To groups active in - or planning - detector R&D for the ILC
INVITATION FOR INPUT TO THE DETECTOR R&D PANEL OF THE WWS
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(WWS = the Worldwide Study of Physics and Detectors at the ILC)
At LCWS in Stanford at the end of March the WWS organising committee
established a panel to promote and co-ordinate detector R&D for the ILC.
Its chair is Chris Damerell (other members listed below*).
Before the Snowmass workshop in August the panel wishes to get a complete
picture of all the R&D projects now happening around the world. They will
maintain the picture on a webpage so that new groups can see what is
already being done. They will also be in touch with the three teams who
are developing whole-detector concepts for the ILC (SiD, "LDC" and "GLD" -
see e.g. talks at LCWS on Monday 21 March at 16.30, on
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/lcws05/program.htm). On the Snowmass
timescale we need to know which R&D topics that are urgently needed for
the detectors are covered by funded programmes and which topics are
missing.
Could you please, therefore, confer with colleagues in your own R&D
project and choose a contactperson who will send a message to Chris
<[log in to unmask]>. He, or another panel member, will get in touch
with your contactperson and explain how to get your project publicised
through the new international website. The list of topics being
considered by the Detector R&D Panel comprises:
Measurement of luminosity, beam energy and polarisation;
Vertexing;
Tracking;
Calorimetry (ECAL, HCAL, forward region)
Muon tracking
Particle ID
DAQ systems
Electromagnetic interference
Further detector R&D topics can be suggested.
Many thanks
Yours ever
Jim Brau, Hitoshi Yamamoto, David Miller
co-chairs of WWS
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*OTHER MEMBERS OF R&D PANEL
EUROPE.
Jean-Claude Brient (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY-Zeuthen, Germany)
ASIA
HongJoo Kim (Kyonpook National U., Korea)
Tohru Takeshita (Shinsu U., Japan)
Yasuhiro Sugimoto (KEK, Japan)
North America
Dan Peterson (Cornell U., USA)
Ray Frey (U. of Oregon, USA)
Harry Weerts (Fermilab, USA)
