Summary of the May 25th 2003 Meeting in Manhattan & future plans:

The purpose of this meeting was to plan and start work towards the eRHIC detector development. The time line for a first document related to eRHIC, the so called, ZDR (Zero'th Design Review/report) is expected by the BNL Directorate by Jaunary 2004. It is expected that this will be reviewd by an external committee and will form the basis for the CD0 required by DoE to officially start the project.

After a brief introduction of the above goals by Abhay Deshpande, Peter Paul, the Deputy Director for Science and Technology at BNL, and Prof. Richard Milner made introductory comments which included BNL's view of the Physics beyond RHIC leading towards the eRHIC, the Management's expectations and the time line to follow for the detector development. Richard emphasized the need to push the detector development at a high speed.

Abhay Deshpande reviewed the physics which has been studied so far for the eRHIC, and invited new physics ideas and measurements to be proposed. Vadim Ptitsyn (BNL-CAD), reviewed the design status of the eRHIC electron beam and interaction region (IR) design. Vadim represented the BNL-MIT/Bates/Budker collaboration that has been working on the development of the electron ring design. This was followed by a brief presentation by Bernd Surrow(BNL) of the status of the detector design tool that is being developed at BNL and will be available soon (approx. a month) to be used by others to study detector design issues for eRHIC.

Towards the end Naomi Makins lead the discussion on MC generators she has been getting together at UIUC with her group (i.e. converting some of the already existing MC physics generators used for fixed target experiments to the collider geometry) with a view to be used in the studies for eRHIC.

The day ended with the home work assigments and assigning list of physics topics to the names of various people interested in pursuing those goals. The list in no particular order is below (additions are welcome, send Abhay an email):

(prepared by Abhay Deshpande, June 10th, 2003)