US CMS Letter of Intent Submitted to DoE

A Letter of Intent (LoI) Executive Summary was submitted to DoE by the US CMS Collaboration on April 22, 1994. The cover page (11.1 Gb), text and tables (221 Mb), Fig. 1 (11.4 Gb), Fig. 2 (544 Mb), and Fig. 3 (383 Mb) are available above in PostScript format. Follow below for the hypertext version.

See also the Letter of Intent by the CMS Collaboration for a General Purpose Detector at the LHC, October 1, 1992.

The LoI Executive Summary PostScript files may also be retrieved by anonymous ftp to mdtf14.fnal.gov (131.225.45.76) in the /pub directory, from DECnet node HEPNET (42.620) in the HEPNET::[INFO.WWW-DATA.US-CMS.PUB.LOI-ES] directory, or via AFS in the hepafs1.hep.net cell at /afs/hepafs1.hep.net/public/info/www-data/us-cms/pub/loi-es.

Cover Page (219 Kb gif file)

Abstract

Members of the US CMS Collaboration

1 Introduction

1.1 Goals

1.2 Background

2 The CMS Detector

3 Areas of Potential US Participation

3.1 Recent Activity

3.2 Muon Chambers

3.3 Hadron Calorimetry

3.4 Electromagnetic Calorimetry

3.5 Inner Tracking

3.6 Calorimeter Level 1 Trigger

3.7 DAQ, High-Level Triggers and Computing

4 Long Term Support of US Collaboration in CMS

5 Support of the US CMS Collaboration for FY95 & FY96

6 CMS Management Structure and US CMS Groups

7 Acknowledgments

Table 1: US Institutions Interested in the CMS Collaboration

Table 2: CMS Cost Estimate, Baseline (Shashlik option) and Stage 1

Table 3: US Financial Requests for CMS Support

Table 4: US CMS Request for FY95 and FY96

Fig. 1: View of the CMS Detector (218 Kb gif file)

Fig. 2: CMS Access (US Detector Components Shaded) (40 Kb gif)

Fig. 3: US CMS Management Structure (39 Kb gif file)