SC telecon 18-05-2021

SC telecon 18-05-2021

Participants

Natoli, Piacentini, Montier, Komatsu, Gudmundsson, Gao, Calabrese, Komatsu, Stompor, Hargrave, Maciaszek, Martínez-González

Agenda

– Choose a notetaker for the day

– Approval of minutes of last telecon

– Updates: 

– Detector studies

– Agency meeting?

– Others?

– MHFT PO organisation: continue discussion with Thierry

– Update of our policy to guarantee vote outcome

– European meeting

– Inputs for global telecon (Friday?) 

– AOB

 

– Choose a notetaker for the day

Enrique

 

– Approval of minutes of last telecon

Approved

 

– Updates:

    – Detector studies

Peter: not much to report on the UK studies. Compilation of as many requirements as      required. Adrain circulated a document with the overall sensitivity requirements. Much of the information are not requirements but best estimates, these will be translated to mission requirements. Tomorrow he will circulate a draft.

Francesco: studies of KIDs. Production of TESs. Position is that the KID option studies are unfair with respect to the rest of the collaboration and is not an option for LiteBIRD. The Italian collaboration decided not to include KIDs in the present study although they think that it is worth to create a group to study the KID option for  LiteBIRD. Regarding using CQC for fabrication of TESs, Flavio is responsible for that, this is OK with Adrian. The focus is now designing detectors independently of US designs and then asking this foundry about the possibility of production. The plan is to discuss more broadly about this. Towards the end of this week Adrian and Flavio will talk and after that a more formal meeting will take place.

    – Agency meeting?

Paolo: Some JAXA meeting will be going to take place?

Thierry: Masaki would like to have another meeting in the beginning of June if there are news about the European feasibility studies. 

Francesco, Ludo: difficult to have news so soon.

Pete and Erminia will try to encourage US participation…

    – Others?

– MHFT PO organisation: continue discussion with Thierry

Paolo: Ludo will sign as the SC spokesperson (he is not yet the PI because this position is not defined yet). The SC would like to talk about names of the agency/community representatives although the agencies will have to ratify them.

Thierry is waiting for comments.

Francesco: Italy is happy with the document.

Thierry: names from Italy are clear, other names from UK, Germany, Sweden are needed.

Enrique: the Spanish flag is not present in the MHFT distribution of packages and, given the present Spanish compromise with the Prodex application and next applications for new calls, it would be negative for our proposal(s) that our representatives do not see any assignment to Spain here.

Paolo: for next week names will be written in the PO document. Qw will approve names next time.

Peter: lack of a system engineer? Ludo: Baptiste is the one having this role.

Thierry: US is the responsible for the FP but in the future this can be revised. Evolution of the structure will be reviewed with the funding of the agencies. This is the present situation for phase A.

Ludo: this MHFT International Steering Committee will not be active during phase A.

Paolo: US flag should be there not because of NASA but because of the interest of the US groups.

The structure presented (including the Spanish flag) is approved.

– Update of our policy to guarantee vote outcome

Erminia: we decide about the voting mechanism with simple majority. We will need to vote about this (next time)

– European meeting

– Inputs for global telecon (Friday?)

It is already announced in the LiteBIRD calendar.

– AOB

Erminia: check the spread list sent by Erminia last week, the national representatives should contact the ones who did not respond yet.