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U.S. ATLAS PROJECT OFFICE

**Physics Department**

**UPTON, NEW YORK 11973**

August 16, 2005

Mr. Thomas Ferbel

19901 Germantown Road\
Germantown, Maryland  20874-1290 

 

Dr. Samuel Aronson

Associate Laboratory Director

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Upton, NY 11973

SUBJECT: U.S. ATLAS Research Program Quarterly Status Report

Dear Sirs:

Attached please find U.S. ATLAS Research Program Quarterly Status Report
Project No. 3 for the period January-March 2005.

Sincerely yours,

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Howard A. Gordon

U.S. ATLAS Deputy Research Program Manager

Head, U.S. ATLAS Project Office

[Distribution]{.underline}:

Abolins, M.

Adams, D.

Alam, S.

Aronson, S.

Baker, R.

Barberis, D.

Barnett, M.

Bensinger, J.

Butehorn, C.

Byon-Wagner, A.

Carolan, P. - DOE

Coles, M. -- NSF

Crawford, G. - DOE

De, K.

Dodd, J.

Ernst, R.

Errede, S.

Ferbel, T. - DOE

Gan, K. K.

Gardner, R.

Gibbard, B.

Gilchriese, M.

Goldberg, M. - NSF

Gonzalez, S., DOE

Harrison, M. -- PAP

Hinchliffe, I.

Huth, J.

Kane, S.

Kirby, D.

Kroon, P. -- PAP

Lankford, A.

Larsen, R. - PAP

Lissauer, D.

Lubatti, H.

Luehring, F.

Malon, D.

Mantsch, P. - PAP

Mckee, S.

Meyers, P. -- PAP

Neal, H.

Nevski, P.

Ogren, H.

Oh, S.

Ozaki, S.

Paolone, V.

Parsons, J.

Pilcher, J.

Price, L.

Quarrie, D.

Rajagopalan, S.

Rijssenbeek, M.

Rutherfoord, J.

Seiden, A.

Seidel, S.

Shank, J.

Shochet, M.

Skubic, P.

Slattery, P.

Sliwa, K.

Stroynowski, R.

Taylor, F.

Tull, C., DOE

Tuts, M.

Undrus, A.

Wenaus, T.

Whitaker, S.

Whitmore, J. -- NSF

Willcoq, S.

Wolbers, S. - PAP

Williams, H.

Willis, W.

Wu, S.L.

Youssef, S.

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**research program STATU.S. REPORT NO. 3**

**REPORTING PERIOD**

**January-March 2005**

# Table of Contents {#table-of-contents .unnumbered}

[Table of Contents 3](#table-of-contents)

[1. Executive Associate Project Manager's Summary (J. Shank, BU)
4](#executive-associate-project-managers-summary-j.-shank-bu)

[2. Technical Progress Reports 4](#technical-progress-reports)

[2.1 Physics 4](#physics)

[2.2 Software 5](#__RefHeading___Toc94424484)

[2.3 Facilities 15](#facilities)

[3.1 M&O Silicon 21](#__RefHeading___Toc94424486)

[3.2 M&O TRT 23](#mo-trt)

[3.3 M&O Argon 23](#mo-argon)

[3.4 M&O Tile 29](#mo-tile)

[3.5 M&O Muon 32](#__RefHeading___Toc94424490)

[3.6 M&O Trigger 36](#mo-trigger)

[3. Financial Report (Chuck Butehorn, BNL)
[40](#financial-report-chuck-butehorn-bnl)](#financial-report-chuck-butehorn-bnl)

#   {#section .unnumbered}

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# Executive Associate Project Manager's Summary (J. Shank, BU)

This quarter saw the completion of DC2 and a switch in emphasis to the
Rome Physics Workshop scheduled for June 2005. While DC2 was descoped,
many of the tests originally in DC2 are now part of the Rome
preparations. In particular the switch to doing analysis in the Athena
framework using Event Summary Data (ESD) and Analysis Object Data (AOD).
This is allowing us to discover new problems with the ATLAS production
system (prodsys) software used to run jobs on the worldwide grids. This
prodsys software was reviewed on 21 January, 2005 and plans are now
being formed for a new organization in ATLAS to produce the next
generation of prodsys which takes into account lessons learned from DC2.
The U.S. ATLAS management is now beginning a review of the GTS area (WBS
2.3.4) in light of the overall ATLAS prodsys review and existing U.S.
grid efforts like OSG.

Further refinements of the ATLAS Computing Model document were on going
during this period, with new sections on Heavy Ion running and
refinement of the analysis use cases. This document is still in flux and
we are working with the ALTAS team to make sure the numbers reflect our
current plans for Tier 1 and 2 centers.

In the software area, work was completed on the development of the
release for the Rome physics workshop in June 2005, one of our big
upcoming milestones. Studies for this workshop will be part of what we
called phase 3 of DC2, given that DC2 was late. This will use software
that has the ATLAS Event Summary Data (ESD) and Analysis Object Data
(AOD). The software development concentrated on functionality need for
ESD and AOD, and this was successfully deployed. Some functionality in
the database area was postponed, given the focus on the Rome physics
analysis. This is reflected in shifted milestones in WBS 2.3.3 as
explained in the full report.

We continued the U.S. collaboration wide discussion of our Physics
Analysis Model. This started at meeting in Tucson in Dec, 2004: The
First North American Physics Workshop. We are working on a new draft of
this model in preparation for our next DOE/NSF review in August. The
second stage of our North American physics analysis has been scheduled
with the next meeting in Toronto 1-3 Aug., 2005. This is a continuation
of the fruitful meeting we had in Tucson last December.

# Technical Progress Reports

## 2.1 Physics {#physics .unnumbered}

**2.1 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  complete Production for    5-Feb-05       \--              5-Feb-05       Completed
  Rome                                                                      
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**Ian Hinchliffe (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)**

During the first second quarter of FY2005, work was focused on the data
production for the Rome physics workshop. As this was the first time
that event generation was not carried out centrally, more time was
needed to support users as members of the atlas physics groups had to
run their own event generation. A total of more than 6M events were
produced using the full menu of available generators in Atlas.

Sherpa was brought into production and used for the Rome data sets.
Valuable lessons were learned and the Sherpa interface will be
redesigned following feedback to the Sherpa authors.

The large productions also revealed subtle problems (at the one part per
thousand level) in Herwig. One of these was traced back to a bug inside
Herwig itself which has since been fixed by the Herwig authors.

Problems with the Herwig/tauola interface that affected only certain
physics processes was diagnosed and patched. There are serious long term
issues with tauola due to the inadequate versioning provided by the
external tauola author. He has been told about this.

The documentation for all the ATLAS event generators was revised and
completely updated for release 10.0.0. This update used the experience
of users in making the Rome data.

The migration of Pythia to release 6.3 has started. This will be the
default in atlas software release 11.0. Validation of the new version of
the structure function package Lhapdf has been completed after it was
made available along with the old pdflib. Support for pdflib will be
dropped in release 10.0.1.

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## 2.2 Software {#software .unnumbered}

**2.2 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  DC2 Phase 2                1-Jun-04       \--              1-Dec-04       Completed (See
  (reconstruction) starts                                                   #1)

  DC2 phase2                 31-Jul-04      \--              15-Feb-05      Completed (See
  (reconstruction) ends                                                     #2)

  Software deployed for      1-Dec-04       23-Feb-05        15-May-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Mar-2005 Physics Workshop                                                 

  ATLAS Computing TDR & LCG  30-Jul-05      \--              30-Jul-05      On Schedule
  TDR                                                                       

  Release 11.0.0 software    30-Sep-05      \[New\]          30-Sep-05      On Schedule
  for Commissioning                                                         

  Software available for DC3 30-Sep-05      \--              30-Dec-05      Delayed (See #4)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1-2**  Completed, though de-scoped

**Note #3**  Delayed awaiting completion of many software components

**Note #4**  DC2 delayed\.... DC3 delayed

**Srini Rajagopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

This period saw the concluding activities for a de-scoped Data Challenge
2 exercise and ramp-up of activity in preparation for the Rome physics
workshop (June 2005). The Rome physics workshop has an additional 5
million events (itself descoped from the original planned 15 million) in
which the U.S. played a significant role - both in the production and
the analysis of these events for the physics workshop. The U.S.
priorities changed slightly to accommodate the emphasis on the Rome
physics workshop.

The next major milestone after Rome workshop is the startup of the
cosmic ray commissioning. This is broken into several phases: the early
phase of standalone detectors involved in calibration and some cosmic
rays will begin later this year. A software release in September 2005 is
expected to address the needs of the commissioning exercise. The U.S. is
gearing up for significant participation in the commissioning run.

New hires added this quarter: Marcin Nowak (BNL) on data management and
Tadashi Maeno (BNL) on distributed analysis. These were hires originally
planned for the previous fiscal year.

**2.2.1 Coordination**

**2.2.2 Core Services**

**2.2.2.1 Framework**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Integration of Seal        30-Sep-04      14-Sep-05        14-Nov-05      Delayed (See #1)
  plug-in Mechanism                                                         

  Synchronize Gaudi Release  30-Sep-04      23-Feb-05        31-May-05      Delayed (See #2)
  with                                                                      

  History & Property Mech    30-Dec-04      \--              14-Sep-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Integ                                                                     

  Support for Reconstruction 30-Dec-04      \--              30-Dec-05      Delayed (See #4)
  on Demand                                                                 

  Flexible error and         23-Feb-05      \--              23-Feb-05      Completed
  exception handling                                                        

  Framework and EDM review   28-Feb-05      \--              28-Feb-05      Completed

  High-level job             14-Sep-05      \--              14-Sep-05      On Schedule (See
  configuration design and                                                  #5)
  tools                                                                     

  promote and fix            14-Sep-05      \--              14-Sep-05      On Schedule
  creation-on-demand of                                                     
  services                                                                  
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Done for dictionary loading. Priority lowered for
integration in Gaudi

**Note #2**  Porting to Gaudi release 16 has been delayed to maintain a
stable developers environment during the completion of DC2. Will be done
just after 10.0.x

**Note #3**  Not vital for the \"Rome workshop\" release (10 according
to current plans). It should be defined and implemented in time for DC3
(release 11)

**Note #4**  This is going to be needed in particular to support \"pick
mode\" reconstruction from the event display. At this point we do not
expect this to be needed before the \"Cosmic Ray\" data taking in 06

**Note #5**  Integrate/replace current flag-based mechanism. Develop
tool to facilitate migration to new job option structure.

