# Presentation: 881485

## ILC in CD

- Patricia McBride
- July 14, 2004

## Current Accelerator Projects  in the Computing Division

- ILC R&D - focus of presentations
- ~10 FTE in June
- LHC remote operations (LHC@FNAL)
- 1-2 FTE from CD
- Collaboration with TD/AD/PPD, LARP and CMS
- Requirements, design and cost estimates
- Support for LHC activities at Fermilab
- Software development and testing
- Support for network, computer and videoconferencing infrastructure for the center
- Main Injector BPM project - 5 FTE in June
-  nearly complete
- All projects require close collaboration with groups from AD, TD and/or PPD

## ILC R&D in the CD

- CD ILC effort is mainly focused on accelerator issues
- Acceleration Simulations
- Controls (and Instrumentation)
- Computing Infrastructure (cost exercise)
- Expertise built up over some years
- Muon Collider/ Neutrino Factory feasibility studies
- RUN II Luminosity Upgrade Projects
- BPM electronics/software for Recycler, Tevatron, Main Injector
- SDA and OSDA
- Blast DB
- Etc.

## ILC Simulations

- Accelerator Simulations (Spentzouris, Lebrun, Amundson, Stern, Michelotti, Ivanov)
- This effort is built on software infrastructure developed by the SciDAC collaboration, the ILC collaboration and Run II simulation efforts;
- Studies are done in collaboration with AD/TD and with groups from other institutes
- Focus areas for CD work:
- Main Linac studies
- Damping Ring
- Crab Cavity (part of Beam Delivery System)

## Other ILC involvement

- CD is a now a leading collaborator on the ILC global control system   6-7 FTEs
- Effort started at Snowmass in Aug 2005
- This is a global effort with weekly phone meeting
- R&D planning is done in close collaboration with other US groups (FNAL/ANL/SLAC)
- CD personnel worked on BCD and costing for RDR
- Controls systems for test facilities (Votava, Rechenmacher, Piccoli, CEPA/ESE group)
- Low Level RF (Cancelo and others)
- Interest in Feedback systems (in the future)
- Instrumentation (CEPA/ESE)
- Remote operations - in collaboration with LHC@FNAL project
- ILC test facilities will have worldwide participation
- Design for remote operations from the beginning

## ILC support in CD

- ILC Computing infrastructure
- CD will host the new grid nodes for linac simulations (purchase in progress)
- Setup parallel cluster for accelerator simulations in LCC (in progress)
- CD is responsible for costing exercise for ILC computer infrastructure for RDR (just started)
- Investigate and/or support collaboration tools
- DocDB, Indico, Webex, Plone, Control Room Logbook (CRL), videoconferencing tools

## ILC Detector R&D in CD

- Detector R&D - minimal CD effort in FY06
- About 1 - 2 FTE
- Potential CD involvement in detector R&D
- Detector and Physics Simulations
- Vertex detector readout - with PPD
- Algorithms for particle flow
- DAQ for upgraded test beam facility for ILC detector R&D
- Provide pixel telescope for testbeam; this has already been done for the CMS pixel effort

## Conclusions

- In less than 1 year, CD personnel have developed into leaders in the ILC R&D effort
- Current level of effort in ILC Accelerator R&D is about 7 FTE; workload is growing.
- We need to grow to handle controls work for test facilities and ILC simulation activities.
- CD DAQ experts are oversubscribed (neutrino program: NOVA, Minerva, SciBooNe, MIPP)
- Some controls people are now available from AD
- Will need postdocs/scientists to help with accelerator simulations (and detector) simulations.
- Maybe able to get some help from PPD(?)