APEX Spring Collaboration Meeting, April 19-20 2015

Agenda and Posted Slides

All meeting sessions will be held in room F113 CEBAF Center.

April 19

8:30 BlueJeans check for remote participants (30')
9:00 Welcome, Global Context for APEX in 2015 -- PDF (Rouven Essig, 30'+5')

9:35-11:45 mini-workshop on dark photon experiments:

9:35 Update on Heavy Photon Search Experiment -- PDF (Tim Nelson, 25'+5')
10:05 Update on Cornell Experiment -- PDF (Jim Alexander, 25'+5')


coffee break (20')

10:45 Update on DarkLight -- PDF (Jan Bernauer, 25'+5')
11:15 BlueJeans talk from Budker Institute (Igor Rachek, 25'+5')

Lunch 12:15pm-1:30pm

1:30 HRS DAQ Rate Capability for APEX -- PPT (Alex Camsonne, 20'+5')
1:55 HRS Magnets -- PPT (Jack Segal, 15'+5')

coffee break (20')

2:35 HRS Optics and SOS Quad: Performance and APEX-Specific Studies -- PDF (Barak Schmookler, 25'+5')
3:05 HRS Detector Readiness -- PDF (Longwu Ou, 20'+5')
3:30 High-rate VDC tracking -- PDF (Seamus Riordan, 20'+5')
3:55 Radiation study update -- PDF (Maduka Kaluarachchi, 25'+5')

coffee break (20')

4:45 Manpower discussions and plans for summer work (chair: Pete Markowitz, 30')
5:15 APEX Monte Carlo and reach calculation -- PDF (Konrad Aniol, 25'+5')
5:45 Collaboration business -- shifts, theses, and publications -- txt summary (30', moderated by N. Toro and R. Essig)

7:00pm Group Dinner (Bonefish Grill)

April 20

8:30 Hall A update -- PPT or PDF (Thia Keppel, 20'+5')
8:55 APEX Beamline, Septa, Correctors, and HRS -- PPT / PDF (Alan Gavalya, 25'+5')
9:50 The APEX target-- PDF (Silviu Covrig Dusa, 20'+5')

coffee break and photo (20')

10:35 JLab update -- PPT (Bob McKeown, 20'+5')
11:00 APEX septum analysis -- PDF or -- PPT (Guido Urciuoli, 20'+5')
11:25 Mesons in ep missing spectra -- PDF or PPT (Guido Urciuoli , 20'+5')
11:50 Wrap-up -- PDF (Rouven Essig, 15' )

Adjourn at 12:15 pm