Brief Minutes from a Weekly meeting on alignment

1. Discussion of milestone reports.  D.E. drafts reports which are edited by R. Loveless. These reports define Link + SLM design milestone plus delay of sensor choice milestone. The latter will be added to LINK system report to the LHCC.

2. bi-direction DCOPS sensor sample shown, ready for test.  D. E. is sending five of them to Northeastern.

3. J.M. reports: The new DCOPS is available, and ready to start programming.  The old one is in a black box ready to do a  radiation test. D. E requests that the test result to be 'quantitative' to understand dark current buildup v dose and tolerance of laser position fit  to dark current to define the accpetible rad dose. It is also important to translate dose into a CMS endcap equivalent.

4. J.M. reports that there is some simulation program available from Spanish people which simulates the transparent sensor.  Likely a c++ program.  J.M. will send mail out to specify the location to get more information about this program.

5. S.L. has been looking into Simulgeo program written in JAVA.  There are some problems that he has not successfully linked the program on the local machine, yet. Likely to do with 'different version of JAVA'.

6. ISR plan development - what is system, readout, what is the test, resutls, issues, etc.   D.E. will attempt a draft.

7. Alminum MAB will be used for the ISR test, instead of carbon fiber material.  Question is raised if we can learn anything conclusive from this test at all, if the test turned out to be 'unstable'.