Description:
Charge to the TB review on June 16-17 at FNAL
The charge of the review is to assess the status of the US DHCAL project and the various technical prototype projects, and to establish a view on the forthcoming developments in terms of production, test, commissioninng
and integration.
The outcome should provide a basis for the planning of CALICE test beam
activities in the next two years.
1. US DHCAL
The TB should review
- RPC production: availability of components, schedule, manpower and
tooling for construction
- status of electronics production and test
- RPC readout integration and commissioning sequence
- Mechnical integration into teh absorber structure
- supplies and services
- slow control and daq integration
In particlular, a few critical milestones should be defined in order to allow following the progress.
Based on this time line an outlook on a possible beam test scenario in 2009-10 should be given.
Funding uncertainties should be pointed out.
A major goal is to discuss the integration into the CALICE test beam set-up in terms of mechanics, services, slow control and DAQ. The interfaces should be identified and defined where possible.
A perspective on the development of the GEM option should be included.
2. Technical prototypes
Likewise, the TB should reach an understanding of the status of the EUDET ECAL and AHCAL technical prototypes and the European DHCAL projects with GRPCs and Micromegas readout, and discuss the envisaged sequence
from demonstrator type tests to larger detectors.
Also here critical milestones should be defined for
- integration of detector and full readout chain
- large area tests
- multi-layer integration and test
The needs for the definition of interfaces in mechanics, electronics, slow control and DAQ should be identified.
Since we are looking further ahead here, options are still open. The TB should obtain a view on critical decisions to be taken in the near and mid-term future, and how the decisions are going to be prepared.
The TB should get a coarse idea about the reach of presently secured funding and at which point new sources need to be found.
In view of the variety of projects, the TB should check for possible bottlenecks in the availablity of common resources, like mechanical
structures, test equipment, DAQ set-ups and manpower support.
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