Workshop On Physics with CMS at the LHC

December 11-15, 2000 --TIFR, Mumbai







Monday, December 11 
 
 
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival/Registration
 
  Opening Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: S. Ganguli
09:00 Welcome and Introduction S. Ganguli (5')
   S. S. Jha (10')
   A. Kakodkar (10')
   R. Chidambaram (10')
09:40 CMS News T. Virdee (20')
10:00 Status of the Standard Model D. Treille (30')
 
10:30 - 11:00 Special Tea (hosted by Director, BARC)
 
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: F. Pauss
11:00 Physics Potential of the LHC D. Denegri (25')
11:30 The LHC Machine, Design & Status P. Faugeras (25')
12:00 CMS Experiment Concept T. Virdee (25')
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: R. Brown
14:30 Challenges of a Large High Field Solenoid A. Herve (25')
15:00 CMS Tracking, Challenges & Technologies R. Castaldi (25')
15:30 Calorimetry at CMS, Challenges & Technologies J.-L. Faure (25')
 
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: D. Green
16:30 Muon Detection in CMS, Challenges & Technologies G. Mitselmakher (25')
17:00 Trigger, Data Acquisition, Data Processing and Storage S. Cittolin (25')
17:30 Challenges of Technical Coordination, Integration & Scheduling A. Ball (25')
18:00 Challenges of Computing & Software H. Newman (25')
 
19:00 Welcome Dinner (hosted by Director, TIFR)








Tuesday, December 12 
 
 
  Plenary Session
  Review of Each Sub-Detectors
 
09:00 - 10:20 Overview and Detailed Status of Magnet
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: I. Golutvine
09:00 Conductor Design and Status B. Blau (20')
09:20 Winding and Status R. Musenich (20')
09:40 Coil Assembly and Test Preparation B. Levesy (20')
10:00 Power Circuit and Coil Operation Mode B. Cure (20')
 
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
 
10:50 - 12:10 Overview and Detailed Status of Tracking System
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: G. Rolandi
10:50 The Silicon Detectors of the CMS Tracker S. Dutta (20')
11:10 Results on Silicon Detectors from the May 2000 PSI Test H. J. Simonis (20')
11:30 The Readout Chain of the CMS Tracker and 25 ns Test P. Walsham (20')
11:50 The performance of the CMS Tracker A. Caner (20')
 
12:10 - 13:10 Overview and Detailed Status of ECAL
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: S. Kataria
12:10 ECAL Crystals Production Status P. Lecoq (20')
12:30 Recent Preshower Activities D. Barney (20')
12:50 Silicon Sensors for the Preshower A. Peisert (20')
 
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30 VPT Results for the Endcap ECAL D. Cockerill (20')
 
15:00 - 16:20 Overview and Detailed Status of HCAL
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: A. Gurtu
15:00 Concept and Performance, R & D D. Green (25')
15:25 Engineering Design, Status and Schedule N. K. Mondal (30')
15:55 Physics with Jets and Missing Energy S. Kunori (25')
 
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
 
16:50 - 18:10 Overview and Detailed Status of Muon System
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: T. Muller
16:50 Muon System Overview G. Mitselmakher(20')
17:10 Drift Tubes H. Reithler(30')
17:40 ME1/1 CSC's A. Zarubin(30')
 
18:10 - 19:30 Technical Coordination, Integration & Scheduling
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: H. Foeth
18:10 Schedule and Integration Issues A. Ball(20')
19:10 Luminosity Measurements and TOTEM Experimen W. Kienzle(20')







Wednesday, December 13 
 
09:00 - 10:20 Meeting Technical Coordination E and I Room D406
 
  Review of Each Sub-Detectors (Cont.)
 