**2.2.2.2 EDM Infrastructure**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Prototype Support for      30-Sep-03      30-Mar-05        30-Sep-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Integer Keys                                                              

  Support for History        30-Mar-04      \--              14-Sep-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Objects                                                                   

  Integrate CLID Database    30-Jun-04      \--              14-Sep-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Generation                                                                

  Integration with           30-Jun-04      30-Jun-05        31-Dec-05      Delayed (See #4)
  POOL-Cache Manager                                                        

  review need and            23-Feb-05      \--              23-Feb-05      Completed (See
  implementation of                                                         #5)
  StoreGate symlinks                                                        

  support DataLinks across   23-Feb-05      23-Feb-05        23-Sep-05      Delayed (See #6)
  different stores                                                          

  optimize setup and access  15-May-05      \[New\]          15-May-05      On Schedule (See
  performance of IDC                                                        #7)

  new DataVector             31-Aug-05      \[New\]          31-Aug-05      On Schedule (See
                                                                            #8)

  evaluate the need of       14-Sep-05      \--              14-Sep-05      On Schedule
  object aliases and                                                        
  versioning in StoreGate                                                   

  speed-up lookup of objects 14-Sep-05      \[New\]          14-Sep-05      On Schedule
  in transient store only                                                   
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  HLT group agreed to reschedule this non-vital performance
optimization. It may not be needed at all if Identiable Container
iterator access is optimized.

**Note #2**  transient part complete but no persistency yet. Rescheduled
to DC3

**Note #3**  delayed to DC3

**Note #4**  this in a non critical optimization, that will probably
will be delayed or even canceled

**Note #5**  done. A new solution was proposed (see new DataVector
milestone)

**Note #6**  mechanism is there \"in principle\". Need to be tested and
fixed as needed. Also need to evaluate the viability of \"long\" links
that can be dereferenced outside their store context.

**Note #7**  this appears to be needed for Rome

**Note #8**  the new DataVector will solve the cleanly the \"container\"
inheritance problem symlink addressed in a non-portable mode. Prototypes
were presented at Feb SW

**2.2.2.3 Detector Description**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Native GeoModel Material   30-Jun-04      \--              30-Jun-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Integration Service                                                       
  Available                                                                 

  MYSQL Lite DD I/O +        1-Jul-05       \[New\]          1-Jul-05       On Schedule
  replica available                                                         

  Misaligned geometry model  1-Sep-05       \[New\]          1-Sep-05       On Schedule
  available                                                                 
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  This item continues to be of concern particularly to the
inner detector community; however it is lower in priority than most of
the other ongoing activities (particularly, stabilizing the simulation)
so it has been allowed to slip in deference to those activities.

**Joe Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh)**

The automatic geometry detect & build is complete. A LAr Detector
Manager overhaul has been completed. Continued debugging of the LAr with
GeoModel. Incorporation of fast simulation in geomodelized LAr. Port of
calibration hit production in geomodelized LAr simulation started.
Migration of identifiers to the Oracle database started. Maintenance of
the detector descriptions database, including databases freezes and
replication. SQL Lite replication and access completed.

**2.2.2.4 Graphics**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Integration of Graphic     30-Mar-04      \--              8-Feb-06       Delayed (See #1)
  Tools within Athena                                                       
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**Note #1**  Plans for this have still not gathered maturity, while a
first technical discussion with the UK developers of the Atlantis Event
Display occurred.

The U.S. has no direct participation in this effort but we will consult
with our UK colleagues to make sure that the algorithm providing
information to Atlantis is redesigned in a way that reduces coupling to
detector packages. We also want to support callbacks from the event
display to athena (for example to recalculate track parameters after a
problematic hit has been added or removed). At this point we do not
anticipate the need for callback before the \"Cosmic Ray\" release 12.

**2.2.2.5 Analysis Tools**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  access ROOT analysis tools 14-Sep-05      \[New\]          14-Sep-05      On Schedule (See
  from python                                                               #1)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Integrate pyROOT into athena

**2.2.2.6 Grid Integration**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Integration with Ganga     30-Sep-03      \--              30-Sep-05      Delayed (See #1)

  Prototype Implementation   30-Sep-03      \--              30-Sep-05      Delayed (See #2)
  for Grid Monitoring                                                       
  Architecture                                                              

  Integration with           30-Mar-04      \--              30-Sep-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Distributed File                                                          
  Replication Service                                                       
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  This activity is partly covered under Distributed Analysis
Tools and a prototype is expected to be deployed for use in DC3.

**Note #2**  This is work is partly covered under Grid Tools and
Services to provide monitoring of jobs submitted on the Grid. No
capability within Athena exists due to lack of any assigned resources.

**Note #3**  The integration has been delayed due to lack of manpower.
Work on standalone distributed file replication services are in progress
and needs to be completed before an integration with Athena can be
established.

**2.2.3 Database**

**David Malon (ANL)**

This reporting period saw considerable descoping by international ATLAS
of Data Challenge 2, and an increased focus on support of data
production and analysis for the ATLAS Physics Workshop in June 2005.
These international ATLAS priority changes were reflected in a
reprioritization of several U.S. database milestones, as noted in
detailed milestone reports.

Personnel changes: A new Brookhaven hire, Marcin Nowak, joined the U.S.
ATLAS database team on 30 March 2005.

A highlight of this reporting period was a very successful and widely
cited U.S.-led documentation standdown, a period when all development
activity ceased until certain developer-level documentation and coding
standards had been met.

The U.S. ATLAS database team will host an event store workshop at
Argonne in April 2005. Planning and schedules may be substantially
updated as an outcome of that workshop.

**2.2.3.1 Server and Services**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Embedded Server Support    30-Jun-04      \--              22-Apr-05      Delayed (See #1)
  and Extraction Protocols                                                  

  Support distributed        31-Mar-05      \--              31-Mar-05      Completed (See
  database deployment for                                                   #2)
  DC2                                                                       

  Database support for Rome  8-Jul-05       \[New\]          8-Jul-05       On Schedule
  physics workshop                                                          
  production                                                                

  Support logical connection 8-Jul-05       \[New\]          8-Jul-05       On Schedule
  naming, and                                                               
  logical/physical                                                          
  connection mapping                                                        
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  delayed because unneeded for DC2. DC2-critical activities
have been given priority.

31 December 2005: Delayed once again because of further delays in ATLAS
Data Challenge 2.

31 March 2005: Not needed for Data Challenge 2 because of international
ATLAS de-scoping. Revised schedule will be decided in April 2005.

**Note #2**  31 March 2005: This milestone, somewhat reduced in size
because of substantial de-scoping by international ATLAS of Data
Challenge 2, has been met.

**2.2.3.2 Common Data Management**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Initial Suite of ATLAS     30-Jul-03      \--              7-Jan-05       Completed
  POOL Acceptance Tests                                                     

  Athena I/Fs for Physical   30-Sep-03      25-Jan-05        15-Apr-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Placement Control Defined                                                 

  Support for Multiple       30-Jun-04      25-Feb-05        8-Jul-05       Delayed (See #2)
  Transaction Contexts                                                      

  Support for Placement      30-Sep-04      25-Jan-05        8-Jul-05       Delayed (See #3)
  Control                                                                   

  Test Suite for Prototype   30-Sep-04      \--              25-Jan-05      Completed
  POOL Schema Evolution                                                     

  Support for Cross-Type     30-Dec-04      \--              22-Apr-05      Delayed (See #4)
  Conversion                                                                

  Documentation Stand-down   11-Jan-05      \--              11-Jan-05      Completed

  Athena user access to POOL 31-Jan-05      31-Jan-05        29-Apr-05      Delayed (See #5)
  configuration options                                                     

  Review PoolSvc design, and 22-Apr-05      \--              22-Apr-05      On Schedule
  develop plan for                                                          
  refactoring                                                               
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Pending January 2004 DC2 event store readiness workshop.
Delayed until after DC2.

31 December 2004: On schedule with respect to revised forecast.

31 March 2005: To be decided at April 2005 event store workshop.

**Note #2**  delayed until after DC2

31 December 2004: On schedule with respect to revised forecast.

31 March 2005: Revised schedule pending April 2005 event store workshop.

**Note #3**  Delayed until after DC2.

31 December 2004: On schedule with respect to revised forecast, but
delivery date is subject to reprioritization of workload to support 2005
ATLAS physics workshop.

31 March 2005: Delayed to meet international ATLAS schedule (not needed
for Rome production). Revised schedule pending April 2005 event store
workshop.

**Note #4**  31 December 2004: Schedule for this task will depend upon
reprioritization of functional additions in support of the 2005 ATLAS
Physics Workshop.

31 March 2005: Revised schedule pending April 2005 event store workshop.

**Note #5**  31 December 2004: Read access to configuration options has
been delivered. Write access will come in the first quarter of 2005.

31 March 2005: This is ready (pending a bug fix from the POOL team), but
not yet integrated into ATLAS releases because of international ATLAS
release control (not needed for Rome).

**2.2.3.3 Event Store**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Unique EDO Identification  30-Sep-04      \--              28-Feb-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Infrastructure                                                            

  Database Support for       30-Dec-04      \--              30-Dec-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Express Streams                                                           

  Event Store Workshop at    15-Apr-05      \[New\]          15-Apr-05      On Schedule
  Argonne                                                                   

  Event store chapter for    13-May-05      \[New\]          13-May-05      On Schedule
  Computing TDR                                                             

  Event store documentation  13-May-05      \[New\]          13-May-05      On Schedule
  for June review                                                           

  Processing stage           8-Jul-05       \[New\]          8-Jul-05       On Schedule
  identification in back                                                    
  navigation                                                                
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Delayed until after DC2.

