MICEUK Project: Phase I

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Introduction
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MICE-UK Project Phase I

• Significant progress
• MICE Muon Beam
• Target
• MICE Hall and infrastructure
• RD and risk management
• Hydrogen system and RF refurbishment
• Engineering integration
• Tracker
• Domestic
• Office space and meeting room in R76
• Procedures for cards and badges being put in
  place
• Review status and plans today
• Opportunity/challenge to put Phase I experiment
  in place
• Already delivering people
• Rogers thesis imminent
• Walaron thesis soon
• Smith thesis soon
• Must collect on MICE-UK WWW page and post as
  MICE notes

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MICE-UK Phase I issues

• Timescale
• Much work to do
• Review progress today, imperative to deliver on
  time
• Support for PD and CCLRC team
• Resources
• OSC
• Earned value is project on schedule?
• PPD Project Office support for financial
  analysis
• Cost to completion review
• Soon
• First pass by the end of January
• Respond to requests!

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MICE-UK Phase II proposal

• PPRP Visiting Panel review
• Strong performance of MICE-UK and UKNF WPMs
• Living on rumours, but
• Indication of positive recommendation from PPRP
• Personal opinion
• Likely that recommendation for resources to carry
  out Phase II (to Step V?)
• Some issues to be addressed by us
• For discussion today
• Next steps in peer review
• PPRP report to Science Committee 30/31Jan

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International MICE collaboration

• Collaboration management
• Collaboration Board chair election CM17
• Spokesperson election CM17
• Proposed procedure circulated to CB by C.Booth
• Resources
• FP7 Integrating Activities
• Joint Research Activity for MICE Paul Kyberd
• US AARD Panel (and MuTAC/MCOG)
• Strongly positive
• CERN
• RF amplifier refurbishment

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MICE Governance

• Oversight Committee
• Seeking reassurance that
• Are going to deliver project on schedule
• Costs will come in on budget
• Or at least within working margin and contingency
• Next OSC April
• Crucial to address issues
• Discuss at PG later

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Next MICE-UK (and UKNF) mtgs

• MICE-UK plus PG 09h30 18Oct06
• MICE-UK PG 09h30 22Nov06
• UKNF Str Grp 14h30 22Nov06
• MICE-UK plus PG 09h30 09Jan07
• UKNF plus Str Grp 09h30 10Jan07
• MICE-UK PG 09h30 07Feb07
• MICE-UK plus PG 09h30 07Mar07
• UKNF Str Grp 14h30 08Mar07
• MICE-UK PG04Ap407
• MICE-UK plus PG 02May07
• UKNF plus Str Grp 03May07

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Conclusions

• Phase I
• Significant progress
• Much to do
• We CAN (and must) deliver!
• Phase II
• Informal feedback highly positive
• Still issues to be addressed
• Cooling measurement by 2010!
• So,
• We have nothing to fear but