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UCLC Preliminary Project Descriptions

These are the preliminary project descriptions that were reviewed by the US Linear Collider Steering Group review panels. The final project descriptions are tabulated elsewhere.

Title	Inst.	Contact	Date Subm.	Proj. Desc.
Accelerator
Non-intercepting electron beam size diagnosis using diffraction radiation from a slit	Vanderbilt	Bibo Feng bibo.feng@vanderbilt.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Single-shot, electro-optic measurement of a picosecond electron bunch length	Vanderbilt	Bill Gabella b.gabella@vanderbilt.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Fast Synchrotron Imaging System for Beam Size Monitoring	Cornell SUNY Albany	Jim Alexander jima@lns.cornell.edu Jesse Ernst jae@mail.lns.cornell.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Damping ring studies for the LC	North Carolina A&T	S. Mtingwa mtingwa@mit.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Experimental, simulation, and design studies for linear collider damping rings	Cornell Minnesota	Joe Rogers jtr1@cornell.edu	9/02	pdf ps
Investigation and prototyping of fast kicker options for the TESLA damping rings	Cornell	Gerry Dugan gfd1@cornell.edu	8/28	pdf ps
Improved simulation codes and diagnostics for high-brightness electron beams	NIU	Court Bohn clbohn@fnal.gov	8/01	pdf ps
Beam simulation: main beam transport in the linacs and beam delivery systems, beam halo modeling and transport, and implementation as a diagnostic tool for commissioning and operation	Cornell	Dave Rubin dlr@cesr10.lns.cornell.edu	8/27	pdf ps
Investigation of GAN Techniques in the Development and Operation of the TTF Data Acquisition System	Cornell Ohio State	Don Hartill dlh@lns62.lns.cornell.edu	8/23	pdf ps
BACKGAMMMON: A Scheme for Compton backscattered photoproduction at the Linear Collider	North Carolina A&T	S. Mtingwa mtingwa@mit.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Research in Superconducting Radiofrequency Systems	Cornell	Hasan Padamsee hsp3@cornell.edu	8/29	pdf ps
RF Breakdown Experiments at 34 GHz	Yale	Jay Hirshfield jay.hirshfield@yale.edu	8/31	pdf ps
Machine/Detector Interface
A Demonstration of the Electronic and Mechanical Stability of a BPM-Based Energy Spectrometer for the NLC	Notre Dame	Mike Hildreth mikeh@undhep.hep.nd.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Beam-beam collision monitoring using Large Angle Beamstrahlung	Wayne State	Giovanni Bonvicini giovanni@physics.wayne.edu	8/21	pdf ps
Vertexing
Development and design of an LC ASIC for CCD readout and data reduction	Oklahoma Boston U.	Patrick Skubic pls@mail.nhn.ou.edu	8/30	pdf ps
Development of hybrid silicon pixels for the LC	Purdue	Daniela Bortoletto daniela@physics.purdue.edu	8/30	pdf ps
Tracking
R&D towards a Silicon drift detector based main tracker for the NLC-SD option	Wayne State	Rene Bellwied bellwied@physics.wayne.edu	8/13	pdf ps
Tracking simulation studies and alignment system R&D	Michigan	Keith Riles kriles@umich.edu	8/13	pdf ps
Straw Tube Wire Chambers for Forward Tracking in the Linear Collider Detector	Hampton	Keith Baker baker@jlab.org	8/23	pdf ps
Tracking Detector R&D at Cornell and Purdue Universities	Cornell Purdue	Dan Peterson dpp@lns.cornell.edu	8/29	pdf ps
Negative Ion TPC as the LC main tracker	Wayne State Temple	Giovanni Bonvicini giovanni@physics.wayne.edu	8/27	pdf ps
Calorimetry
Optimization of LC detector elements for physics analysis	U of Chicago	Mark Oreglia m-oreglia@uchicago.edu	8/21	pdf ps
Development of energy-flow algorithms, simulation and other software for the LC detector	NIU	Dhiman Chakraborty dhiman@fnal.gov	9/06	pdf ps
Design and Prototyping of a Scintillator-based Digital Hadron Calorimeter	NIU UIC	Vishnu Zutshi zutshi@fnal.gov	8/23	pdf ps
Fast Response Tile Scintillation Development for Calorimetry and Tracking in NLC Detectors	Notre Dame	Dan Karmgard karmgard.1@nd.edu	8/23	pdf ps
Investigation and Design Optimization of a Compact Sampling Electro-magnetic Calorimeter with High Spatial, Timing and Energy Resolution	Kansas	Graham Wilson gwwilson@ku.edu	9/03	pdf ps
Particle ID
Scintillator-Based Muon System R&D	NIU Notre Dame	Arthur Maciel maciel@fnal.gov Mitchell Wayne wayne@undhep.hep.nd.edu	8/22	pdf ps

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UCLC Preliminary Project Descriptions

Accelerator

Machine/Detector Interface

Vertexing

Tracking

Calorimetry

Particle ID