sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[David Morrison <morrison AT bnl.gov>]

Dear collaborators,

A reminder that we'll have the next sPHENIX general meeting tomorrow,
Friday, June 30 at noon ET.  The agenda can be found here:

https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3281

Two items beyond those already mentioned will also be presented: an
update on the Juniors' EC election by Megan Connors; and Xin Dong will
discuss the reconstruction of HF mesons in sPHENIX.

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Cheers,
Dave and Gunther
        
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On 6/26/17 7:15 PM, Gunther M Roland wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Among many other interesting updates, this week's general meeting will 
> feature two particularly important topics for discussion. To allow input 
> from the as many collaborators as possible, we want to provide advance 
> notice of these topics. 
> 1) sPHENIX support (or lack thereof) from the DOE-NP medium energy program
> Several sPHENIX groups funded by the DOE-NP ME have been denied funding for 
> sPHENIX participation. This obviously is a serious issue. We have spoken 
> with the RHIC ALD, who in turn discussed with DOE-NP AD Tim Hallman. We'll 
> report on these discussions, which unsurprisingly resulted in more homework 
> for the collaboration and in particular the cold QCD enthusiasts.
> 2) Budget discussion at the Director's Review
> As discussed on several occasions, the latest projections show a cost for 
> the baseline detector outside of the $29M-$35M range. For the August 2-4 
> Director's Review, which will go ahead as planned, the project will need to 
> present a plausible scenario within the allowed range (not to exceed the 
> middle of the range at ~$32M). While we have not been asked to repeat last 
> year's budget exercise, we need to provide one (or multiple) such 
> scenario(s) addressing the current shortfall. We had a discussion between 
> ALD, deputy ALD, sPHENIX project manager and co-spokespeople, which 
> suggests that mutually agreeable scenarios exist. Finalizing the strategy 
> for the review obviously requires careful consideration by the 
> collaboration. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gunther and Dave
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