AGENDA

Operations Team Meeting

Date: Wednesday 17^th October 2012 @ 10-30 a.m.

Location: Room 337 – third floor Oliver Lodge

1. Financial Report

2. Facilities: Cleanrooms

Workshop

IT

Infrastructure

3. Activities:

a. Funded Atlas

LHCb

NA62 – Cedar

Grid PP

Reactor Monitoring (& Large Area Neutron Sensors)

Rad-Hard pixel sensors

Beam monitor at CCO

Detector development for future Neutrino Experiments.

CTA

b. Non-funded Silicon and Semi-conductor

RD50

Telescope for test beam

Neutron Detectors

Multimetal

Non-Silicon R&D

The Dark Energy Atom Interferometer Experiment: Search for the dark content of the Vacuum using atomic interferometry

Liquid Argon:

The search for Coherent Neutrino Scattering

4. A.O.B

The Department of Physics

HEP Operations Team Meeting

Date and Time: Wednesday 03^rd October 2012

Location: Room 337 – third floor – Oliver Lodge.

Present: T Jones (TJ -Chair), P Sutcliffe (PS), A Greenall (AG), D Hutchcroft (DH),

K McCormick (KMc), R Fay (RF), GL Casse (GLC), A Affolder (AA), M Lockwood (ML)

L Fielding (LF)

Apologies received: Professor TJV Bowcock (TJVB) GD Patel (GDP)

The minutes of the previous meeting of 19^th September 2012 were read and agreed as a true record of the meeting.

1. Financial Report:

1.1 Noted LF: The rolling grant PPR10269 has now completed. Cost centre PPR10269 must not be used for any expenditure. The University announced the new consolidated grant on Monday 01/10/2012. Although the grant was targeted to complete within £500 of the original set budgets, the grant will over spend by about £10k. This will be set against the department.

The budgets for last year were set as follows:

Area	Funding Source	Monthly	Per annum
IT	RG	£3500	£42000
Communications	RG	£333	£4000
Training	RG	£830	£10000
Staff (BK)	RG	£133	£1600
R&D	RG	£3600	£43200
Travel	RG	£2.5 – then £5000	£47500
Workshop	Cleanrooms/workshop	£2000	£24000
Cleanrooms	Cleanrooms/workshop	£2000	£24000

Total budget set for the above totalled - £196,300. These figures were for Aug 2011 – July 2012. Next year’s budgets will run from the beginning of the Consolidated Grant – 01/10/2012.

1.2 Noted DH: All travel will have to be pre-approved, as in the short term travel.

Points to note: Travel in the last grant is to be reviewed, looking at who travelled when and where. TJ and LF will meet Tuesday 09/10/2012 @ 10-00. New budgets for the coming year will also be considered.

Action TJ/LF

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2. Facilities:

Cleanrooms:

2.1 Noted ML: Additional shelving is required for ATLAS. This can be purchased via the ATLAS budget.

Workshop:

2.2 Noted KMc:

C Welsch: Some work has been completed – assemble of a chamber in a mounting frame

Phantom: This is currently being modified, work ongoing.

SLHC: The drawings are now in the workshop

Points to note: There are no outstanding issues. The new apprentice who will be funded via the cleanrooms/workshop budget commences 15/10/2012.

IT:

There were no requests and no issues were highlighted.

Infrastructure:

Nothing to report

3. Activities:

There was nothing to report.

4. A.O.B.

There was no other business.

Date and time of next meeting: Wednesday 17^th October @ 10-30 hrs.

Location Room 337 – third floor.