General Meeting Summary 11/18/19

ACTION ITEMS

• Summary of this meeting (Tanja)

• Make a diagram of the organizational structure and lines of communication (Peter)

• Starting from the SC list, make a list of names for the detector groups (all)

• Start of a List

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

• Goal of the Working Group: Study detector concepts based on the EIC physics measurement requirements, and quantify implications for the physics measurements. As initial goal to start: Survey of detector technologies for a Yellow Report, e.g. Detector Technologies for CLIC (arXiv:1905.02520)

• Survey of technologies and map onto the EIC R&D programs
• But also some broader questions, e.g. mapping the detector performance on physics processes - here one also has synergies with the other working group

• Tasks for the Working Group:

• Constrain technologies for best performance
• Broader overview - integrate all detectors together in terms of performance

• Path towards achieving the goals of the Working Group include:

• Detector technologies

• start with list of detectors and make a list of people who can contribute, e.g. 4-5 per detector
• subconveners can be identified from the list, one subconvener per detector
• second subconvener could be charged to directly look at integration issues
• Monte Carlo expertise essential for each detector group as it is input to guide technologies

• Resolve barriers towards combining pieces and making the global physics measurement

• current R&D is targeted and assumes basic performance parameters
• R&D is currently not used to determine the overall physics and to make the best measurement
• barrier might be that there is currently no framework flexible enough to combine different detector technologies
• risk of starting with global integrated EIC detector concepts from beginning is that borders between detectors and technologies are fixed too fast

• Discussion about possible models. Details might be different, but all have a set of common features:

• Detector technologies - link with R&D Consortia, but add some look at global integration – perhaps two sub-conveners per technology one to link with consortia and one to look more at overall integration
• Global integration - smaller group addressing broader questions of detector performance and resolve any barriers
• Simulation - support, global framework and do basic MC. This is an important group that should be strong and provide input to the Detector working group. It is not clear if this group should be a subset of this detector group or of both working groups

• Available documentation to guide the effort - it may be beneficial to remind of the examples documented and how one would advance those with new ideas and identify key questions

• Detector R&D Handbook
• White Paper
• In general it is good to keep in mind to look at panorama of detectors

MIT MEETING AGENDA FEEDBACK

• Perhaps beneficial to have discussion with all working group conveners

• boundaries between working groups not yet clearly defined
• what should be plenary and what parallel?
• discussion of role of simulations group

• Update on simulations

• need core simulation - learning curve for university students/postdocs to contribute is too steep, important to show global and flexible simulation software.

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