Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Research Tools and Instruments

A new 500 GeV to 1 TeV centre of mass energy electron-positron colliding beam accelerator is currently under advanced planning stages as the proposed next world facility for particle physics. The Global Design Effort group is working to finalize the ILC accelerator design while the ILC detector R&D is being coordinated by the World Wide Study Group. The target date to complete the machine and the detector technical design reports is 2010. With site selection and the international funding in place, the construction could begin by 2012 with ILC operational for physics data taking by 2019. Canadian researchers have been quite active in ILC detector development for some time and have submitted an NSERC Discovery Grant application for ILC Time Projection Chamber (TPC) R&D and for calorimetry. This grant application is for instrumentation specific to ILC TPC R&D. The worldwide R&D effort for the ILC-TPC is being coordinated by the LCTPC collaboration. The next LCTPC miletstone is to build a 1 m Large Prototype TPC for tests under realistic conditions by 2010. The first large prototype LP1 will be built and tested at DESY in a 1 Tesla magnet. LCTPC collaborating institutes are sharing the cost of acquiring 10,000 channels of TPC readout electronics for LP1. A component of this RTI request is for Canadian TPC groups to purchase their share of LP1 electronics. This RTI grant application also requests funds to purchase instrumentation to develop a photo electron calibration system for the LP1.