Attendees

• Hubert van Hecke
• Matt Durham
• Jin Huang
• Patrizia Rossi
• Carl Zorn
• Yi Qiang
• Marco Contalbrigo

Announcement

• Project website: http://p25ext.lanl.gov/eic_rich/
• Feedback from review committee

Agenda

• Feedback received on the proposal
• Missing the amount of manpower and technical resources beyond what was requested for funding.
• Ian Shipsey: would have scored extra if the committee knew the history of the collaboration.
• Encouraged to seek additional resources from universities, students and postdocs in particular.
• Encouraged to discuss with Mickey Chiu on LAPPD.
• The collaboration will look into individual aspects of the project to have a better estimation of manpower and will start to approach university collaborators as needed.
• LANL: GEM based readout
• JLab and ANL: LAPPD
• INFN and JLab: Aerogel
• BNL, JLab and LANL: Simulation
• Some university candidates
• Prof. Xiaochun He from Georgia State University:  http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/web/4127.html
• Two other groups mentioned by Hubert
• Prof. Will Brooks from USM and Prof. Mike Williams from MIT
• Simulation framework
• Hubert has a standalone GEANT4 simulation.
• Will also investigate two existing EIC GEANT4 frameworks: JLab's EIC-GEMC by Yi and BNL's EIC-ROOT by Jin. To be reported in next meeting.
• Yi proposed Jin to be the future software coordinator, yet accepted.
• Collaboration with Mickey Chiu
• Although similar on the common readout - LAPPD, we realized that Mickey's proposal mainly focuses on the electronics - PSEC5 chips, fast time response and field resistance.
• For our RICH readout, we will focus more on the charge collection pattern. And later we can use the electronics provided by Mickey's project.
• We will keep as separate projects for now but with others development in mind to prevent too much duplicated efforts.