[DIRC] good news!

[Peters, Klaus Prof. Dr.]

Dear Pawel,

these are excellent news and our visit to BNL and the discussion
about add'l workpackages for EIC is showing results,

kind regards, Klaus

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Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Peters - GSI Darmstadt / GU Frankfurt
eMail k.peters at gsi.de Tel. +49 6159 71 2762 Fax. +49 6159 71 3762 Mobile
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dirc-bounces at jlab.org [mailto:dirc-bounces at jlab.org] On Behalf
Of Pawel Nadel-Turonski
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:16 PM
> To: dirc at jlab.org
> Subject: [DIRC] good news!
> 
> 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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