31 December 2004: On schedule with respect to revised forecast.

31 March 2005: Priority reduced (not needed for Rome physics workshop).
Revised schedule to be determined at April 2005 event store workshop.

**Note #2**  31 December 2004: Because this was de-scoped from the DC2
Tier 0 exercise, it will not be needed until DC3.

31 March 2005: On schedule with respect to revised forecast.

**2.2.3.4 Non-Event Data Management**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Maintain NOVA through      30-Jun-05      \--              30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  period of geometry                                                        
  database transition                                                       
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**2.2.3.5 Collections, Catalogs, Metadata**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Collection Cataloging      30-Sep-03      \--              22-Apr-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Deployed                                                                  

  Athena                     30-Dec-03      \--              22-Apr-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Interface/Read/Write                                                      
  Access to Collection-Level                                                
  Metadata                                                                  

  Collect                    30-Mar-04      \--              22-Apr-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Replication/Distribution                                                  
  Infrastructure Deployed                                                   

  Integration of Collection  30-Mar-04      \--              22-Apr-05      Delayed (See #4)
  Support & Bookkeeping                                                     

  Integration of POOL        1-Apr-05       \--              1-Apr-05       On Schedule (See
  collections with                                                          #5)
  Relational Access Layer                                                   

  Deliver tag database for   27-May-05      \[New\]          27-May-05      On Schedule
  Rome physics workshop                                                     
  production data                                                           

  Collection scalability     10-Jun-05      \[New\]          10-Jun-05      On Schedule
  tests using new POOL RAL                                                  
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Moved to Summer 2004 in the POOL work plan; ATLAS-specific
work will probably not be a U.S. responsibility (Grenoble should do
this). POOL has added a model collection catalog to its 2004 work plan.
ATLAS will wait for this.

31 December 2004: Collection cataloging has been successfully tested,
but deployment will wait until the later stages of the much-delayed Data
Challenge 2.

31 March 2005: POOL collection cataloging is not yet ready for
deployment, and hence for integration by ATLAS.

**Note #2**  Pending January 2004 DC2 event store readiness workshop.

Delayed until after DC2. Not needed for combined test beam because this
metadata will also be available from the conditions database.

31 March 2005: Date subject to revision after April 2005 event store
workshop.

31 December 2004: Delayed once again because of ATLAS DC2 delays.

**Note #3**  Joint U.S./Orsay responsibility, on the critical path for
DC2.

Delayed corresponding to ATLAS DC2 Phase II delays

31 March 2005: De-scoped by international ATLAS from DC2. Revised
schedule to be determined at event store workshop in April 2005.

31 December 2004: Delayed once again because of ATLAS DC2 delays.

**Note #4**  Principally a Grenoble responsibility, with some U.S.
involvement on the collections end. On the critical path for DC2.

31 December 2004: Delayed once again because of DC2 delays.

31 March 2005: De-scoped by international ATLAS from DC2. Revised
schedule to be determined at event store workshop in April 2005.

**Note #5**  Delivery expected within a week of prediction.

**2.2.4 Application Software**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Geometry Model Based       30-Sep-03      \--              30-Mar-05      Completed
  Detector Description used                                                 
  for Reconstruction                                                        

  ATLAS Complete GEANT4      30-Dec-03      \--              30-Dec-04      Completed
  Validation                                                                

  Prototype Definition of    30-Dec-03      \--              30-Jul-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Event-Level Physics                                                       
  Metadata (tag)                                                            

  RTF Recommendations        30-Dec-03      30-Mar-05        1-Oct-05       Delayed (See #2)
  Implemented                                                               

  Extract Module Alignment   30-Mar-04      \--              30-Mar-05      Completed
  Constants                                                                 

  Initial Implementation of  30-Jun-04      \--              30-Nov-04      Completed
  AOD and ESD Available                                                     

  Support for Alignment in   30-Jun-04      \--              30-Mar-05      Completed
  Readout Elements                                                          

  Access to Alignment in     30-Sep-04      \--              30-Jun-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Reconstruction                                                            
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Awaiting outcome of AOD-ESD task force

**Note #2**  Well in progress. Calorimeter completed, RTF recommended
EDM for Tracking delayed due to lack of manpower

**Note #3**  Some alignment information is already existing in Athena.
Other delayed due to either lack of information and appropriate
conditions infrastructure to save these time-varying alignment constants

**2.2.4.1 Simulation**

  --------------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**                     **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Validate pile-up                  15-Jul-04      \--              15-Dec-04      Completed

  US DC2 Production Commitment      15-Aug-04      \--              15-Dec-04      Completed
  completed for                                                                    
  simulation/digitization/pile-up                                                  

  Validate Initial/Rome layout      2-Feb-05       \--              2-Feb-05       Completed
  Simulation                                                                       
  --------------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**2.2.4.3 Combined Reconstruction**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  US DC2 production          15-Oct-04      \--              15-Dec-04      Completed
  commitment for                                                            
  reconstruction completed                                                  

  Validate Rome/Initial      1-Apr-05       \--              1-Apr-05       On Schedule
  layout reconstruction.                                                    
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**2.2.4.4 Analysis**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  First analysis results     1-Dec-04       \--              1-Dec-04       Completed
  from DC2 data                                                             

  Validate GEANT4 Physics    15-Dec-04      \--              15-Dec-04      Completed
  with DC2 data                                                             

  Introduce tag database     1-Jun-05       \[New\]          1-Jun-05       On Schedule

  US -Base Analysis Effort   6-Jun-05       \--              6-Jun-05       On Schedule
  for Rome workshop                                                         
  completed                                                                 
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**2.2.4.5 Trigger**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Define US Role in Trigger  10-Mar-05      10-Mar-05        15-Apr-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Software.                                                                 

  Host Trigger Workshop at   10-Mar-05      10-Mar-05        15-Apr-05      Delayed (See #2)
  UC Irvine.                                                                
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  The Trigger Workshop was held at a slightly different time
then originally planned.

**Note #2**  The Trigger Workshop was held at a slightly different time
then originally planned.

**2.2.4.6 Combined Testbeam Software**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Final CTB data available   15-Dec-04      15-Dec-04        1-Feb-05       Completed
  with preliminary analysis                                                 

  Analysis of CTB data for   6-Jun-05       \--              6-Jun-05       On Schedule
  Rome Physics Workshop.                                                    
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**2.2.5 Software Support**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Configure, build, and test 1-Jun-05       \--              1-Jun-05       On Schedule
  ATLAS software on new slc3                                                
  platform                                                                  

  Interface NICOS nightly    30-Jun-05      \[New\]          30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  tool with new Tag                                                         
  Collector 2                                                               

  Release 5.0 version of     30-Sep-05      \[New\]          30-Sep-05      On Schedule (See
  NICOS with \"build on                                                     #1)
  demand\" feature                                                          
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  \"build on demand\" feature allows to apply NICOS for the
creation of the work releases with the user specified content.

**Alexander Undrus (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

During this quarter the ATLAS stable releases were made available on
RedHat73 and SL 3.0.3 platforms at BNL. The US ATLAS user environment
was tuned and ongoing ATLAS software tests were successful on new SL
3.0.3 platform. ATLAS nightly builds at BNL were moved to SL 3.0.3
platform with incremental scheme implemented (only the modified code and
dependencies are rebuilt in the nightly release area of a local disk and
then the updated nightly release is copied to AFS areas for worldwide
use). The support of ATLAS nightly builds at CERN included tests with
the new Tag Collector 2 prototype and arranging builds on SLC3 machines.
The first development version of ATN (ATLAS Testing Nightly) tool was
released (and included in ATLAS software releases). ATN provides the
testing framework for the NICOS nightly build system with the
convenience of tests repeatability, result accumulation, user friendly
setup. By the end of the quarter ATN ran about 60 unit and integration
tests on ATLAS nightly and stable builds. The ATN-KV interface allows to
run tests of another ATLAS KitValidation testing framework. At BNL new
ATLAS software releases were promptly installed, usually in one to two
days after CERN installation. The mirrors of ATLAS CVS repository and
ATLAS nightly builds were supported. New LXR server,
alxr.usatlas.bnl.gov, was established to provide the collaboration-wide
service for fast searches of ATLAS software.

## 2.3 Facilities {#facilities .unnumbered}

**2.3.1 Tier 1 Facility**

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

Service Challenge 2 (SC2) was completed successfully attaining its
70MB/sec data transfer speed target as well as demonstrating robustness
over the planned 10 days period. Gridftp was used in conjunction with
the Radiant software to control T0-T1 transfers and in addition SRM
mediated transfers were demonstrated during the SC2 exercise.

The planned expansion of the production dCache system was completed in
time bringing the capacity of the system to 50TB, using a base of 80
servers.

The Linux farm has been expanded by adding 200 disk drives to support
dCache operations on an additional 48 servers. The procurement process
had been completed for the addition of 288 servers and 150TB of storage,
to be operational before the end of May 2005.

A review of the current infrastructure services had been started.
Upgrades of the present systems will be determined and implemented
during the following quarter.

The BNL US ATLAS Tier1 facility is increasing personnel support. Hiring
efforts had commenced, advertising being complete and few interviews
being already established. The process is anticipated to extend until
July 2005.

**2.3.1.1 Management/Administration**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  FY05 BNL Tier1 Facility    30-Jun-05      \[New\]          30-Jun-05      On Schedule (See
  Recruitment                                                               #1)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  The BNL Tier1 is increasing personnel in support of its
activities. Advertisement of new openings had been completed but the
applications list had not been closed, yet. Interviewing had started and
few promising candidates were identified.

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

The BNL US ATLAS Tier1 facility is increasing personnel support. Hiring
efforts had commenced, advertising being complete and few interviews
being already established. The process is anticipated to extend until
July 2005.

