Agenda

Attendance

David A, Nilanga L, Bhasitha D, Chandika A, Jim F, Klaus D, Ryan B, Vladimir B

(Nilanga) Getting ready to order foils from CERN; need to get in queue for production in June; can make minor changes if needed to design between now and production. Should have a Technical Board meeting to approve purchase order. Frames will again be from Resarm.
(Nilanga/Bhasitha) Can adjust design of the gas outlets/piping to reduce possible interferences with GEM rotator, reduce mass of manifold pieces
(Jim) suggests incorporating strain relief for HDMI connectors to distribution board. This distribution board (which converts

to Panasonic connectors to the GEMs themselves) is a very inpexpensive PCB board, easy to modify the design.

(Nilanga) UVA prototype studies: holds HV fine, cosmic data (low stats) looks good; tested with x-ray source, no dead sectors. All this is using SRS (not MPD) readout. Plan to take to JLab and put in the SBS test stand (MPD readout) and look at efficiency maps.