WP1 Meeting

Wednesday 16 Jul 2025, 16:00 → 17:35 Europe/London

Zoom link: https://cern.zoom.us/j/61673440998

Meeting ID: 616 7344 0998 

Pass code is in the invite email

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ePIC indico category: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/402/
EIC/ePIC mailing lists: https://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo
ePIC wiki: https://wiki.bnl.gov/EPIC/index.php?title=Main_Page (see in particular “Si Vertex Tracker”, “Background”, “Info from the Project”)

Sharepoint for CAD models and drawings: https://stfc365.sharepoint.com/sites/ePICCADTransfer

Relevant meetings:

SVT DSC - Development of the silicon vertex tracker Fornightly meetings on Tuesday at 5 pm UK time Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/496/
WP2 (Testing) Category: 547	WP3 (Elec Interfaces) Category: 548	WP4 (Local Mech) & WP6 (Global Mech) Category: 596	WP5 (RDO & Powering) Category: 609

 

Technical and Integration Council (TIC) - Overall detector development Weekly meetings on Monday at 2 pm UK time Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/480/

Infrastructure and Integration Meeting (AKA the Rahul Meeting) Weekly, Monday at 3:30 pm (summaries given 1st TIC of the month) Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/581/

 

Track Reconstruction Working Group - Track Reconstruction Software Weekly meetings on Monday at 4 pm UK time Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/463/

Joint track and vertex reconstruction and tracking WG - Tracker layout optimisation (SVT + Gaseous tracker) Weekly meetings on Thursday at 4 pm UK time Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/542/

Background Task Force - Study of backgrounds, radiation levels, dose, occupancy, rates, etc Ad-hoc meetings when there is something to discuss on Tuesday at 6 pm UK time Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/461/

 

General Meeting - Meeting of the collaboration Twice per month, once at a time convenient for Asian colleagues, once a month on Friday at 3:30 pm UK time Indico: https://indico.bnl.gov/category/411/

 

1 Highlights from Stony Brook working meeting

Speaker: Georg Viehhauser (member@ox.ac.uk;staff@ox.ac.uk)

Stony Brook highlights.pptx

2 Discussion on wafer probing needs

Speakers: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK)), Liliana Teodorescu (Brunel University London)

25-07-16_WaferProbingUK_ JJG_rev1.pdf

Wafer prober system.pdf

3 Module status update

Speaker: Jian Liu (University of Liverpool)

OB_module_update_20250716.pdf

4 Getting ready to submit TFS proposals

Speaker: Marcello Borri (staff@stfc.ac.uk)

Funds application for 3.7 years, to submit before 01/09/2025.

 

Universities

-PJ shared at the end of June all the material to prepare the TFS applications: TFS link, wording for TFS and costing.

-Applications to be submitted before 01/09.

-Action: to familiarise with the TFS link and submission process.

-Action: to forewarn your local admin staff of this incoming TFS submssion and its time scale.

Nat Labs

-Nat Labs are instructed by STF programme to use the internal award process.

-Nat Labs have the costing sheet from PJ and template for the internal award form.

-Internal discussion between departments started: TD@RAL (IS), TD@DL (PA,MB), PPD (FW).

-Action: to define how to internally approach the submission of the internal award form.

-Action: to forewarn your local admin staff of this incoming TFS submssion and its time scale.

 

Non-staff costs (capital):

-MB received from PJ the table: revision and discussion on priorities in-progress/started today.

-Key principles for prioritisation:

---UK Project: to safeguard the UK-SVT project deliverables as funded by the national funding agency; 

---SVT Technology: to develop competitiveness (skills) in high-tech detectors;

---International Collaboration: to safeguard/raise the UK reputation in the in the international collaboration;

-Open points: agreement between CERN/ITS3 and DOE/BNL. [To consider/discuss impact/value/risk of capital procurement before agreement is signed].

-Action: University of Oxford to clarify if it is OK to manage funds for capital equipment. (Split duty with Birmingham Univerisity)

5 Update about the test system for the sLDO

Speakers: Andrew Hill (staff@stfc.ac.uk), Marcello Borri (staff@stfc.ac.uk)

20250704-epicMpw2SvtSldoTestSetup-rep-2021a10.pdf