Summary of Indo-US Accelerator R&D Working Group Meeting

Fermilab, Aug 5^th^-6^th^ 2004.

Editor: Shekhar Mishra, Fermilab

Vinod Sahni, Center of Advanced Technology

8/28/04 (last edited by V.C. Sahni 9/4/2004)

Although the full Indian contingent could not reach, the first planned
meeting of the Indo-US Accelerator R&D working Group was held at
Fermilab on Aug 5-6 2004. Scientist from Fermilab, SLAC, Jefferson Lab
(Jlab), Argonne (ANL) and Brookhaven National (BNL) Laboratories met
with the scientists from India. All the US members of the Indo-US
Accelerator R&D working group participated in the meeting. A full list
of people who attended the meeting and agenda is attached as Appendix-I
and II. The topics that were discussed during US scientists visit to
India in Nov 2003 and possible areas of collaboration between India and
USA as discussed prior to this meeting is attached as Appendix-III.

The two days presentations and discussions centered on how to proceed
with the collaboration on accelerator, detector and neutrino physics.
The group heard presentations on U.S. accelerator activities at
Fermilab, SLAC and ANL. There were focused accelerator R&D presentations
on International Linear Collider (ILC), Fermilab Superconducting Proton
Linac, Rare Isotope Accelerator, grid computing at Fermilab and emerging
grid computing in India. The past, present and future Indian accelerator
program and its strength in accelerator development was also presented.
There were group discussions on the ILC detector and neutrino physics
experiments collaborations in both countries.

The group discussed the next step to develop this collaboration. It was
concluded that the most effective way to initiate the collaboration
would be exchange of scientists and engineers.

-   US laboratories can host Indian scientists as a start of scientific
    exchange and can initially accept say upto two Indian scientists at
    each of the collaborating US laboratories. The project and details
    of the visiting persons would be decided by mutual interest. It is
    expected that this will be an avenue to involve working level
    persons and hence most of these visitors will be junior scientists
    and engineers. It was agreed that initial period of visit should be
    say for minimum of 6 months each and there should be some overlap
    between rotating scientists.

-   US scientists will visit Indian laboratories for specific topics of
    interest to develop collaboration and building contacts, for example

    -   Commissioning of Indus-II

    -   Review of Indian accelerator projects

    -   Holding Indo-US Accelerator Schools

    -   Participation of US scientists in Indian conferences

Funding for the travel and stay of these scientists in the two countries
was discussed. At present the US laboratories do not have funds to
support the scientific exchange between India and USA. US laboratories
can provide office space, administrative and computing support, but
sources for living and travel expenses have to be found. It was
discussed that this Indo-US Accelerator R&D working group look into
several sources of funding to support these visits.

There are two existing Indo-US agreements for scientific exchanges that
can be used to fund this collaborative research. It is also possible
that India may have other funding mechanism to support these activities.

1.  The Indo-US science Forum

2.  India-DST and US-NSF Program for collaborative research project.

**Action Item**: We will write three proposals to be submitted to these
funding agencies.

1.  International Linear Collider is the ultimate goal of the
    accelerator R&D collaboration. It is realized that in achieving this
    goal we must collaborate on other accelerator projects. We will
    submit a proposal to Indo-US Science Forum to support travel related
    to the Accelerator R&D. PI: Shekhar Mishra, USA and Vinod Sahni,
    India

2.  India has already made significant contributions to the High Energy
    Physics Detector R&D and construction as well as their installations
    in some labs in USA. India could therefore naturally participate in
    a International Linear Collider Detector collaboration and related
    R&D. We will submit a proposal to DST-NSF to support this activity.
    PI: Harry Weerts, USA and , (nominee to be decided by) India.

3.  Fermilab, BNL and many Indian institutions have considerable
    interest in Neutrino physics. We will submit a proposal to DST-NSF
    to support this activity. PI: Doug Michael, USA and (nominee to be
    decided by) India.

4.  Fermilab and BARC/TIFR teams in India have considerable interest in
    astroparticle physics of which gamma ray astronomy is an important
    part. There is an opportunity to forge new partnership especially in
    the context of planned Indian Gamma Ray Telescope at Hanle, Ladhakh.
    PI: ........,USA and R Koul, India.

**Appendix-I:** List of Scientists who attended the first meeting of the
Indo-US Accelerator R&D Working Group Meeting.

USA

[Fermilab]{.underline}

Steve Holmes, Associate Director of Accelerator

Hugh Montgomery, Associate Director of Research

Robert Kephart, Division Head, Technical Division

Vicky White, Division Head, Computing Division

Paul Czarapata, Associate Division Head, Accelerator Division

William G. Foster, Head, Proton Driver R&D

Shekhar Mishra, Head, Linear Collider R&D

Andreas Kronfeld, Senior Scientist, Theory Department

Harry Weerts, Guest Scientists, Linear Collider Detector R&D

[SLAC]{.underline}

David Burke, Assistant Director, Linear Collider

[ANL]{.underline}

Kwang-Je Kim, Senior Scientist, Leader of Coordination of Accelerator
Research

Jerry Nolen, Director of ATLA and Technical Director, Rare Isotope
Accelerator

[Jlab]{.underline}

Swapan Chattopadhyay, Associate Director of Accelerator

[BNL]{.underline}

Milind Diwan, Scientist, Physics Department

Deepak Raparia, Scientist, Collider Accelerator Department

[US Universities]{.underline}

Harry Weerts, Professor, Michigan State University

Doug Michael, Senior Research Associate, California Institute of
Technology

Supriya Jain, Research Associate, Okalahoma University

Sanjib Mishra, Professor, University of South Carolina

India

Vinod Sahni, Director, Center of Advanced Technology

Dilip Bhawalkar, Ex-Director, Center of Advanced Technology

Ram Shivpuri, Professor, University of Delhi

Kirti Ranjan, Research Associate, University of Delhi

**Appendix-II**

Indo-US Accelerator R&D Working Group Meeting

Fermilab, Aug. 5^th^-6^th^ 2004.

