[Brahms-l] Fw: Beam Use Proposals for FY 2005 RHIC Run

FYI

T.Kirk has issues the yearly call for Beam Use proposals as we also iscusse
in Oslo. Following the white-paper meeting on Monday, we should organize a
group that will take hand on this task.,

regards
    flemming


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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov
phone: 631-344-4106
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From: "Thomas Kirk" <tkirk@bnl.gov>
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"Videbaek, Flemming" <videbaek@bnl.gov>; "Zajc, Bill"
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Cc: "Busza, Wit" <busza@mit.edu>; "Lowenstein, Derek" <lowenstein@bnl.gov>;
"Roser, Thomas" <roser1@bnl.gov>; "Fischer, Wolfram" <wfischer@bnl.gov>;
"Aronson, Sam" <aronson2@bnl.gov>; "Ludlam, Tom" <ludlam@bnl.gov>; "Yamin,
Peter" <yamin1@bnl.gov>; "Zukowski, Elaine" <zukowski@bnl.gov>; "Kirk, Tom"
<tkirk@bnl.gov>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 4:55 PM
Subject: Beam Use Proposals for FY 2005 RHIC Run


> .                                         June 12, 2004
>
> Dear RHIC Spokespersons:
>
> This comes as formal notification to request your
> Beam Use Proposals (BUPs) for consideration at the
> next HENP PAC Meeting, to be held at BNL on
> Wednesday, September 8 through Friday, September
> 10, 2004.  I imagine that you will be best served by
> updating the 5-year BUPs that you prepared and
> submitted last year.  It is always valuable to have
> these multi-year projections in hand, even if they
> change and evolve from year to year.  I request
> to see your plans updated through FY2008, but if you
> have the desire to project through FY 2009, feel free
> to do so.  We will, of course, focus on the FY05 run.
>
> For your use in planning for RHIC beam capabilities,
> you were sent updated projections by Wolfram Fischer
> on June 6, 2004.  I believe these projections reflect
> the best information that C-AD has at this time and
> reflects the positive experience of the FY04 data run
> and polarized beams developments.
>
> As usual, we do not have a clear picture of how many
> cryo weeks will be funded by Congress and won't likely
> even know this at the time of the PAC Meeting.  To
> meet the best planning span, I would ask that you
> project 31 cryo weeks of operations with an indication
> how you might cut back as far as to 27 weeks if this is
> necessary.  Obviously, if it should happen that the
> funding picture is clarified before the PAC Meeting,
> we will narrow the options to suit.
>
> I would request that each collaboration submit their
> BUP not later than COB on July 28, 2004, so that the
> PAC members may have time to think about their
> views on the proposals.  The best format is as a PDF
> file that can be distributed electronically.
>
> I imagine that you will be requesting two data runs,
> one on heavy ions and one on polarized protons.  I
> further anticipate that we may not have accord among
> all four experiments about which nucleus to run
> (Si, Fe, Ni, Cu, Au?).  Because the C-AD is still
> working on polarization development, I anticipate that
> the heavy ion run will preceed the polarized proton run.
>
> I imagine that we will schedule oral presentations of
> each BUP to the PAC, of 30 minutes duration, in which
> each collaboration may present last minute modifications
> of their request, answer PAC questions and emphasize
> whatever points they wish to make.  These oral
> presentations are likely to occur on the morning of
> September  8.
>
> Feel free to inquire about questions not addressed
> in this note.
>
>                              Sincerely, Tom Kirk, ALD HENP
>


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