1. March ‘08G. Ruggiero Totem Collaboration Meeting Roman Pot Detectors 1 st RP Detector Assembly RP vs DCS and DB CERN Open day

2. March ‘08G. Ruggiero Totem Collaboration Meeting The 1 st RP Detector package The first package has been fully tested and assembled Vfat and detector testing made with the trans. board in the H8 system

3. March ‘08G. Ruggiero Totem Collaboration Meeting Towards the first assembly… The detector package has been mounted on the “champignon”…the next step would be mounting the MB. The piping and capillaries will be then mounted the same way it has been already done for the Thermal Prototype

4. March ‘08G. Ruggiero Totem Collaboration Meeting Next Steps For the RP Hybrids: Testing and assembling procedures are being defined for the mass production Lab spaces are also under preparation 10 new hybrids delivered, more to come (see Walter) For commissioning the RP Detector Packages Preparation for testbeam setup Preparation of a Cosmic Ray setup (parallel to testbeam) –(Federico looking after the hardware procurement) …Still things to define RP and DCS Almost all requirements for the DCS are now clear Within 10 days a new version of the requirements paper and the full naming scheme RP and DBs The management of the data relative to the construction of the DB is being structured now.

5. March ‘08G. Ruggiero Totem Collaboration Meeting CERN Open Days 5 th and 6 th of April 5 th from 9 to16 and 6 th from 8 to19 Photo Exposition –~9 Panels 1x2m 2 (landscape) for Photos i.e. 18 High Res Photos (A1) with descriptions –6 photos per detector… Who could be there? 2 full-time people (or 4 shifts…) TOTEM Experiment Poster on Surface at IP5 –for general public Being drafted now Visit in the Tunnel (sect. 56 up to the Roman Pots) –Call for volunteers for tunnel visit by the 19 th of March –At least 6 half-day slots to cover Our contact persons are Beatrice and Virginia (beatrice.bressan@cern.ch virginia.greco@cern.ch )beatrice.bressan@cern.chvirginia.greco@cern.ch

6. March ‘08G. Ruggiero Totem Collaboration Meeting Volunteer’s Table __________K.Eggert __________K.Eggert G. Ruggiero __________ F. Ravotti ________ Photo Exposition Tunnel Visit 5 th of April6 th of April5 th of April6 th of April Morning Afternoon