[Particle-physics-affiliated] Particle Physics Meeting Thursday April 10th 12:30 ISAC Conference room

[Oliver Stelzer]

Dear Colleagues,

We have our next meeting this Thursday. Dana asked us if we can move to the ISAC Conference room and I said yes

https://indico.triumf.ca/event/748/

We will use the time to prepare for ACOT, for which we have a combined PP/SciTech/SciComp parallel session again on Monday April 28 at 2:30pm (slides are due April 15).

We heard back from Sally and she would like to get a survey of the full scope of activities that the particle physicists are involved in.  So we suggest that we update and shorten the talks from last time.

Since we ran out of time, I suggest the following groupings. Let me know if that does not work.
·         ATLAS (5’)
·         T2K/Hyper-K (5’)
·         ALPHA/ALPHA-G/HAICU (5’)
·         TUCAN (3’)
·         SuperCDMS/nEXO/DarkSide (3’)
·         DarkLight (3’)
·         PIONEER/PIENU/NA62 (3’)

Sally also mentions a few more things and has specific questions

  1.  Generally it will not be necessary for the report to explain the scientific value or motivation for particular research activities as their contribution to the experiments, and the value of each experiment, are known to me.
  2.  I would appreciate to understand what TRIUMF facilities are being used for the current research, and any restrictions that the experimenters encounter due to limits on facilities.  Please could you also mention links with other institutions in terms of personnel and facilities or equipment that are directly relevant to the TRIUMF program.
  3.  Please mention the size of the group including the number of people at each level of seniority.  Please indicate the degree to which this may have varied over the past, say, 5 years, and what are the expectations on the number of persons at each level during the coming, say, 10 years.

Please give preference to give a high level overview of the full scope of activities keeping 1) in mind and answering her specific questions 2) and 3)

Then we have a few more questions that we can answer as a group. We can discuss on Thursday.


  1.  Please could you discuss what research activities the group foresees during the coming decade, especially where this might involve any new undertakings.  If TRIUMF personnel are now involved, or plan to become involved, in any of the proposed worldwide future facilities or colliders, please could you mention that - and also indicate if new resources would be needed.


  1.  The session in which we will be involved covers particle physics, technology, and scientific computing. Please could you indicate how these topics mesh at TRIUMF.  For example, do particular researchers typically contribute to more than one of those areas (simultaneously or sequentially) or do they specialize; do junior scientists rotate among them; does the research enterprise connect all three of them or are there some activities that would be classified as some but not all of these areas?


  1.  If the overall schedule of the ACOT meeting will allow me to visit the laboratory space dedicated to particle physics/technology/scientific computing, I will welcome that opportunity.

The last point I think is a great idea. I am checking with Ritu and Sean if we can make this happen. If you have slides by Thursday, please upload them and we can discuss them too.

Best wishes,

Oliver


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