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                       E895 Minutes

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Date: 26 March 96

Present: Gulshan Rai, Lee Schroeder, Thomas Wienold, A. Dean Chacon,
         Daniel Cebra, Jerry Chance, Tom Case


GR: - The E895 experiment will be represented in the upcoming AGS 
      users meeting by Mark Gilkes. He will give a status report.

    - Stony Brook is continuing with tape copying and working on
      pass 0 and gain calibration

    - time offset: GR wants will talk to Fred Bieser and hopes to
      determine the t0 within one clock cycle 

    - Laser: Daniel Cebra offered to look into the Laser tuning and 
      wants to check the frequency multiplying crystal and beam 
      intensity while he is in Brookhaven. Laser beams would be 
      of great help to fix the time offset. 

    - upgrade of experimental setup: a TOF wall with sufficient 
      granularity would extend the detection capabilities at the 
      higher beam energies. GR reported that he looked into this 
      possibility but was not able to identify an existing TOF wall 
      suitable for E895 needs at the AGS. Building a new TOF is 
      currently not under discussion. Lee Schroeder pointed out 
      that it might be useful to investigate the situation at 
      CERN with regard to existing TOF walls.

    - under the present circumstances GR released the PMTs from the 
      EOS TOF wall for use (H.Crawford).    

    - MPS area: after E910 has finished data taking the tpc will 
      remain inside the MPS magnet.

    - E910 (Brian Cole) is presently running. A small problem in 
      the modified data acquisition system was solved by leaving 
      out one cherenkov counter in the data stream.

    - There occured a leak in the chiller system which was repaired.

Jerry Chance:  

    - reported on 2 web pages he created for MUSIC. He and Jim Draper, 
      Juan Romero and Scott Tacko (spelling?) are working on estimating
      the MUSIC time offsets. They concentrate on the Au + Be and 
      Au + C data.

Tom Case:

    - gave a progress report on the field maps. He will finish the 
      1 Tesla field map first. Jerry offered to distribute the 
      the survey information to fix the coordinate system.

Lee Schroeder:

    - asked about the time schedule for presentation of first results 
      from E895. G.R. expects this to happen within 3-4 months from now.
      L.S. mentioned that E895 should be present on upcoming conferences.

Gulshan Rai:

    - Hans Georg brought up the question whether the EOS and E895 
      meetings should alternate, i.e. each being held biweekly. 
      G.R.: we will continue to hold the E895 on a weekly basis 
      at LBNL in the beginning but our collaborators from Davis 
      are free to come every second week. 



                                        prepared by Thomas Wienold