Extract of the Research Board minutes
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Date: 10/8/98
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Dear LHCb colleagues, Here is an extract from the Research Board minutes
concerning the LHCb experiment. yours Tatsuya --------------------------- The
chairman of the LHCC then reported on the presentation of the referees on the
LHCb Technical Proposal [3]. In light of the main beauty production mechanism
being gluon fusion the single arm forward spectrometer geometry chosen by the
collaboration is justified. The triggering scheme chosen should allow efficient
recording of b events. Finally the physics reach of the experiment goes beyond
that of ATLAS and CMS at the LHC and will be more versatile than that of B
factory experiments. He also noted that the CORE review had now been
successfully completed. The LHCC therefore recommends general approval of the
LHCb Technical Proposal. L. Fo=E0 then presented the conclusions of the first
meeting of the Resource Review Board on LHCb. Assuming that part of the neutrino
beam line shielding iron is used by LHCb, the present cost of the experiment is
82 MCHF of which funding agencies seem to be reasonably sure to provide 72 MCHF.
In view of the fact that the geometry of the experiment lends itself to staging
this shortfall of funds should not delay approval. The Research Board concurred
with this view and approved the LHCb Technical Proposal noting that the LHCC
will continue to monitor the progress of this proposal according to the
schedules and milestones outlined in the ancillary document. The actual cost
ceiling of LHCb, which will be no more than 82 MCHF, will be set when, the
funding issues having been clarified, the first Technical Design Reports are
submitted to the LHCC.
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