1 UKNF/MICE OsC PM report Summary assessment of MICE Risks, pressures and worries Project management Electrical substation, accommodation Redefining the UK project Andy Nichols, STFC, 22nd June, 2010

2 Present top-level MICE schedule Agreed by iMICE – only reviewed at Collaboration Meetings This version – March, 2010 Credibility of this schedule in some doubt, discussed later......

General progress UK has been ready for Steps II & III for some months now Decay solenoid has just emerged from painful 8K hour service – but now powered to full current Running for Step I commences this week Online (ISIS) target continues to run very well Offline target project (T2r & T3) making good progress Dust catcher sorted out Magnetic/mechanical axes mismatch understood and on way to being corrected Offline-online programme should resume during/after August shutdown First planes of EMR due from UNIGE at end July, 2010, but Step I data collection will take priority PPS is in final stages – implementation by August

General progress UK project was geared (in good faith) towards arrival of spectrometer magnet #1 in mid-May, 2010 and #2 six months later Everything is ready to integrate Steps II & III Problems with spectrometer magnets mean possible delays of min one year Technical/organisational difficulties at ICST/Berkeley still largely unresolved, re coupling coil magnets Presently we cannot predict dates for Steps II onwards Radical change in engineering culture required MICE is at its most vulnerable since

Risks, pressures and worries MICE top level schedule is critically dependent on two out- of-control subsystems This really is our only serious worry Not clear the US collaboration is staffed at the right level Or that QA and design and manufacturing control is rigorous Personal view is that another organisation must step in and apply an ISO 9001 based approach from ground up FNAL have made a critique of the spectrometer magnet project – iMICE and solenoid review committee await their report UK might be able to influence, given successful Mississippi 1.6M$ MRI grant for RF goods Could buy our way into the collaboration to the tune of 1.6M$ as UK now relieved of RF stuff But unfortunately there’s much more to this problem than money

Risks, pressures and worries The foregoing has had a negative effect on the domestic MICE team Motivation of the installation and design team has suffered Vital that we hold the team together Hope that re-definition of UK activities works – see later 6

Project Management Chris Bulloch of Magna Parva is now well established: Visits once a week Chairs weekly cost & schedule review meeting Has produced affordable costed project plan for FY10/11 Schedule/milestones table substantially ready Roy Preece of PPD will take over from Chris later this year Roy has taken SSC Oracle course for Project Managers Need to work out a way of importing UK methodology to international project – will be floated at CM27 7

Electrical substation progress The problem: The electrical supply in R5.2, the MICE Hall, needs to be upgraded to 2MVA, certainly to run at Step IV and probably at Step III Most of the power is required for CCR compressors, latest predictions are (5+1)x2 for spectrometer solenoids and 3x2 for coupling coils The present layout in R5.2 gives 1.25MVA and is based on fifty-year old equipment that has not been used to full capacity for many years The ingoing cable to R5.2 has adequate capacity and does not require any work Historically, this has been treated as a host-lab contribution and has never appeared MICE’s costed plan But we understand the need for a discussion 8

Schedules and costs summary 9 VersionCapital (K£)Effort (K£) BPG BPG BPG DL Note, costs are based on reasonably detailed effort estimates and Budget estimates from manufacturers Detailed costing will be re-visited when sufficient guidance on what plan to follow Is received – a lot of work otherwise, for which we do not have funding All the schemes depend on major bought out components that have lead times of 8-18 months – this really defines the schedule, again no detail schedule Planning will be done until chosen route identified MICE’s schedule for Step III is (very) arguably Q3-4, 2011 So we should aim for that

Latest news Met with STFC Management the other day More detailed costing of BPG1 requested, also assessment of development potential Description of costed risks of DL1 scheme also requested – the cheapest, but not necessarily best value solution Meet again on 8 th July MICE hopes to be pushed in the right direction on that day! MICE considers it unacceptable that the cost should come from project funds If we are forced to take the cheapest option of using the existing old infrastructure: Major risk that it won’t work on the day Preventing our collaborators’ equipment from working Would make STFC look pretty bad 10

Project accommodation Some success recently: –Have moved into half of R9 –Work on compressor supports and CCR hose spools underway there –Has already proved useful as base to work in parallel when MICE is running in R5.2 –Plans for simple 12 tonne A-frame and rails underway –Negotiations for rest of building continue –Not on critical path anymore, but will keep up pressure 11

Re-defining the UK project Steps II & III are delayed for at least one year UK installation team and infrastructure construction were very carefully geared towards spectrometer solenoid #1 arriving at May 15 th We want to hold the team together, so: Advance work on the LH2 system – See Matt’s talk in open session Hydride bed Vent system Civil engineering Pipe/valve & gas panel work Ongoing safety case RF power work Design of waveguide/power/cooling infrastructure Hands on work at DL with RAL team – second amplifier Project plan has been re-costed and is affordable 12

13 LH2 system is at advanced design stage major components are ordered hope to have enough detail done to start hands on work mid-late July much work to do/parts to order The LH2 system should be viewed as the major UK undertaking for FY10/11 – should not be underestimated – and this is only The R&D phase

RF power work Separates into three discrete activities: 1.Powering the first amplifier at DL –Electrical support work is making good progress at DL 2. Stripping and reconditioning the second LBL amplifier at DL –Two RAL (Merit-Merrell) installation staff can work at DL to support DL technicians. Exploratory meeting scheduled for th July – plenty of space at DL! Can also help with pre- assembly of two CERN amplifiers 3.Advancing work on RF power hardware design in R5.2 –Andy Moss and Tim Hayler have begun consulting, for this year it’s primarily a design exercise – need meeting with US on how to interact with US MRI grant 14