# Presentation: 124447

## Closing Remarks

**John Womersley**
**D****Ø Collaboration Meeting**
**February 2004**

## 1. Some “Big Picture” news

## DOE HEP Budget 

**President’s budget request, 2005**
**Total federal budget ****	****+ 3.5%**
**Defense/DHS****	****	****+ 9.4%**
**Other discretionary****	****	****+ 0.5%**
**DOE****	****	****	****+ 1.2%**
**DOE-HEP****	****	****	****+ 1.0%**
**Fermilab****	****	****	****+ 2.2% (with $10.3M for BTeV R&D)**
**Other labs SLAC – 0.4%, ANL – 3.1%, BNL + 0.1%, LBNL – 1.5%**
**University support****	**** ****	****– 0.3% **

## The Laboratory

**Mike Witherell will step down in summer 2005.  Search committee for a new Fermilab Director has been established.**
**I am a member of this committee: your input is very welcome!**
**DOE has announced that the laboratory operating contract (currently held by URA) will be re-bid at end 2006**
**Certainly complicates the above**

## 2. DØ issues

## Some news

**Videoconferencing**
**The new video equipment in the Hurricane Deck has now been installed: please thank IN2P3 for this contribution!**
**OSHA (US Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is visiting Fermilab**
**At D0 on March 10**
**Please take the opportunity to tidy your areas in advance of this!**

## Where we stand

**This morning you saw a broad range of new physics results, made possible by a great deal of hard work**
**Subdetectors and operations**
**Computing (both here and remote)**
**Software Algorithms**
**Physics Groups**
**Editorial Boards**

## Recent experience

**Many people have pointed out that time was too short, data came too late, etc.**
**We need to learn from this**
**no need to repeat this mistake, “relatively” straightforward to do better...**
**if this was our only problem, we’d be fine**

## So, what next?

**Detector**

**Data**

**Results**

## Second challenge: personnel 

**Postdoc numbers**
**What do we need?**
**Estimate 78 postdocs for stable long-term Run II operation**
**What did we need in Run I?**
**In January 1996, we were able to operate the detector and simultaneously produce physics (top quark) with 74 postdocs**
**What do we have now?**
**We have 94 postdocs, 63 full-time and 31 part time**
**= 78 FTE’s**
**Gradudate Students**
**A significant fraction of our students will be graduating this year**

## Bottom Line

**We are not going to get more people**
**In fact we will have to fight the funding agencies to keep what we have, as they push LHC**
**We cannot expect people to work any harder than they have been working for the past few months**
**We will need to **_**manage**_** our resources**

## Adding vectors

**Adding vectors**

**Can we go from individual efforts that add like this**
**To this?**
**We don’t need more work from individuals if we can somehow get more coherence**

**The direction we want to go**

## What will it take?

**My view:**
**An honest self-examination: where do we need to do better? **
**Not just instrumentation issues, but process and culture**
**Need agreement on common goals **
**Need a willingness to manage and be managed in pursuit of these goals**
**An understanding that this will involve all of us**
**not “you’re talking about those guys over there”**
**Remain positive: the focus is on how to improve!**

## Slide 14

## What are we asking?

**Don’t have answers yet – but these are important questions that the experiment needs to get to grips with**
**Solutions will have to come both from the top down (management), and from the bottom up (those “in the trenches”)**
**As you to work with the spokespersons and our subsystem managers (Jon, Amber, Jianming, Harry) as we try to address the issues**
**Can we count on you all to be part of this process?**

## What is good

**Important also to remember (and identify) where we have done well**
**We rebounded from a very serious setback in our upgrade plans and now have an approved project going very well**
**We successfully mounted a major effort to reprocess all our data last fall, and we delivered **
**D0 computing and analysis is a success**
**0.25PB, 8 billion events just for Moriond **
**Major new capabilities for D0 have been realized**
**Tracking based B-physics program **
**An extraordinarily enthusiastic team of young (and some old) physicists analyzed that data in very short time **
**Some analyses have not yet converged: not a failure!**
**First PRL draft is in review**
**We are taking more data than CDF (and most of the big data quality issues in the “Moriond” sample do not affect new data)**

## ... more good

**Also, recent accelerator performance has increased overall optimism about Run II being a success**
- This week’s DOE review closeout:** “****We have increasing confidence that Run II will be successful... we are very encouraged”**

## Working under pressure

**Can sometimes cause friction, to be sure**
**But it can also bring out the best in all of us**
**I would not dare to have asked people to do some of the things that I have seen done voluntarily**
** **
**	****It is, truly, a privilege for me to work with such an enthusiastic, dedicated, committed bunch of people; it’s part of what makes this whole adventure worthwhile**

## Final Note

**We have 200 pb****-1**** analyzed (and > 250pb****-1**** on tape)**
**It is **_**not at all crazy**_** for new physics to be in this data at the level of a few events**

**What would Carlo Rubbia do with this?**

**... ****and**
**1 like-sign muon event**
**Expected background 0.13 ****± 0.06**