Letter%20of%20Intent%20%20from%20a%20group%20of%20researchers%20from%20the%20St.%20Kliment%20Ohridski%20University%20of%20Sofia%20to%20join%20the%20MICE%20collaboration

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Letter of Intent from a group of researchers
from the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
to join the MICE collaboration
Roumen Tsenov Department of Atomic
Physics, University of Sofia
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We are here
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Faculty of Physics One of the biggest in our
University (premises of the Department of Atomic
Physics are not seen here)
St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia More
than 20 000 students, 15 faculties, the oldest
and the biggest in Bulgaria.
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The group

• 2 Associate Professors
• 1 Head Assistant Professor
• 1 2 PhD students
• 1 graduate student

List Dr. Roumen Tsenov, Associate Professor in
Particle Physics, representative of the
group Dr. Dimitar Kolev, Associate Professor in
Nuclear Physics Dr. Ilko Russinov, Head
Assistant Professor Mariyan Bogomilov, PhD
student Andrey Marinov, graduate student Two
new PhD students.
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Experience in HEP

• HYPERON experiment at the Serpukhov accelerator
  (JINR-IHEP Collaboration) 1980-1990
• CHORUS at CERN SPS WANF 1994 - 2005
• HARP at CERN PS 1999 ?
• OPERA at CNGS (minor) 2002 ?
• GEM at COSY (Forschungscentrum Juelich)
• Detector design and construction (Cherenkov
  counters, EM calorimeters, RPC)
• Monitoring systems
• Software development (Fortran, C, MySQL,
  Oracle)
• Data processing and analysis

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Motivation

• We want to continue our involvement in the
  field of Neutrino Physics
• Neutrino Factory project and related RD
  experiments as MICE will have great impact and
  will make essential contribution to our
  understanding of neutrino properties and
  mysteries.
• Wed like to be part of this exciting
  enterprise!

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Resources

• Infrastructure computer facilities, network,
  GRID cluster, Nuclear and Particle physics labs,
  mechanical workshop
• Joint Research Project sent to SNSF within SCOPES
  programme (Scientific Cooperation between Eastern
  Europe and Switzerland)
• main applicant Prof. Alain Blondel
• years 2006 2008
• overall sum requested for Bulgarian
  partner 50 kCHF.
• Possible funding from national sources (not very
  likely).

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Areas of Interest/Application in MICE

• Design construction of monitoring system
  (slow-control) for beam trigger, timing and
  particle identification system. We envisage
  design of the system and manufacturing of its
  components to be done in Sofia
• simulation of optical collection and design of
  upstream Cherenkov counter with liquid
  fluorocarbon radiator
• manufacturing of mechanical details for this
  counter
• development of software for off-line
  identification of beam particles (possible reuse
  part of existing HARP software)

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• We hope our abilities, expertise and willing
  to work will help MICE collaboration in meeting
  its goals.