Re: travel & progress

["Alexei Vorobiev" <Alexei.Vorobiev@cern.ch>]

Dear Peter,
Thank you for the information. It sounds quite good.
As concerns G.Petrov 's  visit, we shall prepare the invitation from CERN
from July 15  for two months (is it enough?) so he could participate in the
physics run in August.
I am at CERN now for the next three weeks. Before I left Gatchina,we had
several
discussions on the status of PNPI activities.
I shall summarise them in my next mail
                   With best regards    Alexey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kammel" <kammel@npl.uiuc.edu>
To: "Alexei Vorobyov" <VOROBYOV@rec03.pnpi.spb.ru>
Cc: "Claude Petitjean" <Claude.Petitjean@psi.ch>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:06 PM
Subject: travel & progress


> Dear Alexei,
>
> We made good progress during the last week. The TPC is
> inserted in the electron detector for the first time
> and observing nice muon tracks with 5.5kV @ 5bar N2.
> We will continue the electronic set-up and the analysis
> this week, to confirm the quality in more detail.
>
> During next weekend Claude is planning to pump and
> then start hydrogen filling and conditioning, which
> probably will take two weeks.
>
> I am leaving tomorrow to the states, but my student
> Steve and our postdoc Cenap will be here during June.
> I plan to come back end of June/early July and then
> stay on during a 2 months at least. So we still
> plan to start the main run Aug 15.
>
> The ePC construction is making excellent
> progress now, this week the anode wiring will begin.
> Very good work by Nadia and Valodja thus far.
> I talked today with Evgeny Maev and Genna Petrov in
> Gatchina. For the ePC project we would like Genna
> to come middle of July. Then new new chamber
> should have gone through initial commissioning and
> we would need Genna's expertise for full instrumentation,
> shielding and eventually combining the chamber system.
> Genna asked me to contact you and Claude wanted to know
> whether PSI or CERN should send invitation papers
> for his visa. Please contact Claude directly on this
> point.
>
> As things appear today, we might manage a first physics
> run this year at lowered TPC high voltage. That would
> be a crucial milestone. Next year we hope to have
> both the PSI and PNPI chambers in separate vessels
> so that we can risk full voltage.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> Peter Kammel  /  pkammel@uiuc.edu
> Department of Physics, Loomis Laboratory
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
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>
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