Report from 56th SPSC meeting 15/01/2002

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Report from 56th SPSC meeting 15/01/2002
OPEN SESSION on Tuesday, 15 January 2002 at
0900, Council Chamber)  1. Status Report of
AD1, ATHENA R. Landua (30 min discussion) 2.
Status Report of AD2, ATRAP "Cold Antihydrogen
Are We There?" G. Gabrielse (30 min discussion)
3. Status Report of AD3, ASACUSA R. Hayano (30
min discussion)   CLOSED SESSION on Tuesday,
15 January 2002 after the open session, Main
Bldg, 6th floor conf. room 1.  Approval of the
minutes of the 55th meeting 2.  Matters
arising 3.  Report on the 155th meeting of the
Research Board 4.  Status Report on the SPS 5. 
Status Report on the PS 6.  Status Report on the
PS and SPS experiments 7.   Status Report of AD1
H. Bialkowska 8.   Status Report of AD2 H.
Bialkowska 9.   Status Report of AD3 M. de
Jong 10. NA45/CERES beam time request U.
Heinz 11. Scientific activities at CERN in the
next years 12. SPS and PS schedules 13. A.O.B.
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Report from 56th SPSC meeting - Opend Session
1. Status Report of AD1, ATHENA R. Landua (30
min discussion) - 2x104 pbars/shot trapped
cooled in pbar trap several shots stacked
without significant losses. - 150x106 positrons
accumulated/5 mn 25x106 stored in recombination
trap for several hours. - Antihydrogen detector
commissioned. - Many tanks to the AD team. 2.
Status Report of AD2, ATRAP "Cold Antihydrogen
Are We There?" G. Gabrielse (30 min discussion)
- Demonstration of first positron cooling of
pbars. - Succeeded in trapping pbars
positrons in same space. - "May have made
antihydrogen" - Plea for fast switching time
(not to lose pbars). - Thanks to the AD which
"works better". 3. Status Report of AD3,
ASACUSA R. Hayano (30 min discussion) -
1.5x106 pbars stored /shot - Extraction of
250-10eV pbars achieved on very last day of
2001. - Progress made in CPT tests with
pbar/He - 2001 even more sucessful than 2000. -
RFQD now routinely used. - Tanks to this "nice
machine to work with" (the AD).  
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Report from 56th SPSC meeting - Closed Session
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1. Approval of the minutes of the 55th
meeting 2. Matters arising 3. Report on the
155th meeting of the Research Board - LHCC will
take care of test beam time. - 25 ns p run
shifted to 2003. - Budgetary problems. 4.
Status Report on the SPS - Shut-down work
Preparations for LHC (dipoles installed in TT2,
TT10) - Civil engineering work on SPS/TI2
junction, TI8 and CNGS 5. Status Report on the
PS - Shut-down work MNP23 replacement
exchange of PS Main Magnet 1 - No spare for
East Area quads (critical situation for HARP
DIRAC) 6. Status Report on the PS and SPS
experiment 7. Status of AD1 ATHENA (H.
Bialkowska) - Well defined rates of pbars
positrons, close to goals. - SPSC congratulates
the collaboration looks forward to the
detection of antihydrogen in 2002. 8. Status of
AD2, ATRAP (H. Bialkowska) - SPSC congratulates
the collaboration. - Collaboration asked to
present a written report on 2001 plans for 2002
at next SPSC.
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Report from 56th SPSC meeting - Closed Session
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9. NA45/CERES beam time request (U. Heinz) -
Request for running with low energy ions in 2002
not recommended for approval. 10. Scientific
activities at CERN in the next years (SPSC
Chairman) - Of the 5600 CERN users, 50 are non
-LHC and 30 Fixed target - All physics
programme should be debated. - COMPASS NA48,
NA49 NA60 DIRAC HARP AD Others -
Consequences of a one-year physics cut w.r.t 25
yearly cut ? stopping SPS only ? - CNGS
technical review in april What should be CERN's
participation to OPERA ? 11. SPS and PS
schedules (M.Hauschild) - 25 cut in beam time
in 2002 (30 savings in power consumption). -
users very cooperative, no major problem in beam
time scheduling. - 31 days still available in
T11. - Beam "scrubbing" in SPS (for electron
cloud studies), before physics starts. 12. A.O.B.