Present: M. Lindroos, T. Nilsson, G. Huber, H. Ravn, B. Jonson (chairman), P. Butler, G.Weyer, A. Di Pietro, P. Dessagne, M. Garcia-Borge, S. Franchoo, D. Habs

Excused: J. Äystö, N. Stone, K. Heyde, A. Jokinen

The meeting starts at 14.00 h

1. Introductory remarks by the chairman

- B. Jonson welcomes Spain and it’s representative, M. Garcia-Borge, to the ISOLDE collaboration.

- D. Habs is welcomed to the meeting as a representative of REX-ISOLDE.

2. Approval of the minutes of the 34^th meeting.

The minutes are approved.

3. ISOLDE collaboration fees.

- B. Jonson summarizes the situation of the non-paid Polish contributions. He will contact W. Kurcewicz to solve Polish confusion about which institute should pay the ISOLDE fees.

-  The committee is assured that Italy will pay it’s missing contributions when it’s representative receives the invoices which the CERN Finance division has been asked to resend.

4. Budget for 2003

P. Butler presents the budget for 2003 and expected spending for 2004 until 2006. A discussion about the following points ensues:

- The funding of the extension of building 170.

- The possible substantial savings that would be made if the solid state laboratory were built as a cabin inside the new extension of building 170. M. Lindroos is given the go ahead to come up with plans for this project with the help of the ST division.

- RILIS. The committee is informed that the lasers ordered in 1999 have now been cancelled. It is decided to allocate 70,000CHF to renovate the present lasers to keep them running until 2006. During this time, grants for experimental equipment should be applied for in order to buy new lasers.
 

5. News from the PS Division

M. Lindroos briefly discusses the following points:

- The new emittance meters being prepared by T. Fritioff.

- The RFQ cooler that should be commissioned in March 2005.

- RILIS

- The Beam Transport proposal being prepared by F. Wenander and T. Giles.

- Tapestation hardware.

- The extensions at ISOLDE, including the class A laboratory that should be ready in June 2004. TIS will provide the permanent staff required for this laboratory. As it is a legal requirement, CERN has to fund the building of this laboratory; 50% will come from the waste management budget and 50% from the ISOLDE consolidation budget.

6. Schedule discussion for 2003

-T. Nilsson reports that the ISOLDE Offline Hall is nearing completion.

-The committee is informed that there will be 181 days of proton beam in 2003 and that a new version of the schedule will be posted on the web during week 10.
 

7. INTC matters

In the absence of J. Äystö, the INTC scientific secretary, T. Nilsson reports on the previous day’s INTC meeting. The decisions made about the proposals that were presented are summarized.
It is stressed that if ISOLDE users wish to request beams that require development work, discussions should be held with the ISOLDE in-house group before proposals are submitted.
 

8. Discussion of the REX-ISOLDE position document

- M. Lindroos informs the committee that the Director General of CERN wishes to ensure that this document will not disturb his mid- and long-term plans.

-The future staffing of REX-ISOLDE is summarized:

·         Four posts in the AB division:  2 funded by BMBF, 1 by Leuven and 1 by EU or UK.

·         One post in the EP division, funded by I3NF & EU.                                                           

9. Addendum to the MoU

A short discussion is held about the corrections that are necessary in the text of the MoU. M. Lindroos tells the committee that he will check with the CERN legal department to see if an Addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding is required to add Spain to the ISOLDE collaboration.

10. Plans for the upgrade of ISOLDE

P.Butler reports on the first meeting of the Standing Group for the Upgrade of ISOLDE, which was held that morning. The following points are made:

- The REX 3.1 MeV/u upgrade will be completed this year. D. Habs comments on the status and informs the committee that the financial issues for the 4.2 MeV/u  upgrade will be solved next year.

- TIS is concerned that certain target safety issues could limit beam intensities.

- Even though there could be a possible future loss of intensity of the proton beam supplied by the AB division, due to injection into other experiments, the upgrades to ISOLDE could produce a possible increase in beam intensity of a factor 3 by 2005. This is assuming that the safety issues brought up by TIS are addressed.

- Discussions with outside funding agencies are taking place, which could accelerate the ISOLDE upgrade.

- Much higher beam intensities could be available in the next decade if the superconducting proton LINAC is built at CERN.

- The proposal by M. Hass to build a low energy facility linked to the ECRIS and EBIS charge breeders will be further investigated.

11. A.O.B.

-The committee is informed by H. Ravn about the content of the ILO Administrative Tribunal’s judgement no 2183.
- S. Franchoo explains how funding money is allocated to experiments depending on their number of shifts. The committee endorses these funding guidelines.

The meeting ends at 16.30 h