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[Sadoulet Bernard]

Dear  
Colleague                                                                
                        25 January 2008,
Over the coming months, projects that will comprise the Initial Suite  
of Experiments
(ISE) for DUSEL must be ready to produce a Preliminary Design Report  
(PDR) that
could be included in the DUSEL MREFC request and integrated into the  
facility design.
The time scale is short and the task requires a great deal of work.  
To facilitate reaching
this goal, a workshop is being planned for 21-26 April at Lead, SD
[http://homestake.sdsmt.edu/April_20-26/meeting.htm ]. At this  
workshop, the effort will
begin to prepare the PDRs for individual proposed experiments, and  
the form of the
various experiment proposals will be refined, science plans  
developed, and design needs
established. A call for project development proposals (NSF S-4) is  
soon anticipated, with
closure anticipated in summer 2008. This workshop will allow teams to  
begin their
response to this anticipated opportunity. Some travel support will be  
available: See web
page for details.
At the conclusion of this workshop, the DUSEL Experiment Development  
Coordinators
(DEDC) ask that collaborations wishing to be considered for the ISE  
make a presentation
with the following components required of an MREFC proposal:
               • scientific justifications
               • education and broader impacts programs
               • experimental descriptions
               • Project Execution Plans, including project scope and  
organization
               • timelines and decision branch points for project  
evolution, technology decisions,
                             etc., where relevant,
               • acquisition strategies
               • project performance baseline
               • identification of required R&D
               • risk identification and management
               • WBS and dictionaries
               • cost estimates
The description of the NSF MREFC process can be found in document  
NSF-07-38,
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0738/nsf0738.pdf
Workshop participants are expected to be familiar with this document  
and to come
prepared to address the bulleted list above.
We recognize that few, if any, collaborations will have presentations  
ready for PDR
review. However, the discussions of the various projects in the  
context of these required
components will help the community reach that goal and will help the  
facility design
team prepare for the integration of the experiments into the facility  
design. The process of
establishing the DUSEL MREFC schedule is being developed by the  
facility team and
the DEDC coordinators; NSF will provide input on the agency process  
and general
oversight, as needed. Updates to the schedule presented in November  
will be made
available over the coming weeks.
In order to plan the workshop logistics, it would be valuable if the  
leaders of the various
potential proposals contacted one of us with an estimate of how many  
people might
attend.
Regards – The DUSEL Experiment Development Coordinators
Steve Elliott - elliotts at lanl.gov
Derek Elsworth - elsworth at psu.edu
Larry Murdoch - lmurdoc at clemson.edu
Tullis Onstott - tullis at princeton.edu
Hank Sobel – hsobel at uci.edu

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Bernard Sadoulet
Professor of Physics
Director, UC Institute for Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

Particle Cosmology Group
439 Old LeConte Hall
University of California, Berkeley
CA 94720-7304

Cell telephone 510 703 3840
Office phone 510 642 5719
Fax 510 642 1756
sadoulet at berkeley.edu
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