sPHENIX EMCal discussion

[John Haggerty <haggerty AT bnl.gov>]

I have a sleigh to catch tomorrow, but I thought I'd send around some 
information on the calorimeters for the beam test.

The Inner and Outer HCAL are basically ready, and have seen cosmics and 
LED's over a the last few weeks.  Sean fired up last year's version of 
the EMCAL, and we saw LED's in all the channels, and the new EMCAL for 
this year is making good progress.  We still expect to get the beam as 
originally scheduled (apparatus shipped Jan 10, delivered to Fermilab 
Jan 12, and moving into the enclosure Jan 18) with the repair to the 
beamline expected to be completed by the weekend before installation.

I started putting documentation for this year's detectors in the Wiki:

> https://wiki.bnl.gov/sPHENIX/index.php/T-1044#T1044-2017a

and I updated my Google album of pictures; scroll down to the end of the 
album of photos of the calorimeters to see the latest state:

> https://goo.gl/photos/igR9q2LXpJEpW4uK8

Thanks to everyone for their work in building these calorimeters, but 
especially to the technicians and engineers who have once again done a 
thoroughly professional job designing and building these 
detectors--Steve Boose and Richie Ruggiero, Sean and Rob, Mike and Bill 
Lenz, Frank and Sal, Chris P. and Carter, as well as Eric Thorsland at UIUC.

Happy holidays to all.

--
John Haggerty
email: haggerty AT bnl.gov
cell: 631 741 3358