Letter of Intent for Detector R&D Towards an EIC Detector

TK Hemmickfor theEIC Tracking R&D GroupLetter of Intent for Detector R&D Towards an EIC DetectorWhy a LOI Response to a Call for Proposals?The EIC community is an ever-growing and diverse set of scientists with a broad range of physics goals.Tracking and PID technologies must be driven by the physics goals of the EIC and not by the technology du jour.Success will be defined byGathering a community that cross-cuts R&D with physics.Drawing upon diverse experience to formulate reasoned plans.Our Letter of Intent:Announces a fledgling community taking on this task.Contains requests for small scale seed grant work of likely interest.Promises a full R&D tracking proposal in one years time.Who are we?Brookhaven National LaboratoryFlorida Institute of TechnologyIowa State UniversityLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyRiken Research Center at BNLStony Brook UniversityUniversity of VirginiaYale UniversityBrookhaven LabHadron-Blind DetectorChevron charge divisionFast drift TPCASIC developmentVUV spectrometry

Florida Institute of TechnologyCMS High-h UpgradeRD51 SRS readout SystemLarge Area GEM production

MITSTAR Forward GEM TrackerStrip-pixel readout scheme.Industry-based GEM production(TechEtch Company)Large Area GEM-hole cert. equipment.

Stony Brook UniversityHadron-Blind DetectorLarge Clean RoomGas ChromatographyCsI Photocathodes

University of VirginiaSuper Big BiteSoLID

Yale UniversitySTARForward GEM TrackerDeveloped Strip-pixel readout system.Short term proposal:3-coordinate strip-pixel readout.

Iowa State Universitytext

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratorytext

Fast Drift TPC DevelopmentRequest Help on this slide from Craig WoodyLarge Area Readout Using ChevronsRequest Help from Marcus HolmannCsI RICH Possibilities.The Stony Brook group wishes to investigate the feasibility of CsI-coated GEMs as a large area, B-field tolerant solution for RICH work.Operating in CF4 the PHENIX HBD detector demonstrated the highest measured N0 of any large Cherenkov Detector.However, there are limitations due to the sensitivity range of CsI (110 200 nm).Windows for liquid radiator provide higher cutoff.Most (not all) optics for reflection provide higher cutoff.Aerogel opaque in sensitive range.

Large Area GEM w/ hidden ReadoutRequest Help from Lilange to finishStrip-pixel R&DRequest Help from Richard Majka to finish slide

Simulations begunThe most important work over the coming year involves simulations to propose viable technology choices for R&D.A simulation framework exists.The work plan involves driving processes:FL drives momentum precision.Ds drives PID.