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

1 Introduction to the review

Speaker: Marzio Nessi

2 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)

3 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 Coffee break

4 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)

5 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)

6 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 Lunch break

7 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)

8 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)

9 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 Coffee break

10 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)

11 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)

12 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)

13 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

14 Referees close meeting

Wednesday, 17 July

15 Urania and Aria team prepare answers to the written questions submitted by the committee

16 Answers to questions with the review committee

17 Funding agencies internal discussion and eventual list of questions or advices to the committee.

18 Close meeting of the committee, writing of a first report. Includes organized lunch.

19 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

20 Presentation by the committee of the preliminary report. Open meeting.

16:00 Review end