ECCE Public Announcements

[Or Hen <hen AT mit.edu>]

Dear ECCE,

CONGRATULATIONS!

As you know the DPAP panel just held its public closeout where they presented the EIC community with the findings of their review of the ECCE ATHENA and CORE proposals. They discussed the different criteria around which their review was centered and for each point discussed both common and proposal-specific strengths and weaknesses. The panel offered many specific positive comments on each proposal and expressed their appreciation for the enormous effort put forth by EIC community over the past year.

The panel’s final recommendation was:

 “The panel unanimously recommends ECCE as Detector 1. 

  The proto-collaboration is urged to openly accept additional 

  collaborators and quickly consolidate its design so that the

  Project Detector can advance to CD2/3a in a timely way.”

This is a remarkable achievement and we should all feel proud to have the ECCE vision for an EIC detector validated by the panel.

It is important to note that the panel clearly stated that no existing proto-collaboration is currently capable of realizing an EIC the project detector by itself. The panel highlighted many strengths of the ATHENA proposal and felt strongly about the case for a second detector that was supported by the CORE proposal. We must move forward in as unified way that benefits from the strengths and ideas of the entire community.

We realize many of you have questions about the specific details of what’s coming next. Much of this will be discussed in our meeting on Thursday morning (https://indico.bnl.gov/event/14886/) and we encourage everyone to participate. As discussed in our last meeting we ask that in the meantime that everyone be patient as we continue discussing the best path forward with the project and the other proto-collaborations. The one clear statement we wish to make already now is that ECCE will remain open to all members of the EIC science community as we work with the full community EIC project and labs to further develop and build a project detector that will enable the realization of the full EIC science program.

As part of our anticipation for a fruitful collaboration with the broad EIC user community we share with you the attached joint statement by ATHENA ECCE and CORE leadership.

Thanks,

Or, John, and Tanja

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Or Hen,
Massachusetts institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
www.hen-lab.com

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