Re: mechanical design work

Hi, Victor et al.,

thanks for your detailed design report.
It's a giant step forward.
Some time ago I looked at ways to tile spheres and to make the pieces
parabolic rather than spherical.
There would be significant savings in molds for casting;
the surfaces would be cast free for better optical quality;
and the number of pieces would be minimized while,
and they would all be of identical shape.
The deviation from a true sphere depends on the number of tiles, and becomes
quite small for a modest number of tiles.
I don't know if you saw that memo, some time ago.
I have attached it again. for your enjoyment.

Sincerely

Hans

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Reyna" <reyna@anl.gov>
To: <mwtheta13@hep.uchicago.edu>
Cc: "Victor Guarino" <vjg@hep.anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:49 PM
Subject: mechanical design work

> Greetings,
> While at Oxford, Ed mentioned that it's been a while and we should
> probably have a Braidwood get together/collaboration meeting in the
> relative near future. With that in mind I wanted to let everyone know
> about a draft baseline detector design document that Vic Guarino has
> been assembling here at Argonne. We have been trying to look into all
> of the issues involved with design, assembly, installation and operation
> of a baseline detector and intend to present this for more detailed
> review and revision at the next collaboration meeting. At this
> time, the document is still a work in progress with several sections
> still needing to be fleshed out, but we would like to encourage any
> interested parties to take a look now and provide feedback or comments.
> The document can be found at
> http://www.hep.anl.gov/vjg/Reactor-Baseline1.doc
>
>
> Regards,
> -Dave
>
>