SiD Collaboration Meeting at SLAC for Final Preparation of the Letter of Intent

2 Mar 2009, 08:45 → 4 Mar 2009, 17:00 US/Pacific

Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC)

Please note that a coffee service will be available daily beginning at 8:30 AM.

Monday, 2 March

08:45 → 09:00 WEBEX Connect Information

MONDAY Meeting Number: 757 429 911 Meeting Password: sidmarch2

09:00 → 09:15 Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Persis Drell (SLAC)

09:15 → 09:45 ILC Status

Speaker: Dr Barry Barish (GDE)

Slides Barish_SiD_03-09.pdf Barish_SiD_03-09.ppt

09:45 → 10:15 Status from LOI Editors

Speaker: Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University)

Slides sid_loi_slac_mar09.pdf sid_loi_slac_mar09.ppt

10:15 → 10:30 Production Aspects of Sim/Recon for the LOI

Speaker: Norman Graf (SLAC)

Slides SimulationReconstructionStatus_090302_SLAC_Graf_full.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 11:05 Use of the GRID for Sim/Recon Production

Speaker: Dr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides LOI_Grid_Production.pdf

11:05 → 11:25 Benchmarking-IV: Top Production

Speaker: Mr Erik Devetak (Oxford Univeristy)

Slides LOIMeeting.pdf LOIMeeting.ppt

11:25 → 11:55 Tracking

Speaker: Marcel Demarteau (Fermilab)

Slides sid_vtxtrk_loi.pdf sid_vtxtrk_loi.ppt

11:55 → 12:15 Vertex Detector

Speaker: William Edward Cooper (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides LOI_VTX_Cooper.pdf LOI_VTX_Cooper.ppt

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:05 Benchmarking-IIb: uu Higgs Branching Fraction

Speaker: Dr Jan Strube (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides hmumu.pdf hmumu.pptx

14:05 → 14:35 ECAL

Speaker: Dr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides sid-ecaltalk.pdf

14:35 → 14:55 Benchmarking-III: tau decay mode identification

Speakers: Dr Ray Cowan (M.I.T.), Ron Cassell (SLAC)

Slides

• Cowan_Tau_Pol_SiD_Collab_Mtg_at_SLAC_02Mar2009.pdf
• Cowan_Tau_Pol_SiD_Collab_Mtg_at_SLAC_02Mar2009.ppt
• TauModeID.pdf
• TauModeID.ppt

14:55 → 15:25 HCAL

Speaker: Prof. Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides LOI_Hadron_Calorimetry.pdf LOI_Hadron_Calorimetry.ppt

15:25 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 16:00 Benchmarking-I: Recoil Mass Analysis

Speaker: Dr Timothy Barklow (SLAC)

Slides ZH_Recoil_Mass_v3.pdf ZH_Recoil_Mass_v3.ppt

16:00 → 16:20 Research Director's Remarks

Speaker: Sakue Yamada (KEK)

16:20 → 16:40 FCAL

Speaker: Dr Takashi Maruyama (SLAC)

Slides LoI-FCAL.pdf LoI-FCAL.ppt

16:40 → 17:00 Muon System

Speaker: Dr Henry Band (U. Wisconsin)

Slides

• SiD_Muon_0309.pdf
• SiD_Muon_0309.ppt.pdf
• SiD_Muon_0309.ppt.ppt

17:00 → 17:30 Engineering: Iron & Solenoid

Speaker: Kurt Krempetz (Fermilab)

Slides SiDSLACworkshop_03_09r1.pdf SiDSLACworkshop_03_09r1.ppt

18:30 → 20:30 Wine and Cheese

MAP and DIRECTIONS
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Tuesday, 3 March

08:45 → 09:00 WEBEX Connect Information

TUESDAY Meeting Number: 754 509 430 Meeting Password: sidmarch3

09:00 → 09:30 LEP Status

Speaker: Dr Kenneth Moffeit (SLAC)

Slides

• Moffeit_LEP_PDF.pdf
• Moffeit_LEP_PowerPoint.pdf
• Moffeit_LEP_PowerPoint.ppt

09:30 → 09:50 Benchmarking-IIa: ccbar Higgs Branching Fraction

Speaker: Mr yambazi banda (oxford university)

Slides cc-bar_Higgs_Branchin_Ratio.pdf cc-bar_Higgs_Branchin_Ratio.ppt

09:50 → 10:30 MDI & Cryo System Design

Speaker: Marco Oriunno (SLAC)

more information SiDmovie31.wmv

Slides MDI-SiDMar0309.pdf MDI-SiDMar0309.ppt

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 11:10 Benchmarking-V: SUSY

Speaker: Ms Yiming Li (University of Oxford)

