1. TK Hemmick for the EIC Tracking R&D Group Letter of Intent for Detector R&D Towards an EIC Detector

2. Why a LOI Response to a Call for Proposals? The EIC community is an ever-growing and diverse set of scientists with a broad range of physics goals. Tracking and PID technologies must be driven by the physics goals of the EIC and not by the technology du jour. Success will be defined by Gathering a community that cross-cuts R&D with physics. Drawing upon diverse experience to formulate reasoned plans. Our Letter of Intent: Announces a fledgling community taking on this task. Contains requests for small scale “seed grant” work of likely interest. Promises a full R&D tracking proposal in one year’s time.

3. Who are we? Brookhaven National Laboratory Florida Institute of Technology Iowa State University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Riken Research Center at BNL Stony Brook University University of Virginia Yale University

4. Brookhaven Lab Hadron-Blind Detector Chevron charge division Fast drift TPC ASIC development VUV spectrometry

5. Florida Institute of Technology CMS High-  Upgrade RD51 SRS readout System Large Area GEM production

6. MIT STAR Forward GEM Tracker Strip-pixel readout scheme. Industry-based GEM production (TechEtch Company) Large Area GEM-hole cert. equipment.

7. Stony Brook University Hadron-Blind Detector Large Clean Room Gas Chromatography CsI Photocathodes

8. University of Virginia Super Big Bite SoLID

9. Yale University STAR Forward GEM Tracker Developed Strip-pixel readout system. Short term proposal: 3-coordinate strip- pixel readout.

10. Iowa State University text

11. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory text

12. Fast Drift TPC Development Request Help on this slide from Craig Woody…

13. Large Area Readout Using Chevrons Request Help from Marcus Holmann…

14. CsI RICH Possibilities. The Stony Brook group wishes to investigate the feasibility of CsI- coated GEMs as a large area, B-field tolerant solution for RICH work. Operating in CF 4 the PHENIX HBD detector demonstrated the highest measured N 0 of any large Cherenkov Detector. However, there are limitations due to the sensitivity range of CsI (110 – 200 nm). Windows for liquid radiator provide higher cutoff. Most (not all) optics for reflection provide higher cutoff. Aerogel opaque in sensitive range.

15. Large Area GEM w/ “hidden” Readout Request Help from Lilange to finish…

16. Strip-pixel R&D Request Help from Richard Majka to finish slide…

17. Simulations begun… The most important work over the coming year involves simulations to propose viable technology choices for R&D. A simulation framework exists. The work plan involves driving processes: F L drives momentum precision.  s drives PID.