1. James Ritman FZ Juelich EU Design Kick Off Meeting General Introduction: Physics/Design requirements Four Tasks A)Photon detection and readout for DIRC detectors in a high rate hadronic environment B)Design of a high resolution silicon micro tracking device C)Design of the magnet system and integration of the EMC D)Feasibility studies to demonstrate the physics performance of PANDA (Simulations) Management Issues

2. James Ritman FZ Juelich PANDA Physics Goals Pbar Annihilation in the Charmonium region Charmonium:Quark confining potential Search for Exotic Hadrons Glueballs/Hybrids Charm Production in pbar A Reactions Double Hypernuclei Additional Topics

3. James Ritman FZ Juelich Design Requirements Unsurpassed luminosity and beam quality required Highly complex interplay of detector and accelerator Detector magnets are part of the storage ring Special targets needed High event rates Micro tracking Low branching ratios  excellent PID

4. James Ritman FZ Juelich

5. Tasks PANDA1: Cherenkov Imaging Detectors GSI, Glagow, Edinburg, Mainz, Wien PANDA2: Silicon Microvertex Detector Dresden, Jülich, Catania PANDA3: Magnet and Detector Integration Dubna, GSI, Genova, Glasgow, Cracow PANDA4: Physics Performance Bochum, Cracow, GSI, Dubna, Ferrara, Giessen, Glasgow, Jülich, Munich, Pavia, Uppsala, Warsaw

6. James Ritman FZ Juelich Deliverables: PANDA1 RICH Aerogel radiator and photon detector tests and selection DIRC radiator and photon detector tests and selection Cherenkov Imaging Detectors: technical design report

7. James Ritman FZ Juelich Deliverables: PANDA2 Technical layout and drawings of detector modules and cooling system Technical layout of full detector frame and performance study of a detector prototype Technical Design Report

8. James Ritman FZ Juelich Deliverables: PANDA3 Magnetic field and stress calculations Prototyping of coils and cryostats Design of magnet part of target access and integration of detectors into magnet system Technical Design Report

9. James Ritman FZ Juelich Deliverables: PANDA4 PANDA technical report New software framework PANDA technical design reports PANDA physics book

10. James Ritman FZ Juelich Management Board Coordinator:Jim Ritman (FZ Juelich) Deputy:Guenther Rosner (Glasgow) PANDA1:Carsten Schwarz (GSI) PANDA2:Kai Brinkmann (Dresden) PANDA3:Guenther Rosner (Glasgow) PANDA4:Bertram Kopf (Bochum)

11. James Ritman FZ Juelich Resource Distribution EU ContributionTotal PANDA1:3870001522800 PANDA2:3798001863000 PANDA3:7335001925100 PANDA4:5517002713500 Total 20520008024400

12. James Ritman FZ Juelich Summary Four Tasks –Photon detection and readout for DIRC detectors in a high rate hadronic environment –Design of a high resolution silicon micro tracking device –Design of the magnet system and integration of the EMC –Feasibility studies to demonstrate the physics performance of PANDA (Simulations)