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

1 WEBEX Connect Information

MONDAY Meeting Number: 757 429 911 Meeting Password: sidmarch2

2 Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Persis Drell (SLAC)

3 ILC Status

Speaker: Dr Barry Barish (GDE)

Slides Barish_SiD_03-09.pdf Barish_SiD_03-09.ppt

4 Status from LOI Editors

Speaker: Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University)

Slides sid_loi_slac_mar09.pdf sid_loi_slac_mar09.ppt

5 Production Aspects of Sim/Recon for the LOI

Speaker: Norman Graf (SLAC)

Slides SimulationReconstructionStatus_090302_SLAC_Graf_full.pdf

10:30 Coffee

6 Use of the GRID for Sim/Recon Production

Speaker: Dr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides LOI_Grid_Production.pdf

7 Benchmarking-IV: Top Production

Speaker: Mr Erik Devetak (Oxford Univeristy)

Slides LOIMeeting.pdf LOIMeeting.ppt

8 Tracking

Speaker: Marcel Demarteau (Fermilab)

Slides sid_vtxtrk_loi.pdf sid_vtxtrk_loi.ppt

9 Vertex Detector

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

Slides LOI_VTX_Cooper.pdf LOI_VTX_Cooper.ppt

12:15 Lunch

10 Benchmarking-IIb: uu Higgs Branching Fraction

Speaker: Dr Jan Strube (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides hmumu.pdf hmumu.pptx

11 ECAL

Speaker: Dr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides sid-ecaltalk.pdf

12 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

13 HCAL

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

Slides LOI_Hadron_Calorimetry.pdf LOI_Hadron_Calorimetry.ppt

15:25 Coffee

14 Benchmarking-I: Recoil Mass Analysis

Speaker: Dr Timothy Barklow (SLAC)

Slides ZH_Recoil_Mass_v3.pdf ZH_Recoil_Mass_v3.ppt

15 Research Director's Remarks

Speaker: Sakue Yamada (KEK)

16 FCAL

Speaker: Dr Takashi Maruyama (SLAC)

Slides LoI-FCAL.pdf LoI-FCAL.ppt

17 Muon System

Speaker: Dr Henry Band (U. Wisconsin)

Slides

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

18 Engineering: Iron & Solenoid

Speaker: Kurt Krempetz (Fermilab)

Slides SiDSLACworkshop_03_09r1.pdf SiDSLACworkshop_03_09r1.ppt

18:30 Wine and Cheese

MAP and DIRECTIONS
NOTE: There is parking for only 10 cars. Only cars with >=4 people should drive. Form car pools at the "Park & Ride" at the 280 & Page Mill Road intersection. Here is a PHOTO OF THE PARKING LOT

Tuesday 3 March

19 WEBEX Connect Information

TUESDAY Meeting Number: 754 509 430 Meeting Password: sidmarch3

20 LEP Status

Speaker: Dr Kenneth Moffeit (SLAC)

Slides

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

21 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

22 MDI & Cryo System Design

Speaker: Marco Oriunno (SLAC)

more information SiDmovie31.wmv

Slides MDI-SiDMar0309.pdf MDI-SiDMar0309.ppt

10:30 Coffee

23 Benchmarking-V: SUSY

Speaker: Ms Yiming Li (University of Oxford)

Slides 20090303_susy_SiDMeeting.pdf 20090303_susy_SiDMeeting.ppt

24 Electronics

Speaker: Dr Gunther Haller (SLAC)

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

25 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

26 Costs

Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)

Slides SiD_LoI_Costs.pdf SiD_LoI_Costs.ppt

12:30 Lunch

VTX/TRK Parallel

27 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

ECAL/HCAL Parallel Session

15:15 Lemonade Break

FCAL/MDI Parallel Session

28 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

29 University of Colorado Beam Cal Analysis II

Speaker: Jack Gill (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Slides TwoPhotonBeamCal.pdf

15:15 Lemonade Break

30 Drafting SiD Response to MDI Functional Requirements Document

MUON Parallel Session

A WEBEX session has been scheduled for this session. Click the link to connect.
Meeting Number =311 792 742
Meeting PW = muonpsession

31 Lessons from T2K & Minerva

Speaker: Steve Manly (Rochester University)

Slides Some_Fiber_Experience_from_T2K_and_MINERvA.pdf

32 Princeton RPC Studies

Speaker: Changguo Lu (Princeton University)

33 LC Scintillator-based Muon Studies

Speaker: H. Eugene Fisk (Fermilab)

34 RPC/KPiX Studies

Speaker: Dr Henry Band (U. Wisconsin)

15:15 Lemonade Break

35 General Comments, Report from parallel meetings, Discussion of LOI

Speaker: Prof. Hiro Aihara (Tokyo Univ.)

36 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 Collaboration Dinner

MAP AND DIRECTIONS TO THE RESTAURANT

Wednesday 4 March

37 WEBEX Connect Information

WEDNESDAY Meeting Number: 759 402 107 Meeting Password: sidmarch4

38 R&D Priorities

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

Slides SiD_RnD_Priorities.pdf SiD_RnD_Priorities.ppt

39 University R&D Plan

Speaker: Jim Brau (U. Oregon)

Slides brau_us_univ_rd.pdf brau_us_univ_rd.ppt

40 The view from NSF

Speaker: David Lissauer (NSF)

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

41 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 Coffee

42 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

43 Summary of Critical Issues

Speaker: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides SiD_issues_hw.pdf SiD_issues_hw.ppt

44 The Future of SiD

Speaker: John Jaros (SLAC)

Slides SiD's_Future_030409.pdf SiD's_Future_030409.ppt

12:30 Lunch

LOI Writing Session-Group TBD

LOI Writing-Group TBD