SiD Workshop at SLAC
SiD workshop participants taking a break from discussion the LOI. (Photo: Norman Graf) A Silicon Detector (SiD) workshop was held at SLAC from 2 to 4 March, with the express purpose of reviewing the status of the SiD Letter of Intent, organising the final steps in its completion, and beginning to think of life after […]
Today's issue features a guest story by Marcel Stanitzki, experimentalist working at Rutherford Appleton Lab in the UK and member of the SiD collaboration.
A computer model of what a future SiD detector would look like. Graphic: Marco Oriunno (SLAC) A 3-D model of the detector was present during all the talks. (Photo: Jim Brau) The push-pull configuration worked out for SiD. Graphics: Marco Oriunno (SLAC) The third SiD Workshop this year, hosted from 17 to […]
The SiD detector concept community met last week at the STFC’s Cosener’s House in Abingdon, UK. This was the first meeting after SiD submitted its Expression of Interest (EoI) and also the first SiD Workshop outside of the Americas. Hosted jointly by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Oxford University, the workshop attracted around 65 participants, […]
The SiD detector concept collaboration met at SLAC from January 28 to 30. This meeting was planned last October at the ALCPG07 meeting at Fermilab, as part of the preparation for the Letter of Intent (LOI). Graphic from an engineering study of SiD on beamline. (credit: Marco Oriunno, SLAC) After the news about budget reductions, […]
At last week’s Silicon Detector (SiD) concept meeting, participants used several words starting with the letter F — Flow, as in particle flow; Funding, as in the need for more resources and manpower to fund detector R&D project; and Freezing, as in the weather at Fermilab. Approximately 70 members of SiD met at Fermilab to […]