Dear Colleagues,
Jim Brau recently sent out a request to University groups
interested in linear collider detector R&D to submit individual
project descriptions for the FY09 US University-based
Linear Collider Detector R&D program by January 23rd, 2009.
See http://physics.uoregon.edu/~lc/lcdrd/FY09-process.html.
This year the US proposal process differs in that the proposal submission
(due date Feb. 18th, 2009) will be done separately by US representatives of
each LoI Detector Concept Group based on project descriptions received.
In order to develop the ILD LoI-proposal for US university based detector R&D,
we are requesting that US university groups interested in proposing detector
R&D relevant to the ILD detector concept submit an expression of intent (EoI)
as soon as is feasible. This should be a 1-2 paragraph summary of
the project description(s) your group plans to develop.
The requested due-date on this is January 9th, 2009. The EoI (and eventually
the project description) should be submitted to the web depository at
http://www.ilcild.org/documents/proposals-by-us-universities-2009
with an E-mail notification to Graham Wilson ([log in to unmask]).
The goal as ever should be to carry out detector R&D relevant to maximizing
the scientific potential of the linear collider experimental program.
The US should be planning on being strongly involved in the design and
conception of both eventual detectors, and making sure that compelling
detector R&D projects are nurtured. Many of us are concerned that the new
process over-emphasizes concept-level review and prioritization when several
of the issues are relevant to more than one concept.
The LoI-proposal will need to make the case that the proposed US-funded
detector R&D is a high priority for the detector concept and place it
in the context of world-wide R&D efforts. Established efforts should be
able to draw heavily on the international detector R&D reviews.
ILD is a highly internationalized and mature detector concept
based on a merger of the LDC and GLD detector concepts
with strong links to existing detector R&D collaborations.
We currently envisage that the prioritization of the R&D projects at a few
funding levels would be decided at a "round table" meeting including the
R&D project leaders and a small number of ILD executive board members.
The ILD detector concept is based on particle flow for complete event
reconstruction and a very robust and redundant tracking system for fully
exploiting the ILC physics. ILD proposes to combine a gaseous tracker
which gives a large number of true three-dimensional points with
additional silicon tracking devices. Particle flow is made possible by
a very fine-grained calorimeter for both electromagnetic and hadronic showers.
More information about ILD and opportunities to get involved in
the detector design studies including signing up to
mailing lists can be found at http://www.ilcild.org/
You should sign up there for a user account to submit your detector R&D EoI.
For ILD,
Graham Wilson
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Graham W. Wilson
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Office Tel: 785-864-5231
6th Floor Lab Tel: 785-864-3678
Cell-phone: 785-550-0613
Home-phone: 785-841-5714
KU Dept. Fax. 785-864-5262
Web-page: http://heplx3.phsx.ku.edu/~graham/
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