Project Overview

1. Fermilab Project Overview Ron Ray Mu2e Project Manager Fermilab Sept. 26, 2008 Preliminary Director’s Review of mu2e

2. Outline • Introduction • Project scope • Project Organization • ES&H • Risks • Cost and schedule • Next Steps • Summary R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

3. Introduction • This is primarily a technical review and we welcome your comments, suggestions and insights. • We are not the MECO Collaboration. We stand on the shoulders of MECO and many of our collaborators come from MECO, but many of us were not on MECO. • We are currently in an assimilation phase where we are trying to take ownership of the vast amount of technical information that MECO produced over many years. • We are more mature technically than most experiments at this stage, but the Collaboration is still in its infancy and the Project is embryonic. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

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5. Scope of mu2e Project • Build a detector to measure  to e conversion • 3 superconducting solenoids (cryo, vacuum, power…) • Production • Transport • Detector • Straw tube tracker • Crystal calorimeter • Cosmic ray veto • Electronics, DAQ • Auxiliary measurement devices • Extinction monitor, muon stopping rate monitor, b field monitor, slow control and monitor of cryo, etc R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

6. Scope (cont.) • New detector hall • New beamline from pbar to detector hall that provides slow extracted beam with the appropriate beam structure • Extinction channel • Simulations to support design • ES&H is important. We will do this safely. • QA/QC is important. • Build it all within baselined cost. • Build it on baselined schedule. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

7. Controlling backgrounds drives the design of mu2e Prompt background SINDRUM II Cosmic ray background Muon decay in orbit (DIO) Signal is 105 MeV e- originating in thin stopping target R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

8. Detector Hall and Civil Construction FESS has done a significant amount of work preparing a preliminary design and cost estimate. • Beamline travels under creek in attempt to minimize wetlands issues. • Includes plan for routing services to building (electrical, cryo, water, …). • Includes shielding on top of beamline and building. • Building depth is driving the cost. We have to better understand our requirements and be prepared to make tradeoffs as part of the value engineering process. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

9. Proton Beam • Use protons from booster while MI is ramping. • No impact on neutrino program. • 6 booster batches, each ~4x1012 protons, are delivered to the accumulator every 1.33 s. ~ 3.6x1020 pot/yr. • Requires 15 Hz booster operation. • Use the Debuncher and accumulator rings to bunch the beam. • Require proton extinction of 10-9 between bunches • Pulsed beam and extinction reduce prompt backgrounds. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

10. Superconducting Solenoids Critical path. Most complex and expensive deliverable. • Production solenoid contains proton target, heat shield, high gradient field to capture pions and muons. • Transport solenoid contains two curved sections and a large gradient straight section. Magnetic channel that transports muons to stopping target. • Detector Solenoid houses stopping target and detector elements and requires high field uniformity in detector region. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

11. Tracker • The Tracker must provide precise momentum measurements to separate signal events from DIOs in a 1 T field. • The end point energy for DIO electrons coincides with the conversion signal, the end point spectrum falls as E5, thus the level of DIO background is sensitive to the resolution function. • The resolution is dominated by multiple scattering, thus material must be kept to a minimum • Tracker must operate with high efficiency in a high rate environment • Robust pattern recognition required to eliminate tails from mis-reconstructed events. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

12. Electromagnetic Calorimeter • Calorimeter serves several purposes • Used to form trigger • Starts data acquisition. • Provides reference time for tracker drift tubes • Provides independent energy measurement • Particle ID • Must operate in high rate environment • Photodetector must operate in 1 T magnetic field. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

13. Cosmic Ray Shield • Cosmic rays have been close to the limiting factor in previous experiments. Pulsed beam, active and passive shielding are used to reduce this background. • Large area detector requires cost effective technology. • Total rejection of 10-4 required for combination of active and passive shielding. • Cosmic ray background can be measured off-spill. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

