Agenda of LCFI group meeting on Thursday 25th October
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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 480100
(or 01296 480100 from the UK). This will connect you to an operator. Ask for the
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Meeting Agenda

1)  Detector R&D status reports

RAL   Thin ladder development programme             Erik J, Laurie L
      Drive control module                          Edward S et al
      ADC system (from ESD group)                   Dave S, Tony G
      Detector testing                              Konstantin S, Bob E et
al

      Col parallel CCDs (work with Marconi)         Chris D et al
      Col parallel CCDs (simulation)                Konstantin S
      Readout chip (col parallel)                   Steve T et al
      Bump bonding                                  Jeff B et al
      Driver and motherboards                       Tony G et al

L'pool   Cryo system and cryostat                   Tim G
         Device simulation                          Tim G et al

Oxford   WHIPM system developments                  Phil B, Glenn C
         Ladder R&D (mechanical)                    Wing Lau, Phil B

2)  LCFI Finances                                 Dave S

3)  LCFI organisation/manpower                    Each group rep

4)  Ongoing detector simulations/physics studies     Stefania X, Matthew
W

5)  Forthcoming conferences

        LCUK Meeting 31 October (Daresbury Lab)

        IEEE NSS and MIC 4-10 Nov (San Diego)

        US LC Physics and Detector Workshop 7-9 January (Chicago U)

6)  Proposal to Technology Fund and status report to PPRP

The Technology Fund in its wisdom rejected our bid. This was a feeble excuse for the peer
review process. No contact with reviewers, whose identities remain secret. However, it
appears that the sub-panel that looked at our proposal could not have contained an expert
on silicon detectors - I hope none of our readers was on it! Their feedback report, to be
discussed in our meeting, isb littered with painful misconceptions that could have been
cleared up in a short phone call. Is this a sensible way to handle a proposal for £3.8M,
which involved a serious amount of careful preparation?

Their feedback report contains the phrase '... this was an incremental development that
most likely would happen anyway ...'. Let's hope that their apparent optimism about
alternative funding sources proves to be accurate! According to Neville Harnew and Ken
Peach, the PPRP can probably keep us going through this FY but not beyond. At present, our
funds dry up on 3rd December.

We should in our meeting discuss briefly our fallback options for next year.

7)  AOB

Dates of meetings for 2002.

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Tim Greenshaw, green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk, so he can make them accessible from the LCFI
home page.