The Collaboration Board of the Pierre Auger Observatory Project convened at Malargüe, Argentina, on March 14, 2012
Agenda
Slides for project management report
Status of 2011 (3 countries have not yet finalized the payment).
For 2012, costs ~ 2 Millions of USD
FOPAA status reported.
Sessions on Sunday and Monday were dedicated to the review of AMIGA. The comments of reviewers will be discussed at the TB. However (personal points) data from the Twin tests and BATATA would be needed and the time scale is a important issue.
The group is mainly involved in Radio and GHz detection. They worked in the past on the Askaryian effect and were the initiator of AMBER. The lab have also resources dedicated to this item. They can thus contribute to R&D (AMBER and microwaves), to support the Auger Radio initiatives, and to the maintenance and repairs of SD electronics (Unified Boards).
Ad: asks for a possible (economical) contribution for buying additional antennas (P.Gorham: some contributions are possible)
Kleinfeller: remarks that support for electronics are appreciated (for example to contribute to the upgrade of SD)
Pedro Facal (task leader of GHz): remarks that P. Gorham is already contributing to the GHz task.
| Vote: | Approved |
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Original letter of intent from atmospheric scientists from the LISA and the LaMP laboratories, France.
Francois Montanet presented 3 letters of intent from the groups of LaMP, LISA and LPSC in France. Two projects connected to their interest in Auger have been presented:
1st project: Modeling the aerosol evolution in South America (by LISA lab)
2nd project: for ionic precursors and aerosols (connected to the experiment CLOUD in CERN) (by LaMP and LPSC labs).
Benefits for the collaboration: study of size, chemical composition of aerosol and measurement of trace gases, possibility to join international meteorological network as GAW/AERONET. They request:
Jim Cronin: the installation of new detectors requires a more detailed discussion
Roberto Mussa: since we are planning to construct a detector for the measurement of aerosol in a short range, it would be nice if these groups can contribute to it.
The CB decide to proceed and invite someone from the French groups to present their scientific program in Prague or in the next meeting.
Some members of the PC (Carola, Piera, Ralph Engel) are finishing their mandate. Piera and Carola will continue their work. Ralph Engel will be replaced by Michael Unger.
Find a place in the project management plans and give a presentation at the next meetings.
A *Task force 2015* has been formed.
| Charge: | propose scientific goals, define upgrades, estimate time scale, resources and costs, provide a schedule for production |
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| Members: | Antoine Letessier-Selvon, Pierre Billoir, Michael Unger, Francois Montanet, Mario Pimenta, Lorenzo Perrone, Ad van der Berg, David Nitz, Peter Mazur, Ralph Engel |
| Chaired: | Jim Matthews, Paul Sommers, Ingo Allekotte |
Good and positive experience. Common wish (together with Fukushima) is to have a joint group (Intercollaboration WG) for a next generation UHECR observatory. Auger and TA collaborators can coordinate efforts in R&D. This means: emerging R&D would be tested in both observatory (with the approval of the respective CBs). Paolo and Antoine will be in contact with TA people. The WG would include 5 members and will be chaired by Antoine and Paolo.
Jim Cronin: Auger and TA would be opened also to people from other collaborations and other countries.
For info and future discussions: Tom Paul have forwarded a request to use the Offline in other collaborations. The framework in already available: this request includes now also the physics modules.
Lukas Nellen reminds that we have not an official copyright. Markus Roth: discussion should be based on single requests
Report presented by Piera Ghia.
All plots of previous papers and proceedings are now available on the webpage: http://augerpc.in2p3.fr/node_galleries_grid
Since November, 47 papers in hand (21 FAL journals, 11 FAL conferences, 2 Non-auger papers, 6 proceedings with at least 1 auger author) SD Asymmetry (PRL) and Radio Self-triggering (APP) papers rejected in December. Two EB formed for these 2 papers.
Publication charges (e.g., the open access) are currently paid by the institution that submit the paper. Piera (and PC) propose the publication charges of FAL papers to be paid by the collaboration.
Approved
Report presented by Enrique Zas
Country representatives and Task leaders can propose a list of persons interested to conferences.
Please inform the CC also in case of invited talks.
Markus Roth reports about the Search committee. Search Committee asked to senior members to provide the name of a candidate.
50% of votes needed to be elected
Chair (2 rounds needed): Ron Shellard is elected
Co-Chair (2 rounds needed): Lukas Nellen is elected
Petr Travnick gives a presentation with informations about meeting venue, accommodation, registration and social activities.
Webpage for the meeting: http://amca.cz/auger2012
registration opened. Remind: Prague is a touristic city: register and book flights as soon as possible.
A school for Offline tutorials can be planned after the meeting: (24) 25-26 June in Prague.
Please register within the next 2 weeks. http://indico.nucleares.unam.mx/event/AugerSoftwareTutorial2012
This is a pre-registration, to have a feedback of the interest in this school and proceed in the organization. Lukas will send a mail to the Auger collaboration.
Agenda will be organized by Carla Bleve
Ron reminds that the ICRC 2013 would be at the beginning of July.
The dates for the meeting in november changed from the usual scheme (from Monday to Friday) to include the Malargüe day (Saturday, 16 November).
Postponed, to be decided by electronic vote.
Nothing presented