sPHENIX EMCal discussion

[eric mannel <mannel AT bnl.gov>]

John-

Without your leadership and hard work, this would not have been 
possible.   Enjoy the holidays with your family, see in you at FNAL in a 
few weeks.

Eric


On 12/22/16 10:04 PM, John Haggerty wrote:
> 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.

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Eric J. Mannel, Ph.D.
PHENIX Group
Physics Dept.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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