Slides 20090303_susy_SiDMeeting.pdf 20090303_susy_SiDMeeting.ppt

11:10 → 11:40 Electronics

Speaker: Dr Gunther Haller (SLAC)

Slides Haller-SiD-LOI-SLAC-Mar-09-v1.pdf Haller-SiD-LOI-SLAC-Mar-09-v1.ppt

11:40 → 12:00 Benchmarking-VI: ZHH & Sbottom

Speaker: Tomas Lastovicka (Department of Theoretical Physics-University of Oxford)

Slides

• Lastovicka_030309_SBOTTOM.pdf
• Lastovicka_030309_SBOTTOM.ppt
• Lastovicka_030309_ZHH.pdf
• Lastovicka_030309_ZHH.ppt

12:00 → 12:30 Costs

Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)

Slides SiD_LoI_Costs.pdf SiD_LoI_Costs.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 ECAL/HCAL Parallel Session

15:15 Lemonade Break

14:00 → 17:00 FCAL/MDI Parallel Session

14:00 University of Colorado Beam Cal Analysis I

Speaker: Gleb Oleinik (U. of Colorado, Boulder)

Slides Electron_Identification_Efficiency_of_the_SiD02_v2.pdf Electron_Identification_Efficiency_of_the_SiD02_v2.ppt

14:20 University of Colorado Beam Cal Analysis II

Speaker: Jack Gill (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Slides TwoPhotonBeamCal.pdf

15:15 Lemonade Break

15:30 Drafting SiD Response to MDI Functional Requirements Document

14:00 → 17:00 MUON Parallel Session

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14:00 Lessons from T2K & Minerva

Speaker: Steve Manly (Rochester University)

Slides Some_Fiber_Experience_from_T2K_and_MINERvA.pdf

14:15 Princeton RPC Studies

Speaker: Changguo Lu (Princeton University)

14:30 LC Scintillator-based Muon Studies

Speaker: H. Eugene Fisk (Fermilab)

14:45 RPC/KPiX Studies

Speaker: Dr Henry Band (U. Wisconsin)

15:15 Lemonade Break

14:00 → 17:00 VTX/TRK Parallel

14:00 Spanish Contributions to SiD

Prospects for Spainish contributions to SiD, mainly related to silicon tracking in the forward direction, but including some contribution to the calorimeter, will be discussed.

Speaker: Ivan Vila Alvarez (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Grupo de Altas Energias - Cons)

Slides SpanishNetworkLoIContribution.pdf SpanishNetworkLoIContribution.ppt

15:15 Lemonade Break

17:00 → 17:45 General Comments, Report from parallel meetings, Discussion of LOI

Speaker: Prof. Hiro Aihara (Tokyo Univ.)

17:45 → 18:15 Photons First! A staged Approach to ILC with a first-stage photon-photon collider

Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC, Stanford University)

Slides PeskinPLC.pdf

19:30 → 21:30 Collaboration Dinner

MAP AND DIRECTIONS TO THE RESTAURANT

Wednesday, 4 March

08:45 → 09:00 WEBEX Connect Information

WEDNESDAY Meeting Number: 759 402 107 Meeting Password: sidmarch4

09:00 → 09:30 R&D Priorities

Speaker: Prof. Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides SiD_RnD_Priorities.pdf SiD_RnD_Priorities.ppt

09:30 → 10:00 University R&D Plan

Speaker: Jim Brau (U. Oregon)

Slides brau_us_univ_rd.pdf brau_us_univ_rd.ppt

10:00 → 10:15 The view from NSF

Speaker: David Lissauer (NSF)

Slides SiD_SLAC_Mrch_09_DL[1].pdf SiD_SLAC_Mrch_09_DL[1].ppt

10:15 → 10:35 Spanish R&D Network towards the ILC

Speaker: Ivan Vila Alvarez (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Grupo de Altas Energias - Cons)

Slides SpanishNetworkR&D-2.pdf SpanishNetworkR&D-2.ppt

10:35 → 10:55 Coffee

10:55 → 11:25 CLIC Detector Synergies with SiD R&D

Speaker: Konrad Elsener (CERN)

Slides CLIC_at_SiD_meeting_March2009_KElsener.pdf CLIC_at_SiD_meeting_March2009_KElsener.ppt

11:25 → 11:55 Summary of Critical Issues

Speaker: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides SiD_issues_hw.pdf SiD_issues_hw.ppt

11:55 → 12:25 The Future of SiD

Speaker: John Jaros (SLAC)

Slides SiD's_Future_030409.pdf SiD's_Future_030409.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 LOI Writing Session-Group TBD

14:00 → 17:00 LOI Writing-Group TBD