**2.3.1.2 Tier 1 Fabric Infrastructure**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Review and upgrade         31-May-05      \[New\]          31-May-05      On Schedule
  infrastructure services                                                   
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

A review of the current infrastructure services had been started.
Upgrades of the present systems will be determined and implemented
during the following quarter.

**2.3.1.3 Tier 1 Linux Systems**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Initial dCache             15-Dec-04      \--              15-Dec-04      Completed (See
  Functionality Operational                                                 #1)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  A 32 nodes, 11TB, dCache storage system has been deployed
and is currently used by non-DC2 production jobs. Usage of main access
protocols (dcap, gsiftp, srm) has been tested and HPSS tertiary storage
has been integrated successfully. All basic features are operational.

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

The Linux farm has been expanded by adding 200 disk drives to support
dCache operations on an additional 48 servers.

The procurement process had been completed for the addition of 288
servers and 150TB of storage, to be operational before the end of May
2005.

**2.3.1.4 Tier 1 Storage Systems**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  dCache expansion           31-Mar-05      \--              31-Mar-05      Completed (See
  operational                                                               #1)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  An addition of 40TB to the production dCache system has
been completed. 200 disk drives had been added to the 48 systems
belonging to the Atlas computing facility bringing the total storage
capacity to 50TB. The system is operating at nominal parameters.

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

The planned expansion of the production dCache system was completed in
time bringing the capacity of the system to 50TB, using a base of 80
servers. The system operates at nominal parameters.

**2.3.1.5 Tier 1 Wide Area Services**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  HRM / SRM operational for  1-Nov-04       \--              1-Nov-04       Completed
  HPSS access                                                               

  dCache SRM operational     15-Dec-04      \--              15-Dec-04      Completed

  Robust Data Transfer       1-Feb-05       \--              31-Dec-04      Completed
  Service Challenge I                                                       
  complete                                                                  

  Robust Data Transfer       1-Mar-05       1-Mar-05         31-Mar-05      Completed (See
  Service Challenge Phase II                                                #1)
  complete                                                                  
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  SC2 reached projected objectives and was complete on time.
The BNL

T1 facility demonstrated its ability to drive T0-T1 data transfers up to
the available network bandwidth (\~70Mb/sec) and its robustness by
sustaining the transfers for 10 days, as planned. T1 exercised the
Radiant system \-- the SC2 recommended system \-- and in addition used
SRM/dCache to drive the transfers.

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

BNL T1 brought to operational status two implementations of the SRM
specification: one based on the dCache storage manager and a second one
based on the HRM development from LBNL. Both provide access to the mass
storage system and interoperate. Currently SRM/dCache is the main
production facility for USAtlas offering 50TB of managed storage.

SC2 was completed successfully attaining its 70MB/sec data transfer
speed target as well as demonstrating robustness over the planned 10
days period.

Gridftp was used in conjunction with the Radiant software to control
T0-T1 transfers and in addition SRM mediated transfers were demonstrated
during the SC2 exercise.

**2.3.1.6 Tier 1 Operations**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  DC2 Tier 0 - Tier 1        31-Dec-04      \--              28-Feb-05      Completed
  exercise complete                                                         

  Rome workshop production   31-May-05      \[New\]          31-May-05      On Schedule
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Razvan Popescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

DC2 was completed with the adjusted program. Rome production efforts are
engaging all Grid3 participant sites and work progresses as planned.

**2.3.2 Tier 2 Facilities**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Permanent Tier 2 Sites A & 1-Jul-04       \--              1-Jan-05       Completed
  B Selection Complete                                                      
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**2.3.2.1 Tier 2-A \"Currently Indiana/Chicago Prototype\"**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Job submission tools for   1-Apr-05       \[New\]          1-Apr-05       See Note #1
  local batch submission                                                    
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Condor servers deployed on interactive nodes for local
batch submission, in support of Rome analysis.

**Rob Gardner (University of Chicago)**

During this period both the UC and IU clusters have been running in
steady operations, in support of Rome production. A console server and
four new head nodes, to support interactive logins, were purchased.
Additional use of the cluster by local users for interactive analysis of
Rome AODs has been supported. File transfers and storage using DQ from
CERN and BNL have been supported, in support of Rome analysis.

**2.3.2.2 Tier 2-B \"Currently Boston Prototype\"**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  BU Tier 2 Fabric Upgrade   5-Mar-04       \--              5-Apr-04       Completed
  for DC2 Complete                                                          
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Saul Youssef (Boston University)**

During this quarter, the BU Tier 2 center has been in steady operation,
mainly supporting production for the upcoming ATLAS Rome meeting. The
main BU_ATLAS_Tier2 cluster has been dedicated to centrally organized
grid production by our production team and other individuals. The AGT
cluster (contributed) has been dedicated to MC production for the Boston
Muon collaboration. Two file servers have been replaced and Capone has
been configured to use multiple file systems allowing us to keep a high
production rate for i/o intensive jobs.

**2.3.3 Wide Area Network**

**Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)**

There are a number of ongoing projects of relevance to ATLAS Wide Area
Networking.

The MICS funded \"Terapaths\" project is exploring MPLS/QoS as a
technology to manage and prioritize the use of the BNL network. This
effort is planned to be extended to support Tier-2 centers as possible
based upon the local infrastructure. During January-March we had some
planning and organizational meetings and demonstrated deploying a QoS
path across the BNL infrastructure and mapping data into an ESNet MPLS
tunnel. Near term plans include protecting bandwidth to be dedicated to
the Service Challenge 3 work in July 2005.

The UltraLight project is also underway (see http://www.ultralight.org
for details). UltraLight is developing the infrastructure and technology
to effectively manage the network spanning the range of possibilities
from the current \"best effort\" packet switched networks to MPLS/QoS
virtual pipes to end-to-end circuit switched paths. UltraLight had an
NSF review in January 2005. By March 50% of the UltraLight network was
operational. We should have 100% operational by May 2005. UltraLight is
planning a production quality test of moving ATLAS Muon Calibration data
from CERN to Michigan at very high bandwidth disk-to-disk (500
MBytes/sec) starting June 2005.

A new Open Science Grid (OSC) Networking Technical group is starting up,
with co-Chairs Shawn McKee and Don Petravick. This group will focus on
getting developments pioneered by Terapaths and UltraLight into
\"production\" via OSG which should make such capabilities easily
accessible to ATLAS. This effort was started in March 2005.

**2.3.4 Grid Tools & Services**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Capone-Grid3 Review and    15-Jan-05      \[New\]          15-Jan-05      Completed
  Documentation                                                             

  GTS Support for Rome       1-Jun-05       \[New\]          1-Jun-05       On Schedule (See
  Production                                                                #1)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Daily responses and troubleshooting of problems encountered
during production activities for the ATLAS physics workshop in Rome.

**Rob Gardner (University of Chicago)**

GTS summary: during this project period work focused on preparations and
participation in ATLAS reviews of the DC2 production system,
identification of key areas for improvements in the Capone/GCE workload
management system and initial steps in re-design and implementation,
continued systems support for the on-going Rome production, and
integration work in the OSG testbed for the next generation of grid
services to be deployed on US infrastructure.

**2.3.4.1 Grid Infrastructure**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  OSG Integration Testbed    5-Feb-30       \[New\]          5-Feb-30       Completed
  (ITB) Release 0.1.2                                                       
  deployed on US ATLAS sites                                                

  Release Installation       30-Mar-05      \[New\]          30-Mar-05      Completed
  Reporter                                                                  
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Rob Gardner (University of Chicago)**

Work on a web-based ATLAS software installation reporting tool was
undertaken to improve management of releases on Grid3 sites.

**2.3.4.2 Workflow Services**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Support for Generic        1-Mar-05       \[New\]          1-Mar-05       On Schedule
  Transformations                                                           

  Design Batch DAG           30-Mar-05      \[New\]          1-May-05       Delayed (See #1)
  Generation                                                                
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  To increase scalability of the submit host, design changes
to Capone/GCE have been undertaken to group jobs into \"batches\" and
thereby reducing the number of DagMAN processes running on the submit
host. This work delayed to provide effort for worker-node
transformations and pileup transformations.

**Rob Gardner (University of Chicago)**

A comprehensive description of the Capone workload management system was
prepared for the ATLAS grid production tools review,
https://uimon.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/GridProductionToolsReview.

**2.3.4.3 Data Services**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Deployment, Testing,       30-Mar-05      \[New\]          1-May-05       Delayed (See #1)
  Evaluation of DMS3 Server                                                 
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Development and packaging of the dms3 server software
delayed at CERN.

**2.3.4.4 Monitoring Services**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  GLUE Schema Review and     15-Mar-05      \[New\]          15-Apr-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Agreements with OSG and                                                   
  LCG                                                                       
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  US ATLAS represented US-LHC in discussions and schema
design decisions with a broad group comprised of OSG, EGEE, and LCG
developers. Agreement on the GLUE 2.0 specification was reached, and
work now can proceed on implementation of information providers.

**2.3.4.5 Production Frameworks**

**Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington)**

A new version of Windmill which supports MySQL production database (to
store job definition and job execution records) was released. Alden
Stradling from U. Wisconsin used this version to successfully run
thousands of user jobs on Grid3. This approach allows any user to set up
his/her own custom MySQL database to process jobs using the same system
as managed production, without having to access the official Oracle
database which is used for DC production.

**2.3.5 Grid Production**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Computing Model Document   3-Jan-05       \--              3-Jan-05       Completed
  Complete                                                                  

  Complete Rome Production   1-Jun-05       \[New\]          1-Jun-05       On Schedule
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

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## 3.1 M&O Silicon {#mo-silicon .unnumbered}

**3.1 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary**

**Abraham Seiden (UCSC)**

Both the SCT and RODs have begun preoperations this quarter. This
coincides with the arrival at CERN of the first SCT barrel, which is
undergoing preoperations and is read out by the ROD system. Santa Cruz
technician Forest Martinez-McKinney has moved to CERN and has taken on
operation of the cooling system in the SR building. He has worked with
the cooling experts to fully check out the system and verify its stable
operation prior to connection to Barrel 3.

