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    HEP Community
    • DoE, NSF, & NASA supported groups
    – Services: 3 secretaries, 3 electronics engineers
    – ATLAS: 7 faculty, 8 scientists, 3 technicians
    – CDF: 4 faculty (2 overlap), 4 scientists, 7 GS
    – D0: 3 faculty (2 overlap), 3 scientists, 3 GS
    – Ligo: 2 faculty, 1 scientist, 1 GS
    – Boone: 2 faculty, 1 GS
    – SNAP: 5 faculty (1 overlap), 1 scientist, 1 engineer
    – Spin: 2 faculty, etc
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    Recent Funding
    $0
    $500,000
    $1,000,000
    $1,500,000
    $2,000,000
    $2,500,000
    $3,000,000
    $3,500,000
    $4,000,000
    $4,500,000
    $5,000,000
    1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
    Year
    Funding History
    Fab + M&O
    ATLAS
    Other
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    Role in ATLAS
    • Construction of 80 large MDT chambers
    • On­chamber electronics (readout mux)
    • Chamber & electronics certification
    – US Leadership in H8 & X5 commissioning
    – Diagnosed/resolved majority of readout issues
    – Developed certification test fixtures
    – Major & key role at CERN (residency chart)
    – Faculty sabbaticals (Zhou & Chapman)
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    Role in ATLAS (continued)
    • Software coordination & development
    – Muon coordination (Goldfarb at CERN)
    – Muon simulation & tracking
    • GRID Computing & Networking
    – GRID test bed (Shawn McKee)
    – US ATLAS networking
    • Collaboratory tools development
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    CERN Residency Schedule
    Note: We are committed to this level, if funded! For 2005 the situation is
    similar. For the following years postdocs and students will replace
    technicians.
    Residency for 2004
    5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 1 8 22 29 5 12 19 26 3 10 17 24 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 4 11 18 25
    Zhengguo Zhao
    Edward Diehl
    Daniel Levin
    Shawn McKee
    Bing Zhou
    Helmut Schick
    Curtis Weaverdyck
    Jeffrey Gregory
    Jay Chapman
    Rudi Thun
    Homer Neal
    Robert Ball
    Reza Farsian
    Alan Wilson
    Binyuan Zhang
    Li Zhou
    ATLAS Week
    Software Week
    September October
    August
    May June July
    January February March April
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    Future Plans
    • Certification & commissioning at CERN
    • Expanded faculty as CDF & D0 phasedown
    – Campbell, Qian, Amidei, & others??
    • Migrate construction team to analysis
    – Technicians (2) to postdocs for commissioning
    – Engineers to science (Diehl, Dai, Levin, Zhao)
    • Graduate students to commissioning team
    • Phased retirement (J. Chapman) in 2007/8
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    Critical Issues
    • Continued support for “one­shot funding”
    • Ensure adequate travel support for Physicist
    • Full computing support for ATLAS analysis
    • Migrate/convert construction team to
    commissioning & onto focused analysis
    • Support for graduates students when timely
    – Want students in 2006 to gain startup experience
    – In special case, perhaps one, in 2004 (software)
    • Target goal of 1 postdoc/scientist per faculty
    • Target goal of 1 graduate student per PhD

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