The six families of quantum sensors identified in the ECFA detector R&D roadmap were looked at at a workshop among a representative number of experts (see list here) at the beginning of April that took place at CERN. The outcome of the workshop is two-fold: minutes of the workshop; and a White Paper.
The minutes are finalized and highlight a number of areas that can form the seeds of high-level Work Packages. The White Paper based on these minutes attempts to structure these proto-work packages (WP's) in a single document around which the DRD5 Proposal is being built. The White Paper is now frozen.
The DRD5 proposal (with six work packages) that formed the main focus of the Oct. 2-4 open workshop is now at version 0.5, and can be found here.
The next steps are to improve the proposal (one new version every 2 weeks) so that by the end of November, a version 0.9 that is close to the final version can be circulated widely to further groups than those that were involved in the process until then. Submission by the end of the year is the target. We will shortly provide a list of contacts for each of the six working groups here, so that interested individuals can help refine the proposal through them.
