Hall A Coordinating Committee

Phone Meeting, November 3rd, 10:15 EST.

Participants:
David Armstrong (DA), David Lhuillier (DL), Kathy McCormick (KM), 
Nilanga Liyanage (NL), Ron Ransome (RR), Bodo Reitz (BR)

1.) DA welcomes the new CC members NL and RR.
[ for the next elections: Xiaochao Zheng might be interested to run
  for the CC ]

2.) election of the new Chair:
    Ron Ransome was elected to be the next chair of the Hall A CC

3.) election of the new Secretary:
    Bodo Reitz was elected to be secretary of the Hall A CC

4.) next Hall A meeting

a) scheduled for Thursday/Friday December 16/17, 2004
b) topics: 
   - status of Hall A equipment
   - status of analysis of past experiments
   - status of experiments which are on the JLab experimental schedule
   - proposals for the PAC
   - proposals for the PAC concerning 12 GeV
   - status of the work on 12 GeV
   - discussion about the future form of the Hall A collaboration
c) BR will start preparing an agenda, he will also work with Jian-Ping Chen,
   to include topics related to 12 GeV

5.) proposals for the upcoming PAC

a) 6 GeV:
   - jeopardy: E02-004 (Ron Gilman), E02-010 (Haiyan Gao), 
     both indicated that they will come back
     E02-013 (Bogdan Wojtsekhowski)
     will most likely avoid the jeopardy process
   - new proposals: BR got indications from the following people:
          Xiaochao Zheng:  DIS Parity
          Rob Feuerbach:   Pentaquarks in Nuclei
          Bogdan Wojtsekhowski/Paul Reimer:
                           Pentaquarks  (no review needed)
          Zein-Eddine Meziani:
			   D2 (no review needed)
          Bogdan Wojtsekhoski/Nilanga Liyanage:
                           EMC on deuterium
     [ there are two more proposals, which were not mentioned:
          Xiaodong Jiang/Todd Averett/Jian-Ping Chen
          and Charles Hyde-Wright (VCS) ]
b) Hall A review:
   - deadline for Hall A review is 15 November 15, 2004
     (deadline to user liaison is December 6, 2004)
   - from above list 3 proposals need a review to become Hall A status
   - so far three volunteers to act as reviewer:
     Dipankar Dutta, John Arrington, Dave Armstrong
     [update: Richard Lindgren also volunteered)
   - RR will take over from BR to organize the review process
c) PAC is also charged with the review of additions to the 12 GeV CDR,
   however there seems to be a lot of uncertainty about this part of 
   the review.
d) all proposals (6GeV and 12GeV) should be presented at the Hall A meeting

6.) DA pointed out, that we need to start a discussion if we should/need
    to change the organization of the Hall A collaboration with regard
    to the 12 GeV upgrade. E.g. shall the collaboration point out
    some priority experiments, do we need to demand commitments from
    the collaborators? We will address this item at the Hall A meeting.

7.) Hall A annual report:
    RR and BR will prepare an email to the collaboration, requesting 
    contributions for the Hall A annual report. It is impossible to 
    have the annual report finished before the meeting, since we are 
    already late.

8.) next CC meeting will be during the Hall A meeting, probably 
    on Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 8:00 am (EST)