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Welcome to the Plenary Meeting Status of the LHC
project ? First-hand report by the Project
Leader Lyn Evans News from the
LHCC Outcome from the RRB and funding
issues New activities that have recently
started Communication issues
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ATLAS Plenary Meeting Thursday, 24 June 2004 -
Plenary Part I 1400 Welcome P Jenni
1410 Status of the LHC construction and
installation L Evans 1440 Introduction and
general news P Jenni 1500 Experimental
area and installation status G
Tappern 1530 Technical Coordination issues and
schedule M Nessi 1600 Trigger, DAQ and DCS -
highlights and concerns N Ellis 1625 --- tea
break --- 1650 Data base project
R Hawkings 1715 Software status and
developments D Quarrie 1735 Data
Challenge status G Poulard 1800 Upcoming
Collaboration Board issues S Bethke 1815 ---
end of Part I ---
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Friday, 25 June 2004 - Plenary Part II
   0900 Further Project Leader reports -
highlights and concerns 0900 Magnet system
status H ten Kate 0925 Muon
spectrometer G Mikenberg
0945 Tile calorimeter R Leitner
1005 LAr calorimeter H Oberlack
1030 Inner detector S Stapnes 1055 ---
coffee break --- 1120 Electronics status P
Farthouat 1140 Combined test beam activities
and plans B Di Girolamo
1200 Preview on the Freiburg ATLAS Week G
Herten/K Jakobs 1210 AoB 1215 --- end of
Part II --- 1330 (Collaboration Board)
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News from the LHCC
The new LoIs were submitted before the March
LHCC, and then presented and reviewed at the May
LHCC meeting Both LoIs were well received,
thanks to the excellent presentations of B Wosiek
and P Grafstrom, and of course thanks to the
communities having prepared the LoIs well
The HI LoI was also a timely documentation of
ATLAS potential and intentions for a recent
substantial US DOE/NSF review of the overall
future HI program and landscape, where
the ATLAS presentations were well noted HI are
now an integrated part of the ATLAS physics
program, with its dedicated Working Group in the
framework of the Physics Coordination (convened
by L Rosselet and H Takai)
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The LHCC also encouraged the luminosity LoI to be
worked out towards a TDR It asked that an ECR be
worked out as fast as Possible, which specifies
the changes to be implemented for the machine to
accommodate in particular the Roman Pots It also
encouraged the LUCID detectors for which there
are clarifications asked for the dynamic range,
and from the ATLAS EB side there are some actions
to be settled concerning the services (fibres)
routing out of the TX1S shielding housing the TAS
collimator system
TX1S
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The next round of interactions with the LHCC will
take place just next week, with the 5th LHCC
ATLAS Comprehensive Review The detailed agenda
is available on the Web in the standard agenda
system, as will be all the talks (a very useful
source of updated ATLAS information and pictures)
Until September the LHCC will also review updates
on the requirements for computing hardware,
following a request from the Computing MoU Task
Force which prepares common LCG MoU and
experiment-specific MO MoU Annexes
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Outcome of the April 2004 RRB
ATLAS status reports (Overall and Common
Projects) In general the RRB was reasonably
satisfied with the progress, taking note however
of the serious delay in the Barrel Toroid
integration, and the contractual difficulties for
the End-Cap Toroid cold mass The HLT/DAQ
Addendum to the Construction MoU was approved
This includes the fact that about 50 of the
funds will be deferred initially in order to
cover the missing resources to complete the
initial detector, according to the approved ATLAS
Completion Plan (October 2002 RRB) The RRB took
note of the core computing manpower situation,
which shows improvements compared to the
previous RRB, however still leaving a serious
problem for infrastructure and services
tasks All in-kind contributions to the Common
Projects were approved ATLAS construction
budgets In the spring RRB the only decision
taken is the closure of the previous years
budgets, so in this meeting the 2003 construction
budget report was approved The current years
budgets, and the previsions for 2005, were taken
note of
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The problem that is reappearing clearly is the
cash flow deficit that is developing thanks to
