1. The Experimental Physics Projects Department - an Overview David Christian September 11, 2006

2. Who are we? EPP consists entirely of physicists (currently 28): –Head: David Christian –Deputy Head: Erik Gottschalk –Administrative Support: Cathryn Laue and Cindy Kennedy

3. What does EPP do? We are RA-Central. –The RA Committee recruits and hires post-docs for most of the FNAL experimental program (Many Astrophysics post-docs are hired separately). –Although most post-docs are no longer members of EPP, we provide services and maintain a sense of community through programs like the monthly “Food For Thought” pizza & beer get-together.

4. What does EPP do? We are the “Physics Department” for FNAL scientists. –Colloquium Committee (Cathy Newman Holmes) –Physics Major Summer Student Program (Erik Ramberg) –Physics Teacher Program (TRAC) (Ron Ray) –Research Techniques Seminars (Marcel DeMarteau) –Office space and administrative support for university groups in many small experiments –Computer services not available through CD FNPPD – no longer under maintenance EPP Document Database

5. What does EPP do? We are home for a number of experiments: –CDMS (Dan Bauer, Fritz DeJongh, J. Yoo) –COUPP (Andrew Sonnenschein) Presentation at today’s All Experimenters’ Meeting –DES (Brenna Flaugher, Wyatt Merritt, Juan Estrada) –Auger (Cathy Newman Holmes, Carlos Hojvat, Aaron Chou) –MIPP (Rajendran Raja, Win Baker, Holger Meyer)

6. What does EPP do? We are an R&D incubator: –ILC Detector R&D (Marcel DeMarteau) Meson Test Beam Facility (Erik Ramberg) Pixel Detector R&D (Marcel DeMarteau, Anatoly Ronzhin, David Christian) Muon Detector R&D (Gene Fisk, Caroline Milstene) –Liquid Argon TPC R&D (Stephen Pordes)

7. What does EPP do? We are an R&D incubator: –Accelerator R&D Superconducting RF (Leo Bellantoni) Muon Accelerator R&D (Steve Geer, Alan Bross, Malcolm Ellis) –MuCool Test Area, Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (Alvin Tollestrup) –Remote Operations LHC & CMS (Erik Gottschalk) Construction start in Wilson Hall Atrium = before 10/1.

8. What does EPP do? We are an R&D incubator: –We provide (minimal) support for speculative and high-risk new initiatives: Picosecond TOF (Henry Frisch, Mike Albrow)  -e conversion experiment (Steve Geer) –Mu2e meeting at FNAL 9/15-16.

9. Summary EPP is: –What happened to the Physics Section –The “everything else” department –Home for small experiments –An R&D incubator –RA-central