09:00 - 09:40 Technical Coordination, Integration & Scheduling (contd.)
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: T. S. Virdee
09:00 Radiation Computation, Beam-Pipe, Shielding M. Huhtinen(40')
 
09:40 - 11:00 Overview and Detailed Status of Software for Physics
(PRS, core software, WW computing)
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: V. S. Narasimham
09:40 New Computing Paradigm S. Wynhoff(20')
10:00 World Wide Computing H. Newman(20')
10:20 PRS: b/tau and Muons A. Caner(20')
10:40 e/gamma and jets/Met S. Kunori(20')
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 13:10 Overview and Detailed Status of Trigger/DAQ
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: G. Fluegge
11:30 Data Acquisition Networking and Online Computing D. Samyn(30')
12:00 Overview of the Trigger Systems W. Smith(30')
12:30 Readout and Trigger Synchronisation J. Varela(25')
12:55 Level 1 Trigger Menu C. Wulz(15')
 
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
  Sub-Detectors General Meetings in Parallel
 
16:30 - 18:30 CAG and Magnet Topical Meeting Room AG80
14:30 - 18:30 Physics/Detector Simulation Meeting Auditorium
14:30 - 18:30 ECAL General Meeting Room D405
14:30 - 18:30 HCAL General Meeting Room B333
14:30 - 18:30 Muon Informal Discussion (tbc) Room P305
14:30 - 18:30 Software General Meeting Room A463
14:30 - 16:00 Challenges of Safety: Room A414
 
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
 
19:30 Banquet








Thrursday, December 14 
 
 
09:00 - 13:00 Joint MB/FB/CB (Restricted) Room D406
08:30 - 13:00 Excursion to Elephanta Caves
(for participants not attending the MB/FB/CB)
 
 
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
  Sub-Detectors Parallel Meetings (Cont.)
 
14:30 - 18:30 Physics/Detector Simulation Meeting Room AG76
14:30 - 18:30 Magnet Technical Board MTB55 and TWG45 Room AG80
 
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
18:30 - 20:00 Cultural Programme
 
20:00 Special Dinner (hosted by Chairman, AEC)








Friday, December 15 
 
 
  Plenary Session
  Venue: Auditorium
  Chairperson: F. Pauss
 
09:00 CMS Outreach Activities D. Barney(25')
09:30 Signals of anomaly mediated SUSY breaking Probir Roy(25')
10:00 Charged Higgs in LHC D. P. Roy(25')
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
 
11:00 CMS and Indian HEP S. Ganguli(25')
11:30 Prospects/visions for the future in particle physics V. Singh(25')
12:00 Wrap up the workshop, thanks etc.  (15')
 
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch (on the campus)
 
14:30 - 18:30 Excursion or Shopping in Mumbai  
  Venue: AG80
14:30 Introduction to ORCA S. Wyhhoff 










Draft Agenda for Joint Session Meeting of
58th Finance Board, CMS Management Board and
CMS Collaboration Board
 
Thursday December 14, 2000 at 09:00 - 13:10 in D406
Finance Board Matters
1.Adoption of the Agenda (5')
2.Approval of the Draft Minutes of the FB-56 Meeting (September 27,2000)
and the Draft Minutes of the FB-57/MB Meeting (October 16, 2000)
(5')
3.Report from RRB-11 (T.Virdee/D.Blechshmidt) (15')
4.Status of Major Procurements
(a) Magnet (A. Herve)
(b) Tracker (G. Rolandi)
 
(15')
(15')
5.Status of Offline Computing Expenditures and Other Computing Matters
(I. Williers)
(15')
6.Status of Compilation of Cost & Funding Profiles (J. Varela) (15')
7.Preparation of April RRB-12 documents (D. Blechschmidt)
2000 Expenditure Report
2001 Preliminary Draft Budget
(10')
8.French VAT for non-CERN contracts for material and services delivered at the CMS experimental area (D. Blechschmidt)(5')
9.Approval of Schedule of Meetings for 2001 (5')
10.AoB (5')



Management Board Matters
1.Adoption of the Agenda (5')
2.Approval of the Draft Minutes of the MB Meeting (September 28, 2000)
and the Draft Minutes of the FB-57/MB Meeting (October 16, 2000)
(5')
3.CMS Management and News (T. Virdee)(15')
4.Report from Steering Committee (T. Virdee)
(see also http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/schp.html)
(15')
5.Recommendations from Technical Coordination Group (A. Ball /A. Herve)(20')
6.AoB (5')



