MSU and Auger North America Site Possibilities

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MSU and Auger North America Site Possibilities

• James T. Linnemann
• Michigan State University
• Auger Meeting, Ft. Collins CO
• March 1, 2002

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MSU Group Interested Parties

• Faculty
• Maris Abolins D0, Atlas
• Carl Bromberg CDF, off-axis neutrino
• Chip Brock D0
• Joey Huston CDF, Atlas
• Jim Linnemann D0, Atlas?
• Bernard Pope D0, Atlas
• Kirsten Tollefson CDF (assistant professor 02)
• Harry Weerts D0
• Senior Physicist
• Bob Miller CDF, Atlas

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MSU Staff

• Electronics mostly booked up by D0
• Barry Tigner
• Dan Edmunds D0
• Philippe Laurens D0
• Mechanical
• Ron Richards, engineer CDF, Atlas
• Mike Nila, technician D0, CDF, Atlas
• Students supervised by Nila
• 2400 sq ft 20 ton crane, loading dock

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Where we are headed

• We dont want to be 100 Atlas 5 years from now
• Want project(s) in US
• We are currently investigating alternatives
• Auger (North), HiRes, Minos/Off-axis, LC RD
• Im on sabbatical with Milagro
• Talks from CDMS, SNAP, GLAST, UNO, Underground
  Lab
• NSF supported group
• Joint Auger-HiRes project would be very
  attractive

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What might we do on Auger?

• Water Cherenkov modules is best match now
• Build, assemble, test, ship with tubes (and
  air/N2)
• North America Site is our interest
• Experienced construction team
• hands on Miller, Richards, Nila
• Instrumented 20-ton Atlas calorimeter modules
• Designed and built movers, optical polisher,
  optical mixers
• CDF calorimetry, and many other chamber projects
• Series production and testing of electronics

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Realistic Potential Physicist Involvement

• Now fractional faculty commitments
• Faculty supervision of construction
• Other serious commitments to D0, CDF, Atlas
• Run II Collider program running
• Significant involvement in Run IIb upgrades
• D0 and CDF both
• run-up to Atlas
• Later one or more full-time faculty possible
• And possibly some part-time faculty
• Postdoc and student(s) possible
• as other commitments wind down
• Realistic later, not now