[BDXlist] BDX presentation to JLab directorate

[Marco Battaglieri]

Dear all,
thanks a lot for your timely and valuable supporting material!
I assembled the presentation available here
https://userweb.jlab.org/~battagli/bdx.pdf
If you have any comments, suggestions, let me have it asap in order to 
have the final version soon
Thanks again
Marco


Marco Battaglieri wrote:
> Dear BDXers,
> as we mentioned in the last two meetings, we asked for an informal 
> meeting with Bob McKewon to show progresses and get a feedback before 
> to present the proposal.
> The quick chat we imagined transformed in  a 2h meeting (!) with Bob, 
> Rolf and Patrizia with 1h for presenting BDX status and 1h discussion. 
> The meeting is fixed for tomorrow at 3PM EST.
> I think this is a great opportunity to convince the JLab management 
> about the goodness and the readiness of BDX at JLab and obtain the 
> necessary support for the infrastructural costs (as you know this has 
> little to do with the PAC judgment).
> To make the story short. we need to prepare a good presentation quickly.
> Even if there are many things still to work out for the full proposal, 
> I believe we have already all ingredients for a thorough discussion 
> with Bob &Co using as a skeleton the LOI but updating all the new 
> items (and in particular addressing the concerns expressed in the PAC 
> report about technology and infrastructure).
> I'll assemble a presentation that includes all progresses we did in 
> the different area in these 2 years and for this reason I would like 
> from all of you 4-5 slides on a specific item:
>
> - Eder and Gordan: theory update and reach plot (if any new)
> - Andrea: rec software
> - Andrea/Eder: Chi generation
> - Andrea/Luca: test on crystals
> - Dan W./Gordan: Chi interaction and nuclear response
> - Dan S./Dinesh: BDX-DRIFT
> - Elton/Tim: infrastructures at JLab
> - Marzio/Mariangela: Cosmic BDX prototype at LNS
> - Mariangela/Marzio: proton beam test at LNS
> - Raffaella: simulation of beam-related bg (n and gamma)
> - Alessandra: simulation of cosmic mu and n
> I will take care of simulations with GEMC and the detector concept
>
> Please nothing fancy, just few slides that I will cannibalize to 
> assemble in a coherent presentation.
>
> I'll be grateful if you could send  your contribution asap (at most by 
> today at 3PM EST) giving me time to prepare the presentation, 
> circulate a draft by tonight, receive your feedback by tomorrow 
> morning and adjust/correct/complement what missing before the 
> presentation.
> Sorry for the late notification but I received the message from Bob 
> yesterday night and tomorrow is the convenient slot they found.
> Thanks in advance
> Marco