Collaboration Board Matters
1.Adoption of the Agenda (5')
2.Approval of the Draft Minutes of the CB Meeting (September 29, 2000) (5')
3.Matters arising (F. Pauss)
(a) Meetings in 2001: CMS meeting in Catania and LHC Symposium
(b) Thesis Award,
(c) Industrial Award (H. Rykaczewski)
(15')
4.New Collaborators (F. Pauss)
Votes to be held on:
Full Membership: Kansas State University, University of Kansas
Associate Membership: Strathclyde University, Glasgow
(20')
5.Conference Committee Report (C.-E. Wulz) (5')
6.AoB (5')



Agenda for Physics Sessions, December 13-14
 
1.Structure Functions K. Mazumdar
2.Top mass measurements S. Beri
3.B-physics in CMS T. Aziz
4.Aspects of b-physics in CMS P. Vikas
5.Higgs to 4 lepton decays in CMS P. Mine
6.Study of Higgs -> bbbar in CMS T. Muller
7.Study of Missing Et with full simulation R. Kinnunen
8.Effects of HO in missing Et measurements Sudeshna Banerjee
9.Prospects for SUSY Higgs to tau tau detection R. Kinnunen
10.Tagging b's in SUSY Higgs decaying to tau tau S. Lehti
11.Massive Charged Higgs detection in CMS R. Kinnunen
12.SUSY effects for h -> gamma gamma S. Lehti
13.Higgs to sparticle decays F. Moortgat
14.SUSY - dilepton channel, parameter definition L. Rurua
15.SUSY - R-parity violating scenario R. Godbole
16.Search for Compositeness in LHC S. Jain
17.Phenomenology of extra dimensions S. Raychaudhuri
18.Upsilon production with heavy ions in CMS M. Bedjidian
19.Preparations for Unexpected New Phenomena M. Erdmann



Agenda for ECAL General Meeting, December 13
1.Pre-Shower Detector Status P. Bloch(20')
2.BARC-CMS Collaboration Status S. Kataria(10')
3.PSD-work at DU R. K. Shivpuri(20')
4.PSD Sensor Specifications & quality control A. Peisert(45')
5.PSD development at BARC A. Topkar(20')
6.Micro-module assembly and testing V.B. Chandratre(30')



Agenda for MTB55/TWG45 Meeting, December 14
1.Approval of minutes of MTB54/TWG44 J.P. Grillet
2.Dates of next meetings
(February 2 is proposed for MTB56)
(March 23 is proposed for MTB57)
(May 18 is proposed for MTB58)
(June 29 is proposed for MTB59)
(August 31 is proposed for MTB60)
(October 19 is proposed for MTB61)
(December 14 is proposed for MTB62)
A. Herve
3.Status of Techmeta activities A. Herve
4.Results from WWG13
News from TPA (WL) and mandrel manufacture
R. Musenich
5.News from strand production at Outokumpu B. Cure
6.News from cabling & extrusion B. Blau
7.News from AA contract A. Herve
8.News from barrel assembly J.P. Grillet
9.Report from SES, HHM and KHI J.P. Grillet
10.Tie rod status B Levesy
11.Other Saclay activities F. Kircher
12.Report from visit to Hanjung A. Payn
13.Report from CAG Y. Pabot/ L. Veillet
14.Report from subcommittees D. Campi
15.Future contract packages D. Campi
16.Coil planning and milestone update D. Campi
17.Report on procurement for platform & coil latest cost estimate H. Rykaczewski
18.Preparation of 2001 budget and cost to complete A. Herve
19.AoB  



Agenda for HCAL Meeting, December 13
14:30 - 15:30 Production site visit
15:30 - 16:00 Discussion
16:30 - 18:00  
 1. Integration issuesA. Ball
 2. CalibrationV. Hagopian
 3. GEANT4 simulationSudeshna Banerjee
 4. Plan for JETMETS. Kunori
 5. Remarks and discussionsD. Green

Last updated: December 14, 2000