Alex Grillo and Ned Spencer continue to advise and direct work on
various aspects of the SCT electronic systems. There is continued work
on the power supply system, the cables, patch panels, and grounding and
shielding schemes.

**3.1.1 Pixels** **Abraham Seiden (UCSC)**

**3.1.2 SCT**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Start of Pre-Operations    1-Oct-04       \--              10-Jan-05      Completed
  for SCT                                                                   
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**3.1.2.1 Pre-Operations**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Pre-Operations for all     1-Aug-05       \--              1-Aug-05       On Schedule (See
  Barrels running together                                                  #1)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  The schedule for pre-operations testing at CERN is running
well and can meet this schedule but the assembly of barrels at Oxford is
running late. It would appear that the fourth barrel will not arrive at
CERN until approximately September. We will update the forecast for this
milestone when the delivery date of all four barrels is more definite.

**Alex Grillo (UCSC)**

We now have two UCSC people working at CERN. Our post-doc Sofia
Chouridou started in Dec-04 and our technician Forest Martinez-McKinney
moved to CERN at the beginning of Jan-05. This coincided with the
reception at CERN of the first barrel cylinder, Barrel 3, from Oxford.
The focus of their work this quarter has been on inspection and testing
of Barrel 3 and other necessary work in preparation for this testing.

Forest has taken on operation of the cooling system in the surface
building (SR1). He has worked with the cooling experts to fully check
out the system and verify its stable operation prior to connection to
Barrel 3. Sofia has learned how the SCT Power Supply system works and
how it is controlled via DCS. She has helped with some of the long term
reliability testing of the power supply system and some debugging.
Finally, both have participated in the connections of cables, fibers and
cooling to the barrel modules and complete system test. This culminated
in a test of the full Barrel 3 the first week of April. Greater than 99%
of all channels are working correctly (Only 2 out of 384 modules are not
functional. Those 2 are being investigated further.).

Alex Grillo and Ned Spencer continue to advise and direct work on other
aspects of the SCT electronics. There is continued work supervising the
completion of the power supply system, the cable procurement and
testing, patch panels and grounding and shielding.

While much of the power supply system is operational at CERN and the
macro assembly sites, the HV cards have a serious problem which has
required diagnosis and rework. The underlying cause of the failures has
now been determined to be caused by intermittent contacts of one of the
leads of a power FET in the regulation circuitry. This will be corrected
by improved workmanship standards when all of these FETs are replaced.
Furthermore, a protection circuit will be added to limit the output
voltage and shut off the channel should this FET fail in the future.
This work and coordination of other issues arise with the power supplies
are handled via weekly phone meetings with the groups responsible for
delivering the components.

Patch Panel 3 has still not been approved for production in spite of the
fact that it should be ready for installation with cables in May or
June. The circuit for PP3 has now been tested to meet SCT requirements
but there has been concern about the adequacy of the magnetic shield.
(The magnetic shield is necessary because PP3 contains several common
mode inductors which must operate in the fringe field of the toroids.)
The Melbourne group, which is responsible for providing PP3, has
developed a rather complex shield assembly which is made out of
expensive magnet steel and contains several piece parts. We finally had
an opportunity to analyze this shield assembly in March. Ned and our
technician Max Wilder built a magnet assembly in order to test the
shielding characteristics of the Melbourne assembly. They determined
that the assembly does provide adequate shielding, but the mechanical
design still requires more work. That is, there is no mechanism provided
to hold all of the various pieces together and to secure the position of
the printed circuit board with connectors relative to the shield
assembly. As an alternative solution, Ned and Max tried a piece of
rectangular steel tubing stock that happens to have suitable dimensions.
This very inexpensive material provided as good or better shielding
characteristics with a single part that can be cut from tubing stock.
They submitted a report of this analysis to Melbourne including the
tubing alternative for their consideration. These issues will have to be
resolved by Melbourne before Alex can call a Production Readiness Review
to authorize production.

Grounding and Shielding continues to require considerable time and
energy. Ned is consulting regularly with Jan Kaplon at CERN on the
details of ground references for all the various services and supports
that belong to SCT or are in the vicinity of SCT. This requires much
attention to detail as there are so many metallic components. Also, the
RAL engineers are still struggling to complete the outer encloses for
the barrel and end-cap assemblies. Even at this late date when so much
of the SCT mechanics has been produced or is being produced, the RAL
engineers have not designed all of the outer shielding components. It is
a real struggle now to accommodate the constraints of space, material,
manufacturability and schedule and still provide adequate shielding.
These issues should have been dealt with a few years ago but the RAL
engineers simply had no time until now (being forced now) to work on the
issues. In addition to providing electrical specifications for these
shielding components, Ned has to provide creative suggestions for
mechanical solutions which are manufacturable and meet the electrical
requirements. There still are barely adequate engineering resources at
RAL to complete the design so energy for problem solving is minimal.

**3.1.3 RODs**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Start of Pre-Operations    1-Oct-04       \--              1-Feb-05       Completed
  for RODs                                                                  
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Abraham Seiden (UCSC)**

Activity this period amounted to the use of the RODs for the readout of
Barrel 3 at CERN.

**3.1.3.1 Pre-Operations**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Pre-Operations of RODs     1-Aug-05       \--              1-Aug-05       On Schedule
  with Full SCT Barrel                                                      
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**3.1.3.1.1 RODs Pre-operations**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Machine Language           15-Jan-05      \--              15-Jan-05      Completed
  Histogramming Functional                                                  
  SCT/Pixel (Wisc)                                                          

  Firmware and Software      15-Mar-05      15-Mar-05        15-Jul-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Complete for Macro                                                        
  Assembly Site (Wisc)                                                      

  SCT/Pixel DAQ Functional   15-Jul-05      \--              15-Jul-05      On Schedule
  with ROD (Wisc)                                                           

  ROD Integrated into        15-Aug-05      \--              15-Aug-05      On Schedule
  Consolidated Beam Test                                                    
  (Wisc)                                                                    
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  The current firmware and software are functional and in use
by the SCT and pixel communities (should be good for several months).
The code is now being cleaned up and upgraded to the initial version.
This is expected by July. The code will then be in maintenance mode.

**3.1.4 Common Silicon**

## 3.2 M&O TRT {#mo-trt .unnumbered}

**3.2 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary** **Harold Ogren (Indiana
University)**

The M&O for the TRT barrel includes qualification testing of all modules
in Bldg 154 at CERN, and the testing of all modules once they have been
installed in the space frame in the SR building. We have completed both
of these tasks in the Jan-March quarter of 2005.

The work in 154 by Pauline Gagnon and crew is completed. We have
qualified all 96 modules need for installation, and two additional
spares of each type.

All of the 96 production modules were installed in February, 2005 and
the post insertion M&O testing these modules is now completed. When the
electronics is installed and the services hooked up this summer the
final testing ( sector and system tests) will be carried out during
August- December.

**3.2.1 TRT-Subsystem**

**3.2.1.1 TRT Pre-Operations**

**3.2.1.1.1 Module Check**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Completion of Modules into 31-Dec-04      \--              31-Jan-05      Completed
  the BSS (Duke)                                                            

  Completion of Modules into 31-Dec-04      \--              31-Jan-05      Completed
  the BSS (Hampton)                                                         

  Completion of Modules into 31-Dec-04      \--              31-Jan-05      Completed
  the BSS (Indiana)                                                         
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Harold Ogren (Indiana University)**

Module qualification testing in building 154 was completed in March,
2005. In addition two modules of each type were prepared and tested as
spares. The testing area has cleaned out and is being used for cable
preparation.

**Kenneth McFarlane (Hampton University)**

This work is complete. All modules shipped to CERN have been checked.

**3.2.1.1.4 TRT-6 mod-check**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  HV Distribution (Duke)     31-Dec-04      \--              1-Mar-05       Completed
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Harold Ogren (Indiana University)**

The initial post installation tests are now complete on all modules.

**3.2.2 Common TRT/ID**

##  {#section-3 .unnumbered}

## 3.3 M&O Argon {#mo-argon .unnumbered}

**3.3 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary**

**Ryszard Stroynowski (Southern Methodist University)**

Major work packages completed during this period are:

a\) Completion of the cool-down test of the EndCap C in Building 180.
The cryostat is now being prepared for the transport to the experimental
hall.

b\) Start of the cool-down test of the EndCap A in the building 180. The
test will take 3-5 months.

c\) Completion of the acceptance tests of the refrigeration system in
the experimental hall. The system is now fully operational. The barrel
cryostat will be connected to the system after its move to the final
position in September. Work on the transfer of the control software to
the UNICOS system continues.

d\) Re-assembly and checkout of the feethrough elements on the barrel
cryostats that have removed for the transport.

Major elements of the Electronic Testing and Maintenance Facility have
been assembled in the surface building in Point 1 above the experimental
hall. These include Front-End crate, Back-End crate, receiver system
test crate and linking elements. Work on development of the test
software continues.

**3.3.1 Mechanical Liquid Argon M&O**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Commission Nitrogen        30-Mar-05      \--              30-Mar-05      Completed
  Refrigeration System -                                                    
  stand alone                                                               

  Re-assemble FT Vacuum and  30-Mar-05      \--              30-Mar-05      Completed
  Test on the truck                                                         

  Commission Cryogenic       30-Jun-05      \--              30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  Connection to the Barrel                                                  
  Head Vessel                                                               

  Commission Cryogenic       30-Jun-05      \--              30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  System up to the Barrel                                                   
  Expansion Vessel                                                          

  Commission Cryogenic       10-Sep-05      \--              10-Sep-05      On Schedule
  Connection Lines to the                                                   
  Barrel at z=0                                                             

  Commission Vacuum Pumps,   30-Sep-05      \--              30-Sep-05      On Schedule
  Monitoring etc. for Barrel                                                
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**3.3.1.1 Pre-Operations and Commissioning**

**3.3.1.1.2 Feedthrough**

**Michael Rijssenbeek (SUNY Stony Brook)**

HV Feedthroughs - M&O:

Pre-commissioning:

Repair of faulty filter boards, which started in Fall \'04, is finished.
A single-filter board test setup was been built for this purpose to seek
out faulty filter channels (defined as having over current \>2 nA or
more than 15 current pulses over 20 nC during a 5 minute period), and
was successful in identifying faulty filter sections.

