sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[David Morrison <morrison AT bnl.gov>]

Dear collaborators,

We're pleased to announce that a draft response to ALD Berndt Mueller's
charge asking for an update to the 2013 sPHENIX/EIC letter of intent is
available for review.  A big thanks to Christine and Nils for
shepherding this effort, and as they note below, a big thanks also to
the many people who've contributed to the studies and writing that
comprise the draft.  The current draft can be downloaded here:

https://www.sphenix.bnl.gov/web/draft-sphenixeic-loi

Please provide comments by the end of the day on September 26, 2018.  We
are due to deliver the document to the ALD by September 30, 2018.

As the draft was authored both by sPHENIX collaborators and by EIC
interested friends from outside the collaboration, we'll need to be
flexible about how we collect comments on the draft.  We have the
sPHENIX mailing list sPHENIX-notes-l, which is intended for discussion
of note drafts among sPHENIX collaborators.  And there is also the
eic-DSG-l mailing list, which is not limited to sPHENIX collaborators
and was set up for discussions of the EIC detector study group.  Send
your comments to either of these lists and we'll ask the note's authors
to compile the responses.

Regards and happy reading,
Dave and Gunther

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Dear Dave and Gunther,

please forward the attached draft of the document for "An EIC Detector
Based On sPHENIX" to the collaboration for review.

The draft is the product of many people pushing this concept over the
years and focused activities in the more recently established EIC
Detector Study Group. We thank all the people who have contributed to
it. Please have a look and let us know your thoughts and suggestions by
September 26th.

The document is still work in progress. While most of the content we
intend to include is there (we only need to add the Executive Summary
and Conclusions), the text likely needs some editing. Therefore, when
reviewing the draft, please focus on the content, messages, and figures
first. We will keep you posted about major updates to the draft.

Best,
Christine & Nils

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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