Meeting of the LCFI group meeting on Thursday 20th December
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Start at 16:00 UK time.

You can participate in this meeting in one of three ways. You may come to RAL 
(Conf Room 1, Building R1), to Liverpool U Physics Dept, Oliver Lodge Laboratory, 
Room 306, or you may phone in from wherever you are.

Phone-in participants should ring the BT conference centre at +44 1296 317500 
(or 01296 317500 from the UK). This will connect you to an operator. Ask for the 
RUTHERFORD CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY MR DAMERELL, ACCESS CODE C571474.

Meeting Agenda

1)	UK PP funding crisis; consequences for LCFI

I, along with all UK experiment spokespersons, have received a request from SCP4 
(the Science Committee Particle Physics Planning Panel), asking our collaboration 
to identify major cost savings for our project. As you all know, particle physics 
in the UK is facing a very serious financial problem (shortfall of £12M on a total 
of £100M for the experimental programme over the next 3 years) and we will all have 
to work hard to find a means for survival of our projects through this period. 

Within the RAL group, we have discussed the problem and have some suggestions. 
We now need to broaden the discussion to the full collaboration and reach a consensus. 
If you would like to discuss ideas with me before the meeting, please contact me at 
any time. 

I should add that the Science Committee is very keen not to damage prospects for UK 
participation in major future projects. Since LCFI is in this category, we have a 
reasonable chance that a carefully thought through plan, which honestly presents 
the minimal level to keep the project alive, will be supported by the Science Committee. 

Our response to SCP4 is required by 10th January. Since I will be in the USA from 
4th January, we will need to finalise the document by the 3rd.

2)	Detector R&D status reports

2.1	Thin ladder development
2.2	Drive control module 
2.3	ADC system (from ESD group)
2.4	CCD58 testing
2.5	CPCCD (work with MTech)
2.6	CPCCD (simulation)
2.7	Readout chip
2.8	CPCCD MCM (multi-chip module, incl bump bonding)
2.9	CPCCD driver/motherboard and other electronics
2.10	Detector test system - Liverpool

3)	Physics studies

4)	LCFI organisation/manpower

5)	Finances (current FY)

6)	Funding for future FYs

We will review the response from the 3rd December meeting of the PPRP, and the 
current situation which is enmeshed with the Science Committee and the 
abovementioned SCP4.

7)	Reports from recent LC-related meetings

8)	Future LC-related meetings

9)	AOB

If you have transparencies or drawings to show, please send them electronically to 
Tim Greenshaw, green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk, so he can make them accessible from the LCFI 
home page.