Summary notes of the LCU meeting on 10/10/2011

Present: HB, SC, LD, OD, MG, BH, PH, JJ, YL, RM, MS, CY

Report from meetings

• SLM and general information -> MG
  During the week starting on Monday 14 November, there will be many LHC upgrade-related events (LHC-CC11, Joint USLARP and HiLumi kick-off meeting).  The LCU meeting schedule for that week will be cancelled.
  JJ announces the p-Pb workshop to be held on 17 October.
  Matlab license: it was mentioned at last BEMB. A cost estimate for porting the current applications to other programs (e.g., Octave) should be compiled for Oliver.
  Django Manglunki has been appointed SPS light ion project leader.
  Stephane Maury has been appointed ELENA project leader.
  Ronny Billen as been appointed GL of BE-ASR.
  New staff rules (for staff hired after 01/01/2012 and not being fellows earlier). As far as the pension scheme is concerned:
  Retirement age: 67 years
  Maximum pension: 70%, attainable after 37 years and 10 months of service
  Pension calculation: calculated on the average of the last three years’ salary position at the time of termination of membership.
• LHC status -> BH
  The integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1 is at hand.
  Some technical issues (vacuum leak, power cut).
  25 ns tests very encouraging.

First study of high-b* optics for ALICE -> PH  (slides)

This is a preliminary study for a high-beta* option for Alice.
Currently, there is no official request for forward physics runs for Alice.
The optics is reviewed and a nice solution is proposed, with gradients in tolerance. During the discussion it turns out that not all the phase advance constraints were taken into account correctly: a revised version of the optics will be studied.

AOB

Nothing to report.

Last update: 02-November-2011

MG & HB

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