Roumen Tsenov lost his wife last week – it is a big hole in his life! Messages of Sympathy from MICE

Mariyan Bogomilov will be the MOM in June 18-31.

Neutrino Town meeting at CERN

to prepare statement to be addressed to European Strategy for Particle Physics

See draft statement on meeting web site (AB, presentation of draft statement and following discussion) http://indico.cern.ch/event/neutrino_town

well in line :

4. Opportunity for the next step: -- LBNO = CERN Pyhasalmi (2300 km) conventional ‘superbeam’ from SPS with NUFACT as possible upgrade detector = Larg + MIND

-- R&D for future neutrino beams

A.Blondel Neutrino Town Meeting 16-05-2012 3

1. Physics case

2. Next steps: a neutrino road map

3. Community and global context

4. Opportunity in Europe for the next step

5. Short baseline neutrino beam and sterile neutrino search

6. Preparing for longer term, precision experiments

European strategy for future accelerator-based neutrino physics

The following aims to reflect the contents of the 3-4 pages summary

Next Collaboration meeting June 25-29, 2012 – GlasgowPaul Soler + help from John Cobb for the agendacontact them if you would like to show something.

PLEASE REGISTER BOOK FLIGHTS AND HOTEL ETC ….¨ NOW!

Following one now confirmed : 17-19 October 2012 -- ‘light’ meeting because we will be very busy with assembly

NEXT EVENTS

MPB 31 October 2012 and FAC 15 November 2012

-- monitor how well we are doing in assembling step IV !

-- should deliver a ‘realistic schedule scenario’ for the step VI assignment of Coupling Coil integration task should be resolved fully loaded schedule for step VI should be underway

-- should have paper II (emittance measurement) ready or published (Victoria has kindly agreed to see after it)

-- have to answer questions about operational aspect of increased complexity of apparatus !

GENERAL NEWS

-- from MICO meetings

-- Spectrometer Solenoid now cold and soon powered! once spectrometer works we can have a realistic schedule Expected delivery date is now August 2012. (See Steve’s talk later today) -- some delay in Focus Coil Expected delivery date is now June but magnet will only then bee pumped down, cooled and powered.

-- Hydrogen system will be tested in June.

SCHEDULE WILL BE REVISITED AT SUPER-MICO meeting next week and collaboration meeting in Glasgow

Caution that things will still have a question mark until magnet has reached full field!

SUPER-MICO next week Next week's (Wednesday, 6th June, 13:30 GMT (14:30 UK time) room G-06, building R66 at RAL (Chair Andy Nichols) schedule preview meeting, draft agenda: (~1 slide each unless otherwise useful!)0. introduction+ welcome Alain 1. Introduction Andy Nichols (all there is to do) 2. Milestone tracker (Gail Hanson) 3. main components 3.1 Spectrometer solenoids (Preece, Virostek) 3.2 Focus coil magnets (Courthold or Bradshaw) 3.3 Magnetic measurements and planning of magnets in the hall (Alain or Alan Grant) 3.4 Liquid Hydrogen system and absorbers 3.5 EMR planning, mechanical and magnetic constraints (Cadoux) 4. Installations 4.0 magnetic field issues (Courthold or Bayliss)4.1 Diffuser commissionning and quench test (Blackmore)4.2 Tracker installation (Adey)4.3 EMR installation (Cadoux)4.4 TOF re-installation (Bonesini)5. liquid hydrogen commissionning (Watson)6. beam line (decay solenoid power supply/quench protection fix) (TBD)7. controls, DAQ and monotoring (Linda, Yordan, Pierrick) FROM THIS ALAN GRANT WILL PREPARE SCHEDULE TO BE reviewed at TB in Glasgow

-- STFC MICE team has been recognised under the "STFC staff recognition scheme“

* Outstanding work or major contributions to a project; * Those who "go the extra mile"; * Those who make a difference and/or influence others; * Those whose work impacts positively on the future success of their department or area of work; and * Those who have made a real effort to work across departmental boundaries.

Clearly our colleagues at RAL and DL have earned recognition in each of these areas.

Of course, MICE is a much wider, international team effort and the successes of STFC MICE team reflect the excellence and commitment of the MICE collaboration.

To celebrate, Ken Long et al are planning a "MICE briefing" at 14:45 on Friday 01Jun12 TOMORROW during which Andrew Taylor will offer his congratulations.

CONGRATULATIONS!