We are presently working on arranging and organizing the documentation
of the HV Feedthroughs. Also, we must provide scannable labeling for
relevant parts of the HV Feedthrough system.

Interlock pins have been received, and modification of filter front
panel connectors with the inlock wires is in progress.

**3.3.1.1.4 Forward Calorimeter**

**John Rutherford (University of Arizona)**

The B180 Cold Commissioning of the End Cap C Cryostat was completed in
March. We ran a full battery of electrical tests on our FCalA in liquid
argon during this 10 week test period. These tests include 1) TDR
Reflection tests from the baseplane, 2) HV ramp test for each of the 112
HV supplies connected to the FCalC, 3) HV continuity tests, and 4)
measurement of pedestals, electronics noise, and calibration pulser data
with a full half-crate of warm electronics. The HV continuity test is
relatively new. We invented it during the CBT-EC2 test beam run and
refined it on the bench at home. It entails sending a low-voltage AC
signal down each HV line individually and searching for the signal at
the signal pins on the baseplane with a scope.

During this same time period we ran the same tests on the FCalA in the
EndCap A cryostat, but without liquid argon since the cryostat cold
cover had just been closed but warm cover was not yet in place.

The tests show failures somewhat scattered over the channels, that is no
clustering, at a few tenths of a percent. This failure rate accounts for
the fact that electrodes are ganged together so that when one is
shorted, the others in that grouping are rendered useless. The most
common failure appears to be a disconnected blocking capacitor on the
summing boards. The failure rate on the FCalA is very similar to the
rate on the FCalC at the same stage of installation.

Some of these same electrical tests were performed earlier during
insertion of the FCalA into the cryostat to ensure that the connections
were made properly. At that time, before any connections were made, we
checked that all the grounds were isolated in accordance with the ATLAS
grounding rules.

We have started to design and produce an "electrical test bench", a
replica of four FCal read-out channels. So far 64 tube electrodes have
been constructed in a matrix holder and a fully-stuffed summing board
appropriated. These will go into a cryostat along with Axon cold cables
to reproduce the FCal cold electronics. The warm electronics will
include on preamp hybrid, one shaper chip, and a custom ADC and digital
memory. The memory will be read out via a USB port, probably under
control of a LabVIEW program.

**3.3.1.2 Operations**

**3.3.1.2.3 Cryogenics**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Commissioning of the       1-Sep-04       \--              1-Mar-05       Completed
  Refrigerator Complete                                                     

  Commissioning of Pit       1-Jul-05       \--              1-Jul-05       On Schedule
  Cryogenics Complete                                                       
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**3.3.1.2.4 FCAL**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Commissioning of Endcap C  1-Mar-04       15-Apr-05        30-Mar-05      Completed (See
  Above Ground Complete                                                     #1)

  Commissioning of Endcap A  1-Jun-04       1-Dec-05         1-Sep-05       Delayed (See #2)
  Above Ground Complete                                                     
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  All electrical tests completed. Analysis underway.

**Note #2**  Present forecast dates are from the official LArG schedule

**3.3.1.3 Maintenance**

**3.3.1.3.2 Feedthrough**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Complete Commissioning of  31-Dec-04      \--              31-Mar-05      Completed
  HV Filter Modules (SB)                                                    

  Installation HV Filter     31-Dec-04      \--              31-Mar-05      Completed
  Crates ECA (SB)                                                           

  Start Barrel HV Operations 1-Sep-05       \--              1-Sep-05       On Schedule
  (SB)                                                                      
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**3.3.2 Electronic Liquid Argon M&O**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Operation of the First     30-Mar-05      30-Mar-05        30-May-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Crates on the Truck                                                       

  Operation of the First     30-Apr-05      30-Apr-05        30-May-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Full Crate on the Truck                                                   
  (stand alone)                                                             

  Operation of all Crates on 30-Jun-05      \--              30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  the Truck                                                                 

  Operation of the First     30-Jun-05      \--              30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  Full Crate on the Truck                                                   
  Linked to USA15                                                           

  Operation of all Crates on 30-Sep-05      \--              30-Sep-05      On Schedule
  the Truck stand alone                                                     
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1-2**  Delay due to late production and installation of power
supplies

**3.3.2.1 Pre-Operations and Commissioning**

**3.3.2.1.3 System Crate Integration**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Completion of              31-Jul-04      \--              1-Jul-05       Delayed (See #1)
  Documentation of Level 1                                                  
  Trigger Interface for                                                     
  Liquid Argon and Tile                                                     
  Calorimeters (Pitt)                                                       
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Documentation almost complete. Documents need to be updated
with final versions of hardware.

**3.3.2.1.5 Level 1 Trigger**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Receiver Test Stand in EMF 31-Jan-05      31-Jan-05        31-Mar-05      Completed
  Complete (Pitt)                                                           

  Start Commissioning of     28-Feb-05      28-Feb-05        28-May-05      Delayed (See #1)
  Receiver System in Truck                                                  
  Position (Pitt)                                                           

  Start Commissioning of     31-Aug-05      \--              31-Aug-05      On Schedule
  Barrel Receiver System                                                    
  (Pitt)                                                                    
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Commissioning of Receiver System requires ROD readout and
Receiver System to be moved to USA15.

**Bill Cleland (University of Pittsburgh)**

Status Report M&O

1\) Standalone receiver readout system installed at EMF and functioning

2\) Developing software to compare output of ROD and trigger path using
above system.

3\) Post Doc Chaouki Boulahouache is now stationed at CERN and is
participating in commissioning phase

4\) A waiting move from EMF to USA15 to test FEC on barrel with barrel
in truck location.

**3.3.2.3 Maintenance**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Crate Electronics Test     1-Jan-05       \--              1-Jan-05       Completed
  Stand at CERN Complete                                                    

  Long Term Burn-in of FEBs  1-Jun-05       \--              1-Jun-05       On Schedule
  at BNL Complete                                                           
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**3.3.3 Beam Test**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Operation of the first     30-Mar-05      30-Mar-05        30-May-05      Delayed (See #1)
  production FEB in a System                                                
  Crate                                                                     

  Long Term Stability Test   30-Jun-05      \--              30-Jun-05      On Schedule
  of Production FEB Started                                                 
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Delay due to late production and installation of power
supplies

**3.3.3.1 FCal Hadronic Tail Measurement**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  FCalC Electrical Cold Test 20-Jan-05      3-Apr-05         30-Mar-05      Completed (See
  (Ariz)                                                                    #1)

  FCal Electrical Test Bench 15-Mar-05      \--              30-Jun-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Completed (Ariz)                                                          

  FCalA Electrical Cold Test 20-Jun-05      1-Dec-05         1-Sep-05       Delayed (See #3)
  (Ariz)                                                                    
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  This milestone is tied to the official LArG schedule.

**Note #2**  All schedules are aligned with an end-June completion.

**Note #3**  All tests are completed. Analysis of the data is in
progress.

**3.3.4 CERN Living Expenses**

**3.3.5 CERN Common Costs**

## 3.4 M&O Tile {#mo-tile .unnumbered}

**3.4 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary** **Larry Price (ANL)**

US technicians aided in the checkout and repair of electronic drawers in
the Barrel Calorimeter underground. Work on software for electronics
testing and for calibration and monitoring of Tilecal proceeded. A test
facility was developed for 8 electronics drawers, based on the hardware
and software for a test system for 1 drawer. The test system is now the
first data acquisition system to be used in the underground area. The
8-drawer test is now progressing well, but code is still being developed
to thoroughly test each part of the FE system. CANbus readout was
established as a stable system for the first time. The EBC and EBA ITC
fiber covers addition for light shielding purposes as well as the 256
light covers around the finger hole where the cables come out for light
shielding and dust protection purposes were finished. PCB's returned
from the electronics drawer assembly operation in Clermont-Ferrand
continued to be tested and repaired. 100% of the barrel drawers have now
been checked out on the surface, and about 80% have been checked out
underground. During the underground testing some faults were found in
modules which tested OK on the surface. The first test of the custom 9U
VME trigger boards with the real calorimeter using the extended barrel
setup on the surface at CERN was performed by Teuscher and Kelby
Anderson of Chicago in February. The test was a success, and the board
functionality and noise levels were as expected. Protocols have been
defined and QA/QC and signoff procedures for the commissioning of
testing items. The contents of the cabling database has been defined for
TileCal (Oracle application interfaced through Excel tables) so that the
installation crew/supervisors have the necessary information to locate
any/all cables/pipes etc. Analysis of combined test beam data is
continuing.

**3.4.1 TileCal - Specific Costs**

**3.4.1.1 Pre-Operations** **Bob Stanek (ANL)**

In the first quarter of 2005, work associated with the coordination of
services continued on the barrel calorimeter. Cooling hoses from the
manifold were connected to the fingers in anticipation of the use of the
portable cooling unit. Dummy cables for the 200 Volts and the AUX
signals were cabled in the cable trays to the star boxes to understand
the slack and their routing. Argonne technicians aided in the checkout
and repair of electronic drawers in the Barrel Calorimeter underground.
Work on software for electronics testing and for calibration and
monitoring of Tilecal proceeded. The 8-drawer test is now progressing
well, but code is still being developed to thoroughly test each part of
the FE system. CANbus readout was established as a stable system for the
first time.

**Joey Huston (Michigan State University)**

During this period MSU worked on finishing the EBC and EBA ITC fiber
covers addition for light shielding purposes as well as the 256 light
covers around the finger hole where the cables come out for light
shielding and dust protection purposes. The manufacture of some of these
components took place at MSU with deployment occurring at CERN by MSU
personnel.

We also worked on the installation and manufacture of the water
drain/insulation between tiles and LAr for the 2 EB modules.

