Agenda for LCFI telephone conference on 27th May 1999 ===================================================== The meeting will be held on Thursday 27th May, starting at 4 pm sharp, 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 333400 (or 01296 333400 from the UK). This will connect you to an operator. Ask for the RUTHERFORD CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY MR DAMERELL, ACCESS CODE C8850. 1) Report on developments at the Sitges-Barcelona international workshop 28 April-5 May. 2) Action items from last meeting will all be best covered in the progress reports (Item 3). But would everyone concerned please check the notes of the April 19th meeting and review the status of your action items. 3) Detector R&D status reports. RAL Lab 9 prep, and RAL/Oxford portable cryo system Bob E Cryostats, test boxes and heaters Andy N Lab 6 cleanroom and thin ladder assembly/test programme Laurie L Liaison with and hardware from EEV Chris D CCD mbds, flex-lines, drive and analogue modules Richard S/Steve Bu ADC and digital modules Tony G VME crates, computers and software David S L'pool Cryo system and cryostat Tim G ISE simulation facilities (CCD and ladder design) Steve Bi Oxford WIPM system developments Phil B 4) LCFI organisation/budget/manpower Chris D 5) Detector simulations and physics Phil B et al 6) LC-related accelerator R&D in the UK. General discussion of recent developments. 7) Future meetings (updated): ECFA/DESY Mtg 5-6 July 1999 (CERN) Plans for how to converge on detector design. ECFA/DESY Workshop 16-19 October 1999 (Strasbourg) Physics and detector developments ECFA/DESY Workshop March/April 2000 (Naples area) Responsibilities for writing TDR. ECFA/DESY Workshop October 2000 (DESY) Discussion of first draft of TDR. The final version of the TESLA TDR will be due in Spring 2001. The timescale for JLC will be similar, The North American TDR will be completed a year later. The next major hurdle for NLC is the CD-1 review, under way at SLAC this week. The NLC proposal is still to begin construction of the accelerator in FY 2004 (ie starting in October 2003). The procedure and timescale for convergence to N approved projects, where N is in the range 1 to 3, remains obscure at present. One suggestion is that each TDR should be presented to the relevant funding authorities along with a compromise plan for joining one of the other projects if necessary. There is universal agreement that our community must avoid another LHC/SSC debacle. 8) AOB If you have transparencies or drawings to show, you should send them electronically to Tim Greenshaw, green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk, so he can make them accessible from the LCFI home page.