General EEEMCal Meeting Summary 9/30/22

PARTICIPANTS: Sasha, Renee, Carlos, Richard, Tanja, Larry, Hamlet, Vardan, Yeran, Irina, Gabriel, Douglas, Rosi, Taya, Julie,

SCIENCE CASE DISCUSSION

• Overview of intro and DVCS paragraphs

• consider including the history of the EIC/EEEMCAL

• international community has been working on dectector - committee reviews have taken place
• EEEMCAL is not a new device, but has been reviewed several times (NAS, YR, White Paper, etc.)
• convince expert that there is very strong community support for EEEMCAL and science case

• Actions:

• Ask NSF for a strategy meeting - preferably in the next three weeks (weeks of Oct. 3, 10, or 17)
• Continue writing on science case, e.g., Renee will take a first stab at refining intro and adding inclusive paragraphs

BROADER IMPACTS FOR NSF

• Review document of broader impacts for NSF proposals

• for the EEEMCAL pre-proposal that is reviewed NSF wide the global points mentioned seem most important

• Also important is training in project management - different from regular research proposals. Possible approach:

• (not necessarily in Broader Impacts) describe experience in projects in collaboration across labs/universities
• (not necessarily in Broader Impacts)describe EIC connection - EEEMCAL is included in the EIC WBS structure
• In Broader Impacts describe the plans of transferring knowledge to early career scientists

PROTOTYPE TESTS

• JLab tests: preparations ongoing for 40cm SciGlass tests in 3x3 array

• Modules have been prepared and are being tested
• expect installation in the next week or so depending on beam and access schedule at JLab

• Order of tests anticipated

• SciGlass 40cm in 3x3 array (October/November data taking)
• PWO with SiPM (December) - Crytur preparing prototype with updated electronics
• SciGlass 40cm with SiPM in 5x5 array (early 2023)

EIC PROJECT UPDATES

• Review of subsystem ongoing - EM calos might be next, sometime in November

• all EMCals
• photosensors and electronics

SIMULATIONS

• Geometries in good shape for the EPIC simulation campaign

• Pu Kai - backward EMCal
• Dmitry - barrel SciGlass EMCal

• Reconstruction etc. still being developed, but will have hits from the first campaign

CRYTUR CRYSTAL ORDERS

• need 20-30 crystals/month to keep the production going through 2023

• so far have orders until April 2023, then capacity empty

• PANDA 50 crystals

• Action: check status of the procurement from JLab

NEXT MEETING: FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER AT 8:00AM ET