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29/30th April 2014 Forthcoming Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) meeting
The next meeting of the Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) will take place in the Pickavance Lecture Theatre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0QZ on the 29th and 30th April 2014.
The Panel will be reviewing 3 large project proposals.
Members of the science community should contact Tahmina Aziz on telephone 01793 442058 or e-mailif they are likely to attend the open presentation.
The proposals being reviewed are as follows:
29th April 2014
15.00 – 16.00 – ISOL-SRS: ISOL Beam Storage Ring Spectrometer
The ISOL-SRS project is a major component of a wider European initiative that will exploit the heavy ion storage-ring facility, TSR, to be installed at the HIE-ISOLDE radioactive-beam accelerator at CERN.
The main goal of the project is to build a spectrometer for the measurement of charged-particle reaction products both in-ring and external to the ring, each employing high granularity silicon-detector systems. The two detector systems will enable the whole range of radioactive nuclei accelerated by HIE-ISOLDE to be studied, taking advantage of the properties of the radioactive beam cooled within the ring.
It is proposed that the UK will construct two high-resolution, high-efficiency detector sub-systems for the storage ring that will allow high-resolution measurements of nuclear reactions for the full range of masses of radioactive beams available at HIE-ISOLDE.
The Panel goes into closed session for the rest of the day.
30th April 2014
09.30 – 10.30 – LHC ALICE Upgrade
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment plans upgrades which encompass a number of detector, trigger, software and computing developments that will be required to continue the exploitation of ALICE throughout and beyond the next decade. Upgrades are required to cope with the anticipated increase in the Pb beam luminosity to L = 6× 1027 cm-2s-1, which will deliver Pb-Pb interactions at 50 kHz. The main motivation for the luminosity upgrade is to achieve a precise, quantitative, understanding of the properties of the deconfined QGP by focusing on rare probes both at low and high transverse momenta as well as on multi-dimensional analysis of such probes with respect to centrality, event plane, multi-particle correlations, etc.
The UK is proposing to play a role in the upgrade centring on three key priorities within the UK-ALICE team, namely the Trigger Upgrade, the Inner Tracking System (ITS) Upgrade, and Physics Performance Studies.
10.30 – 13.30 The Panel goes into closed session.
13.30 – 14.30 – Jefferson Laboratory Upgrade Project
On 18 May 2012, the US Department of Energy’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at JLab in Virginia, USA, finished a long 17-year run. For further scientific advances in this field, a major upgrade of CEBAF to 12 GeV electron beam energy along with the design of substantial new experimental equipment has started.
The proposal seeks funding to enable the Glasgow and Edinburgh nuclear physics groups to develop new detector systems to the future experimental programme at JLab. In particular, to develop and construct a fast timing hodoscope and the fast timing electronics for experiments in Hall Aand for the Forward Tagger fast timing hodoscope for experiments in Hall B.
The Panel goes into closed session for the rest of the day.
