The Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration Charter
Goal
The goal of this organization is to study and develop the theoretical tools,
the software simulation tools, and to carry out R&D on the hardware that is
unique to the design of neutrino factories and muon colliders. An important part
of the program will be an extensive experimental program to verify the theoretical
and simulation predictions and to gather the necessary data for a future facility.
Executive Board
The Executive Board will consist of two members from
each of the three sponsoring laboratories: BNL, FNAL, and LBNL, and at least
three members from university collaborators. The Spokesperson will be one
of the members and will be the
Chairman of the Board. The Board may add additional members.
The Executive Board will be the ultimate authority for formulating policy
for the Collaboration. The Spokesperson will exercise this policy and will be the
primary interface with the Directorates of the National Laboratories, with the
funding agencies, and with the news media. The Executive Board will operate by consensus and will not make detailed technical decisions.
The Board will appoint a Secretary who will keep minutes of the Board
meetings and maintain a list of members and their e-mail addresses. This list will
be used for determining author lists and for publicly identifying the Collaboration
members. The list will be available through the Muon Collaboration WEB page.
In addition to the duties set out above, the Executive Board will:
- Approve time, place, and general guidelines for the agenda of
any meetings or workshops that are under the sponsorship of
the Collaboration. It is assumed that the various subgroups
will continue to organize their own meetings as necessary.
- Approve publications in refereed journals or the public press
which appear under the Collaboration byline.
- Any major experiment or R&D program will have a
Spokesperson or Organizer who will be approved by the Board,
and who may be changed by the Board as necessary. The
personnel and organization of these R&D programs will be
established in consultation with the Spokesperson.
- The Board will ratify the proposals for all R&D programs.
- The Board will define the conditions for membership in the
Collaboration, and may change these requirements as
necessary. Initially, individual members of the Collaboration
must devote at least 10 percent or more of their time toward
work relevant to the Muon Collider.
Spokesperson
The Spokesperson will be selected by vote of the Collaboration from a list
of one or more candidates that will be provided by a Nominating Committee. This
committee and its Chairman will be appointed by the Executive Board and the
current Spokesperson will be a member. Names for consideration by this
committee may be submitted by any member of the collaboration. The
Nominating Committee will ascertain the availability of the candidates, their
qualifications, and in addition will seek advice about the candidates being
considered from member laboratory Directors and the funding agencies. The
final list will be forwarded to the Executive Board for approval. The Nominating
Committee will prepare and carry out balloting by e-mail and the results
announced by the first week of January. The term of office for the Spokesperson
will be three years and will start the first of July following the election.
The Spokesperson will chair the Executive Board and the Technical
Board, and will also be responsible for preparing any external reviews of the
technical progress of the Collaboration or its various experimental programs.
Associate Spokespersons
The Associate Spokespersons will assist the Spokesperson in
communicating with the Lead Laboratories, but will not have any line
responsibility.
Technical Board
The Technical Board will be appointed by the Spokesperson and will
consist of the leaders of the major R&D programs and any additional individuals
of (s)he choosing. The function of this group will be to monitor and direct the
technical aspects of the R&D programs.
R&D Programs
R&D programs may vary in size from a single person effort up to major
experimental programs at the National Laboratories. In all cases where funding is
required to carry out the program the person in charge will prepare a written
proposal which defines the goals, the resources required, the participants and a
schedule with mile posts. This will be prepared in consultation with the
Spokesperson and will be submitted to the Technical Board for review. These
proposals must be ratified by the Executive Board for overall content and scope.
The Spokesperson is responsible for completing any necessary negotiations with
the host laboratories and funding agencies.
Changes
The Executive Board may change this Charter at any time it feels it is
necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of the collaboration.
Appendix A
Each member institution nominates its member(s) to the Executive
Board. The three lead laboratories, BNL, FNAL, and LBL will nominate one of
their two members to be Associate Spokesperson, except in the case that the
Spokesperson is a member of their laboratory.
| Present membership of the Executive Board (October 1999) |
| R. Palmer
| BNL
| Spokesperson |
| J. Gallardo
| BNL
| Secretary
|
| S. Geer
| FNAL
|
| A. Tollestrup | FNAL | Associate Spokesperson |
| A. Sessler | LBNL | Associate Spokesperson |
| J. Wurtele | LBNL/UC Berkeley
|
| D. Summers | U. Miss. |
| K. McDonald | Princeton |
| D. Cline | UCLA |
| D. Kaplan | IIT |
| A. N. Skrinsky | BINP |
Juan Gallardo
Last modified: Sun Oct 17 11:16:02 EDT 1999