SuperB Collaboration Meeting Summary

1. Our first SuperB Collaboration Meeting, held at Queen Mary College. Closing Summary Talk David Leith

2. We heard from Marcello Giorgi that INFN and the University of Tor Vergata had signed an agreement and written a governance document to form a Consortium, and will be joined by IIT and the Science Ministry. This Consortium will manage a new laboratory – the Nicola Cabibbo Laboratory – to design and build a high luminosity electron-positron collider, and support an exciting science program of High Energy Physics and Photon Science.

3. Science Minister should sign the Governance document in a few days, and then the Council can propose the Directorate members, to be appointed by the Minister. Then there will be a management in place, and a budget available, and activities can proceed.

5. Site The site for the SuperB collider will be the Tor Vergata land down below the Frascati lab, and belonging to the university. The civil engineering company under contract to the university will undertake the initial work, and expect to be awarded the contract to proceed with the actual ground-breaking. There will have to be a validation of the collider footprint and machine design, before ground-breaking can start.

6. Accelerator Status A very nice, and a very welcome, talk this morning by Marica Biagini describing the status of the electron-positron collider. The pace of work seemed to have slowed in recent months, but we heard of very good technical progress, and a rather detailed description of a clear path forward to getting work accomplished. Beginning of tighter communication with the Photon Science community – seismic motion studies - work on MOU to transfer equipment from SLAC - the final quadrupole R&D – development of requirements criteria for simultaneous use of the collider by HEP and PS – and work on defining work packages . All important, and very good news !

8. Physics There is a strong Physics Working group in place now , with regular meetings and visible output. They are working to understand the changing landscape after this first data run at the LHC, and define the the SuperB discovery, and science reach.

9. Council Meeting I Mauro presented the proposed rules by which the SuperB Detector Collaboration would manage its affairs, until there was an elected representative Council. They were discussed and adopted. Marcello expanded upon his explanation of the Consortium and the Cabibbo Laboratory. One new and interesting fact was that the resources to sustain the Cabibbo Laboratory would come from INFN, (65 %), and from the University of Tor Vergata, (35 %). As described earlier, the Science Minister is expected to sign the constitution document, and quickly nominate and approve the directorate, allowing the laboratory to begin functioning. The eventual transition to an ERIC status is important, as it brings substantial tax and duty benefits, along with European legal status.

10. Council Meeting II * Popat Patel reported on the activities of the Speakers bureau, and proposed actions to be effected between now and the December SuperB Collaboration Meeting. There was brief discussion of the proposals, and a vote to proceed. Mauro, as chair of the proto-Council, and Popat, as chair of the interim Speakers Bureau, will work together to take the required actions.

11. Issues I * when do we have the next Machine Advisory Committee ? * when can the accel team, to be recruited shortly, get the necessary homework accomplished to call this MAC ? * budget and schedule for the collider project developed, reviewed and validated. [This should include a full accounting of the required manpower to do the task.]

12. Issues II • Detector proceed with TDR work, and encourage discussions with regional agencies to develop work packages to build the detector sub-systems. * Work between Cabibbo Lab management and the international partners to begin the MOU’s for the SuperB project, rather than the TDR phase. * defining the various national and international oversight advisory committees for the collider and detector * concerns of a substantial delay in the Cabibbo Lab becoming functional, causing an unwanted delay in the recruiting of the accelerator team. Perhaps the Frascati National Laborartory could help move this aspect forward while the new lab gets its legs. [Discussion in Council.]

13. Summary We have had a good, even productive meeting where the physics, detector R&D and the detector TDR work and planning advanced. We see the Cabibbo Lab near to becoming real, and the accelerator community ready to be ‘sparked’ into broad activity with the announcement of leadership, a structure and available funding. We need to see this happening soon, and find the SuperB landscape altered by the creation of the new lab – let’s hope so !

14. Next Meeting * Our next SuperB Collaboration Meeting will be in Frascati Lab, on December 13 through 16, 2011 …… with an associated Physics Workshop on the 11 th and 12 th at LNF. * Safe travel home, work well and work hard and see you in December in Frascati !

15. Thanks and Acknowledgements

19. Latest LHC results : * low mass Higgs, (10 to 140 Gev), or need to search much, much higher mass regions. * no sign of low mass supersymmetric particles – need to search at higher masses *