the early contribution of CERN to the
Cost-to-Completion the cash flow hole has now
moved to 2005 and 2006, but overall the problem
is not solved The DG made a very strong
statement that CERN cannot further help ATLAS in
managing the cash flow, and will not permit
overdraft ? Funding Agencies must help and
contribute early, and ATLAS will have to report
on the consequences at the October RRB
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ATLAS MO budgets The RRB decides and approves
MO for category A, and accepts and discusses the
MO B The 2003 MO A budget report was approved,
and the 2004 and 2005 MO A and B previsions
were taken note of Currently the MO RRB
Scrutiny Group is active MO A and B 2005 have
been submitted to the Scrutiny Group
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Overall Cost to Completion situation
At the RRB the framework was recalled in which
ATLAS construction proceeds since October
2002 The Cost to Completion (CtC) is defined as
the sum of Commissioning and Integration (CI)
pre- operation costs plus the Construction
Completion (CC) cost in addition to the
deliverables
The following framework was accepted at the
October 2002 RRB (ATLAS Completion Plan,
CERN-RRB-2002-114rev.) CtC 68.2 MCHF (sum of
CC 47.3 MCHF and CI 20.9 MCHF) Initial
commitments from Funding Agencies for fresh
resources (category 1) 46.5 MCHF Further
prospects, but without commitments at this stage
(category 2) 13.6 MCHF The missing resources,
21.7 MCHF, have to be covered by redirecting
resources from staging and deferrals The
funding situation will be reviewed regularly at
each RRB, and is expected to evolve as soon as
further resources commitments will become
available
As at RRBs before, the delegates were also
reminded that It has to be clearly understood
that the full potential of the ATLAS detector
will need to be restored for the high luminosity
running which is expected to start only very few
years after turn-on of the LHC, and to last for
at least a decade
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Since years many constructive interactions
continue to take place with Funding Agencies, and
the national communities continue the necessary
actions to secure more funding in order
to complete the detector Step by step the
overall funding situation is slowly improving,
even though ATLAS is still short of some 15 MCHF
to meet its initial detector requirements, and
therefore will be forced to start up with a
significantly staged configuration The present
status of the Completion Funding planning is
given in an updated table to the
RRB (CERN-RRB-2004-016) The RRB was also
reminded that for the implementation of the
Completion Plan it is very important for the
Collaboration that the funds for deferred items
will be made available early on, documented to
the RRB based on ATLAS agreements specifying in a
transparent way the corresponding accounting
At the end of the Cost to Completion
discussion ATLAS stated The Collaboration is
very grateful to all the Funding Agencies that
have already agreed to the category 1 completion
funding and found new resources, and it hopes
very much that the others will be able to
support the ATLAS completion as well in the
future
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Activities that have recently started
ATLAS Database Project After a rather long
incubation time, ATLAS has finally an overall
Database Project running The project definition
work began in late April, and since May 1st the
joint Database Project Leaders Richard Hawkings
and Torre Wenaus have been very active in setting
up and discussing their project plan with the
various communities ? Databases are a huge task
and crucial matter for ATLAS (see presentation
later this afternoon) ATLAS Online Tier-0
Task Force A Task Force has become active to
address the interplay, location and links between
the HLT/DAQ and the offline computing
infrastructure The task force is expected to
make recommendations by the end of Summer on
issues like - organization of the surface
building at point-1 - connection between point-1
and computer centre - hardware sharing and
deferral recovery - data flow and will also be
an important input to the computing model group
(workshop Freiburg Overview Week) The Task Force
is chaired by Dave Charlton, and draws on members
from TDAQ, Offline Computing and calibration,
Technical Coordination and an IT Department
liaison person
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Commissioning planning The joint Commissioning
Coordinators, Giuseppe Mornacchi and Pascal