During this period we also participated in various repair and
maintenance activities relating to the extended barrel modules. Most of
these activities were carried out by MSU technician Ron Richards whose
travel and support came from the M&O funds.

**Richard Teuscher (University of Chicago)**

During the period January to March of 2005 Chicago has continued to
repair PCB's returned from the electronics drawer assembly operation in
Clermont-Ferrand. A set of 53 3-in-1 cards is currently being tested and
repaired in Chicago.

Richard Teuscher of the Chicago group is in residence at CERN and has
lead the effort to test assembled electronics drawers delivered to CERN
by Clermont Ferrand, both before they are inserted in calorimeter
modules, and after they are installed underground. 100% of the barrel
drawers have now been checked out on the surface, and about 80% have
been checked out underground. During the underground testing some faults
were found in modules which tested OK on the surface. A total of 62
barrel modules (124 electronics drawers) are now installed in the
underground area.

Teuscher has also participated in work to develop a test facility for 8
electronics drawers, based on the hardware and software for a test
system for 1 drawer. The test system is now the first data acquisition
system to be used in the underground area.

Chicago is leading the program for early commissioning of the ATLAS
detector using cosmic-ray muons, with the TileCal as a trigger. This
will be a crucial tool in proving the stability of detector operation. A
set of custom 9U VME trigger boards has been designed and constructed in
Chicago for this purpose. The first test of these boards with the real
calorimeter using the extended barrel setup on the surface at CERN was
performed by Teuscher and Kelby Anderson of Chicago in February. The
test was a success, and the board functionality and noise levels were as
expected. A test underground with the barrel is planned for June.

Work is still underway to begin the production of the low voltage power
supplies for the electronics. Chicago's full procurement investigation
of price and delivery times for all electrical components in the
supplies was used in the comparison for CERN procurement.

A technician supported by Chicago, Irakli Minashvili, is playing an
important role at CERN in the setup of the cosmic ray hardware,
assistance with TileCal electronics testing, and with other work on
TileCal hardware underground.

**3.4.2 Calibration & Monitoring**

**3.4.2.1 Pre-Operations**

  -------------------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**   **Forecast**   **Status**

  Combined Test Beam         15-Dec-04      \--            15-Dec-04      Completed
  Complete                                                                

  Start of Calibration       1-Feb-05       \--            1-Feb-05       Completed
  Underground                                                             
  -------------------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- ----------------

**Steve Errede (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)**

1\. After Irene\'s Vichou\'s participation in the organization of the
ATLAS calorimeter calibration workshop (High Tatras, Slovakia {in-situ
calibration session}) she worked with the other session conveners to
define the strategy/roadmap to the calibration for day 1 and the stable
operation phase, i.e. precursors to data-taking, definition of
calibration data streams etc\... A summary of this was presented by D.
Froidevaux during the February, 2005 ATLAS week.

2\. In her role as coordinator of the Services Installation and testing,
Irene has defined protocols and QA/QC and signoff procedures for the
commissioning of those items. In this context, Irene defined the content
of the cabling database for TileCal (Oracle application interfaced
through Excel tables) so that the installation crew/supervisors have the
necessary information to locate any/all cables/pipes etc. and the
possibility to store the results of controls/checks before giving the
final OK for operation.

3\. On the commissioning front, Irene is the contact person for the so
called \"Phase II\" which refers to the integration with other systems,
i.e. Liquid Argon Calorimeters, LVL1, DAQ and DCS. This is currently at
the level of planning the Work Packages, steps and procedures.

4\. Both S. Errede and I. Vichou attended the TileCal ATLAS Planning
Workshop Mar 10-12, 2005 in Valencia, Spain. ATLAS TileCal collaborators
spent those days in extended discussions & planning for work on ATLAS
TileCal for commissioning and operation, upon turn-on of the LHC in
2007.

5\. In the context of TileCal re-organization, Irene has been working
closely with the TileCal Project Leader (R. Stanek) for the definition
of the structure of the Calorimeter Performance activity inside TileCal.
A concrete scheme is now in place and tasks and detailed use cases are
under definition. In particular, Irene is responsible for the
Calibration at the cell level of TileCal, its definition and monitoring
with time. This serves as input to the hadronic calibration procedure
with various weighting schemes.

**Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington)**

Finished upgrades to the cosmic-ray test stand, which is being used to
calibrate scintillator counters. Approximately 20% of the counters have
now been calibrated. Data analysis is in progress.

Organized production of more than 60,000 simulation jobs with
calibration hits enabled using the U.S. grid. Identified software
problems which were fed back to the developers. Other bugs were found
with the treatment of hits in live vs. dead material which will be fixed
in the next release. This data will have to be regenerated in the
summer.

**Richard Teuscher (University of Chicago)**

Chicago has continued to analyze combined testbeam data recorded in
2004. Richard Teuscher from Chicago has been organizing the TileCal
effort on calibration and monitoring, and has been leading weekly phone
meetings on testbeam analysis.

The Chicago-initiated "fit-method" of treating digitations has become
the standard method for the combined 2004 testbeam data, as well as all
testbeam data from 2000-2003. It provides less bias and lower noise than
previous methods, and is now the baseline for calibrating the TileCal at
the electromagnetic energy scale.

A Chicago physicist, Martina Hurwitz, has continued to analyze the
testbeam data, including some of the first tests of ATLAS clustering
algorithms on pion runs. This work has pointed the way for an improved
noise treatment of the data using
clustering.[]{#__RefHeading___Toc94424490 .anchor}

##  {#section-4 .unnumbered}

## 3.5 M&O Muon {#mo-muon .unnumbered}

**3.5 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary**

**Frank Taylor (MIT)**

The US MDT groups made steady progress on certifying chambers to be
ready for installation. All the Michigan and Seattle chambers have
passed their Phase I commissioning with cosmic ray tests in B184 (CERN)
and 54 of 80 BMC chambers have passed their tests. Preparations are
underway for Phase \'1.9\', when B-sensors, DCS units and associated
cabling, alignment telescopes, photogrammetry performed and final CSM
cards are mounted.

Advances during this quarter were made on the assembly and alignment of
the BW-L tooling in B180 at CERN. At this writing, the tilt table of the
Large Sector of MDT BW is undergoing alignment tests in B180. Areas are
being prepared there for the storage of BW sectors, checkout of
alignment bars and installation of the EIL4 MDT and TGC chambers.

US manpower is moving to CERN for completion of Phase Installation and
the conduct of Phase II commissioning at CERN.

**3.5.1 MDT Pre-operations, Operations & Maintenance**

**3.5.1.1 MDT Pre-Operations**

**3.5.1.1.1 Set-up of MDT Test & Test Station**

**Paul Mockett (University of Washington)**

Test stations have been set up in 184 and are being used to certify the
BMC and Protovino chambers. All Seattle and Michigan chamber have been
certified in 184.

**3.5.1.1.2 Pre-Operations of MDT Chambers -Phase 1**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Finish MDT BW              1-Mar-05       \--              1-Mar-05       Completed (See
  Pre-Operations -Phase 1                                                   #1)

  Start Pre-Operations MDT   2-Mar-05       \--              2-Mar-05       On Schedule (See
  SW Chambers -Phase 1                                                      #2)

  Finish MDT SW              1-Jul-05       \--              1-Jul-05       On Schedule (See
  Pre-Operations - Phase 1                                                  #3)

  Pre-operations of MDT      31-Jul-05      \--              31-Jul-05      On Schedule (See
  Chambers - Phase 1 (MIT)                                                  #4)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Complete. All the BW chambers have been certified in B180
to be ready for installation. The bulk of these chambers were
construction by the Michigan and Seattle groups and one chamber series
(EMS1) was made at the BMC.

**Note #2**  All but 5 EIL2-3 chambers are shipped to CERN and 54 out of
80 BMC chambers have been cosmic certified at CERN and are ready for
installation.

**Note #3**  On schedule. EI chamber are being cosmic certified in B184
at CERN now.

**Note #4**  On schedule \... (should not say \'MIT\' - this is a join
effort).

**Paul Mockett (University of Washington)**

All Seattle chambers have been certified in bldg. 184. There is a small
amount of work to be done in bldg. 180 to complete some tests and mount
B sensors.

**3.5.1.1.3 Pre-Operations of MDT Chambers -Phase 11**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Start BW Single Sector     1-Jul-04       \--              1-Apr-05       Delayed (See #1)
  Test                                                                      

  Setup BW Sector Assembly   15-Mar-05      15-Mar-05        10-May-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Station (Brandeis)                                                        

  Production of First BW     15-Apr-05      15-Apr-05        15-May-05      Delayed (See #3)
  Sector (Brandeis)                                                         

  Installation of Chamber in 15-Jun-05      15-Jun-05        1-Jun-05       On Schedule
  First BW Sector (Brandeis)                                                

  Start BW MDT Phase 11      1-Aug-05       \--              1-Aug-05       On Schedule (See
  Commissioning                                                             #4)

  Start BW Mechanical MDT &  1-Aug-05       \--              1-Aug-05       On Schedule
  Alignment Installation in                                                 
  Bldg 180                                                                  

  Pre-operations of MDT      30-Sep-05      \--              30-Sep-05      On Schedule
  Chambers - Phase 2                                                        
  (Boston)                                                                  

  Pre-operations of MDT      30-Sep-05      \--              30-Sep-05      On Schedule (See
  Chambers - Phase 2 (MIT)                                                  #5)
  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------

**Note #1**  Delayed - safety validation of the tooling is the present
chief hitch. A FEA model of the A-frame will have to be written and
tested before the A-frame can be used in BW sector construction and
handling.

**Note #2**  Delayed - but recent good progress. See above.

**Note #3**  This schedule is still tenable. The MDT Large sector tilt
table is installed on the floor of B180 and is being aligned. The
A-frame, made in the Czech Republic, has been delivered to CERN. A delay
will probably occur due to the need for various safety checks of the
tooling and rigging procedures.

