LBNE Reconfiguration Jim Strait, LBNE Project Director Fermilab Community Advisory Board August 23, 2012
FCAB -- Aug 23,
Brinkman’s charge (March 19, 2012) Steering Committee + working groups formed (April 3, 2012) Workshop (April 25-26, 2012) Steering Committee Kickoff meeting (April 9, 2012) Interim Report (June 5, 2012) HEPAP meeting (August , 2012) Final Report (August 6, 2012) Crash Program to Reconfigure LBNE Community input Steering Committee Steering Committee face- to-face meeting (April 26, 2012) Steering Committee face- to-face meeting (May 22-23, 2012) DPF news letter to solicit community feedback on the interim report (July 3, 2012) Brinkman’s letter in response to the interim report (June 29, 2012) DPF announcement for workshop and community input to SC (April 15, 2012) 3 community input 12 steering committee teleconference meetings numerous working group meetings 12 steering committee teleconference meetings numerous working group meetings Input to the European Strategy Group (July 30, 2012)
Workshop (April 25-26, 2012) 4 More than 200 participants ~5 hours devoted to community voice
Open Process 5 directorate/lbne_reconfiguration All documentation on this web site
FCAB -- Aug 23,
J.Strait, FRA Visiting Committee Meeting, April 12-13, 2012 Sample with bullet points First Bullet Second Bullet –More –Yet more –Still more –Less important »Trivial New Neutrino Beam at Fermilab… Directed towards a distant detector Precision Near Detector on the Fermilab site 34 kton Liquid Argon TPC Far Detector at a depth of 4850 feet (4300 mwe) 7 Original Design
J.Strait, FRA Visiting Committee Meeting, April 12-13, 2012 Sample with bullet points First Bullet Second Bullet –More –Yet more –Still more –Less important »Trivial New Neutrino Beam at Fermilab… Directed towards a distant detector Precision Near Detector on the Fermilab site 34 kton Liquid Argon TPC Far Detector at a depth of 4850 feet (4300 mwe) 8 10 kton Liquid Argon TPC Far Detector just below the surface First phase of the reconfigured program We plan to eventually to build a Near Detector at Fermilab and an underground detector in South Dakota, either in a future phase or by obtaining resources from beyond the DOE.
Local Impact of Reconfiguration FCAB -- Aug 23, Smaller Hill X No On-Site Detector
LBNE Neutrino Beamline Hill height:was 70 feet now 58 feet FCAB -- Aug 23,
FCAB -- Aug 23, Looking East Northeast from West Side of Kirk Road Beamline hill now 12’ lower than shown here.
FCAB -- Aug 23, Looking East Northeast from West Side of Kirk Road
EAST SIDE OF KIRK ROAD LOOKING NORTH EAST Beamline hill now 12’ lower than shown here.
EAST SIDE OF KIRK ROAD LOOKING NORTH EAST
LBNE Project Life Cycle & Approvals Spring REVISED May Current LBNE Schedule, Aug 2012 Dec
Questions? Comments ? FCAB -- Aug 23,