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Forthcoming Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) meeting

The next meeting of the Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) will take place at Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1SZ on the 27th/28th/29th October 2014. 

The Panel will be reviewing PRD applications and 3 large project proposals. Due to the large number of PRD applications being reviewed there will be no open presentations for PRDs.

Members of the science community should contact Dawn Weston on telephone 01793 442102 or e-mail Dawn Weston if they are likely to attend the open presentations for the large project proposals.

The proposals being reviewed are as follows:

27th/28th/29th October 2014

27th October 2014

15.00 – 16.00 – UK Involvement in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

This proposal proposes a programme of work to enable UK participation in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). LSST originated as a US project but is now transforming into an international science projects planned for the next decade. LSST will have both a large collecting area and a wide field of view more than an order of magnitude larger than any current or planned facility. This will enable it to survey the whole visible sky every few days, leading to both a stacked sky survey of great depth, and the ability to find moving, variable, and transient objects.

The Panel goes into closed session for the rest of the day.

28th October 2014 (Closed Session)

Review of the Project Research and Development proposals.

29th October 2014

09.30 – 10.30- LZ Dark Matter Search

This proposal seeks funding for a 3-year construction project to deliver a significant UK contribution to the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment. LZ aims to detect and study the dark matter particles which are believed to compose most of the mass of the universe. It will be installed at the 4850-ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, USA, where LUX is operating presently with world-leading sensitivity. LZ is a collaboration of 29 institutes from the United States, Portugal, Russia and the UK, formed by the coming together of the LUX and ZEPLIN teams.

10.30 – 12.15 – Closed Session

13.00 – 14.00 – The ILC as a Higgs Factory

The ILC is a proposed electron-positron linear collider (LC). The ILC includes a super-conducting linear accelerator to provide the high-energy beams and a complex beam delivery system (BDS) to provide the nanometre-scale beam spots needed for high luminosity. The accelerator technology is mature and is being used for the European XFEL, being constructed at DESY. In its initial phase, the ILC would operate as a high-luminosity Higgs factory and there is the possibility of the construction of the ILC in Japan. This proposal asks for resources to enable the UK HEP groups to reengage with the global LC detector community.

The Panel goes into closed session for the rest of the day

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