1. News and Miscellaneous Didier Contardo, Jeff Spalding UPO August 03/2012 1 UPO 08/03/12

2. TDR Situation UPO 08/03/12 2 TDR Documents Pixel: Main editor Aaron Dominguez, Referees/readers Marcello Mannelli, Jordan Nash, Ian Shipsey, Slawek Tkaczyk, Joao Varela, (Didier Contardo) HCAL: Main editor Jeremy Mans, Referees/readers Pushpa Bhat, Tiziano Camporesi, Roger Rusack, Larry Sulak, Jim Virdee, (Jeff Spalding) o 2 nd version drafts are with referees – feedback due before Monday August 6 o Final draft with physics studies included  ready Friday Aug 10 o Present (and release) to collaboration at WGM August 15 Summary Documents o We’re at early stage – good draft needed by Friday August 10 PAG Studies o Higgs and SUSY: meet Monday Aug 6, pre-approval Wed Aug 8 o PAS is the relevant text for the TDR o Approvals at WGM August 15 Cost and Schedule o Final internal sign-off Friday Aug 10 o FB committee review Aug 16-17 o Finance Board Aug 28

3. MC Generation o Form Gaelle Boudoul: A a lot of progress in the last several days. gen-sim almost complete and reco will be submitted immediately for the outstanding samples o Status reported on this twiki. Email Gaelle with questions https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/CMS/PdmVProductionUpgradeTDR12#UpgradeTDR12_and_UpgradeTDR12_DR o Final TDR version should have all known problems fixed… o We need to discuss plans beyond these two TDRs UPO 08/03/12 3

4. TDRs to LHCC UPO 08/03/12 4 o Will send the summary documents and TDR DRAFTs to LHCC for them to ask questions following the Aug 15 WGM o They will send questions which we’ll address in presentations at the meeting o Send LHCC the final TDRs following o the FB/MB meetings Aug 28 o 3 weeks for feedback from the collaboration and final changes o Note: 3 weeks from WGM on Aug 15 is Sep 5 = middle of Lisbon Week. This is 3 weeks ahead of LHCC meeting o Present to LHCC on Tue/Wed September 25/26 o Following the LHCC, the updated cost estimate will be sent to the RRB for their October meeting. Documentation deadline for the RRB is October 5.

5. Towards Trigger TDR UPO 08/03/12 5 L1-Trig Upgrade Strategy o Follow-up to the review last October on options in calo-trigger o Workshop to converge on overall strategy for the upgrade plan (architecture and staging). Draft agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=202802 https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=202802 o Strategy reviewed in Conceptual Design Review Part I on October 4 TDR o TDR contents and initial drafts of sections presented at the CDR Part I o Technical content of TDR reviewed at CDR Part II in week of November 5 (following Oct-Nov Upgrade Week) o Draft of TDR released to reviewers by the end of November Studies o It is essential that we develop a plan ahead of time for studies (releases, data-sets…) o We should have a cross-coordination meeting on this topic ahead of Lisbon, and a report at Lisbon

6. Lisbon Week, Oct-Nov Upgrade Week, and Next Year UPO 08/03/12 6 Lisbon https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=172325 o Upgrades has two parallel sessions o Focus -- Public release final TDR documents, discuss plan for L1-Trig strategy -Trigger and Forward WG meetings in parallel (avoid conflict…) -With Physics and Cross-Coordination – plan beyond HCAL and Pixel TDRs

7. … Oct-Nov Upgrade Week, and Next Year UPO 08/03/12 7 Oct-Nov CMS/Upgrade Week at CERN Oct29-Nov02 Focus o Preparation for L1-Trigger CDR, and related studies o Longevity of all detectors to/through LS3 o Tracker performance predictions for 500fb -1 o Muon long-term strategy o ECAL (EE) performance for 500 fb -1 and beyond o Plans for combined simulation studies for 100PU and 500fb -1 degraded detector o Working Group Reports (towards interim reports due to MB by end of 2012) 2013: Two Upgrade Weeks o Probably Monday May 27 and October 21  to be confirmed o Proposal to go back to having one of the two not at CERN - DESY has volunteered o Any preference to have May or Oct as the non-CERN week? o Will try to formalize the calendar at MB end of August