Dear Colleagues in North America,
A group is now planning to call a meeting, January 13-15 2005,
at Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, near Paris, to advance the detector
design studies for a gaseous tracking detector for the linear collider.
The following message from David Miller to the ECFA Study gives
some of the currently understood parameters of this meeting.
Best regards,
Jim
---------------
To members of the ECFA Study of physics and detectors for the
International Linear Collider
Dear friends,
A group of us are planning to call a meeting, January 13-15 2005, at Ecole
Polytechnique Palaiseau, near Paris
The Goals will include:
* planning future activities of the teams formerly involved in
the development of the US-Large and the TESLA detector concepts.
* co-ordination of these plans with teams from Asia, and with new
groups who wish to join in.
* creation of a steering group to guide the activities, hopefully
with participation from all three regions.
* exploration of possible detector parameter-sets and technologies
(with inputs from relevant detector technology R&D projects).
* adoption of agreed physics benchmarks (hopefully in collaboration
with other concept studies such as SiD).
* survey and planning of common software tools.
* preparation of contributions to the cost estimate to go into the
CDR for the ILC in 2005/06 - to be compiled by a panel appointed by
WWSOC (N.B. no detector CDR yet).
If you are working on any aspect of detector development for the ILC you
will be strongly invited to attend this meeting. Apart from the
assumption of "gaseous tracking" there are no preconceptions about the
overall size of the concept(s) to be studied, or about the technologies to
be considered for calorimetry, vertexing, particle identification, forward
detectors etc.
Some of us* will be meeting at the ACFA workshop in Taipei next week to
make firmer plans, so there is time for you to make suggestions before
then about the form the meeting might take.
Yours ever
David
* The group who will meet in Taipei next week is expected to include Akiya
Miyamoto, Satoru Yamashita, Ron Settles, David Miller, Hitoshi Yamamoto,
Jim Brau, Sachio Komamiya, Ties Behnke, Andy White, Rolf Heuer, Norman
Graf
--
********************************************************************
* Prof. David J. Miller, UCL, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy *
* +44 207 679 7152 (fax 7145) Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, UK. *
* Mobile +44 7747 030 752 http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~djm/ *
********************************************************************
