sPHENIX discussion of the superconducting solenoid

[John Haggerty <haggerty AT bnl.gov>]

- The solenoid has been delivered to building 912; it arrived at the lab 
last night around 11:30, and the truck came in door #9 this morning. 
BNL riggers supervised by Alex Korol did a beautiful job rigging it into 
place.

- Paul Kovach now has the recording accelerometer and will extract the 
data from it and I will; make a second copy when he's finished.

- Paul has a req for shipping all the remaining equipment with an 
itemized manifest that he will send around.

- John H. will get in touch with Mike Racine to have all the 
documentation shipped here as soon as possible.

- Paul would like the "dog house" opened for inspection in the next day 
or two; Don Lynch said that one of the PHENIX techs could do that.

- We discussed work rules and work planning on the magnet while on the 
AGS floor; we agreed that Dave Phillips will be the lead on this since 
the work is done in C-AD space.

- Peter Wanderer distributed a draft traveler for the magnet which was 
developed by Mike and Paul for low power testing.  There was 
considerable discussion, and it needs to be reviewed (I think we agreed 
to use the SMD system for following travelers), but it seems to cover 
the main points of acceptance testing as far as electrical, cryo, and 
vacuum.

- We discussed the low power test at some length. I think we all agree 
that it is very important to expeditiously test the coil to make sure it 
is ok after its removal from BaBar and transport to Brookhaven.  Paul 
estimated that it would take >~2 mos to complete the design of the 
chimney extension after we get the valve box, and so we probably should 
do the low power test with the original chimney.

- We are being encouraged to do a high power test, and I think we all 
agreed that is essentially impossible in this fiscal year.  Several 
people, like Bob Lambiase, made the point that to be ready for a high 
power test in a year or so, we need more planning of the test in the 
coming months, and we'll also have to be able to spend money on it.

We will plan to meet again in two weeks; Wed, Feb 18.

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John Haggerty
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