sPHENIX EMCal discussion

[John Haggerty <haggerty AT bnl.gov>]

Hello again,

Thanks to all the people who read, commented on, and corrected the pCDR 
document, it has come together into a very useful snapshot of our 
thinking about the sPHENIX detector with some detailed technical 
descriptions of simulations and prototypes and designs.  The one week 
comment period is now over, and we plan to make a final edit and set of 
corrections shortly and then make it available to the review committee.

It's not the end, but the beginning of some very serious thinking about 
how we will build the sPHENIX detector, and probably anyone who 
contributed to pCDR recognizes better what they can do to design and 
build a truly world-class second generation RHIC experiment.

On 10/17/15 9:00 AM, John Haggerty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I put version 0.99 of the sPHENIX Pre-Conceptual Design Report on an
> Indico page here:
>
> > https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1483
>
> (the pCDR link) which should be accessible to PHENIX and non-PHENIX
> alike.  There is still work going on to complete the document, but the
> hard deadline is to have it complete for the review committee two weeks
> in advance, on Monday, October 26.  PHENIX tradition is a one week
> comment period which will be up next Saturday (October 24), but the
> sooner comments can be received and acted upon by the many authors and
> editors, the better, so if you could make comments and corrections by
> Thursday, that will give us more time to finalize the TeX and clean up
> any figures that still need cleaning up.
>
> I would like to try crowdsourcing the small grammatical corrections that
> take a lot of time in finalizing a  document like this from many
> authors--if you see small changes in working that are needed, try fixing
> them on the Overleaf site itself:
>
> > https://www.overleaf.com/2657127qghjbm
>
> This document has really been a collaborative effort, with writing,
> editing, figures, simulation, and engineering from a large and diverse
> group of people who have come together around this proposal, and it's
> gratifying to see it come together.  It has always impressed me how
> PHENIX comes together to get a job done, and it looks like sPHENIX is
> following that example.


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John Haggerty
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