1. Status of FAIR Status FAIR technical preparations
J. Eschke, FAIR JCT
Status FAIR technical preparations
Status FAIR preparatory phase EU project
Status negotiations / international contributions
FAIR start scenario?
FAIR launch event November 7-8, 2007
Roadmap toward the FAIR GmbH

2. Scientific / technical project preparations
FAIR machine mini-TAC meetings
Charge to the review groups CERN, April 21st,
Review of Civil Engineering, May 14th
RF review, May 15th, (Video-conference)
Controls review, May 15-16th
Proton Linac review, May 17th
Review of Magnets and Cryogenics, May 24-25th
Review of Lattices and beam dynamics, June 5th
Review of Power Converters, June 5th
FAIR machine TAC Meeting June, 2007
STI meeting 31 July 2007
STI meeting 11 September 2007

3. Listed experiment collaboration and related meetings, since April 2007
CBM
Workshop on Silicon Detector Systems , April 18-20, 2007 at GSI
Workshop on Electromagnetic Probes of Strongly Interacting Matter:
The Quest for Medium Modifications of Hadrons June , at ECT* in Trento
Workshop on Critical Point and onset of Deconfinement, July 9-13, 2007 at GSI
10th CBM Collaboration Meeting: September , 2007, in Dresden
PANDA
PANDA Magnet Review at GSI April
Collaboration Meeting at Dubna, July 2nd
Collaboration Meeting at GSI, September 17-19th
Collaboration Meeting in/at GSI December 10-14th
SPARC
Theory Group Meeting at GSI, July, 17-18, 2007
NuSTAR NUSTAR Board of Representatives Meeting, July 23, 2007  

4. Members of FAIR-TAC-2007
New chair of the Technical Advisory Committee: Thomas Taylor (CERN)

5. Outcome 1
TAC welcomes the creation of a FAIR Joint Core Team and Technical Division and their visible effect on project progress.
TAC is impressed by the remarkable achievements obtained over the last 18 months. These achievements demonstrate capability and give confidence that success is within reach.
Considering that the project will effectively begin one year later than assumed in the FBTR, finds it unavoidable that the published schedule is delayed by one year.
FAIR will be a state-of-the-art facility for physics, the realization of which is a recognized challenge.

6. Since BaselineTechnical Report
Machine lattices have been re-optimized and are fixed now
HEBTs re-calculated
simplifications by using nc rather than sc magnets werever possible
Optics discussed and checked with external experts (Hinterberger)
HESR further optimized (driven by FZ Jülich & TSL)
Recent discussion for nc lattice (field tolerances)
Synchrotron SIS 100
Performance limitations of NUCLOTRON magnets at 4 T/s
Synchrotron SIS 300
Detailing of straight sections for transfer SIS100 – 300 (injection) and extraction
Beam stability
Non-linear studies on stability issues in SI18/SI100/SIS300
HEBT p-bar separator – CR minimize losses due to chromatic aberrations
RESR focusing structure
work on-going
Stochastic Cooling
Hardware procurement for test-stand under way
Machine Experiments at ESR
-Successful tests of beam accumulation schemes at ESR

7. Outcome 2
The Committee is pleased that many of its previous recommendations taken into account and that significant progress has been made since its last meeting.
the Committee advocates to focus efforts of superconducting magnet development on the SIS300 and to seriously consider fall-back solutions based on normal conducting magnets wherever possible - for example in SIS100, HESR and beam transfer lines.
The committee suggests to decouple the installation of SIS-300 from that of SIS-100. This would ease the commissioning of SIS-100 and the scheduling of production and on-site reception of the sc magnets of SIS-300.

8. Progress in FAIR Hardware R&D
MoU on prototype R&D
SIS300 bending magnet
Funding: 3.7 M€ INFN, 1 M€ GSI
MoU on prototype R&D
SIS300 bending magnet IHEP and GSI
Proton linac klystron ordered at Toshiba
low power CH-structure model tested
Start of procurement for test stand
Super-FRS quadrupole contract (Toshiba)
radiation resistant magnets (BINP)
Study on nc/sc magnets for NESR/RESR (ELYTT)
Straight mark I full scale magnet
under fabrication at BNG / Würzburg
Curved mark I full scale magnet
under fabrication at BINP / Novosibirsk
R&D continued at JINP / Dubna

9. Lab Director’s meeting on accelerators in FAIR
Preliminary Agenda: October 1st and 2nd, 2007 at GSI
October 1st, 2007
14:00 Start of Meeting
Presentation on the current status of the FAIR project
Principles of FAIR In-Kind Contributions
Work package structure
Status of Specifications
On-going R&D projects for FAIR
Expressions of interest for certain work packages (presentations by lab directors or their representatives)
October 2nd, 2007
9:00 Expressions of interest for certain work packages cont’d ((presentations by lab directors or their representatives)
14:00 Round table discussion
16:00 Concluding session
17:00 End of Meeting

