ePIC pfRICH General meeting

US/Eastern

Summary
Brian reported that the project pre-TDR pfRICH contribution is on track for the upcoming deadline and outlined a plan for document freezing and internal reviews. They emphasized the need to update supplemental materials for consistency with the executive summary and suggested revisiting the document to include omitted timing material. Additionally, they highlighted the results from aerogel testing and discussed the project's environmental safety aspects, ensuring adherence to safety standards.

Key Points
- Brian provides an overview of the current status of the pre-TDR from pfRICH, indicating they are in good shape for the upcoming deadline. 3:36
- Brian outlines the plan for the upcoming month, detailing the process for freezing the document, reviewing it, and preparing for internal reviews. 6:28
- Brian emphasizes the importance of updating supplemental materials and ensuring consistency with the executive summary. 11:15
- Brian discusses the device concept and justification, outlining how the prRICH detector operates and the optimizations made for performance. 21:13
- Brian acknowledges that much of the timing material was omitted and suggests revisiting the document to include discussions on timing capabilities. 37:03
- Brian discusses the results from aerogel testing conducted by Matt, emphasizing the need to review redundancies in the documentation. 1:00:03
- Brian discusses the environmental safety aspects of the project, mentioning the benign nature of the detector and adherence to safety standards, while also addressing QA procedures for various components. 1:36:49
- Brian provides an overview of the executive summary and mentions upcoming revisions before submission, indicating the draft is a preliminary version awaiting reviewer feedback. 1:43:49

Next Steps
- Brian to remove the sentence about the acrylic filter downstream of the aerogel wall and update the figure with the latest dimensions if the consensus is that the acrylic filter is not needed. 38:35
- Jeff Landgraf to fix the third paragraph regarding VTRX plus in the system configuration as discussed. 42:13
- Brian to follow up with Chandra to confirm the readiness of the updated simulation and request corrections for the numbers in the document. 54:36
- Bill to prepare a couple of slides for discussion in next Thursday's meeting regarding the hit map of the HRPPD and LED light monitoring correspondence. 1:26:58
- Brian to compile a comma-separated list with links to previous subsections for the beginning of the section on remaining design efforts. 1:35:50

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    • 12:00 12:10
      PED Work Update 10m
      Speakers: Alex Eslinger (employee@jlab.org;member@jlab.org), Charles-Joseph Naïm (Stony Brook University (CFNS)), Preet Mann (Stony Brook), Sushrut Karmarkar (Purdue University (USA)), Wenliang Li (Stony Brook University CFNS), Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)
    • 12:10 13:00
      TDR Readthrough and Discussion 50m
      Speaker: Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 13:00 13:10
      AOB 10m