LUXE Steering Board #13

Name: LUXE Steering Board #13
Start: 2025-10-29T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-29T13:00:00+01:00
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Wednesday 29 Oct 2025, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Federico Meloni (DESY), Jenny List (DESY), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.))

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Attendance: Federico, Ivo, Ruth, Halina
Apologies: Ties, Ben, Gianluca, Louis

Had a short meeting, as reminder went out late

Search for funds continues (Simons fundation application in preparation)
- Look for foundations because nominal channels require LUXE being an approved project
Draft support letter to be signed by directorate being worked on (sent to some partners to collect feedback)
EDS prototype back at DESY, paper in the works
Person-power for EDS and GFM phasing out
- New student starting at DESY on Dec 1st, Ivo also applied for DESY fellow position
Very successful ECAL test beam campaign, analysis ongoing (3 new master students from TAU!), paper ASAP
Availability of tracker staves at WIS potentially not a worry
Software release exists - started planning work in SAS for upcoming student

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- 11:00 → 11:20
  
  Introduction, news and items for discussion 20m
  
  Speakers: Federico Meloni (DESY), Jenny List (DESY), Matthew Wing (UCL), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.))
- 11:20 → 11:30
  
  Status of ELBEX 10m
  
  Speakers: Louis Helary (DESY - ALPS), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))
- 11:30 → 11:40
  
  Laser status 10m
  
  Speakers: Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institut Jena), Matt Zepf (Eur.UPEX)
- 11:40 → 11:50
  
  Theory and simulation status 10m
  
  Speakers: Ben King (University of Plymouth), Ben King (None), Thomas Blackburn (None), Tom Blackburn (University of Gothenburg), Tom Blackburn (University of Gothenburg)
- 11:50 → 12:00
  
  Software & analysis status 10m
  
  Speakers: Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz Institut Jena), Daniel Seipt (None), Noam Tal Hod (Weizmann Institute of Science), Oleksandr Borysov (DESY)
- 12:00 → 12:10
  Electron detection system status 10m
  
  Speakers: Ivo Schulthess (ETH Zurich), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))
  EDS@E320 prototype is back at DESY
  
  first draft of technical paper on EDS prototypes (ARES, FACET-II) in final stage
  
  main workforce (Luke and Antonios) are writing their thesis
- 12:10 → 12:20
  
  Positron detection system status 10m
  
  Speakers: Halina Abramowicz (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe AST)), Oleksandr Borysov (DESY)
- 12:20 → 12:30
  Photon detection system 10m
  
  Speakers: Prof. Gianluca Sarri (None), Gianluca Sarri (Queen's University Belfast), Ivo Schulthess (ETH Zurich), Marco Bruschi (INFN and University of Bologna)
  GFM
  
  quick/preliminary analysis shows
  
  more linear response if the flux is significantly reduced
  
  energy reconstruction not possible due to saturation
  
  -> not enough for publication
  
  -> detailed analysis postponed
- 12:30 → 12:40
  
  Computing & DAQ status 10m
  
  Speakers: Federico Meloni (DESY), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.)), Matthew Wing (UCL)
- 12:40 → 13:00
  
  Discussion 20m