The Silicon Detector Design Study will hold a Workshop at SLAC on March 2-4, 2009 to finalize the SiD LoI, review and discuss the R&D required for a viable SiD proposal, and plan SiD's future.
Everyone participating in the SiD Letter of Intent and beginning work on SiD's Technical Design Phase is encouraged to come. Newcomers, interested in learning more about SiD and working on the next steps, are most welcome.
You can register for the workshop here and you can sign up for the collaboration Dinner here
SiD Meeting at LCWS08 Saturday, November 15,2008
The SiD Design Study will hold a meeting on Saturday, November 15, the day prior to the beginning of LCWS08. Everyone interested in learning more about SiD and participating in preparing the SiD LOI is welcome.
We plan to review progress in MC generation, reconstruction, and benchmarking studies; review the latest SiD R&D and engineering designs; and discuss our progress toward writing the SiD LOI.
We ask those planning to come to register, to help with our planning for the meeting.
Further details about the meeting, and a meeting agenda, will be forthcoming.
LCWS08 Saturday, November 15,2008
More information will be added soon.
September 17-19 2008 Boulder, Colorado
Additional Information to follow
Information on the upcoming SiD Session at the Warsaw ECFA
Call for Expression of Interest
March 11, 2008
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee of ICFA decided on February 11 to modify last October's call for Letters of Intent (LOIs) for ILC detectors in accordance with the new timeline of the Global Design Effort (GDE). The detectors are to be implemented in the ILC technical design, which will be completed in 2012. Given the stretched out GDE replan, the due date of the LOIs is shifted by one-half year to March 31, 2009. The submitted LOIs will be reviewed and, if successful, validated by the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) to go on to the technical design phase. This changes the original plan to specifically select two LOIs for an engineering design phase. The IDAG membership is now complete, and it will meet during the Warsaw ECFA Workshop in June.
Many activities need to be started soon and we wish to organize these with the future LOI groups during this year. In order to identify the groups which will submit LOIs, we call for an Expression of Interest (EOI). The EOI should state that the group is planning to submit an LOI and list the names of current participating institutions. We request two names of contact persons 
who will participate in the Physics and Detector Board representing the group. The LOI groups are expected to study the benchmark reactions selected by the WWS software group in order to demonstrate the performance of their detector. The LOI groups are also required to contribute to the common task teams, which will work on issues of common interest to all LOI groups. They are for the moment:
Machine Detector Interface, Engineering Tools,
Detector R&D Panel, Software Panel, Physics Panel.
The IDAG will wish to have presentations of the LOI groups when it meets during the upcoming liner collider workshops, beginning with Warsaw, to be informed of the status of the groups.
The EOI can be sent by E-mail to the address below by the end of March 2008.
Yours sincerely,
Sakue Yamada
Research Director of ILC
E-Mail: sakue.yamada@kek.jp
Comments
The two contact persons are independent of the number of the leading figures of each group. Two names are preferred, rather than one, for the practical reason that at least one member is surely present for every meeting.
This will be posted at www.linearcollider.org under Physics and Detector Studies of the ILC.
The Silicon Detector (SiD) Design Study for the ILC will hold a Workshop in the UK on the 14-16 of April 2008. Everyone participating in SiD, as well as those interested in joining and learning more about SiD, are welcome to attend and urged to register and make travel and accommodation plans.
Dear Colleagues,
Please plan to join us for SiD's next monthly collaboration phone meeting, Thursday, December 6. We are trying to discuss the issues currently before SiD, to get everyone's input and to keep everyone informed.
We'll start the meeting 15 minutes early to allow everyone to connect via webex (instructions below), and get started promptly 6AM (SLAC time) with the meeting proper.
The meeting times rotate to share the pain, region to region. This time they will be as follows:
SLAC 6AM
FNAL 8AM
BNL 9AM
RAL 2PM
Annecy 3PM
KEK 11PM
The meeting agenda can be found at: http://ilcagenda.linearcollider.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2431
Everyone is welcome to suggest agenda items. Please let us know before the meeting if there is something you would like to see discussed, and we'll try to get it included, at least next meeting if not this one. Note that there is (hopefully) time left for "open mike."
This is a webex meeting. Instructions below.
We hope you join us,
Harry and John
WEBEX INSTRUCTIONS:
Topic: SiD Collab
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007
Time: 5:45 am, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco ) Meeting Number: 568 556 812 Meeting Password: collabsid
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Silicon Detector Workshop, SLAC, January 28-30, 2008
The Silicon Detector Collaboration will hold a Workshop at SLAC on January 28-30, 2008. Everyone participating the SiD collaboration, as well as those interested in joining and learning more about SiD, are welcome to attend and urged to register and make travel and accommodation plans.
The Workshop will focus on progress toward preparing the SiD Letter of Intent. In particular, we will discuss global optimization of SiD, readiness of PFAs and tracking pattern recognition/reconstruction, and benchmarking plans, as well as review progress with subsystem R&D.
Dear Colleagues,
Please plan to join us for the next of SiD's monthly collaboration phone meetings, Thursday, November 8/9.
The meeting times rotate to share the pain, region to region. This time they will be as follows:
SLAC 10PM (11/8/07)
FNAL 12AM (11/9/07)
BNL 1AM "
RAL 6AM "
Annecy 7AM "
KEK 3PM "
The meeting agenda can be found at: http://ilcagenda.linearcollider.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2359
This is a webex meeting. Instructions for joining are given below.
Hope you join us,
Harry and John
Meeting Number: 561 474 255
Meeting Password: sidcollab
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Dear Colleague,
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) announces a call for Letters of Intent (LOIs) to produce reference designs for the two ILC detectors. These designs will be detailed in two Engineering Design Reports (EDRs) to be completed on the timeline of the machine EDR being prepared by the Global Design Effort.
The guidelines for the LOIs are presented in the appended document and a public presentation of the WWS roadmap for detectors can be found in the LCWS07 web site. The LOIs should be sent to the ILCSC by October 1, 2008 and will be reviewed by an advisory body appointed with the approval of ILCSC. This body, together with a management team led by the Research Director Sakue Yamada who has been appointed by ILCSC, will start a process leading to the formation of two groups capable of preparing the two engineering designs and the EDR documents.
Sincerely Yours,
Shin-ichi Kurokawa
Chairman of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee
http://physics.uoregon.edu/~lc/wwstudy/lois/LOIguidelines.pdf
ALCPG07 Joint Meeting of the American Linear Collider Physics Group ILC Global Design Effort 22-26 October 2007 at Fermilab.
The SiD Collaboration will meet Tuesday and Friday.
The next SiD Workshop will be held at Fermilab, April 9-11, 2007.