[Particle-physics-affiliated] [Particle-physics-baes] Fwd: IPR question

Isabel Trigger itrigger at triumf.ca
Wed Nov 14 07:56:09 PST 2018


Hi all,

Indeed, it may be fastest if David can show these just before his talk; however, I worry that putting them at the beginning could derail the whole session schedule if they spawn any discussion. We could instead save them for the end, although at this point, that would mean cutting the question periods after the talks shorter to save a few minutes for the end. Let me know if you want me to do that, or if it’s better for David to flash them fast.

Comparing the two proposed slides with the explicit questions asked by the committee (goal posts keep moving):

- “in the last five years” excludes a few of the highlights listed (in particular the original ATLAS detector contributions, the T2K detector contributions, and the SNO detector contributions). We may be very proud of the Nobel prize for SNO, which did fall within this time period, but we should find somewhere else to emphasize TRIUMF’s contributions to SNO, which were mostly made before it became operational in 1999.
- the slides would have more impact if we didn’t fill them quite so full e.g. for ATLAS, TRIUMF can be proud of many things, but it is hard to count upgrades for shutdowns that have not yet started as past highlights, even if we have been working very hard on them for the last few years, and I suspect that if TRIUMF had been closed down in 2015, the main thing that would have affected ATLAS directly would have been the loss of the Tier-1, so maybe we should emphasize that - we don’t need to summarize the whole ATLAS talk and list everything in one line. Similarly for T2K, developing a concept for a future detector is great, but it sits rather uncomfortably between past and future - being proud of it before it is actually built is certainly possible but looks a bit funny. And anywhere it says “key contributions”, proponents should pick the most key contribution and list that. It’s not list “everything we are proud of", it’s “what are we MOST proud of?”.

- “hope/expect to be most proud of” probably means pick one thing in progress now, assume it will come to fruition before the end of this 5YP e.g. for ATLAS if we get the NSW down the pit before the end of the long shutdown, and they work, we can expect to be very proud. But I think these need to be concrete - we should not be listing “leadership” as something we expect to be most proud of, in any of these items.

Best regards,
Isabel

On Nov 14, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Oliver Stelzer-Chilton <stelzer-chilton at triumf.ca<mailto:stelzer-chilton at triumf.ca>> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you all for the prompt feedback. Much appreciated.
There is a more concrete request from Jens to prepare 1-2 slides that the first speaker or parallel session convenor should show.

I attach a first draft trying to merge in the comments I got. Please send comments and suggestions.

Best regards,

Oliver
Jens Dilling <jdilling at triumf.ca<mailto:jdilling at triumf.ca>> wrote:

Here is the formal question from the committee, they want to see their questions addressed in the parallel session:
They say:

For the breakout sessions.  1-2 slides max.  > 20 point font.


  1.  What accomplishment are you most proud of in the last five years?
  2.  What do you hope/expect to be most proud of in the next five years?
  3.  What are your top 1-2 concerns going forward?


For the past accomplishments, their timeline is the last five years (2013-2018).
For the next five years, I think it should include the entire next 5 year plan period (2018-2025).


On Nov 14, 2018, at 12:18 AM, Mark Hartz <mhartz at triumf.ca<mailto:mhartz at triumf.ca>> wrote:

Hi Oliver All,

Here is what I can say for long baseline neutrinos:

Past Highlights:
- Construction and operation of the Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) and Fine Grained Detectors (FGDs) in the T2K near detector
- As far as I know we did not contribute directly to the Target
- Construction and operation of beam monitor just upstream of the target (OTR)
- Construction and operation of the remote maintenance cell for target and horn.  Operation of the remote maintenance for target repair in 2015.
- Development of fiTQun event reconstruction algorithm for Super-K
- Leadership of T2K analysis - M. Scott (former TRIUMF postdoc) as Oscillation Analysis working group convener and M. Hartz as analysis coordinator
- Development of NuPRISM detector concept - M. Hartz and M. Wilking (former TRIUMF postdoc) are spokespeople of J-PARC E61 experiment
- Development of multi-PMT photosensor design (ongoing)

Future achievements:
- Primary contribution (50%) to the Intermediate Water Cherenkov (NuPRISM) detector with $5 million CFI-IF for multi-PMT photosensor production
- Potential contributions to the Hyper-K photosensors, readout electronics and calibration system
- Leadership in analysis including analysis of near and intermediate detector data, bottom-up calibration of Hyper-K and machine learning techniques for event reconstruction and classification.

Best,
Mark
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Subject: [Particle-physics-baes] Fwd: IPR question


Dear Colleagues,

See request from Jens below. Deadline is noon tomorrow, so please send me your comments by 10am.

My own comments

For Past:
- 1A should include the Tier1.
- 1B, mention Mark for analysis coordinator
- 1C name it lepton universality
looks like we can add “E” to make it 5. Alpha?

For Future:
- 1B since this goes to 2025, we will not have HL-LHC yet, so this is focusing on Run 3. We could say Higgs characterization, e.g. coupling to second generation.
- 1C should mention the multi-PMT development

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Oliver

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jens Dilling <jdilling at triumf.ca<mailto:jdilling at triumf.ca>>
Subject: IPR question
Dear Colleagues,
For the IPR we are being asked to provide 3-5 bullet points for past high-lights and 3-5 bullet point for future science achievements (up to 2025).

We need to have something for tomorrow noon.


  1.  Particle Physics

Past highlights (please check if consistent with parallel talks):


  1.  Key contributions to ATLAS for detectors and analysis (Higgs spin analysis coordinator, current overall physics coordinator, deputy spokesperson TRIUMF-affiliate)
  2.  Key contributions to T2K for detectors and analysis (near detector concept from TRIUMF, major contributions to target, and overall analysis)
  3.  Best weak-electrophysics test of  pion decay (PiENu), conceived and executed at TRIUMF
  4.  Key contributions to SNO detector (universal interface) and analysis (TRIUMF joint position Canadian collaboration spokesperson -D.Sinclair, who was invited to come to Stockholm with Art MacDonald)


Future achievements (projected)

  1.  Key achievements for UCN production and science program, including limits on n-EDM (level of 10-27e/cm)
  2.  Key contribution to detector and analysis for ATLAS upgrade, HiLumi upgrade and Higgs-potential mapping
  3.  Key contributions for Hyper-K detector system, development and production, and early science analysis for systematics
  4.  Canadian Leadership for Dark Matter searches in SuperCDMS, key contributions to physics analysis
  5.  Best hadronic limits on Anti-Matter-Matter, limits on Anti-Gravity measurements

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