I 3 EURONS ACTAR EURONS Collaboration meeting 1

I 3 EURONS ACTAR - EURONS Collaboration meeting • • 1. 2. 3. 4. Project Coordinator: H. Savajols / P. Roussel-Chomaz Participating Institutions: GANIL (AC) / DAPNIA (AC) / CENBG (AC) DARESBURY (FC) LIVERPOOL (AC) / BIRMINGHAM * SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (AC) / GSI (AC) / INP CRACOW * (* associated participant)

I 3 EURONS Agenda Financial revue Detailed plan for the first 18 months Define R&D efforts Working groups Milestones and expected results Short presentations Bertram Blank - CENBG TPC Fanny Rejmund - Range measurements Marielle Chartier - UK TPC Next meeting (CENBG Bordeaux June 6 -7)

I 3 EURONS Budget over 3 years Start date 1 January 2003 Additional contacts between institutions (ex: Recent FRENCH-GERMAN COLLABORATION AGREEMENT I N 2 P 3 - DSM/CEA and GSI on Active Target : 2 * 21 days in 2005)

I 3 EURONS ACTAR EC Budget - Overview Manpower : 1 year postdoc : 54 k. Euros

I 3 EURONS 1 Travel : 844 Euros EC Budget - Overview

I 3 EURONS EC Budget - Overview

Detailed plan for the first 18 months NB: Some of the tasks described below will not be completed before the 18 months deadline

Working groups focussing on R & D Task 1 : • Definition of key experiments [0 -4 months] Physics constraints (Resolutions, dynamic ranges needed, ancillary detectors) define 2 or 3 high priority experiments Participants : all institutes Head coordinator : Bertram Blank (CENBG Bordeaux) White Paper end of May (Spiral 2 and FAIR) Discussion of the white paper (6 -7 june 2005 @ CENBG Bordeaux)

Working groups focussing on R & D Task 1 and 2 : • Development of event generators modeling key experiments [3 -18 months] Detail simulations (GEANT, MAXWELL, …) to optimise the geometrical, electrical and magnetic field configuration (Best resolutions for given dynamic ranges) Participants : all institutes Head coordinators : Dolores Cortina-Gil (USC Spain) Report June 2006 Preliminary description of detector geometry and response

Working groups focussing on R & D Task 3 Group 1 • • • Tests properties of different gases at room temperature and pressure [6 -18 months] Test bench (USC Spain) Beam shielding (GANIL) Studies of interactions of heavy ions with matter [7 -18 months] (energy loss, energy straggling, angular straggling, range) MAYAITO test bench at GANIL SME line [ready for september 2005 7 -18 months] TPC test bench at the CENBG Van de Graf (p, d, 3 He, 4 He) [ready for september 2005 7 -18 months] test bench at the DAPNIA accelerator [in discussion] Participants : USC, GANIL, CENBG, DAPNIA Head coordinator : Fanny Rejmund (GANIL) Detailed work program (september 2005) Intermediate report (July 2006)

Working groups focussing on R & D Task 3 Group 2 • Studies of cryogenic gases and gases at different pressures GSI cryogenic chamber test bench • Test of different readout chamber designs with existing prototypes (MAYAITO GANIL, CENBG TPC…) [3 -18 months] • Study of cylindrical geometry design option [12 -18 months] Participants : GSI, GANIL, CENBG, Liverpool, Daresbury, Birmingham, DAPNIA Head coordinator : Roy Lemon (CCLRC) Detailed work program (september 2005) Intermediate report (July 2006)

Working groups focussing on R & D Task 4 • Evaluation of existing ASICs [3 -12 months] Report end of 2005 • Develop specification of front end and readout electronics [7 -18 months] pre-report july 2006 Participants : GANIL, CENBG, Liverpool, Daresbury, Birmingham, DAPNIA Head coordinator : E. Pollacco (DAPNIA)

Detail plan for the first 18 months Dead Line Preliminary description of detector and geometry Selection of different options Collaboration Workshop (July 2006) Intermediate report to EURONS / EC

What is missing. . . Specific ASICs development (long time range, high dymanic …) Specific front end electronics Test module including magnetic field Dedicated ray tracing algorithm development Less detail studies due to the reduction of manpower financed by EURONS