General Meeting Summary 11/11/19

ORGANIZATION STRATEGY

• Grow/guide the overall effort using a hybrid model including both the existing detector R&D consortia and other groups not part of them (TBD from the spreadsheet)

• The initial goal is to perform a critical analysis of different detector technologies and detector performance for selected physics processes. The results can be used in a complementarity study of two EIC detectors.

• more emphasis on MC validation with manpower either from R&D consortia

or from outside

• Some items to address:

• number of channels
• resolution vs. material thickness
• detector size
• trade-off of material and performance

• Possible study groups/topics may include:

• Design and integration - technology choices
• Forward detection optimization - magnetic field studies
• Computing ad software
• Complementarity of two detectors with different technologies - only after deeper analysis

• A charge will be defined for the groups - it will be important to coordinate the effort between people working on technologies and people working on simulations

• Sub-conveners for each group will be identified with the Steering Committee and will assign tasks to group members according to the charge.

• Limited number of sub-conveners vs having people feel responsible can be beneficial: a form of officiating responsibilities can be beneficial for this process
• Possibly helpful to add higher level sub-conveners for general items and to work with consortia/folding in different technologies

PRACTICAL CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES

• General availability of resources: Need input from simulations, but this may be difficult on the scale of a year - initially may concentrate on the R&D Consortia where people already work on detector R&D topics, then think how to grow the effort

• Nature of interactions with the Physics Working Group - would like to set up joint Blue Jeans phone call

• Difficult to engage university groups over next 1-2 years as funding for university groups to work on a future EIC project remains to be clearly defined - might need to emphasize large groups and need help from the National Labs

• seems important to think positive in this transition phase to EIC - it is a new experience for the community, possibly with significant changes in Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics

• Important to not divide people by certain detector concepts early on as this limits the overall progress - try to emphasize a parallel approach in the beginning

• Important to have a general simulation framework ready

PREPARATION FOR SC MEETING

• Description of general thoughts from this meeting

• Discuss the goals of the kick-off meeting at MIT (12-13 December) - strategy for working group including the charges

• In January 2020 can get organized and formalize charges

• Describe types of sub-conveners

• Slide for meeting?

NEXT MEETING: WEEK OF NOV 18th - SEE DOODLE POLL