On April 6-7, there was a CMS group meeting at Fermilab. One of the main goals of the meeting was to explore and define a reasonable management structure for the US groups within CMS. The resulting CMS management structure is shown in Fig. 3 and is explained in more detail below. Within CMS, each institution is represented on the CMS Collaboration Board. The US groups on CMS elected Thomas Muller (UCLA) as the chairman of the US Collaboration Board. The chairman is the US representative to the CMS Management Board and serves for one year.
The US groups on CMS also have a need for a liaison to the Department of Energy (DOE). For that purpose, Dan Green (FNAL) was elected the spokesperson for the US-CMS groups to DOE. Since the overall US effort on CMS will constitute a project within DOE, an overall technical manager is appropriate for the total US project. That position remains to be filled at this time. The term of these two appointments is three years, with a possible three-year extension.
Each CMS subsystem has its own organization. Each subsystem has an Institutional Board and an elected Chairman, a Project Manager, and a Technical Coordinator. The subsystem Project Manager is proposed for each distinct subsystem by the CMS Spokesperson in agreement with the Overall Technical Coordinator with the approval of the full CMS Collaboration Board. The subsystem Project Managers are members of the CMS Management Board. John Layter was elected Chair of the Forward Muon (FMuon) IB, while Andris Skuja was elected Chair of the HCAL IB. The CMS Spokesperson, Michel Della Negra, nominated Gena Mitselmakher and Dan Green as Project Managers for the FMuon and HCAL systems respectively.
There are also serious efforts in the US within CMS on Trigger, DAQ, ECAL, and Tracking. In order to serve as contact points for the US efforts, the US Coordinators for Trigger, DAQ, ECAL, and Tracking were elected by the US IB specific to those efforts. They are Wesley Smith, Paris Sphicas, Roger Rusack, and Hans Ziock respectively. The term of these appointments is one year. The US Coordinators, the IB Chairs, the Project Managers, the US Management Board representative, and the Spokesperson together comprise the US CMS Technical Board. That board decides questions of technical priority and questions of funding allocations within the US CMS group with the consent of the US Collaboration Board and the overall CMS management.