14. Simulations We need a reliable simulations package to validate designs, evaluate tradeoffs and optimize costs. • We have the MECO MC and can run it, make plots, etc., but we don’t fully understand what is in it, the beamline is different, it is written in Fortran, etc. • We want to convert the MECO MC to a mu2e MC using object oriented code that we fully understand and document. • Talking to CD about help in this effort. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

15. Legend Reporting Resources Advisory Project Organization DOE PAC Fermilab Directorate Mu2e Spokespersons Mu2e PMG Accelerator Division Computing Division Particle Physics Division Technical Division Business Services ES&H FESS Mu2e Project Mu2e Technical Board Mu2e Risk Management Board L2 Managers R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

16. Mu2e Project Office • Project Manager • Deputy PM • Project Mechanical Engineer • Project Electrical Engineer • Scheduler • Financial Officer • ES&H oversight • QA oversight • Configuration Control • Expediter • Admin • … Project Manager R. Ray R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

17. ES&H Issues This list is surely not exhaustive: • Fire, ionizing radiation, RF radiation, oxygen deficiency and electrical hazards are all relevant safety concerns for mu2e. • Environmental issues include disturbance of wetlands and groundwater activation. • These are the standard issues that we are used to dealing with at Fermilab. Most are covered by categorical exclusion. • We will prepare a Preliminary Safety Assessment Document (PSAD) for CD1. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

18. Risks • The greatest cost and schedule risk is the solenoid system. • Considerable resources will have to be devoted to design, costing, procurement, QA/QC and integration to mitigate risk. • Technical risk associated with extinction. • We must have the beamline done early so that extinction can be tested and leave us with time to react. • Technical risk associated with heat shield designed for safe heat/energy loads in the production solenoid. • Must be designed for the maximum potential beam flux R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

19. Risks (cont.) • Detector performance. • Can only be studied with extensive prototypes, system tests, cosmic rays and beam tests. Can’t reconstruct DIO electrons until solenoid system is installed and commissioned. • Slow extracted beam • Boomerang scheme has yet to be worked out in detail. Many uncertainties. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

20. Cost Estimate • Cost estimates at this early stage are rarely good to better than a factor of 2. History bears this out. • Because of the extensive work on MECO we are better off than the typical project at this stage in many areas, but not all. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

21. Cost Estimate Strategy for the Proposal • Use numbers from MECO where possible • Add 4 years of escalation at 3.5% per year • Use Wojciki Review Committee recommendation • "The RSVP Project Office advocates an overall project contingency of 45% based on the community's experience-base with large complex detector projects. The committee agrees that at least 45% is appropriate for the project at this stage." • Many parts of the MECO detector were understood to a level that would justify a smaller contingency than 45%, but we think this approach is adequate and appropriate for a proposal. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

22. Cost Estimate Strategy (cont.) • FESS did cost estimate on detector hall and beamline civil work. Use their contingency. • AD did cost estimate on beamline. Use their contingency. • Use Project management costs from NOvA. Use their contingency. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

23. Cost Estimate R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

24. Cost - Longer Term Strategy • We will develop a resource loaded cost and schedule from the bottom up. • L2, L3 managers will develop a cost and schedule that they must own and be responsible for. They will use the MECO WBS as a guide, where relevant, but if they prefer to do things a different way and can convince us that their plan makes sense, we will go in a different direction. • We will use OpenPlan, COBRA, WelcomeRisk, etc. as our basic set of scheduling, budget and reporting tools. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e

25. Next Steps (cont.) • CD-0: largely a Federal exercise with input from the Lab and Project • CD-1 • CDR • Acquisition Strategy (DOE document) • Preliminary Hazard Analysis • Preliminary Project Execution Plan (DOE document) • Preliminary Project Management Plan (steal from NOvA) • Preliminary cost, schedule, scope for design phase and cost, schedule and scope ranges for remainder of Project. R. Ray - Director's Review of mu2e