ags rsvp weekly meeting 2 dec 2004

AGS RSVP Weekly MeetingP. Pile2 December 2004

AGS RSVP Weekly Meeting2 Dec 2004

Useful Links:

• RSVP Project: http://rsvp.bnl.gov

• C-AD AGS Project: Office http://server.c-ad.bnl.gov/esfd/RSVP/RSVP_AGS_WBS.htm

Agenda– Guidance and Upcoming reviews (Pile)– Update on AGS/BOOSTER WBS 1.4.1 cost

scrubbing & short term spending plan (Brown)– Update on beam development plan (Ahrens)– Status of resource loaded schedules and short

term spending plan for Switchyard (Pendzick)


Preliminary Guidance – our plan(subject to change – we have not yet received guidance from Willis/Kotcher

as result of 4-5 Nov AGS Review – no change since 18 Nov meeting)

• Continue cost scrubbing and schedule development

• Highest priority to AGS/BOOSTER WBS 1.4.1– Cost scrubbing, what can we postpone until operations phase? etc…– Schedule – in particular a plan to get the AGS/BOOSTER in shape for high intensity

beam development --- by beginning of 3rd year of construction?– Beam development plan that fits within constant effort RHIC budget scenario with 2

beams – i.e. figure on 80 hrs/week and 15 weeks/year• Case 1: Beam development during entire 5 year construction period• Case 2: Beam development beginning 3rd year of construction

• The construction plan should be developed consistent with no beam development in first two years of the project (Case 2 above)

– D-line decommissioned– C-Line available beginning of 3rd year for tests– there’s a risk (small) that we may have to revert back to the original plan (Case 1).


Milestone Date Status, Comments

Discussion of Baseline Expectations, Timeline with Experiments

September 13 Held

MECO Magnet Review Sun-Tue, Oct 10-12 Held

AGS Review Thu-Fri, Nov 4-5 Held

Internal discussion of resource-loaded schedules (RLS) for all projects

Thu, Dec 9 Includes PO, NSF PM, ALD + experiments. One full day.

Simulations & Backgrounds Review Tue-Thu, Jan 11-13 Set, reviewers assembled, held at NYU

Initial review of RLS for all projects Tue-Thu, Jan 18-20 Reviewed by LOG. Dates TBF.

Reviews of other sub-projects Weeks of Jan 24 – Feb 21 Series of LOG-based reviews of RSVP sub-systems

Draft versions of PMP, PEP, Conceptual Design Report completed

Mon, Feb 14

Operations Review Week of Mar 7

Project startup pre-review Week of Mar 15 Comprehensive preparatory review of full project, proposal

Project startup review Week of Apr 18 Final project startup review, iteration of above. NSF review.

Finalize documentation for May submission to NSF

Week of Apr 25

Product submitted to NSF/NSB Mon, May 2

next significant events

•AGS/Booster cost and schedule ~complete•Case1 and Case2 beam development plans ~complete•DRAFT Resource Loaded Schedule available•Experiment WBS’s work-in-progress

Roadmap to Resource Loaded Schedule understood, some cost scrubbing

K0PI0 and MECO Experiment Simulations Review


RSVP Cost and Schedule Review, 9 Dec 2004

Goals and expectations of the meeting:

– This meeting is intended to provide the opportunity for an open, frank discussion of the projects' status and outlook– Status report of what is in place with regard to project planning for the three projects– The current confidence of the Project Managers in the estimates they have so far. – Project Managers' plans for how any missing or incomplete items will be tackled over the coming months.

Agenda: (Orange Room, Physics, attendance by invitation)

– 2 hours each: KOPIO (M. Marx), MECO (M. Hebert) and AGS (P. Pile)

Detailed Guidance: http://server.c-ad.bnl.gov/esfd/RSVP/guidance.pdf


RSVP Cost and Schedule Review, 9 Dec 2004


RSVP Detector Capabilities, Simulations and Backgrounds Review

(11-13 Jan 2005 at NYU)


RSVP Simulation and Background Review Committee

–Ed Blucher, University of Chicago –Martin Cooper, Los Alamos–Cy Hoffman, Los Alamos–Patty McBride, Fermilab–Jack Ritchie (Chair), University of Texas, Austin–Mike Shupe, University of Arizona–Bob Tschirhart, Fermilab–Koji Yoshimura, Osaka University

Charge and Agenda: http://server.c-ad.bnl.gov/esfd/RSVP/RSVP_Simulations_ChargeAgenda_.pdf

RSVP Detector Capabilities, Simulations and Backgrounds Review

(11-13 Jan 2005 at NYU)


Next Meeting

• 16 Dec 2004

• Agenda

– TBD

ags rsvp weekly meeting 2 dec 2004

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