The DPF Instrumentation Task Force requests immediate community feedback by November 11 on their draft report. Please send your comments to taskforce@lists.purdue.edu and feel free to post below in the comments section below.
The primary recommendation of the Task Force Report is the creation of a Detector R&D Coordinating Panel (DRDCP). The primary role of the panel would be to promote, coordinate and assist in generic detector R&D nationally on behalf of the community. It has been pointed out by many that DRDCP is difficult to pronounce. Some have dubbed it the “acronym panel”. To rectify the situation the Task Force is conducting a panel naming competition. Please send suggestions to taskforce@lists.purdue.edu by November 11 2011. The best suggestion, as judged by the Task Force, will receive a prize of $100.
In addition, the DPF is soliciting nominations for membership of the DRDCP. Please send nominations to Patty McBride, mcbride(at)fnal.gov .
The community is invited to leave comments on the task force here in the comments section.
It is not clear from the description of the DPF Task Force on Instrumentation in High Energy Physics whether the scope of the instrumentation includes the non-intercepting beam instrumentation that is used for optimizing the beams in accelerators and storage rings for DPF experiments. The scope should include all non-intercepting beam instrumentation that is used for increasing luminosity of accelerated and colliding beams, such as beam steering, bunch phase space measurement, beam tune (Fourier sidebands in colliders), and beam cooling (e.g., antiproton and muon beams). For example, Simon van der Meer’s work in this area was instrumental in the success of the CERN ISR and SPS colliding beam physics. (Who would have imagined that Liouville’s Theorem limit could be violated). Turning on and optimizing the beams in the LHC is another example. Still another possible example is the instrumentation used for minimization of beam halo and detector background.