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          2019 Call for
          Proposals</span></b></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black">Directed
          Detector
          R&D for an Electron Ion Collider</span></b></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black">Summer
          2018 Detector
          Advisory Committee Meeting</span></b></p>
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"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
        color:black">In January 2011 Brookhaven National Laboratory, in
        association
        with Jefferson Lab and the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics,
        announced a detector
        R&D program to address the scientific requirements for
        measurements at a future
        Electron Ion Collider (EIC). The primary goals of this program
        are to develop
        detector concepts and technologies that have particular
        importance for
        experiments in an EIC environment, and to help ensure that the
        techniques and
        resources for implementing these technologies are well
        established within the
        EIC user community.</span></p>
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        color:black">This program is supported through R&D funds
        provided to BNL by
        the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics. It is not intended to be
        specific to any
        proposed EIC site and is open to all segments of the EIC
        community. Proposals should
        be aimed at developing realistic detector concepts, optimizing
        detection
        capability to enhance the scientific reach of polarized
        electron-proton and
        electron-ion collisions up to center-of-mass energies of 140</span><span
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        style="font-family:CambriaMath;mso-hansi-font-family:
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;mso-bidi-font-family:CambriaMath;color:black"> </span><span
style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
        color:black">GeV and e-p equivalent luminosities up to 10<sup>34</sup></span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
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        style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
        mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">cm<sup>-2</sup>s<sup>-1</sup>.
        Funded proposals will be selected on the basis of peer review by
        a standing EIC
        Detector Advisory Committee consisting of internationally
        recognized experts in
        detector technology and collider physics. This committee meets
        twice per year,
        to hear and evaluate new proposals, and to monitor progress of
        ongoing
        projects. The program is administered by the BNL Physics
        Department, with
        limited annual funds, subject to availability of funding from
        DOE NP.</span></p>
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        color:black">The website for this R&D program is at:
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/index.php/EIC_R%25D">https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/index.php/EIC_R%25D</a></span></p>
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"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
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        color:black">The next meeting of the Detector Advisory Committee
        is planned for
        July 26-27, 2018. The meeting will take place at the Catholic
        University of
        America (CUA) in Washington DC right before the EIC User Group
        Meeting (also at
        CUA).</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
            TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:black">New proposals,
            i.e. proposals that
            are not associated with any ongoing project funded by this
            program, need to be
            submitted </span></i></b><b><i><span
style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:red">by
            May 25, 2018</span></i></b><b><i><span
style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:black">.
            New proposals received after this
            deadline will not be accepted. The PIs will be informed in
            early June if their
            proposals were pre-selected by the EIC Detector R&D
            Committee and can be
            presented at the July meeting. A pre-selection does not
            imply approval. This
            decision will be made at the July meeting.</span></i></b></p>
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style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
            TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:black"> </span></i></b></p>
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style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
            TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:black">Continuation and
            renewal proposals
            together with the mandatory progress reports from ongoing
            R&D projects for
            the FY19 funding have to be received </span></i></b><b><i><span
style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
            TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:red">by June 27, 2018</span></i></b><b><i><span
style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
            TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:black">. Proposals
            received after the
            deadline will not be considered.</span></i></b></p>
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style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
            TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;color:black"> </span></i></b></p>
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        style="font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
        color:black">If you are not sure in which category your proposal
        falls, please
        contact: <a href="mailto:thomas.ullrich@bnl.gov">thomas.ullrich@bnl.gov</a></span></p>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black">Preparation
          and Submission of Proposals:</span></b></p>
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      style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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        style="font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
        color:black">In collaboration with the EIC Detector R&D
        Committee the
        guidelines for preparing proposals have been revised. They also
        contain a more
        detailed description of what R&D qualifies for funding. The
        new guidelines
        are more explicit in some areas in order to facilitate the
        review process: <a
href="https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/images/3/36/ProposalGuidelines-2018.pdf">https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/images/3/36/ProposalGuidelines-2018.pdf</a></span></p>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"
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        style="font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
        color:black">Proposals should be submitted to:</span></p>
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      style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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        style="font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;
        color:black">Thomas Ullrich, Brookhaven National Laboratory</span></p>
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        mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">Electronic
        submission is
        encouraged: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thomas.ullrich@bnl.gov">thomas.ullrich@bnl.gov</a></span></p>
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