25 - 11:40
 Precision tracker - W. Schmidt-Parzefall (see Spinetti)
11:40 - 11:55
 RPC/Italy - L. Stanco (see Spinetti)
11:55 - 12:10
 RPC/ CERN - D. Autiero (see Spinetti)
12:10 - 12:20
 DAQ-VME - D. Staub
12:20 - 12:30
 DAQ-Ethernet - S. Katsanevas
  Second part of the session: Milestones and discussion (1:00 h)

Chairman: S. Katsanevas

12:30 - 12:45
 Target tracker milestones - M. Dracos
12:45 - 13:00
 Spectrometer (Magnet + RPC) milestones - M. Spinetti
13:00 - 13:15
 Precision tracker milestones - B. Koppitz
13:15 - 13:30
 Discussion on milestones
13:30 - 14:30
 Lunch
14:30 - 16:15
 Workshop OPERA/LNGS Staff Members

Chairman: E. Scapparone

Space in the cavern and outside - A. Grillo
Chemical Service - A. Falgiani
Temperature control and infrastructures - R. Adinolfi
Electrical plant and power consumption - A. Fulgenzi
Safety - R. Tartaglia

16:15 - 16:45
 Coffee break
16:45 - 18:00
 Chairman: M. Spinetti

Radioactivity - M. Laubenstein
Electronic shop - C. Gustavino
Computing centre - A. Donati

18:00 - 19:00
 Joint WGs discussion

Chairman: J. P. Fabre

Feedback from the WGs about schedule

Info from LNGS staff and how to proceed

 
Thursday - October 19, 2000
Thursday - October 19, 2000
9:30 - 9:45
 Opening of General Meeting

Chairman: P. Strolin

Opening address - P. Strolin
Welcome address - A. Bettini, Director of LNGS

9:45 - 11:00
 Chairman: M. Nakamura

Report from Emulsion Target WG (S. Buontempo)

Selected Topics:

Measurement at LNGS (G. Rosa)
Target Support (A. Franceschi)
Brick Manipulator (P. Mugnier)

11:00 - 11:30
 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30
 Reports from Electronic Detector WG (G. Wilquet, M. Spinetti)
13:30 - 14:30
 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30
 Reports and Selected Topics from Analysis WG

Chairman: P. Vilain

16:30 - 17:00
 Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00
 Collaboration Board

1 - Approval of Agenda
2 - Approval of Minutes
3 - Collaboration and new memberships
4 - Realisation of the experiment:

Schedule, technical constraints and requested profile of financial and human resources;
Guidelines, status and main issues for sharing of responsibilities and cost
Guidelines for common funds: detector and other items
Strategy for the realisation of the experiment

    5 - Organisation of the collaboration for construction: schedule and procedure
    6 - Forthcoming meetings
      

19:00 - 20:00
 Visit to

"Santuario di Maria SS.ma d'Appari"

20:00
 Social Dinner

at the Historical House of Villa Dragonetti (PHOTO)

 
Friday - October 20, 2000
Friday - October 20, 2000
 

9:00 - 9:30

 Chairman: J. P. Repellin

Report from Collaboration Board (see OPERA home page) - P. Strolin

9:30 - 11:00
 Physics Coordination (PHOTO)
11:00 - 11:30
 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
 Chairman: J. P. Repellin

Discussion

12:30 - 13:00
 Chairman: L. Di Lella

RPC: state-of-art - R. Santonico photoA27

13:00 - 13:25
 Atmospheric Neutrinos and MACRO results - P. Lipari (PHOTO)
13:25 - 13:30
 Chairman: P. Strolin

Closing Address (PHOTO)

13:30 - 14:30
 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30
 Visit to the underground laboratory
16:30 - 17:00
 "Arrivederci" drink