Minutes from the ISOLDE Physics Group meeting on January 28th, 2015
No comments to the minutes of the PG meeting held last week.
Technical news
- There was not technical meeting this week.
Safety
- The electrical habilitation 3 day-course for ISOLDE locals took place last week.
- The electrical certificates are being prepared by PH.
- A new session will be held on 18-20th of February.
- A course in March could be organized for people that might not be able to attend a course in February.
- Everybody that didn’t need the ISOLDE RP course last year should follow it this year, even if your dosimeter is still valid .
- The next CERN first aid course will take place the 25th of February, it is advisable to sign for such a course if you have not yet done it..
- The coordinator is trying to organise a course for training on the use of the workshop machines at B508 workshop.
- The ISOLDE emergency evacuation exercise was conducted satisfactory on Tuesday morning.
- The safety observers indicated that the current evacuation alarm at the hall is not very obvious. It is being investigated if it’s possible to replace it
B508
- The electrical connections for the machines in the workshop are being finished this week.
- After the electricity is finished a second company will install the machines on the floor.
- Finally, the machines will be brought to conformity.
- B508 entrance key will be most probably changed to SC40, the general ISOLDE offices key.
- The Ethernet ports in all rooms are deactivated until you make a request to move a PC into the particular port or define the port as for portable devices.
- There is a phone now installed and working in the daq room (508 1-005).
- A new share-point website will be created to schedule meetings in b508 meeting and visitor room.
B275
- Six new cupboards have been ordered from recuperation to store material in the mezzanine.
- The maximum weight allowed in the mezzanine is 350 kg/m2.
- Intervention scheduled for Wednesday 9 am next week to organize material and clear space in the mezzanine’s shelves.
- All the material in 275 to be sent to long term storage needs to be photographed and identified the owner (if possible).
- The entrance key will be new and common between AD and ISOLDE. We will try to get an electronic system.
Miscellanea
- The ISOLDE hall cleanup was finished on Monday morning.
- The opted DG, Fabiola Gianotti, will visit the ISOLDE hall on Thursday morning.
- The hall extension cleanup will wait until the Miniball support structure is installed (mid-march).
Summer students program
- Laura Grob will collect the recommendations for summer students and the projects proposed by the ISOLDE group members.
- CERN’s deadline to submit projects is February 15th. ISOLDE internal deadline is the week ending February 6th.
- ISOLDE normally gets 7 students from member states, and another 6-7 from non-member states.
AOB
-PSA: The ISOLDE hall assembly point is located in the parking lot in front of the MEDICIS building.
-Request from Stephan Malbrunot for help recovering the second ISOLDE pumping station. Please check if you have taken it.
-The next meeting will take place at 14:00 Wednesday next week (4th February 2015 )followed by a seminar by John Sharpey Schafer, “Collective Structures in the Pairing Gap, High Resolution Two Proton Stripping and Connections to Double Beta-Decay” (https://indico.cern.ch/event/364563/).
Minutes taken by MMF