The LHCC was set up after the March 1992 meeting in Evian-les-Bains, where Expressions of Interest were presented. Intensive interaction between the Committee and the Collaborations is required in order to converge on the detector designs, and to review the construction, installation and commissioning of the experiments. Like other experiment committees, the LHCC makes recommendations to the CERN Research Board.
Letters of Intent for the proton-proton collider programme were submitted in October 1992. ATLAS and CMS submitted Technical Proposals in December 1994. A Letter of Intent for a dedicated heavy-ion experiment was submitted by the ALICE Collaboration in March 1993. ALICE submitted a Technical Proposal in December 1995. Letters of Intent for three specialized B physics experiments were submitted in October 1993. These were superseded by the LHCb Letter of Intent submitted in August 1995. LHCb submitted a Technical Proposal in February 1998 and a Technical Design Report for a Reoptimized Detector in September 2003. The TOTEM experiment is dedicated to the measurement of the total cross-section, elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation at the LHC. The Technical Proposal for TOTEM was submitted in March 1999 and the Technical Design Report in January 2004. Technical Design Reports have been submitted by the LHCf Collaboration in February 2006 for the measurement of photons and neutral pions in the very forward region of the LHC and by the MoEDAL Collaboration in June 2009 to search for monopoles and other highly-ionizing exotic particles at the LHC.
ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and LHCf are presently fully engaged in the commissioning of their experiments in the respective experimental areas and are following plans to have working detectors for the start of LHC physics in 2009. Construction of the TOTEM detector apparatus is in progress following approval of their Technical Design Report while MoEDAL is developing their experimental design.
The LHCC also reviews the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) Project. The latter makes available to the LHCC for review documents and reports from the project, including its Technical Design Report.
The LHCC is also responsible for reviewing the remaining detector R&D projects (RD39, RD42, RD50, and RD51).
Chairman: T. Wyatt (University of Manchester)
Scientific Secretary: E. Tsesmelis
(DG/DG)
Secretariat: M. Robillard (PH/EDU/SCS)
Archive: documents available (or as paper copies from the secretariat)
Reviews
of the LHC Experiments Installation
Reviews of the LHCC Computing
Electronic Submission
for LHCC Documents
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