Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC Calendar for 2004   March   May   30 June -1 July   September   November  24 feb (Tu)  22 mar (Mo)  11 may (Tu)  23 june (Wed)  28 sept (Tu)  23 nov (Tu) LHCC meetingsLHCC TOTEM meetings Dates for 2004 – plenary meeting the day after the CB

Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC Some dates for the near future  M. Albrow – visits CERN on march 8 th  P. Landshoff – seminar at CERN march 18 th or 19 th  DIS 2004 – april , 2004, Poprad, Slovakia ….  CERN/HERA workshop at CERN march 26 th -27 th Risto convener of diffractive phyiscs section  Rio Workshop – march 31 st /april 2 nd ….  Physics at LHC, Vienna – july 13 th / 17 th Mario D./ Fabrizio F. (overlaps with test beam )  IEEE 2004 NS Symposium and MI Conference October 2004, Rome, Italy 

Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC TOTEM organization - CB of january 16 th  Physics Board: all parts of the collaboration should be represented. Risto Orava is named Physics coordinator.  T2 : Marco Bozzo will coordinate the ongoing activity of design and prototyping for T2  Technical Board : Marco Oriunno (Technical Coordinator) will be the chairman of a newly formed Technical Board. Member of the new technical Board will be Daniela Macina (responsible for the contacts with SPS and LHC), Emilio Radicioni (for the DAQ), Walter Snoeys (for the electronics) the Spokesman and Co-spokesman ex-officio.  Walter Snoeys: Electronics coordinator for TOTEM.  Mario Deile : responsibility of the silicon tests in X5 and the SPS and Daniela Macina for the installation in the SPS and contacts with the accelerator.  Elias Noschis will be responsible for documenting and keeping order in the TOTEM Technical Notes.

Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC  july in X5: test of “full size” silicon detectors… Coincides with Vienna… asked ALICE to move by one week to july  answer in one month Parasiting ALICE later means material in beam and low intensity Period 4-11 august still free from main users.  11 august: 30 august:  11 august: RP installation in SPS (just pots + mechanics, not the detectors) 30 august: Silicon detector installation in RPs  5 october/ 14 october:  5 october/ 14 october: 08:00 h - 16:00 h: shift in SPS 2 periods of 8 hours for SPS coast (few extra hours of access in tunnel will be possible/tolerated)  october in X5: test of GEM, electronics of CSC and remaining silicon tests (total 7 days with beam with a long MD interruption in the middle) Test beam weeks in 2004

Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC End of October in X5  Test of the GEM prototype (more info from Fabio’s talk) 1 detector equipped with APV R/O a’ la COMPASS Not all pads equipped (~1/3 of total) R/O with GeSiCa (COMPASS) Trigger from external “counters” DAQ (?) Support and gas can be provided by Genoa  Test of CSC electronics chain (more info from Marco’s talk): Test required by INFN More than one detector equipped with the final chain on both anodes and cathodes  Repeat test of Silicon detectors ? Possible if necessary…