Urania & Aria review

16 Jul 2024, 08:00 → 17 Jul 2024, 16:20 US/Eastern

NSF Headquarters

Marzio Nessi

Review of Urania and Aria projects for DarkSide 20k, mandated by Funding Agencies, NSF, INFN, DOE, CFI.

Link to EDMS repository of material: https://edms.cern.ch/project/CERN-0000256545

 

Tuesday, 16 July

08:30 → 08:50 Introduction to the review

Speaker: Marzio Nessi

08:50 → 09:20 URANIA overview

documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120761

• Urania project introduction
• How it works
• Goals and required performances
• Summary schedule
• Answers to charge

Documents:
- Performance requirement note
- Summary schedule
- Presented slides

Speaker: Marino Simeone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:20 → 10:05 URANIA status of work

URANIA status of work
- Urania design
- Urania status of work up to mid July
- Contracts signed and active (detailed list)
- Contracts related costs and possible over costs
- How was all this up to now financed?
- Are we in line with the overall schedule?
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120763

• Set of photos of the plant at this time
• List of contracts signed with costs and over costs
• If possible all contracts on a protected EDMS location, that can be accesses with an NDA
• Presented slides

Speaker: Giacomo Gallina (Princeton)

10:05 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 URANIA up to Commissioning

URANIA up to Commissioning
- Urania future activities up to commissioning
- Contracts to be signed or finalized
- Related costs and risks
- Resources needed. What exists, what not?
- Schedule and milestones for these activities
- Management and supervision effort and individual responsibilities
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120764

• Risk analysis for this part of the project
• List of contracts to be signed, list of offers received
• If possible all of the above on a protected EDMS location, that can be accesses with an NDA
• BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
• Presented slides

Speaker: Giacomo Gallina (Princeton)

11:15 → 12:00 URANIA operation

URANIA operation
- Urania operation plans
- Expected performance
- How to liquefy the gas for the transport?
- labor required, labor cost and contracts organization, shifts organization
- Related operation costs (maintenance costs, electricity, tools, additional M&S)
- Schedule and milestones
- Risks
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120768

• Risk analysis for this part of the project
• M&S BOEs
• List of labor necessary, with hiring responsibility
• BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
• Presented slides

Speakers: Dr Henning Back, John Orrell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

12:00 → 12:30 URANIA Commissioning

URANIA commissioning
- Urania commissioning plans and steps
- Resources needed for commissioning (M&S and labor)
- Resources : what exists, what not?
- Management and work organization
- Plant efficiency as function of the UAr fraction
- How do confirm the required performances?
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120765

• Risk analysis for this part of the project
• M&S BOEs
• List of labor necessary, with hiring responsibility
• BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
• Presented slides

Speaker: Marino Simeone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 URANIA transport to ARIA

URANIA transport to ARIA
- Transport form Urania to Aria: plans, tools
- Procurement status
- Responsibility and related costs
- Schedule & milestones
- Risks analysis

Documents:
- Risk analysis for this part of the project
- Contracts signed for vessels with technical specification
- Shipping and custom plans, including preliminary cost estimations
- BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
- Presented slides

Speakers: Farrokh Rad, Mark Boulay (Carleton)

14:00 → 14:30 ARIA overview

ARIA overview
- Aria project introduction
- Schedule
- Goals and performances required
- Management structure

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120772

• Performance requirement note
• First tests results
• Summary schedule
• Presented slides

Speaker: Walter M. Bonivento (INFN Cagliari)

14:30 → 15:15 ARIA status of work

ARIA status of work
- Installation and Hardware
- Aria status of work up to mid July
- Contracts signed and active (detailed list)
- Related costs and possible over costs
- How was all this up to now financed?
- Are we in line with the overall schedule?
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120774

• Set of photos of the plant at this time
• List of contracts signed with costs and over costs
• If possible all contracts on a protected EDMS location, that can be accesses with an NDA
• Presented slides

Speaker: Federico Gabriele (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:15 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:00 ARIA next steps and commissioning

ARIA next steps
- Aria future activities, including commissioning
- Contracts to be signed or finalized
- Related costs, way to finance it
- Schedule and milestones
- Management and supervision effort and responsibility
- Risks
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120775

• Risk analysis for this part of the project
• List of contracts to be signed, list of offers received
• If possible all of the above on a protected EDMS location, that can be accesses with an NDA
• BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
• Presented slides

Speaker: Federico Gabriele (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:00 → 16:30 ARIA operation

ARIA operation
- Aria operation plans
- Expected performance
- Schedule and milestones
- Labor required and related costs
- Operation costs (electricity, maintenance, tools, additional M&S, …)
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120776

• Risk analysis for this part of the project
• M&S BOEs
• List of labor necessary, with hiring responsibility
• BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
• Presented slides

Speaker: Walter M. Bonivento (INFN Cagliari)

16:30 → 16:50 ARIA transport to LNGS

ARIA transport to LNGS
- Transport form Aria to LNGS: plans, tools
- Responsibility and related costs.
- Schedule and milestones
- Risks
- Answers to charge

Documents: https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120777

• Risk analysis for this part of the project
• Shipping and custom plans, including preliminary cost estimations
• Questions/relations with the UAr cryogenics group
• BIOs of all people involved in the supervision of this part of the project
• Presented slides

Speakers: Farrokh Rad, Mark Boulay (Carleton)

16:50 → 17:20 UAr summary costs

UAr summary costs : https://edms.cern.ch/document/3120779

• Summary cost table
• What it is missing to bring Urania to Operation
• What it is missing to bring conclude ARIA, including transport to LNGS

Speaker: Marzio Nessi

17:20 → 18:00 Referees close meeting

Wednesday, 17 July

08:00 → 09:00 Urania and Aria team prepare answers to the written questions submitted by the committee

09:00 → 11:00 Answers to questions with the review committee

11:00 → 11:30 Funding agencies internal discussion and eventual list of questions or advices to the committee.

11:30 → 15:30 Close meeting of the committee, writing of a first report. Includes organized lunch.

11:30 → 13:30 Funding agencies meet DS-20K management to discuss other aspects of the project in term of schedule, costs and financial responsibilities. NSF, INFN, CFI, DOE. Example Acrylic procurement. or ID status

15:30 → 16:00 Presentation by the committee of the preliminary report. Open meeting.

16:00 → 16:20 Review end