sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Mickey Chiu <chiu AT bnl.gov>]

Hi Martin,

The 20th works better for me.  I have a potential conflict on the 13th 
as well.

Mickey

On 10/30/2017 08:01 PM, Martin Purschke wrote:
> All, especially Mickey and the Colorado group,
>
> the DAQ/Trigger/MBD review was originally scheduled for Dec 13. It turns
> out that the DOE moved a review that I had agreed to serve on to that
> week, and I have to be in Germantown the better part of that week. Being
> wedged in between the Santa Fe meeting and this, JohnH suggested we move
> the TR out by a week (that would nominally be Dec 20).
>
> If that's getting too close to the Holiday Season, we could find a day
> earlier that week. I just wanted to let you know so no one feels left out.
>
>         Martin
>
>
> On 10/26/17 10:04, John Haggerty wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been in touch with the subsystem managers about this, but I
> > thought I should let the wider sPHENIX world know that this will be
> > starting soon.  The goal is to have a document the design in a series of
> > presentations, and to remind ourselves what must be completed in the
> > Conceptual Design Report.  It is a direct response to a recommendation
> > of the Director's Review.
> >
> > I'll be asking for help in conducting these reviews from within the
> > collaboration, so please consider seriously requests from Jim, Don, or
> > me.  If you are interested in volunteering, please contact me.
> >
> > > The charge to the CD-1 review of sPHENIX will almost certainly include
> > > the question to the review committee:
> > >
> > > > Is the conceptual design technically sound and likely to meet the
> > > > objectives of its scientific case?
> > >
> > > and the expectation will be that the CDR will be complete.
> > >
> > > Ed and I think that we can accomplish this in a way that actually
> > > benefits us by convening a series of short reviews for each of the
> > > detector systems.  The idea is that we have one morning each on TPC,
> > > EMCAL, HCAL, CalEl, and T/DAQ with a largely technical committee of
> > > physicists and engineers, including one "outside" person (i.e., not a
> > > member of the sPHENIX collaboration).  I will chair the committee, and
> > > I will work with the L2 managers to select other members of the
> > > committee (nor more than 2 or 3 other physicists or engineers, in
> > > addition to the "outside" reviewer).
> > >
> > > I would like to use this process to complete the CDR so that it is
> > > ready for a Director's Review in early CY2018 and a CD-1 review in
> > > spring of 2018, so part of the job of the reviewers is to read
> > > carefully and make *constructive* suggestions and corrections to the
> > > CDR.  We might want to appoint one of the reviewers as a subsystem
> > > "godfather" who will help edit the CDR.
> > >
> > > I propose the following schedule on Wednesday mornings (there are
> > > relatively few meetings on Wednesday):
> > >
> > > Nov 1 HCAL
> > > Nov 8 EMCAL
> > > Nov 15 TPC and TPC electronics (we might need to go into the afternoon
> > > on electronics)
> > > Nov 29 CalEl
> > > Dec 13 Trigger/DAQ + MBD
> > >
> > > The outcome of this process would then be a series of meetings with
> > > technical slides, a review report, and a completed CDR by the
> > > beginning of CY2018.  It seems feasible to me; many of you have almost
> > > all the slides you need for this now, the CDR is in a pretty advanced
> > > state, and we can use it also as a way to draw in more members of the
> > > collaboration.
> > >
> > > I actually don't think these reviews should be onerous... much of the
> > > material has been shown multiple times, and having someone outside our
> > > usual orbit look at our ideas might even prove useful.  I'll post this
> > > to one of the sphenix lists, but I thought first I'd make sure the L2
> > > managers are ok with it, and this will test whether you read to the end.

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