sPHENIX EMCal discussion

[John Haggerty <haggerty AT bnl.gov>]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to getting the calorimeters built and 
set up at Fermilab, and to the knowledge we gained in the previous beam 
test, now close to publication, we have now gotten through our safety 
review ("ORR") and can now turn on in the beam:

> Thu 2017-01-19 21:27:13 ORC Daniel Johnson (d_johnson)
> We have an approved ORC for experiment T1044 (sPHENIX Calorimetry Tests) to 
> run in the Meson Test beam line.  They may begin operation when they are 
> ready and beam is available.

Thanks particularly to Steve Boose, Chris Pontieri, and Frank Toldo, who 
have spent the week here getting us set up on the MTEST beamline.

The first and second septa repair seem to have been successful, and they 
have been running beam to the switchyard, so we think we are ready to go.

Pictures added here as we go along:

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

I'll have some more technical discussion of how we proceed in a separate 
mail, but again thanks to everyone here and here in spirit.  I hope to 
revive the 9:30am "standup" next week after we finish the first round of 
setup with beam over the weekend.

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