First TARI-LNF Hadron Physics3 USP Meeting

Participants:  F.Bossi, P.Calvani, C.Conti, C.Curceanu, U.Dosselli, J.P.Egger , D.Ferrucci, C.Guaraldo, P.Kienle, G.Mazzitelli.

The meeting was opened by P. Kienle congratulating C. Guaraldo for the success of the Hadron Physics 2 program being finally commissioned by the EU following more than one year extremely difficult negotiations,

1. Opening of the USP Meeting (P. Kienle Chairman)

Professor U. Dosselli, Director of LNF, welcomed the meeting and pointed out the importance of Hadron Physics3 for the support of the research at DAΦNE.

Prof. P. Kienle opened the meeting and thanked Prof. Dosselli for his welcome address. He pointed out the importance of the support of the research at DAΦNE by LNF during the next three years as one of the five research structures for Hadron Physics Research in Europe. He congratulated Prof. C. Guaraldo for his achievement as access manager to succeed already a third time in getting the Hadron Physics program funded by the European Union.

The interest of the European Hadron Physics community in using DAΦNE as forefront research infrastructure is enormous since its luminosity upgrade. The consequence is that its TARI program is overbooked by a factor of up to three which poses a tough problem to solve in this USP meeting in the three categories: Experiments with KLOE2, SIDDHARTA2 and AMADEUS, and use of the BTF.

2. Introduction to Transnational Access to LNF in Hadron Physics3 (C. Guaraldo Access Manager)
The budget for HP3 is less than previous ones and appreciable reduced with respect to the request. As consequence LNF has to cope with the reduction. Third country users are very important for EU support, which indeed is the case for the DAΦNE program. In total about 2500 days for the visits are requested from which only about 850 days may be financed for the first half year period.

3. Status of DAΦNE (G. Mazzitelli)
Many problems of the operation of DAΦNE could be solved in the extended shut down period, so that running of the KLOE experiment started in September 2011. The operation conditions became stable again and the luminosity as high as at the end of the SIDDHARTA run have been reached in December 2011. End of December and during the first weeks in January 2012 several faults occurred in addition to the severe weather conditions. A very big and remarkable effort is going on from everybody to overcome these failures.

4. Exam and Selection of Proposals for KLOE (Bossi)
Four groups are working for KLOE; two of them are active in constructing detectors. Cerwinski’s  group from Krakow participates in the construction of the inner tracker and Kupsc’s group works on the interaction region and should therefore have preference for their access proposal.

Recommendations for KLOE: 

#4  Czerwinski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Jagiellonian4KLOE
Days      Travels
213        21
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#3  Kupsc, Uppsala University, K2ETA
Days     Travels
118       13
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#9  Wislicki, National Center for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, CPT and Decoherence
Days     Travels
22         3
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#1  Kluge, University of Karlsruhe, KLOE HADRONIC
Days     Travel
15         3

Total
Days    Travel
368       40

5. Exam and selection of Proposals from SIDDHARTA (Curceanu)
Four groups are also working for SIDDHARTA and AMADEUS on the role of strangeness in low energy strong interaction. Their strategy is focused on the analysis of SIDDHARTA and pre-AMADEUS data, finishing respective papers, and on the upgrade of SIDDHARTA2, its construction and testing prototypes.

#11  Sirghi, IFIN-HH, Bucharest, SIDDHARTA2 R&D
Days     Travel
172       5

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#5  Marton, Stefan Meyer Institute, Vienna,SIDDHARTA2
Days     Travel
115       13

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#10  Fabbietti, Technische Universität München, Sili4SIDDHARTA
Days     Travel
69          4
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#8  Vidal, University of Santiago de Compostela, USC-K2
Days    Travel
10         1

Total
Days    Travel
366      23

6. Exam and selection for BTF (Mazzitelli)
Three groups have proposals for BTF; one for a detector test for SIDDHARTA2 and two for experimental programs.

#7 Bosnar, University of Zagreb, SIDDHARTA-2-SciSiD
Days    Travel
21         3

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#6  Petrovic, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, ANSI
Days    Travel
28         4

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#2  Bohacova, Institute of Physics Prague, AMY
Days    Travel
77         11

Total
Days    Travel
126       18

Grand Total
Days    Travel
860       81

7. Conclusion
The chairman thanks all members of the USP Meeting for their very helpful work to arrive to a recommendation for all proposals which allows all programs to be carried out during the first half year of 2012.
8. A.O.B.

The next meeting is scheduled for June 27. 2012 at LNF