lhcb-cb Internal note and publication
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Date: 12/1/98
Time: 2:22:53 PM
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Dear CB members,
You may recall an e-mail from me about discussion on possibility to
make Internal Note of LHC experiments as a kind of "publication". I
received an more concrete guideline for European Journal of Physics C,
which considered to take this up as an electronics journal. Attached is
the proposed guide line for discussion.
yours Tatsuya
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Extended experimental publication in EPJ.C
Jochen Bartels, Dieter Haidt, Peter Zerwas
27/10/98
Introduction
The development in High Energy Physics in the past 3 decades has
witnessed a clear concentration of experimental efforts in large
collaborations building and operating increasingly bigger detectors.
The running experiments at the large research centers (CERN, DESY,
Fermilab, KEK, SLAC) involve 300 to 500 physicists, the future
experiments more than 2000. The detectors act like facilities operated
and maintained by the experimental groups over a large period of time,
typically 5 to 20 years. Nevertheless, the Collaboration as such is
stable, while individuals join or leave the collaboration.
Publication Policy
The recent developments challenge also a new publication policy. The
preparation time of the detector until the first data are available is
long. Inside the collaboration the future physics topics are studied
and new methods are developed. The emphasis is put on ways to obtain
the relevant quantities and to study the interplay between physics and
detector effects. These studies are often of general interest and merit
to be made public, even though by the time of analysing the real data
some aspects of the previous studies may have been improved. It is a
fact that such studies within the collaboration are performed by small
groups of people and proper credit may be given to them in publishing
the results.
The traditional way of publishing are paper and electronic editions in
EPJ.C. The procedure includes immediate publication of the article on
the Internet, roughly 10 days after the final manuscript has reached the
publisher. Thanks to the new internationally accepted standard called
DOI the article can be cited immediately with full copyright protection.
The other branch is EPJdirect.C, which provides a purely electronic
edition and benefits fully from the vast capabilities of electronic
media, such as excellent facilities for oversize tables or figures, as
well as for detailed descriptions of powerful mathematical and
computational techniques. No page limit is imposed at present. This
branch is structured in three sections
o Section I: Peer reviewed papers
o Section 2: Collaboration Notes
This newly installed section of EPJ.C welcomes Collaboration Notes of
general interest. They have passed an internal reviewing procedure of
the collaboration. Only the names of those members appear who have
actively performed the study. The submission proceeds in agreement with
the spokesman of the collaboration through the research director of the
laboratory.
o Section 3: Dissertations and Habilitations
Dissertations of high quality and of general interest, presenting
extended results or technical details of specific theoretical or
experimental problems, may be submitted through the thesis' supervisor.
Also habilitation theses of general interest including extended reviews
may be submitted.
The purely electronic publications are accessible to everybody and can
be quoted using the Document Object Identifier (DOI). It is easy to
provide links between publications, in particular later collaboration
papers can refer by a click to previous Collaboration Notes. In future,
once collaboration papers 'II be signed by thousand or more authors, the
usual form of printing all names and institutions at the beginning of
the paper may become impractical. EPJ.C is open to proposals put
forward by the collaborations to cope with this new situation.
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