Report on ECFA

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Report on ECFA
Based on plenary ECFA meeting of 26 Nov. 2004 _at_
CERN

• Issues
• Business as usual (chair, CERN, DESY)
• ESGARD / CARE matters (? CARE, EuroTeV, Eurisol
  )
• Elections
• But
• Information not up-to-date
• Unfortunate timing NuPECC and ECFA meetings.
• Walter Henning can give you a recent update.

• Gerard van der Steenhoven

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Plenary ECFA
Draft agenda plenary ECFA meeting of today _at_
CERN
SEVENTY-SEVENTH PLENARY ECFA MEETINGFriday, 24
June 2005 at 9.30 a.m., CERN - Council Chamber
9.30 a.m. 1. Approval of the Draft Agenda 9.35
a.m. 2. Approval of the Draft Minutes 9.45
a.m. 3. Chairman's Report (B. Foster)10.30 a.m.
COFFEE 10.45 a.m. 4. European
Linear Collider Steering Group matters (T.
Akesson) 11.15 a.m. 5. Report on EPOG, Eur. Part.
Phys. Outreach Gr. (E. Johansson) 11.45 p.m. 6.
Report on GSI activities (W.H. Henning)12.15
p.m. LUNCH 1.30 p.m. 7.
CERN Matters (R. Aymar) 2.15 p.m. 8. DESY
Matters (A. Wagner) 3.00 p.m.
COFFEE 3.15 p.m. 9. Report on the ECFA
Study on Neutrino Factories (A. Blondel) 3.45
p.m. 10. Mid-term status report on Switzerland
4.15 p.m. 11. Any Other Business

• Gerard van der Steenhoven

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Business as usual (26 Nov. 04)

• Chair (Brian Foster) discussion afterwards
• ITRG has selected cold (SC) technology, but not
  a
• design, which may deviate from TESLA
  considerably
• OECD consultative group now replaced by Funding
• Agencies meetings on the Linear Collider
  (FALC) but
• what about the small countries (not in FALC)?
• International Linear Collider (ILC)
• Accelerating gradient of 35 40 MV/m is optimal
  for costs.
• A lot of discussion on organizational matters..
• Test your knowledge of acronyms (next page)!

• Gerard van der Steenhoven

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Coordinates work in coming years
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CERN DESY (26 Nov. 04)

• CERN (R. Aymar) discussion
• Progress on LHC 4 experiments, still aimed for
  2007
• Prospects fixed-target programme continuation
  in 2006
• hinges on additional manpower from Member
  States
• ALICE (but ask HA Gustafsson for update!)
• Many major problems solves (bump bonding, HPTDC,
  software)
• Very tight schedule for ITS, redesign FEE of TRD
• DESY (A. Wagner) discussion
• HERA 94 pb-1 in 2004 (record) expect 0.7 fb-1
  by 30/6/07
• XFEL 9 EU partn. (MoU), Plan Approval signed
  (28/9/04)

• Gerard van der Steenhoven

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ESGARD etc.

• ESGARD ( EU Steering Group on Accel. RD)
• Successful strategy for preparing EU FP6
  proposals
• CARE coordinated accelerator research in Europe
  (I3)
• 4 JRAs for SRF, Photo-injector, HI proton
  injector, HF magnets
• 3 Networking activities ELAN (ee- coll.), BENE
  (? fact) and
• HEHIHB
  (LHC lumi upgrade).
• Successful kick-off meeting in Nov. 2004 at
  DESY.
• Approved FP6 Design Studies
• EUROTeV concerned with LC generic matters (for
  ILC CLIC)
• EURISOL ?-beams ? ask G Fortuna!

• Gerard van der Steenhoven

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Elections AOB

• Elections
• New chair Prof. Torsten Akesson (Lund, Sweden)
• Three year period starting in July 2005
• AOB
• 2005 timetable
• rpECFA at CERN 24 June 2005
• rECFA in Amsterdam (site visit) 23-24 Sept.
  2005
• rpECFA at CERN 1-2 December 2005

• Gerard van der Steenhoven