ePIC Workfest Descriptions:
AI Workfest:
Organizers: Markus Diefenthaler, Dmitry Kalinkin, Holly Szumila-Vance, Torre Wenaus
The AI Workfest will address three complementary themes: the breadth of AI efforts already underway within the collaboration, the development of an ePIC AI policy, and global AI activities and their opportunities for ePIC.
The workfest will include our next AI Town Hall. This session will provide an opportunity for collaboration members to showcase their work. The goal is to review the breadth of AI activities within ePIC, discuss how these efforts can be integrated into our software stack and production workflows, and determine how we can best support them.
The workfest will also include a discussion of the ePIC AI policy, which addresses how AI is changing the way we work, including in areas such as software development and paper writing.
We will provide an overview of global AI activities, such as the Genesis Mission, and discuss the opportunities they present for ePIC. We will connect the vision of these AI activities with the streaming computing model for a seamless data processing from detector readout to analysis.
Exclusive, Diffraction and Tagging PWG:
Organizers: Kong Tu, Stephen Kay, Garth Huber
The exclusive PWG workfest is to finalize the early science analysis for the NIM A paper. Specifically, the details of the analyses need to be fleshed out with consistent qualities and standards.
Tracking:
Organizers: Barbara Jacak, Barak Schmookler, Shujie Li
The tracking workfest will have two components. There will be reports on recent track reconstruction performance studies, followed by discussions of work underway and needed to better quantify the physics performance of ePIC.
Electronics, RO & DAQ + Streaming Computing:
Organizers: David Abbott, Fernando Barbosa, Marco Battagleri, Markus Diefenthaler, Taku Gunji, Jeff Landgraf, Torre Wenaus
The workfest is organized jointly by the Electronics, Readout, and DAQ WG and the Streaming Computing WG. It aims to balance broad collaboration-wide overviews with focused discussions on key technical areas. The program will cover the status of electronics and readout systems, including ASIC, RDO, and GTU developments, as well as requirements and timelines for Streaming DAQ. Dedicated discussions will address the Echelon 0-1 interface, the Echelon 2 participation model, streaming orchestration requirements, and the status and plans for testbeds and prototypes for streaming orchestration, streaming reconstruction, and autonomous calibrations.
AC-LGAD Sensors and ASICS:
Organizers: Alex Jentsch and Satoshi Yano
The AC-LGAD workfest will focus on discussing the status and plans for the AC-LGADs for all subsystems in ePIC. The emphasis will be on needed tasks to bring us to final production versions of the sensors and ASICs to ensure consistency with the EIC timeline, including testbeam needs, sensor productions to address open issues prior to mass order of the final sensors, needed iterations of the EICROC and FCFD ASICs to obtain the final production versions, and plans for QA and assembly of the relevant components for AC-LGAD detectors across equipped institutions to ensure all tasks are coordinated.
TOF Mechanics:
Organizers: Satoshi Yano
The TOF Mechanics Workfest will focus on detector mechanical systems, installation, support structures, services, and the cooling system. We received several comments on these topics during the recent PDR, and these issues must be addressed before the next review end of this year. Therefore, the main goal of this workfest is to identify the areas that require the most attention, define priorities, and clarify responsibilities for each topic.
