1. Collaboration Board Summary
Alan Bross
MICE CM 27

2. Collaboration Board – CM26
Agenda:
Intro
Approval of minutes Booth
Spokeʼs remarks & EB report Blondel
PM report Nichols
Common Fund Long
NSF Update Hanson
SB report Palladino
October CM Tsenov
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Spokesmouse
Spokesmouse Report
MICE PROJECT BOARD (new version) will take place September 23
Running MICE: concentrating on data taking. MICO agenda has been modified to account for emphasis on beam-line tuning. Missing one MOM in November.
Shift taking Policy
AB will draft a proposal. All authors have a shift responsibility, but burden accounted for by institution.
NOTE: Running 24/7 with the number of authors we currently have means about 3 shifts/author/month
Open issues: Accounting for MOM shifts, BLOC, etc. Not necessarily a consensus on this point at the moment.
Extra Shift taking as a way of fulfilling common fund responsibility was rejected.
IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
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4. PM Report

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Andy gave a report summarizing status of scheduling update, and engineering integration
From TB discussion:
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6. Could aim for Step IV in 2012, say Q2

7. Spectrometer solenoids – what I’ve picked up this week:
September 2010 – complete diagnosis of current lead problem
December 2010 – complete the written recovery plan (Worst Case)
December ?? Arrival of magnet #1 (and 2?) further discussion.....
Believe a sufficiently robust recovery plan could get us
Step IV in early 2012
EMR, diffuser and solid absorbers are off critical path (for now)

8. Common Fund

9. Income and expenditure:
Issues:
Recovery of unpaid contributions

10. Estimate:
2009/10 estimate:
Reasonable for present financial year (2010/11)?

11. 180 £k

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ECFA
Ken reported on presentation to ECFA review panel
For future large infrastructures for neutrino oscillation experiments
Alan Bross MICE CM - RAL July 10, 2010

13. Community consultation; steps taken:
EUROnu:
Concept explained to Management Board
Welcomed proposed review panel
Concept presented to delegates at EUROnu costing w/s, CERN, 15/16 March 2010:
Positive reception
Note:
Formally, EUROnu reports to the Strategy Session of CERN Council:
So, if the review of the IDR and EUROnu interim reports is deemed to be a success and the process moves on to the review of the RDR and the EUROnu final reports, it will be important that the review is included as part of the Strategy Session of CERN Council reporting process
IDS-NF
Concept explained to Steering Group
Proposed review panel was welcomed
Comment:
Ensure review panel is manifestly international
Concept presented to IDS-NF plenary meeting, FNAL 08—10 April 2010
Neu2012 (NA in EUCARD IA)
Concept presented by T. Nakada to Neu2012 community

14. Issues: ECFA intention is that review panel shall be:
International:
European initiative; but international in scope and influence
Composed of internationally recognised leaders in the field
Not sufficient for this to be the intention, nor sufficient even for it to be true in practice, unless:
The international community recognises the panel as international and ‘heavy weight’
i.e. essential that there be ‘buy in’ from:
International neutrino community;
‘Stakeholders’:
e.g. laboratory and funding-agency directors
Implies:
Care in establishing principle with stakeholders prior to launch of initiative
Broad consultation to define composition of panel:
Including appropriate cross membership (e.g. ICFA, ACFA, …)

15. Towards the terms of reference:
Noting the timescale defined by the Strategy Session of CERN Council, the ECFA review panel will:
Receive IDS-NF IDR and EUROnu interim report, supported by appropriate presentations from the proponents
Review and comment on the IDS-NF IDR:
The robustness of the physics case;
The specification of the baseline for the Neutrino Factory;
The analysis of cost and schedule presented in the IDR; and
The plans of the IDS-NF collaboration for the RDR.
Review and comment on EUROnu interim report:
The strengths of the super-beam, beta-beam, and Neutrino Factory facilities
The development of baseline super-beam and beta-beam facilities;
The plans of the EUROnu collaboration for the completion of the study.
Report to ECFA:
Also to ICFA etc. if successful in forming such partnerships

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NSF Update
NEWS: Mississippi MRI Request Approved ($1.6M). For MICE RF
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Speaker’s Bureau
Vittorio reviewed the status of Talks Abstracts, etc
Although we missed a few meetings – Good representation at iPAC10 & Neutrino 2010
Coming UP
ICHEP10
LINAC 10
NuFact 10
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18. To be held at the Bankya Palace Spa Hotel
October CM
October 3-8, 2010 – Sofia
To be held at the Bankya Palace Spa Hotel
1st Annual MICE Bowling Tournament
Bring Your Shoes
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