Present:

  Keith Baker (Hampton U.)
  Dave Cinabro (Wayne State U.)
  Mikhail Dubrovin (Wayne State U.)
  Rich Galik (Cornell U.)
  John Hobbs (SUNY, Stony Brook)
  Dan Peterson (Cornell U.)
  Keith Riles (U. Michigan)
  Ron Settles (MPI-Munich)
  Ian Shipsey (Purdue U.)

This getting-acquainted meeting was devoted mainly to discussing general issues regarding tracking simulations and detector R&D. An earlier plenary presentation by Dan Peterson on tracking R&D issues provided food for thought and provoked some discussion on the merits of axial wire drift chambers vs time projection chambers.

Most of the meeting, however, was devoted to discussing simulation issues. KR circulated a list of issues to guide the discussion. Given the limited time available for the parallel meeting, the closing plenary session prevented completing the discussion of all of these issues. It was decided to continue the discussion at a future teleconference, resuming at item 9 on the simulations issues list. One important recurring theme in the simulations discussion was the need for improved and realistic track reconstruction from raw hits, particularly for projective technologies (silicon microstrips & axial-wire drift chamber), and including two-hit resolution.

At the planned teleconference, preparations will begin for a 1-day UCLC meeting the day after the Santa Cruz workshop at the end of June. It is hoped that by the Santa Cruz meeting, groups interested in joining the tracking part of the consortium proposal will have a firm idea of where they wish to contribute and a tentative description of their proposed work. Since page limits in the proposal will be severe, each participating group will be encouraged to provide web-accessible documentation to which the proposal text can refer. KR will create a web site for the group to store such documentation.