Perrodo, appointed formally at the last CB
meeting, have initiated the global commissioning
planning and activities Monthly (open) meetings
with system representatives take place on the
Monday afternoons of the EB/TMB weeks, agendas
and presentations are available on the Web on the
standard agenda pages A commissioning planning
is being worked out with three main (overlapping)
phases Phase 1- Commissioning of infrastructure
and individual sub-systems, merge individual
sub-system plans and focus on boundaries and
interfaces (2004 summer 2006) Phase 2 -
Combined sub-systems evolving to an integrated
operational experiment (starting mid 2005
fall 2006) Phase 3 - Cosmic runs, single beam
runs ( not in the near-future focus of the
work) The short-term goals are - Commissioning
Workshop at the Freiburg Overview Week Phase
1 plan in an advanced version Phase 2 plan to
include input from the initial discussions
Proposal for sign-off procedure
Report from the commissioning done so far on
services and infrastructure - End 2004
Phase 1 plan complete Phase 2 plan draft
available Understand manpower resources needed
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High-Luminosity LHC RD Steering Group At the
last Plenary Meeting reasons were given to launch
already now a light-weight internal ATLAS
structure, in form of a steering group, to deal
with upgrades toward the likely future upgrade
of the LHC to highest luminosities (beyond the
design value of 1034 cm-2s-1) - Be ready with a
realistic and coherent upgrade plan for
addressing the physics potential - Be sure that
physics is guiding the upgrades - Retain
detector experts in ATLAS by offering them a
framework for challenging development work
besides standard detector constructions and
running - Avoid wasting ATLAS resources with
parallel work, or developments of no interest to
ATLAS under the ATLAS label - Make sure that
also less attractive aspects which will be
essential are tackled in time (like services
and supports, cooling, radiation issues, all
aspects increasing efficiency of data taking.)
Several Funding Agencies have actually
expressed positive encouragements to initiate
this activity
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The initial composition of the High-Luminosity
LHC Up-Grade Steering Group is based on the
link-persons appointed by the systems and on the
directly involved colleagues from Technical
Coordination ID G Darbo
and A Seiden LAr F Lanni
(maybe a second person later) Tiles
D Pallin Muons S
Palestini and T Kawamoto TDAQ
S Tapprogge (maybe a second person later) EC
Ph Farthouat Shielding/radiat
ion V Hedberg TCn D
Lissauer LHC machine link P
Grafstrom Physics G Polesello
(or a nominee by him) (ATLAS management
ex-officio) The last EB agreed with the
proposal that Stefan Tapprogge will chair the
SG A first meeting took place this Wednesday,
and we can expect a first report of the
activities at the next ATLAS Week
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Communication issues
The ATLAS Outreach Group has produced nice new
material for communicating ATLAS to the outside,
for example - New brochure - ATLAS poster -
ATLAS physics poster Consult their Web, a report
will be given at the ATLAS Overview Week in
October The ATLAS eNews is having a
change-over of the Main Editor Many thanks to
Pippa Wells for her great job since the eNews
exists (12 issues since they were launched in
July 2001), and welcome to Jo Pater for the
future editions!
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Preparations for CERNs Open Day for its 50th
anniversary are in full swing, and ATLAS will
be a major attraction and visit point (see
presentation at the Outreach meeting) CERN
expects up to 20 000 people on Saturday 16th
October 2004 The ATLAS visit points are Point-1,
Halls 180/191, and the North Area test beam It
is estimate that about 100 enthusiastic
volunteers from the ATLAS Collaboration are
needed to give explanations, help in the
logistics, and in guiding the flow of
people There is a CERN Web page to register as
volunteer, but please indicate ATLAS as
interest, and contact one of the ATLAS Open Day
Coordinators Connie Potter, Helfried Burckhart,
Peter Schmid, Silvia Schuh and Beniamino Di
Girolamo
The official ceremony with high-rank political
delegations will take place on 19th October 2004,
in the new Globe of Innovation near the ATLAS
pit
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Dont forget to register for the next ATLAS
Overview Week!
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