Closing Remarks

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Closing Remarks

• John Womersley
• DØ Collaboration Meeting
• February 2004

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1. Some Big Picture news
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DOE HEP Budget

• Presidents budget request, 2005
• Total federal budget 3.5
• Defense/DHS 9.4
• Other discretionary 0.5
• DOE 1.2
• DOE-HEP 1.0
• Fermilab 2.2 (with 10.3M for BTeV RD)
• Other labs SLAC 0.4, ANL 3.1, BNL 0.1,
  LBNL 1.5
• University support 0.3

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The Laboratory

• Mike Witherell will step down in summer 2005.
  Search committee for a new Fermilab Director has
  been established.
• I am a member of this committee your input is
  very welcome!
• DOE has announced that the laboratory operating
  contract (currently held by URA) will be re-bid
  at end 2006
• Certainly complicates the above

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2. DØ issues
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Some news

• Videoconferencing
• The new video equipment in the Hurricane Deck has
  now been installed please thank IN2P3 for this
  contribution!
• OSHA (US Occupational Safety and Health
  Administration) is visiting Fermilab
• At D0 on March 10
• Please take the opportunity to tidy your areas in
  advance of this!

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Where we stand

• This morning you saw a broad range of new physics
  results, made possible by a great deal of hard
  work
• Subdetectors and operations
• Computing (both here and remote)
• Software Algorithms
• Physics Groups
• Editorial Boards

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Recent experience

• Many people have pointed out that time was too
  short, data came too late, etc.
• We need to learn from this
• no need to repeat this mistake, relatively
  straightforward to do better
• if this was our only problem, wed be fine

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So, what next?
Detector
Data
Results
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Second challenge personnel

• Postdoc numbers
• What do we need?
• Estimate 78 postdocs for stable long-term Run II
  operation
• What did we need in Run I?
• In January 1996, we were able to operate the
  detector and simultaneously produce physics (top
  quark) with 74 postdocs
• What do we have now?
• We have 94 postdocs, 63 full-time and 31 part
  time
• 78 FTEs
• Gradudate Students
• A significant fraction of our students will be
  graduating this year

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Bottom Line

• We are not going to get more people
• In fact we will have to fight the funding
  agencies to keep what we have, as they push LHC
• We cannot expect people to work any harder than
  they have been working for the past few months
• We will need to manage our resources

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Adding vectors

• Can we go from individual efforts that add like
  this
• To this?
• We dont need more work from individuals if we
  can somehow get more coherence

The direction we want to go
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What will it take?

• My view
• An honest self-examination where do we need to
  do better?
• Not just instrumentation issues, but process and
  culture
• Need agreement on common goals
• Need a willingness to manage and be managed in
  pursuit of these goals
• An understanding that this will involve all of us
• not youre talking about those guys over there
• Remain positive the focus is on how to improve!

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What are we asking?

• Dont have answers yet but these are important
  questions that the experiment needs to get to
  grips with
• Solutions will have to come both from the top
  down (management), and from the bottom up (those
  in the trenches)
• As you to work with the spokespersons and our
  subsystem managers (Jon, Amber, Jianming, Harry)
  as we try to address the issues
• Can we count on you all to be part of this
  process?

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What is good

• Important also to remember (and identify) where
  we have done well
• We rebounded from a very serious setback in our
  upgrade plans and now have an approved project
  going very well
• We successfully mounted a major effort to
  reprocess all our data last fall, and we
  delivered
• D0 computing and analysis is a success
• 0.25PB, 8 billion events just for Moriond
• Major new capabilities for D0 have been realized
• Tracking based B-physics program
• An extraordinarily enthusiastic team of young
  (and some old) physicists analyzed that data in
  very short time
• Some analyses have not yet converged not a
  failure!
• First PRL draft is in review
• We are taking more data than CDF (and most of the
  big data quality issues in the Moriond sample
  do not affect new data)

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more good

• Also, recent accelerator performance has
  increased overall optimism about Run II being a
  success
• This weeks DOE review closeout We have
  increasing confidence that Run II will be
  successful we are very encouraged

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Working under pressure

• Can sometimes cause friction, to be sure
• But it can also bring out the best in all of us
• I would not dare to have asked people to do some
  of the things that I have seen done voluntarily
• It is, truly, a privilege for me to work with
  such an enthusiastic, dedicated, committed bunch
  of people its part of what makes this whole
  adventure worthwhile

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Final Note

• We have 200 pb-1 analyzed (and gt 250pb-1 on tape)
• It is not at all crazy for new physics to be in
  this data at the level of a few events

and 1 like-sign muon event Expected background
0.13 0.06
What would Carlo Rubbia do with this?