Agenda
- Summary of CERN costing Workshop - AK.
- Points for discussion
- Specification of level 3 system interfaces.
- Organisation of services.
- Cost model for FFAG - NB.
Minutes
- AK gave summary of Costing Workshop.
- Level 3 breakdown structure was discussed. Agreed on the level 3 systems being the proton driver; target, capture and decay (including the proton absorber); muon front-end; muon acceleration; and decay ring. Muon acceleration will be broken down into linac, RLA 1, RLA 2 and FFAG.
- AK to draft an interface document giving the beam parameters and other key pieces of information to specify the interface between level 3 systems.
- Discussed need for cost focal points (CFPs) i.e. people responsible for providing information that goes into the costing tool. This doesn't have to be one person per level 3 system but is more like one person per level 4 system.
- Current list of CFPs are:
- Proton Driver Front-End: Juergen Pozimski.
- Proton Driver Acceleration: Jaroslaw Pasternak.
- Muon Front-end: Chris Rogers.
- Linac and RLAs: Ajit Kurup.
- FFAG: Scott Berg, Neil Bliss.
- Decay Rings: Norbert Collomb, David Kelliher.
- AK and target people will have a meeting soon to discuss breakdown of target, capture, decay system and identification of CFPs.
- Should get support from CERN to cost buildings and tunnels
- Neil Bliss pointed out that there is expertise at Daresbury to do this and it would be useful to have a comparison with numbers from CERN.
- Schedule as set out for EUROnu is
- CERN review with AK and CFPs in June/July.
- Close to final version of costing for the EUROnu report by end of December.
- AK would like to have first version of level 4/5 breakdown done and have CFPs for all systems within 2 weeks.
- Discussed services
- Neil Bliss pointed out that slide 6 in AKs talk should be called Hardware and Services to eliminate confusion.
- Current methodology is to have similar hardware and services grouped together for each level 3 system. Items requiring specialised hardware or services should list them under that subsystem.
Kirk MacDonald pointed out that a quench protection system needs to be included. AK suggested having this as a separate subsystem for each level 3 system.
- Neil Bliss showed work he has been doing on costing the FFAG.
- Revised parameter list.
- Revised layout and schematics.
- Cost model.
- Include capital and running costs.
- Cost breakdown structure.
- Next meeting will be in about 4 weeks time.
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