JEF meeting, September 25, 2020

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Meeting time and location= 9:00 am EST (JLab time) Bluejeans only


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Agenda

  • SICCAS crystals
-PWO test results

Minutes

Attendees: Liping,Igal,Jared,Tim W.,Zisis,Phil,Tim B.,Jane,Sasha,Josh,Azizah,S.T.

  • Jane visited Shanghai company and inspected 70 out of 175 new crystals as of her report on Friday
    • Transmission looked okay, except the company reported values at 650 nA instead of 620 nA
      • Want to ask company to give measurements consistent with previous ones
      • Need to do cross calibration of transmittance measurements
    • Some crystals had chips, some issues with quality control with chamfers, but generally better than previous batch
    • Found 3 discolored crystals: 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 purple -- Sasha pointed out that the discoloration is our major concern
      • Don't have company send us these?
  • 50 more steel shields have been delivered, need to be annealed.
  • Waiting for light guide company to demonstrate polishing improvement, then order 150
  • Sasha installed last batch of crystals in PS setup before the run ended
    • No big surprises (light output generally okay, except for 2 outliers)
    • Want to do transmittance measurements for 2 bad ones, need access to Carl Zorn's lab, no word yet
    • Plan to modify setup to make it easier to swap out a set of 12 crystals
  • Sasha installed 3 modified dividers in COMCAL, but 2 needed to be modified at the last minute and did not work
    • Will do more tests on the bench
  • Enough hardware is available to build 20 more modules
    • Need to finalize brazing procedure
    • Work on inventory and coming up with a plan to proceed the week of 9/28/20
  • Work is proceeding on JEF picture archive