[DIRC] good news!

[hyde at jlab.org]

Very good work Pawel,
You might just have to defend all of our budget requests,
at the rate your are going.
Sincerely,
Charles


> 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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