Detector NIM Paper Draft

1. Detector NIM Paper Draft MINOS Detectors NIM Paper Status and Job List for this Meeting Dave Ayres & Alec Habig Argonne & Minnesota – Duluth MINOS Collaboration Meeting at Tufts June 4-10, 2006

2. The Good News A number of people have put in a lot of work during the past year A fairly complete draft now exists: http://www.hep.anl.gov/ayres/minos/minos-nim.pdf Most of the authors and potential contributors are at this meeting We are highly motivated to get this paper finished soon! The Bad News The draft text is very rough and needs a lot of work There are still some missing figures, tables and numbers Much information is incomplete or incorrect – everything needs checking The draft is much too long: we aimed for 50 pages and wrote 80 (so far)! The Plan This remainder of this talk will be a short tour through the paper, pointing out the most serious deficiencies Alec and I will do some serious editing on the draft at this meeting Detector experts are strongly encouraged to help correct errors and provide missing material Note: there are work-time sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings If you don’t volunteer, we will track you down! Status of the Draft

3. NIM Paper Tour (1) • Author List and Abstract • 4 pages, no figures • Plan: see Section 1 • Quality and completeness: satisfactory • Note: this is an all-author paper, excluding only those who began work on MINOS after December 2004 • Section 1: Overview • 3 pages, including 2 figures (1 page) • Plan for authors list, abstract, overview: 2.5 pages, no figures • Quality and completeness: satisfactory

4. NIM Paper Tour (2) • Section 2: Steel and Magnet Coils • 4.5 pages, including 1 figure (0.3 page) • Planned: 3 pages, including 2 figures (1 page) • Quality and completeness: needs work • Specific issues • Figure (showing near and far B fields) too small • Needs a figure showing coil geometries(?) • Needs a lot of text editing • References need work • Needs a concluding section describing how well we know the fields

5. NIM Paper Tour (3) • Sec. 3.0, 3.1: Scintillator Overview, Reqs/Specs • 3.3 pages, including 1 figure (0.3 page) • Planned: 0.5 pages, including no figures • Quality and completeness: needs work • Specific issues • Needs a description of the veto shield • Sec 3.2: Scintillator Strips and fibers • 3.3 pages, including 1 figure (0.3 page) • Planned: 3 pages, including 2 figures (1 page) • Quality and completeness: satisfactory • Sec. 3.3: Scintillator Modules • 12 pages, including 8 figures (6 pages) • Planned: 3 pages, including 2 figures (1 page) • Note: original plan assumed an existing, standalone scintillator paper • Quality and completeness: unsatisfactory • Sec. 3.3.3 (scintillator module construction) needs the most work • At least two missing figures • Many missing numbers • Text needs heavy editing

6. NIM Paper Tour (4) • Sec. 3.4 & 3.5: PMTs/enclosures & cables/connectors • 6 pages, including 3 figures (1.5 page) • Planned: 3 pages, including 3 figures (1.5 pages) • Quality and completeness: satisfactory • Specific issues • Needs table expanded to include M16 characteristics • Sec. 3.6: Scintillator Performance • 6 pages, including 5 figures (2.5 pages) • Planned: 3 pages, including 2 figures (1 page) • Quality and completeness: ? (I haven’t read it since rewrite) • Sec. 4: Electronics and DAQ • 6 pages, including 1 figures (0.5 page) • Planned: 7 pages, including 3 figures (1.5 pages) • Quality and completeness: ? (I haven’t read it recently) • Specific issues • DAQ section is missing! • Needs a figure for ND electronics?

7. NIM Paper Tour (5) • Sec. 5: Installation • 9 pages, including 8 figures (4 pages) • Planned: 5 pages, including 4 figures (2 pages) • Quality and completeness: needs work • Specific issues • 4 of the 8 figures are too small • There is at least one missing figure • Needs a new geometry/coordinates figure? • Needs to be shortened?? • Sec. 6: Calibration • 9 pages, including 5 figures (2 pages) • Planned: 6 pages, including 4 figures (2 pages) • Quality and completeness: needs work • Specific issues • Missing sections on absolute calibration • Needs significant text editing

8. NIM Paper Tour (6) • Sec. 7: Operation and Performance • 13 pages, including 5 figures (2 pages) • Planned: 8.5 pages, including 4 figures (2 pages) • Quality and completeness: unsatisfactory • Probably want to split off 7.1 & 7.6 (lab facilities & safety) into a separate level 1 section, since they is so different from Secs 7.2-7.5 • Specific issues • Some performance material seems too detailed • There is at least one missing figure • Sec. 8: Conclusions, Acknowledgements • 1.5 pages, no figures • Planned: 1 page, no figures • Quality and completeness: satisfactory • Need to figure out how to make Acknowledgements a separate section • References • 2 pages, no figures • Planned: 2 pages, no figures • Quality and completeness: needs formatting work

9. NIM Paper Summary • We are off to a good start, but: • It has taken us a year to get this far • There is a great deal of work left to do • If any of you have a good contact at NIM, who might be able to arrange for publication of our very long paper, please let us know! • We think that the current limit is ~50 pages, and we will have close to 100 if we don’t’ do something drastic • This won’t get finished anytime soon unless detector experts (including me!) give this work a lot higher priority than we have up to now • We must get this paper done soon so that MINOS physics publication can refer to it