sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Kim, Yongsun" <ykim11 AT illinois.edu>]

Dear all.

Attached is the minutes for the general meeting on Feb 23rd 2018. 

Best wishes,

Yongsun

Collaboration news

* Sign up and collect your pictures on the sPHENIX Facebook page 

* Update of MVTX proposal sent to Muller for budge briefing  

* Vicki and Jjn are elected as EC members.   

* Consortium in China for seeking funding.  Bernt is coming. 

   * Gunther : In the post-workshop meeting, representatives from China is expected to present some concrete news about their contribution.

L2 meeting 

* Everything went well last week, e.g. cost and schedule review, magnet test, calorimeter sent to FNAL

* KPP & UPP in discussion 

   * Gunther: Not trivial to present quality checks (e.g. tracking performance) using on data-driven result only.  We need a concrete plan for the next proposal.

* Q: What does UPP stand for?   A: Ultimate Performance Parameter

 * Technical things are now ready for the software modules.

Discussion on sPHENIX/EIC letter of intent 

* Timeline: 

  * 1st draft of DoI targeting the PAC meeting schedule in June. 

  * final draft by September targeting the DOE site visit. 

  * In the second half of 2018, DOE may declare CD-0 for EIC.

* STAR is not being asked for the update to eSTAR. 

* Bernt agreed the highest priority remains on CD-1 review 

* LoI will very probably be reviewed by BNL 

*  pre-CDR will have brief experimental interface section. 

* ALD said the overall purpose is not clear. 

   * Gunther: Bernt is asking us to clarify the different goals.  And we should provide clear documentation on HCAL and MVTX in the aspect of the future use in ePHENIX.

* Dave.   We should state the clear timeline to give an impression that ours fit the aggressive timeline of EIC.

* Christine: Should we mention about the non-sPHENIX manpower? We should find people outside for better developments for ALCA and medium energy program. 

   * Gunther: suggest to focus on the current manpower and discuss this in another agenda. 

* (forgot who said)  DoI is a kind of detector competition.  Whatever we come up with, we should set the boundary condition for the money.  

* Jin: We should explicitly point out in the charge whether we should design and cost out beam line detector. 

   * Christine: Agree on this. Nils had a model of the beamline magnet in the simulation, which would allow us to do some study.   

* A brief update about MVTX&INTT from Min Liu 

   * MVTX&INTT first test was successful yesterday. 

   * Some will go to CERN to build more sensors.

* The director's review Part II will pace in 10 days.  

On Feb 22, 2018, at 9:15 PM, David Morrison <morrison AT bnl.gov> wrote:

Dear collaborators,

We will have the 44th sPHENIX general meeting tomorrow, Friday February
23 at noon EST.  The agenda and connection information can be found at

https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=4295

For those at BNL, we will meet in Rm. 2-219.

In addition to the usual updates we will have an initial discussion of a
recent reqeust from ALD Berndt Mueller to update the sPHENIX/EIC
detector letter of intent.  It will be very useful to hear thoughts from
the collaboration on how to approach this.

Best,
Gunther and Dave

--
David Morrison  Brookhaven National Laboratory  phone: 631-344-5840
               Physics Department, Bldg 510 C    fax: 631-344-3253
                         Upton, NY 11973-5000  email: dave AT bnl.gov

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