WP#28 at Orsay


Dear TPC friends,
                Here is a list of possible things to discuss
at Orsay.  If you can't join the phone meeting, please
send me your feedback by email...
    Greetings,
                 Ron

            WP#28 02/05/2007
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   Wednesday 25 April 2007
  West Coast    East Coast      W.Europe       Japan
   02.00         05.00           11.00         18.00

    Here is info from Vincent about venue/phone:
++  Room reservation at LAL for a TPC meeting on May 2th morning, room 129
in the main bulding. Since it is not easy to access to this part of the
lab, the best is to meet at 10:30 at the main entrance to LAL, building
200, where the registration for the software meeting is.  We will then go
to the TPC meeting room from there.
++  The telephone meeting will start at 11:00:
TEL.BAT.200,
phone number +33 1 56 78 86 88
title 'ILC-TPC meeting'.

     Prel. Agenda
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1. LCTPC collaboration items
     a. Our tracking-review is finished after final comments 
have been sent this week.  
There is a lot of collaboration work to catch up on:
-"Project List LP TPC, version 4" which contains several items not yet
covered.
-Finances and manpower situation.
-Finish the formation of our LCTPC collaboration, e.g., steering-,
editorial-, speaker's-committees.

2. LP issues
Here is the list of issues remaining after the last meeting:
-Panel sealing.
-Panel shape.
-Connector positions.
-Drawing of field-mapping gear (Marcello Losasso).
-Identify who can analyze the field-map data (CERN or DESY students being
 discussed).
-Plan hardware and software steps needed for coordinate systems for
 the field-map, the PCMAG and the TPC systems.
-Understand relation between TPC DAQ (Alice, Lund, Bonn) and EUDET JRA1
 DAQ for the pixel telescope.
-Understand relation between TPC analysis and EUDET NA2 computing/analysis
 framework.
-Understand the trigger timing for LP1.
-Plan LP1-hardware-mechanics steps up to end 2007.
-Plan LP1-electronics steps up to end 2007.
-Plan LCTPC-electronics steps up to end 2007.

 3. LP input
After last week, here is something urgent to attend to:
    a. Situation with the LP1 electronics (Leif).
Since last week,  Leif has started putting together cost scenarios
and milestones for the LPTPC electronics; this is not ready for
distribution yet.  All numbers are being checked, but based on preliminary
ones from last week, it looks like we will be needing for the 10000 preamp
channels ca. 100kEuro, if the yield of Altro chips from the Star/Mips-TPC
order is high enough (we should know this in a week or so because Lund
has started testing Star Altros).  Klaus Desch suggested that we
can try to get about 20kEuro from several of the groups in order to
generate the cash needed.  The CDC (Japanese) and Bonn groups have each
offered 20kEuro, so this is a good start.

++  Luciano's deadline for knowing how many preamp channels we want order
is week 19, so at the latest we should decide at the next meeting, WP#28
on 9 May 2007.  Therefore this understanding of the costs and
contributions is now urgent!

4. AOB