**Note #4**  The first BW sector Phase II work should start in mid-June
and production Phase II checking in early August.

**Note #5**  On schedule. The schedule now indicates a mid-June start
date of Phase II work.

**Paul Mockett (University of Washington)**

For the EIL4 chambers phase II we await for space to be freed up in
bldg. 180. This work is in progress. We also are waiting for mounting
frames to be shipped from Dubna. The time frame for this is Mid May. All
EIL4 chambers are now stored in bldg. 180. We expect to share a test
station with the big wheel work as needed.

**James Bensinger (Brandeis University)**

The tilt table and assembly table have been setup in building 180. The
space for sector storage ahs been prepared. The clean room for services
and alignment bar and sensor preparation is set up. The parts for the
sector 9 frame are at CERN. Production of sectors should start soon.

**Alex Marin (Boston University)**

As the US MDT team decided, the end of Phase I and the start of Phase II
(so called phase 1.9) started in Bldg. 180). To consist in last checks
and prepare a set of five chambers to be mounted on sector.

Presently, the US team at CERN worked on the Phase 1.9 for the chambers
of BW sector 9. As soon as all the sector tools will be delivered
(presumably mid-May) and mounted, we will start the installation of
sector 9. Phase 1.9 contains tests of leaks and electronics, mounting
the final version of CSM, B sensors mounting and test, Photo grammetry
of PMO side all done. The mounting the PMO cameras, PMO Rasniks masks,
and Inplane system checks are under way.

**3.5.2 CSC Pre-Operations, Operations & Maintenance**

**3.5.2.1 CSC Pre-Operations**

**3.5.2.1.2 Pre-Operations of CSC Chambers - Phase 1**

  -------------------------- -------------- ---------------- -------------- ----------------
  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Complete Pre-operations of 30-Jun-05      30-Jun-05        30-Aug-05      Delayed (See #1)
  CSC Chambers - Phase 1                                                    
  (BNL)                                                                     
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**Note #1**  Delayed - ASM1 and ASM2 production is delayed thereby
delaying the completion date of CSC integration.

**3.5.2.1.3 Pre-Operations of CSC Chambers - Phase 2**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Start CSC Installation &   1-Sep-05       1-Sep-05         1-Nov-05       Delayed (See #1)
  Phase 11 Commissioning on                                                 
  SW in Bldg 191                                                            
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**Note #1**  The start of Phase II is delayed - owing to the schedule
for frame construction in Russia.

**3.5.3 Alignment System Pre-Oper.\'s, Operations & Maintenance**

**3.5.3.1 Alignment System Pre-Operations**

**3.5.3.1.1 Pre-Ops Stage Area for Alignment Parts**

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  **Milestone**              **Baseline**   **Previous**     **Forecast**   **Status**

  Establish Reviewing Area   15-Feb-05      15-Mar-05        30-Mar-05      Completed (See
  for Alignment Components                                                  #1)
  (Brandeis)                                                                

  Begin Validation of        15-Apr-05      15-Apr-05        30-May-05      Delayed (See #2)
  Alignment Components                                                      
  (Brandeis)                                                                
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**Note #1**  The clean room in building 180 has been set up for
operations of alignment component testing. The late availability of this
room was the reason for the delay.

**Note #2**  Some alignment test stations are being shipped with the
final container shipment of BMC chambers. This is expected to take place
during the month of May.

**James Bensinger (Brandeis University)**

The room for staging sensors and bars for the alignment system has been
setup. The BCAM tester and bars test stations are setup. The test
stations for the proximity system are being shipped to CERN with the
last container of chamber that is being shipped from Harvard.

**3.5.3.1.2 Pre-ops of Alignment Parts - Phase 1**

**James Bensinger (Brandeis University)**

Devices for the measurement location of sensors mounts (separate devices
for camera and mask mounts) on chambers, relative to the tubes, are now
operational at CERN. Measurements have been carried out on the sector 9
chambers in building 180.

Photogrammetry of survey targets, sensor mounts, and B-field mounts has
been successfully carried out on the 5 chambers waiting in building 180
for installation into sector 9.

**3.5.4 Muon Endcap Common Costs**

**3.5.5 Monitoring & Calibration**

## 3.6 M&O Trigger {#mo-trigger .unnumbered}

**3.6 Subsystem Manager\'s Summary**

**Andrew Lankford (University of California, Irvine)**

Activities involved support of development of detector-specific software
development, HLT/DAQ hardware maintenance and operations, and DAQ
software maintenance.

**3.6.1 Pre-Operations**

**Andrew Lankford (University of California, Irvine)**

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY:

Abolins and Ermoline prepared specifications for Supervisor and RoI
Builder pre-operations activities. Two 9U VME crates were ordered, one
for use at CERN and another for Argonne.

Hauser worked on changes to the message-passing library necessary for
ROBin and GigaByte ethernet testers.

Ermoline worked on DCS control and monitoring of Pre-Series racks in the
SDX1 counting room.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Kolos continued work on the formation of the new Monitoring Working
Group. This group consists of members of the detector and offline
communities as well as TDAQ. He continued collecting information on
monitoring from the relevant groups. Working group meeting were held.

Unel completed conversion of the test beds at CERN in buildings 32 and
40 to the new version of CERN Scientific Linux. He began testing of the
TDAQ release being developed for the Pre-series system. Bugs were found
and reported to the developers.

**Robert Blair (ANL)**

Jim Schlereth has been working with the Tilecal group to integrate their
readout software into the TDAQ framework. The current plan is for Jim to
spend an extended period in May at CERN working on commissioning
software for the Tilecal group.

**3.6.2 Operations**

**Andrew Lankford (University of California, Irvine)**

Unel and Stancu participated in the System Administration Task Force
Report. The task force drafted a document that will serve as a guide for
establishing installation and operation procedures for the computing
infrastructure at ATLAS point 1. It also covers system administration
for test beds, Pre-series, and commissioning. Unel led the task force.
Stancu worked on the user authentication and networking sections. The
task force is at present incorporating feedback into the document.
Conclusions from the report are also being incorporated into
commissioning planning.

Kolos made enhancements to the Online Histogramming and Information
Service software packages in order to address recent feedback from their
users. In addition, he also participated in the production and testing
of the TDAQ software release that was completed in late February. Stancu
also contributed to the ongoing work of testing TDAQ releases on test
beds.

Wheeler continued working with the Controls working group to review and
revise existing control software.

**3.10 M&O Technical Coordination**

**David Lissauer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)**

**Barrel Toroid Magnet**

During the week of March 14, 2005, the third coil was transported to the
Pit. It will be placed in final position next week. The fourth coil will
arrive in two weeks for installation. In the meantime the sixth coil is
being tested. The seventh coil is being welded and the eighth and last
coil is in the process of being inserted into the cryostat. We expect
that in three months all coils will be available for installation. In
the mean time space in Building 180 is already being liberated for Big
Wheel Assembly.

**Muon Chamber Installation**

The Muon chamber installation in the feet on the USA side has been
completed. The chambers are being tested and services connection will
start soon. A document to prepare the Muon rail installation is under
way. It will give the exact position for each of the brackets that hold
the barrel Muon chambers. Once the calculation is completed installation
of the brackets will start. The next step will be to install some of the
BMS chambers after the next two coils have been installed.

**EC Muon Surface Assembly**

Construction of the Big Wheel pi section has started in Building 180 by
teams of technicians from Israel (MDT wheel) and Pakistan (TGC wheel).
Chamber installation on the pi sections will start in a few months. In
the mean time a solution for sharing the space in Building 185 has been
found that will enable the start of the assembly of the JD discs and the
small wheel in the second half of '05. This is considered to be a
critical path item -- and needs to be watched.

**LAr Status/Tile Assembly Status**

The survey of the LAr and Tile Barrel Calorimeter was done. Preliminary
results show very good alignment between the Inner warm vessel axis and
the Tile axis. (This aligns the Barrel Solenoid with the Tile Axis).
Cable trays to Z=0 and cooling pipes installation will be the first in
line. The service installation on the Barrel Tile and LAr system has
progressed. BNL is to supply the components for the Liquid Argon Readout
System. The Milano Group is taking the lead on the EC integration
following closely the work done at BNL on the Barrel Calorimeter. The
installation of the Inner Detector cooling pipes on the Tile will start
in early April with a team of technicians that will come from Pakistan.
The testing gof End Cap C in the West Hall is underway and should be
completed shortly.

**Cable Schleps**

The order for the cable schleps in Sector 9 has been released to a
company in England. Specifications for the purchase of the rest of the
cable schleps are underway and the specifications should be sent out by
March 2005. This is considered a critical path item.

**Rack Wizard Data Base**

In preparation for the electronics installation the counting room as
well as the HS structure the power distribution is now being installed.
A procedure to check and verify that all racks comply with the power
distribution limits has been established using the Rack wizard database.
All the information down to the module level is being inserted to the
database and the power needs are checked with the available power. In
case of a shortage an alarm is being recoded and the responsible people
will intervene to try to solve the problem at as early a stage as
possible.

Progress is being made in entering the information on all the racks in
the counting room as well as the experimental area. We are now looking
into the possibility of developing the program to include also
specialized racks that are on the detector in the database.

**Services**

The routing has been identified and installation of the racks, cable
trays hasl advanced. The first large-scale cable installation will start
in April 2005 once the cables are available. The cable installation for
the cryogenics control has been completed. An agreement has been reached
to bring a team of 20 technicians from Prodvino to install the ATLAS ID
and calorimeter cables. The first members of the team should arrive at
CERN in early April 2005. The first set of cables to be installed will
be the inner detector cables form the HS structure to the counting room.
There are a total of 4000 so-called Type Four cables, so this will be
the first test for this team.

**Technical Management Board Meeting**

The ATLAS status was reviewed in the meeting. The main discussion was to
baseline an updated installation schedule. The schedule is the one
developed by the Technical Coordination task force that met over the
last six months. The new schedule respects the end date of closing the
beam pipe by spring of 2007.

# Financial Report (Chuck Butehorn, BNL)

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