10. EU FP7 Preparatory Phase proposal for FAIR
EU FP7 call for ESFRI roadmap projects
- Scope: support for preparatory phase of all ESFRI roadmap projects
- Total budget of this EU call: 130 M€ for 34 ESFRI project
- Up to 7 M€ EU support per project -- on average 4M€
- Contract duration: 1 – 4 years
- Deadline for submission of proposals: 2 May 2007
Intention and ultimate goal of this EU call
- "Implementation of project"
- Main milestone: signature of construction agreement between partner countries
Main focus of proposal
- Work on legal, organisational (project management), governance, strategic and
financial issues (technical work only under certain conditions)
- EU funding 100% (except for technical work)
It is mandatory to include ministries and / or funding agencies as participants in the proposal

11. proposal over 7 M€ submitted on April 30, 2007
July 07:
very good evaluation result
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EC funding: 4,9 M€
official launch contract negotiations – shall be concluded fast
draft Annex-I has been submitted to EC – negotiation meeting on

12. FAIR EU FP7 "preparatory phase" project will be funded by the European Commission
The consortium of 27 participating institutions (including 12 ministries or funding agencies) of this EU project will receive 4,9M€ for the personnel of the FAIR JCT and later of the FAIR GmbH
Duration of the EU contract:
36 months, start:
The project covers seven work packages (WP), which cover
all important coordination activities mandatory for the "implementation" of FAIR!
- no technical Work packages

13. Participation of Funding Agencies and Ministries
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland
INFN Italy on behalf of the Ministry of Research and University
Swedish Research Council
Rosatom Russia
BMBF Germany
Ministry for Research France
Ministry for Education Austria
Helsinki Institute of Physics on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Finland
Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research on behalf of the Ministry of Research
Department of Science and Technology, India
Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
Ministry for of Education and Science, Spain

14. Nominated international members of FAIR Joint Core Team
Link person country:
Z. Majka, Crakow, Poland
Link persons experiments:
PANDA: G. Boca, Pavia, Italy
S. Tomassini, Accelerator Division at LNF, Frascati, Italy
CBM: R. Karabowicz, Crakow, Poland
D. Dutta, BARC, Mumbai and Anand Kumar Dubey, VECC, India (1 FTE)
D. Cozma and M. Petris, NIPNE, Romania (1 FTE)
S. Belogurov, ITEP, Russia (?)
NUSTAR: Heikki Penttilä, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland
W. Korten, CEA, Saclay, France
C. Mihai and T. Sava, NIPNE, Romania (1 FTE)
C. Domingo, CSIC, Spain
APPA (SPARC, FLAIR,..): M Czarnota, Institute of Physics, Kielce, Poland
Brian O'Rourke, Belfast, UK
A. Hirtl, SMI, Vienna, Austria
Link persons accelerator:
HESR: B. Gålnander, TSL, Uppsala, Sweden
HESR: D. Prasuhn, COSY, FZ-Jülich, Germany
HESR: A. Lehrach, COSY, FZ-Jülich, Germany

15. proposed distribution of EC funds for personnel of FAIR JCT
Application (7M€) Contract (4,9M€)
 Reduction of EC funded
person months (in some cases not
performed in order not to endanger
people coming to FAIR)
Ministries / Funding agencies do not
receive EC funds

16. International Steering Committee
FAIR Joint Core Team:
External
Committees:
PACs, TACs, IKAB
International Steering Committee
Team Leader
Hans H. Gutbrod
Research
N.N.
A. Lambert
B. Becker-de Mos
B. Azzara
B. Galander (HESR)
R. Hellmich
W. Jacoby
M. Lautenschläger
A. Lehrach (HESR)
D. Prasuhn (HESR)
S. Richter
P. Spiller
M. Steck
AFI
STI
NUSTAR CBM
C. Domingo S. Belogurov
H. Pentillä D. Cozma (1/2)
W. Korten D. Dutta (1/2)
C. Mihai (1/2) R. Karabowicz
T. Sava (1/2) A.Kumar Dubey(1/2)
PANDA W. Müller
G. Boca M. Petris (1/2)
L. Schmitt
S. Tomassini
APPA
T. Stöhlker
M. Czarnota
A. Hirtl
B. O'Rourke
Accelerator
Dieter Krämer
Finance & Admin
Alexander Kurz
Integration
FAIR project
management team
I. Augustin
T. Beier
H. Bokemeyer
J. Eschke
M. Hinkelmann
S. Hofmann
Z. Maika
F. Weißbach
22 FTE GSI, 2 FTE FZJ
15 FTE international JCT members
over 18 months

17. Status of negotiations / international contributions
Germany will pay 75% of the construction cost of 1187M€, if the
missing 25% (~300M€) are contributed by the international partners.
At least 25% international contributions are requirred.
If less than 25% international contributions are confirmed
by October 17, 2007, a start scenario with a smaller scope/costs
needs to be defined.
Only the financed part of the FAIR project can be launched
on November 7, 2007.

