[EIC-exclusive] EIC JLab news

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Dear all,

Some of you may have attended the weekly general EIC meeting at JLab, 
others may not. I want to convey some very good news to these physics 
groups that deal with the lower-medium energy and high luminosity 
science at the EIC.

In the past weeks the accelerator folks from JLab and from BNL have come 
to establish 21 joined task forces to tackle outstanding issues in the 
designs of the machine and the interaction regions and their relations 
to the detector integration. The attached screenshot of one slide shown 
by Todd Satogata at the meeting shows these task forces and what lab 
takes main responsibility for them. Eight of the task forces (yellow 
boxes) are JLab driven. Among them the low-energy luminosity/facility 
optimization, the 2nd IR design, and the detector/solenoid integration.

The design of the 2nd IR and the focus on high-lumi/low-to-medium energy 
are now firmly established as part of the CDR preparations. I think this 
is a major step forward in our desire to optimize the EIC plans towards 
some of the high priorities science topics.

All the best,

Volker


PS: The attachment will be send later.