Tracking Group Overview

Bruce SchummCornell Linear Collider

WorkshopJuly 13-16 2003

Development 1: Funding

LCRD/UCLC Proposal Status

• Proposal reviewed; components ranked Sept 2002

• DOE (LCRD) top-ranked proposals funded as supplements to existing grants

• UCLC re-reviewed as individual proposals; did not fare well

• Funded tracking groups: Sci-Fi Int. Tracker (Indiana/Notre Dame) GEM Forward Tracking (Louisiana Tech)

PRC MeetingDESY, Hamburg, May 7 and 8,

2003

SilC: an International R&D Collaboration to develop Si-

tracking technologies for the LC

Aurore Savoy-Navarro, LPNHE-Universités de Paris 6&7/IN2P3-CNRS, France

on behalf of the SiLC Collaboration

Development 2: International Si Tracking

Consortium

SiLC (Silicon Tracking for the Linear Collider) group formally recognized by DESY PRC

Proposal available at http://lpnhe-lc.in2p3.fr/ (click `SiLC’, but 1st write me for username and password

Approved for 1-year `warm-up’ phase

Readdress PRC in October with more specific plans and goals

The SiLC CollaborationThe SiLC Collaboration

Brookhaven

Ann Arbor Wayne

Santa Cruz

Helsinki

Obninsk Karlsruhe

Paris

Prague Wien Geneve

Torino

Pisa

RomeBarcelonaValencia

Korean Universities

Seoul&Taegu

Tokyo

EuropeUSA

ASIASo far: 18 Institutes gathering over 90 people from Asia, Europe & USAMost of these teams are and/or have been collaborating.

Group-Wide Activity

Between Santa Cruz (6/02) and Arlington (1/03), we had a series of three phone meetings (gaseous tracking, solid-state tracking, and simulation).

Do we want to replicate this in Oct/Nov?

Is there some other model or mode of coordination that we want to consider?