Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:59:03 +0100 From: George MIKENBERG To: Atlas Muon Subject: Proposed MUON Management operation on 2001 Dear colleagues: following a two-day get together of the MUON Management, we would like to propose the following re-organization of our activities: 1) The Alignment Group will continue to operate in its present form, with some changes that will be decided after the March H8 Workshop. 2) The ROD-ROB-DAQ group will be re-organized to be able to work closely together with the test-beam activities and to coordinate the ROD software, calibration procedures and DAQ for the various MUON sub-systems. The proposed reorganization, as presented by Speranza, is given in Appendix I. 3) Establish a planning group, that will include a Planning Officer (or Project Engineer, to be found), the MUON Resource Coordinator, as well as the various responsible for different aspects of quality control. The Planning Officer will be in charged of following the material flow and the detector production of all the MUON sub-systems, including electronics, on-line software packages, detector infrastructure, storage, logistics and testing, for what concerns the project planning. The Resource Coordinator will be in charged of following the the expenditure of resources and coordinate the resource sharing for common infrastructure items. 4) Enlarge the MUON Management meeting at regular intervals to include outside people in the discussion of the following subjects: i) Coordination with the US Chamber Production ii) Technical Coordination, Layout, Integration and Installation iii) Test beam activities, Storage and Logistics at CERN. 5) Include as part of the Layout and Integration meeting a regular report by Joerg on the progress on Storage, Logistics and Chamber Testing at CERN. 6) Reorganize the Layout, Integration and Installation group, to continue working in a common TC-MUON effort, under two Integration Engineers (Francesco, for the Barrel and Steve for the End-Cap), with share engineers and designers that will prepare the design work and integration on the following aspects: i) External systems (Z=0, Shielding, Cryo-lines) ii) MUON Services (Gas, electrical) iii) Alignment iv) Access platforms v) Supports Barrel, EO, EE, EIL4, Wheels, etc) vi) Integration into ATLAS drawings vii) Electronic racks viii) Cooling racks ix) Gas racks x) Installation Procedures xi) Access procedures The Integration engineers will have regular meetings with the TC and part of the MUON management to follow up the work, take decisions and to decide on resources. 7) Established a MUON Common Fund, as part of the M&O funding for 2001 of 70KCHF/year (that could be part of the Test Beam fund) to be able to react fast for either manpower or needs related to integration issues. The status of the fund will be reported by the MUON-IB chair to the collaboration during the MUON weeks. 8) Ensure that the various production sites are aware of the implications of the late start in chamber production and ask them to propose solution on how to react. This process has already started in the MDT community. 9) With the information obtained in 8), a new Production Reorganization Group (like it was the case for the End-Cap region) will be established to plan a possible detector staging that will guarantee maximal Physics capabilities at the start of data taking. Best regards George Appendix I Proposal by Speranza To my mind we should follow the scheme already adopted by the TDAQ group and form a Muon DIG (Detector Interface Group). This group should evolve following the evolution of the central ATLAS DIG in order to be always ready to face the issues related to detector interfacing and integration both respect to other sub-systems and internally to the Muon Spectrometer. In particular I see the Muon DIG as a number of small working groups (which may also overlap in terms of people and tasks) on the following topics: Detector specific part (MDT, CSC, RPC, TGC): * Detector readout (ROD developments and related software) * DCS interface * System configuration (how to initialize the FE/RO electronics) * Online database * Detector description / Data format / Numbering schemes * Calibration * Monitoring Trigger and DAQ : * DAQ-1 core software (detector independent) * Test beam application * Test sites application * Testbed application (for example, the LVL1/LVL2/EF vertical slice) (Note that the item "Test beam application" would produce the DAQ software for H8, the item "Test sites application" would produce a few packages of software for the chamber construction and test sites, the item "Testbed application" would produce the software to perform lab tests such as the study and integration of the full muon trigger vertical slice). It is evident that all the topics listed above are very much linked each other. On the other side, we can factorize the detector interface issue into several very specialized topics which can be carried out by small groups of people, making the work more effective. General meetings of the full Muon DIG group could be foreseen during the muon weeks, while specialized meetings may happen every two weeks as phone/video-conference. To monitor the progress of the Muon DIG, a set of milestones should be defined and a WEB page implemented to report also the progress made. ________________________________________________________________________________ >> This mail has been sent to everyone on the atlas-muon list. >> The list is automatically generated daily from the Atlas members database. >> To change your e-mail address, use "xuserinfo" or "cuserinfo" >> on any CERN central machine. 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