Hornet's Nest Conference Room, WH8X

(*The meeting will be available on ESNET with ID 824877. You can join
this meeting also on phone by calling 510-883-7860 and 824877#. We have
tested this with Cornell, Jlab, SLAC, ANL, TIFR (India), others can also
join if you have a registered node to ESNET)*

Aug 5^th^ Morning

> Welcome, Hugh Montgomery, Fermilab, 10:15-10:30

Overview

-   Prospect of Indo-US Collaboration, Shekhar Mishra, FNAL
    (10:30-11:00)

-   Fermilab Accelerator R&D Plan overview, Steve Holmes, FNAL
    (11:00-11:30)

-   SLAC Accelerator R&D Plan overview, David Burke, SLAC (11:30-12:00)

-   Accelerator Activities at ANL, Kwang-Je Kim, ANL (12:00-12:30)

Working Lunch for visitors and speakers (12:30-1:30) Hosted by Steve
Holmes: General Discussion

Aug 5^th^ Afternoon

Linear Collider

-   International Linear Collider R&D, Technology Options and
    collaboration, Steve Holmes, FNAL (2:30-3:00)

India Accelerator Activities

-   Indian Accelerator Program: Present and Future, Vinod Sahni, CAT
    (3:00-3:30)

Break (3:30-4:00)

Simulation and Computing

-   Grid Computing efforts in India, R. Shivpuri, Delhi University
    (4:00-4:30)

-   Grid Computing at Fermilab, Vicky White, FNAL (4:30-5:00)

Indo-US Collaboration Discussion, All, (5:00-6:00)

Dinner at Chez Leon Hosted by Mike Witherell (Invited Guests)

Aug 6^th^

Accelerator R&D

-   Proton Driver R&D and possible area of collaboration, G. W. Foster,
    Fermilab (11:00-11:30)

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-   Rare Isotope Accelerator, Jerry Nolen, ANL (11:30-12:00)

Lunch for Visitors & Speaker (12:00-1:15) hosted by Steve Holmes

Fermilab Tour (1:15 - 3:45)

-   Fermilab Photo Injector Lab (Piot and Leo)

-   SC Facility (Nikolay and Yuri)

-   Accelerator Division Linac and MCR (Dan Johnson)

-   Feynman Computing Center (Vicky White)

-   CDF and D0 (Nigel, Kirti Ranjan)

Coffee (3:45-4:15)

Astrophysics

-   India Gamma Ray Observatory, Vinod Sahni, (4:15-5:00)

Discussion on collaboration and future interactions (5:00-6:00)

Dinner hosted by Indian Scientist at Fermilab 7:30 P.M.-11:30 P.M.

**Appendix-III**

Although the full Indian delegation could not reach, the first planned
meeting of the Indo-US S&T collaboration on Accelerator R&D working
group was held on Aug. 5^th^-6^th^ at Fermilab. Indian physicists
currently participate in the D0 experiment at Fermilab. A rough count of
people of Indian origin at Fermilab has yielded in 55 physicists and
engineers.

We had a very successful visit to India during the Nov. 2003. A trip
report of that visit was submitted to DOE. The US team was very
impressed with the Indian technical ability and amount of R&D they are
undertaking. Indian laboratories and industries quality looked to be at
par with US.

-   We had an opportunity to visit the Indus-II project at the Center of
    Advanced Technology (CAT). Indus-II is a 2.5 GeV synchrotron Light
    source built by India. The commissioning of Indus-II is going to
    start some time in 2005.

-   India has contributed significantly to LHC. We visited the
    Superconducting Magnet production facility at CAT. CAT is building
    corrector magnets for LHC.

-   India is also building detectors for CMS. India has sent several
    people to CERN to participate in LHC construction.

-   India is contributing significantly to the LHC-CMS Grid computing
    project by its strong presence in IT world. Two institutions have
    got teir-2 status and seven institutes have been given Teir-3 status
    for LHC Grid computing.

-   India has built two superconducting Linac boosters one at Delhi and
    another at Mumbai..

-   India is pushing ahead to build an Indian Neutrino Observatory. Many
    view that this would be a world class facility and there are
    discussions to open this to international collaboration.

-   India is planning a Gamma Ray Observatory at an altitude of 4200m
    and could be interested in collaboration.

-   India has a vision to build other accelerators in India. In our
    discussions they are similar to SNS and Proton Driver with its full
    extension.

-   India has large resources of well trained technical people.

We view the following areas where the two counties can collaborate.

1)  Present neutrino experiment with a goal of collaboration and
    construction of future neutrino experiment in USA (MINOS, NOVA etc.
    and India (INO).

2)  Indian scientists participating in SPEAR commissioning with a goal
    of US accelerator scientists participating in Indus-II
    commissioning.

3)  Design and construction of new accelerator projects like Linac
    Coherent Light Source (SLAC), Rare Isotope Accelerator (ANL/MSU) and
    Super-conducting Proton Linac (Fermilab).

4)  Developing super-conducting RF technology for accelerators
    (Fermilab/Cornell/ Jlab).

5)  Linear Collider design and industrial production of its hardware.

6)  GRID computing (Fermilab).

7)  Development of Linear Collider detector design simulation software
    and detector R&D.

8)  We view that for ILC design and construction these initial
    collaborations on other accelerator and experiments could be the
    foundation.

9)  Students and Post-doc from India can contribute in a significant way
    to the ongoing programs as they have done at Fermilab in past 20
    years.