Silicon Detector Design Study Newsletter #2 March 2005 SiD Asian and European Contacts We are pleased to announce that Hiro Aihara and Yannis Karyotakis have agreed to serve as regional contacts for the SiD Design Study in Asia and Europe respectively. We welcome their close collaboration in defining the study's goals, planning our next steps, recruiting more study participants, facilitating detector R&D, and serving as SiD representatives in Asia and Europe. SiD R&D Coordinator We are also pleased that Andy White will serve as SiD R&D Coordinator. Andy will work with the Detector Sub-Groups to understand the R&D required to realize the SiD concept, and help to document these needs for the Design Study and the broader community. SiD Detector Sub-Group Leaders The Design Study is being organized around a set of detector sub-groups, which will take on responsibility for addressing critical design questions, doing the necessary simulations, reviewing possible technology choices for each subsystem, adding realism to the conceptual designs, and working with each other to address overall detector optimization. We have a good start on finding leadership for the sub-groups, and are happy to welcome the following sub-group leaders to the SiD Design Study efforts: Benchmarking Tim Barklow [log in to unmask] Calorimetry Ray Frey and Jose Repond [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Costing Marty Breidenbach [log in to unmask] Simulation Norman Graf [log in to unmask] Tracking Marcel Demarteau and Rich Partridge [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Vertexing Su Dong [log in to unmask] This process is ongoing. We hope to provide two leaders for most of the groups, create some international balance, and add working groups on the magnet, muon system, and far forward calorimetry at least. Suggestions are welcome. You are encouraged to register your interests and possible contributions with the working group leaders directly. SiD Design Study Meeting will be held March 17, 2005, just before LCWS05. If you are interested in learning about and participating in the SiD Design Study, plan to attend our meeting on March 17, 2005. The meeting will be held at SLAC, in the Redwood Room of the Research Office Building (ROB). If you haven't done so already, please sign up at: http://www-sid.slac.stanford.edu/Workshop.asp SiD Design Study Meeting in Redwood Room, ROB, SLAC March 17, 2005 1:00 Introduction: The SiD Starting Point Harry Weerts Technical Progress Reports 1:30 SiD Simulation Norman Graf 1:45 Progress on Calorimetry Ray Frey 2:00 Progress on Tracking Marcel Demarteau 2:15 SiD Vertexing Su Dong 2:30 The SiD Magnet Harry Weerts 2:45 Benchmarking SiD Tim Barklow 3:00-3:15 Break Organization and Planning 3:15 Design Study Organization, Goals, Plans John Jaros 3:30 Discussion All 3:45 Report from the Asian Contact Hiro Aihara 3:55 Report form the European Contact Yannis Karyotakis 4:05 Report from R&D Coordinator Andy White 4:15-4:30 Break 4:30 Parallel Working Group Meetings led by Working Group Leaders (Plans, Schedule, Prep for Snowmass, Signup) Benchmarks Calorimetry Magnet Tracking Vertexing Do you want to receive this newsletter? Participate in the SiD Design Study? Learn about SiD? We are (still) taking the liberty of sending this edition to many of you who may be interested. If you want to get this newsletter in the future, and have not already registered, please take a moment to sign up for the SiD Design Study and/or the SiD Newsletter on SiD webpage: http://www-sid.slac.stanford.edu/. Questions, Concerns, Good Ideas? Let us hear from you. Harry Weerts ([log in to unmask]) and John Jaros ([log in to unmask]) SiD Design Study Coordinators