EICUG IB Meeting

Thursday Oct 10, 2019, 4:00 PM → 6:40 PM Europe/Rome

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YR_planning_20191005.pdf

Below are brief draft minutes.  Please send any corrections or additions to caidala@umich.edu or Andrea.Bressan@ts.infn.it.

43 institutions participated in the call.  

Christine Aidala (Michigan) and Andrea Bressan (Trieste) provided brief updates on the growth of the EICUG (7% increase in membership since July), noted that Rolf Ent has replaced Rik Yoshida as the JLab appointee to the Steering Committee (SC), and commented on material relevant to the EIC in the Briefing Book for the European Strategy Update for Particle Physics, which came out Sep 30.

We heard brief introductions from Aleksandrs Aleksejevs to Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada and from Debasish Das to the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in India as institutions that recently joined.

The main item of discussion was the proposed plan for the EIC Physics and Detector Conceptual Development and preparation of Yellow Reports, which was presented by Rolf Ent (JLab).  

-There were various comments on the short notice for the kick-off meeting in December.  The SC as well as Barbara Jacak (UC Berkeley) noted that at the Department of Energy the EIC seems to be moving forward more rapidly than expected, which is certainly positive news overall but has compressed timelines.   The dates of the 2020 meetings will be fixed soon, by the date of the Web EICUG meeting on the 24th of October.  It was requested that IB Members provide input from the different countries on dates to be avoided due to superposition with local important meetings (funding agencies, reviews, national meetings,...).

- Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook) and Rolf Ent (JLab) commented on the importance of a yellow report with two experiments (discussing cancellation of systematic effects and complementarity).

- There was a request to record meetings and discussion to allow members who cannot attend to be informed.  This will be investigated.  Recording via Bluejeans should be straightforward, but a practical location to store and access lengthy audio or video files will need to be found.

- Barbara Jacak (UC Berkeley) suggested to use Slack or something similar for real-time messaging within groups working on a particular project or using particular software packages.

- It was in any case underlined the importance of having real-time discussions.

- The possibility to cluster in two places (US and Europe) to allow participation and real-time discussions while avoiding long travels was discussed within the SC and will be looked into further.

- Ivan Vitev (LANL) proposed to modify the items: 

Hadronization and fragmentation -> particle transport in matter and hadronization; 

Other (jets) -> Jets and heavy flavour
   and said that due to past and recent work on the subjects they can work on and coordinate this effort.

- Andreas Metz (Temple), commented that the bullet (3D structure) is probably too wide and could be split into TMD and GPD.

- Ernst Sichtermann (LBL) said that the structure of the groups and their coordination, even if they hope that it will be well advanced, will not be fully frozen for the time of the kick-off meeting.

Attendees:

1	Abt	Iris	Max-Planck Institute for Physics Munich
2	Adamczyk	Leszek	AGH University of Science and Technology
3	Aidala	Christine	University of Michigan
4	Alekesejevs	Aleksandrs	Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus
5	Barish	Kenneth	University of California - Riverside
6	Bock	Friedericke	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Official delegate from ORNL for this meeting.
7	Boer	Daniel	Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen
8	Bossu	Francesco	CEA-Saclay	Official delegate from CEA-Saclay for this meeting.
9	Bowen	Xiao	Central China Normal University
10	Bressan	Andrea	INFN Trieste and University of Trieste
11	Camacho	Carlos Munoz	IPN-Orsay France
12	Celentano	Andrea	INFN Genova and University of Genova
13	Charles	Gabriel	IPN-Orsay France
14	Chiosso	Michela	INFN Torino and University of Torino
15	Cloet	Ian	Argonne National Laboratory	Two delegates for ANL, since neither could make the entire meeting.
16	Debasish	Das	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
17	Deshpande	Abhay	Stony Brook University
18	Echevarria	Michel Garcia	Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
19	Elia	Domenico	INFN Bari
20	Ent	Rolf	Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility	Attended as presenter and member of Steering Committee.
21	Fatemi	Renee	University of Kentucky
22	Gao	Haiyan	Duke University
23	Goto	Yuji	RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science	IB representative and Steering Committee member.
24	Guo	Lei	Florida International University
25	Higinbotham	Douglas	Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
26	Horn	Tanja	Catholic University of America
27	Ilieva	Yordanka	University of South Carolina
28	Jacak	Barbara	University of California - Berkeley
29	Ji	Chueng-Ryong	North Carolina State University
30	Kovchegov	Yuri	Ohio State University
31	Metz	Andreas	Temple University
32	Meziani	Zein-Eddine	Argonne National Laboratory	Two delegates for ANL, since neither could make the entire meeting.
33	Milner	Richard	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
34	Mochalov	Vasiliy	Kurchatov Institute
35	Okorokov	Vitalii	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
36	Olness	Fredrick	Southern Methodist University
37	Preghenella	Roberto	INFN Bologna
38	Przybycien	Mariusz	AGH University of Science and Technology
39	Radici	Marco	INFN Pavia and University of Pavia
40	Ruspa	Marta	University of Piemonte Orientale
41	Schnell	Gunar	University of Basque Country UPV/EHU
42	Sichtermann	Ernst	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	IB representative and Steering Committee member.
43	Sokhan	Daria	University of Glasgow
44	Surrow	Bernd	Temple University	Attended as member of Steering Committee.
45	Turrisi	Rosario	INFN Padova and University of Padova
46	Ullrich	Thomas	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Attended as member of Steering Committee.
47	Venugopalan	Raju	Brookhaven National Laboratory
48	Vitev	Ivan	Los Alamos National Laboratory
49	Xuan	Li	Los Alamos National Laboratory
50	Zhenyu	Ye	University of Illinois at Chicago

 

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Opening remarks

Speakers: Christine Aidala (University of Michigan), Andrea Bressan (TS)

AidalaOct2019IBMeeting.pdf

4:15 PM → 4:20 PM Introductions from groups that joined recently

Speaker: Aleksandrs Aleksejevs (Grenfell Campus of Memorial University)

AleksejevsEICUGIBMeetingOct2019.pdf

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM Steering Committee plans for the Yellow Report

Speaker: Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab)

EICUGM_IB_mtg_101019_YR_plans.pdf

EICUGM_IB_mtg_101019_YR_plans.pptx

4:40 PM → 5:40 PM Discussion

5:48 PM → 6:00 PM AoB

Speakers: Christine Aidala (University of Michigan), Andrea Bressan (TS)