• Hall clearance completed

• Revisiting Water & Cryo Plant

• Prepare for shutdown ’04– beam tube– Contract hole cutting

• Negotiating with DF to help target work along at Sheffield

• Discussion with ASTeC on RF Support

Beam & Infrastructure

MICE

• Technical Board meeting– Adopted change control – process in place– Plan to revise MICE design for March CB– This is also the timescale to complete the WBS (ISIS

Shutdowns!)

• WBS– All parts now represented except

slow controls and instrumentation– Negotiations…. Interfaces…

• Absorber review– December 9-10

Tasks to end 2003

• Manufacture beam tube

• R&D on absorber window (welding samples)

• Continue Cryogenic & Hydrogen System design (absorber) – establish heat load

• Complete Beam Line performance evaluation

Plans for 2004/5

• Cut into synchrotron vault ◄• Bring PSI Solenoid to RAL ◄• Assembly of an RF Test Stand ◄• Engineering design of beam line• Engineering of Target Mechanism• Design MICE support structure• Complete water & Cryo. plant design

– Begin building design (contract)– Start building work (contract)

Tracker technology decision

• Light yield 4-5 pe• Expectation ~10• Systematic analysis in hand

• Simulation updated to include more realistic models of inefficiency, noise etc.• Reconstruction of simulated data shows adequate performance•Outstanding issue: resolution (MCS dominated) needs to be shown to give adequate resolution in emittance

•MICE adopted SciFi detector as baseline tracker … will be used subject to satisfactory resolution of above