Present: Peter Bosted, Don Crabb, Keith Griffioen, Piotr Decowski, Perry Anthony Target: Don and Perry talked about computer control. Don has sent first draft of document for Design Report. Contacted Oxford about things like He exhaust paths, how much super-insulation, etc. Magnet will not have thin windows, so vacuum breath not likely, but still is possible. Delivery time is now 1.5 years (compared to 1 year earlier). Perry will mail Don his draft schedule. Don will ask Seppo to schedule time to help with dilution fridge. Josh Pierce has been accepted as graduate student at UVa: will work on the target, as will Don and Paul McKee will do a lot this summer. Review May 15. Beam Line. Peter looked at using Thick diamonds vrs thin ones. Get more rates for E160 and E161 without much loss of sharpness of coherent peak, because collimation doesn't work very well at high energies. For E160, Keith will study how important it is to use the coherent peak (and the brem. endpoint) to identify elastic vrs inelastic events. For now, asked Yerevan not to cut their 13 mm wide, 1 mm thick diamond, as it may be ideal! Beam line was inspected on last Wednesday (a ROD day), and a good location for the goniometer, about 7 m down-beam from the end of Q28, was located. Many photos were taken of the dump area, and a plan made to remove the four bend magnets in June. Roger Erickson suggested spreading the magnets out in z when they are re-installed, so that less power is needed to bend the electrons. It may also be possible to use the old 2 MW dump, in that case. Lew Keller has looked at muons from a 60 KW dump at 8 deg., and finds rates are negligible. He will check to see if this is still true if dump is placed directly after last bend, rather than by the alcove wall. Spectrometer Design: Peter asked Keith to check is using flat decay distribution of J/psi (in cos(th_star) is correct, rather than (1+cos**2) used in the proposal. New spectrometer has acceptance only near cos**2=0 (e1=e2/E/2), so it makes a difference. It also means it would be hard to measure pol. of psi with new spectrometer (assuming this is measured as (1 + a*cos**2). Keith is of the opinion that getting psi-prime is more important than pol. measurements, given a choice. Simulations: Piotr has been looking (for B81 spectrometer) at effect of photons that Atomic Compton scatter in the target and hit beam pipe near end of magnet, or near detectors. Finds about 100 hits/spill for case of 1 mm thick diamond and max. electron beam current, which is probably o.k. Checking to see if more lead is a good option. He will continue to look at hadronic punch-through, and background from e+/e- pairs made in target. We also need formula for Nuclear Compton from Lead, so check this background. Keith will look into this. Lew Keller has agreed to start looking into backgrounds from the photon collimator. We also need to worry about neutron backgrounds and spectrometer shielding. Detectors: Keith has found out that Jlab is getting a lot of fixed target detectors from Fermilab. He will see if we might want any of them. Perry will check with SLAC to see if we can get a list. Peter will check if any of the large dipoles at Fermilab has become available: they might be very good for E161 (LASS is too wide and too short compared to ideal). DOE Review. Seems to have gone well. They liked looking at the diamonds that Dieter passed around.