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The E xperimental P hysics P rojects Department - an Overview. David Christian September 11, 2006. Who are we?. EPP consists entirely of physicists (currently 28): Head: David Christian Deputy Head: Erik Gottschalk Administrative Support: Cathryn Laue and Cindy Kennedy.
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The Experimental Physics Projects Department - an Overview David Christian September 11, 2006
Who are we? • EPP consists entirely of physicists (currently 28): • Head: David Christian • Deputy Head: Erik Gottschalk • Administrative Support: Cathryn Laue and Cindy Kennedy
What does EPP do? • We are RA-Central. • The RA Committee recruits and hires post-docs for most of the FNAL experimental program (Many Astrophysics post-docs are hired separately). • Although most post-docs are no longer members of EPP, we provide services and maintain a sense of community through programs like the monthly “Food For Thought” pizza & beer get-together.
What does EPP do? • We are the “Physics Department” for FNAL scientists. • Colloquium Committee (Cathy Newman Holmes) • Physics Major Summer Student Program (Erik Ramberg) • Physics Teacher Program (TRAC) (Ron Ray) • Research Techniques Seminars (Marcel DeMarteau) • Office space and administrative support for university groups in many small experiments • Computer services not available through CD • FNPPD – no longer under maintenance • EPP Document Database
What does EPP do? • We are home for a number of experiments: • CDMS (Dan Bauer, Fritz DeJongh, J. Yoo) • COUPP (Andrew Sonnenschein) • Presentation at today’s All Experimenters’ Meeting • DES (Brenna Flaugher, Wyatt Merritt, Juan Estrada) • Auger (Cathy Newman Holmes, Carlos Hojvat, Aaron Chou) • MIPP (Rajendran Raja, Win Baker, Holger Meyer)
What does EPP do? • We are an R&D incubator: • ILC Detector R&D (Marcel DeMarteau) • Meson Test Beam Facility (Erik Ramberg) • Pixel Detector R&D (Marcel DeMarteau, Anatoly Ronzhin, David Christian) • Muon Detector R&D (Gene Fisk, Caroline Milstene) • Liquid Argon TPC R&D (Stephen Pordes)
What does EPP do? • We are an R&D incubator: • Accelerator R&D • Superconducting RF (Leo Bellantoni) • Muon Accelerator R&D (Steve Geer, Alan Bross, Malcolm Ellis) • MuCool Test Area, Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment • (Alvin Tollestrup) • Remote Operations • LHC & CMS (Erik Gottschalk) • Construction start in Wilson Hall Atrium = before 10/1.
What does EPP do? • We are an R&D incubator: • We provide (minimal) support for speculative and high-risk new initiatives: • Picosecond TOF (Henry Frisch, Mike Albrow) • -e conversion experiment (Steve Geer) • Mu2e meeting at FNAL 9/15-16.
Summary • EPP is: • What happened to the Physics Section • The “everything else” department • Home for small experiments • An R&D incubator • RA-central