18. Status of negotiations / international contributions
India: 3% (36M€) confirmed by declaration
Romania: 1% (12M€) confirmed by declaration
Poland: 2,5% (30M€) confirmed by declaration
Finland: 5M€ plus potential additional contribution in cooperation
with industry of Finland announced
United Kingdom: 15M€ for NUSTAR and PANDA plus potential
for 15M€ in addition (total 30M€)
for the next 4 years possible decision end of 2007
Sweden: 1% (12M€) possible decision end of October
Russia: at least 5% (60M€) announced by Kirienko (ROSATOM)
 potential for significant bigger contribution
sign declaration at meeting Putin – Merkel, October 15 in Wiesbaden
Italy: 40M€ for SIS300 sc dipol magnets and 4M€ for PANDA magnet
announced
Austria: 0,5M€ per year announced
Spain: negotiation on September 28 at Madrid – 2%?
China: 1% ?, Greece ?, France no shareholder ?
~250 M€ until October 17, 2007 ?

19. Project Staging Old idea: Staging of the project
( three stages defined by optimizing start of science)
New idea: Staging ods the project
( two phases defined/matched with assured funding level )
Phase A = start-version
( stage defined/matched with funding level by October 2007)
Phase B = all that‘s left out in Phase A
(A+B: full project as defined in FAIR BTR -Annex of Convention)

20. Master Schedule - Civil Construction
STI: Start scenario should contain all buildings and facilities!
Start of Civil Construction is the critical path!
However, local authorities are prepared
for speeding up the process of construction approval.
Aim: All permits available before
end of 2008 within legal procedures
Focus: ground breaking in early 2009

21. Start scenario STI: Do not exclude any science community
from FAIR Baseline Technical Report !
SIS 100/300
SIS 18
UNILAC
for the start of FAIR based on the announced international contributions.
The ISC expects the STI working group to evaluate these start scenarios
and to report its conclusions at the next ISC meeting (on October 17, 2007).
The ISC asks the Joint Core Team to work out scenarios
ISC Resolution:
Radioactive Ion Production Target
Super
FRS
HESR
Generation of RIBs - NUSTAR
Anti-Proton Production Target
Generation of p-bar - PANDA CR
FLAIR
Generation HE HI - CBM
RESR
NESR
100 m
Applied- and atomic physics - APPA

22. FAIR Kick-Off event November 7-8, 2007 at GSI
What's so important about that meeting?
Up to now:
Only preparatory phase of FAIR
R&D
Prototypes
After Kick-Off:
Official start of construction
Money starts to flow
Organizational structures will evolve into FAIR GmbH

23. Registration will open this week
You will be informed:
FAIR Newsletter
FAIR Newsletter Mailing List
GSI Kurier + Mail
Web

24. Agenda Kick-Off (I) Wednesday 07.11.07 11:00 Start of registration
14:30 – 15:15 Coffee
15:00 – 15:45 Enter ESR (All seated by 15:45)
16:00 – 17:10 Kick-Off Event
Welcome – H. Stöcker (5 Min)
Welcome Addresses
A. Schavan (BMBF) (10 Min)
R. Koch (MinPres Hessen) (10 Min)
international speakers (total 20 Min)
EU(?), FAIR countries(?)
Signature of Communiqué (10 Min)
Action Element (Press Photos)
17:10 – 17:30 Press-Conference (Press and VIP) close to ESR
from 18:00 Buffet with Music

25. Agenda Kick-Off (II) Thursday, 08.11.07
09:00 – 12:30 Scientific Symposium
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Foyer)
14:00 – 17:00 Scientific Symposium
Current wishlist of speakers....
Wilczek, Schatz, Hayano, Henning and more...

26. FAIR Roadmap (I)
Between 7.11., 'till end of the year 2007: (not necessarily prior to Nov. 7th, but desirable)
Nomination of Shareholders by all Contracting Parties
Formation of Consortia, where applicable (e.g. A, FIN)
Final Approval (slightly modified) of Convention, Articles of Association and other Annexes to Convention, Final Act (ISC, after one more look by AFI)
Decision on language
Further declarations / commitments
Formation of Pre-Council by those who have made Commitments / sent declarations.

27. FAIR Roadmap (II) From November 'till January 2008
Preparation of FAIR Company structure (Joint Core Team → Pre-Council)
Establishment of Search Committees for the FAIR Managing Directors (ISC or Pre-Council)
Staffing of some required positions as soon as possible for the Joint Core Team (JCT)

28. FAIR Roadmap (II) April 2008
Signature of Convention and Final Act by all Contracting Parties
Signature of Articles of Association by the Shareholders
Registration of the Company in the Trade Register
May 2008
Constitutive meeting of the Council

29. Thank you for you attention!
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