[DIRC] good news!

[Rolf Ent]

Congratulations in advance to all of you, I am sure this will result
in continued funding. Yes, I also got indirectly some feedback that
Robert wants to see more. Overall from what I have seen his points
are well taken, all things we should think more about. Thanks to
all for the great work, and Tom Ludlam had indicated to me before
his wish/thinking to have a global EIC detector workshop. I think
that is a good idea.

Thanks especially to our colleagues/experts at GSI!

 					Best regards,	Rolf

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Pawel Nadel-Turonski wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Jerry could unfortunately not be here, so the chair (Ian) was the main
> reviewer for our proposal. We did receive a very positive response
> overall, and were recommended to be funded in full. The committee had a
> few minor comments (all originally put forward by R. Klanner), for
> instance some more detailed simulations showing more quantitatively the
> impact of an extended momentum coverage on the measurement of TMDs in
> various kinematics. On one hand this requires from non-trivial theory
> input, but on the other it is something which we already discussed with
> Alexei, and something that is on his radar to accomplish over the next
> six months. They also wanted to have a more quantitative input on how
> and how much we hope to improve the various parameters that go into the
> theta_c resolution. We probably can provide some general answers to both
> of these, and perhaps some additional, comments when they present the
> written report, and hopefully have some more detailed answers by the
> time of their next meeting. The slides from all the presentations,
> including ours, can be found below.
>
> https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/index.php/December_2011
>
> Ultimately the funding decision will, as last time, be given by Tom in a
> separate announcement, but although the proposals were not rated, given
> the verbal responses to ours and the other ones, I have a feeling that
> our funding should be secure - also in view of that BNL (Tom) was
> interested in expanding the collaboration with PANDA/GSI also in other
> areas than the EIC, and wanted to organize an EIC detector workshop with
> many participants, including PANDA. The recent GSI visit must have left
> a good impression! I told him that this seemed to be a very good idea
> and that our experiences JLab with the collaboration with GSI were very
> positive. And perhaps such a workshop could also be a good opportunity
> for all of us to meet as well?
>
> One interesting detail, which goes beyond the DIRC proposal, was also
> that the committee, and the chair in particular, said that for the next
> round of R&D proposals he wanted to see a more detailed exposition of
> the differences and requirements of the two detector designs, with a
> particular focus on small-angle detection and IR design. Given that one
> of his comments on the DIRC proposal was that he appreciated the global
> impact on the design of the central detector (following from the radial
> space budget) depending on which PID option is chosen, it seems to me
> that he shares our ideas on detector design, building it in a "top-down"
> manner, rather than Elke's approach of starting with a jigsaw puzzle and
> trying to see how one eventually can make all the pieces fit. This could
> present interesting opportunities! Abhay also underscored that a deeper
> collaboration between people involved in the BNL and JLab efforts would
> be welcome, which would be a nice change in policy from some of the
> things we have seen lately if BNL would really move in that direction.
> Thus, generally, I took away a very positive impression from this meeting.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Pawel
>
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