Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics

List of topics: - Cooling issues inside tracker volume - Supply and return lines inside full detector volume - Deflection, stability and precision of the structures, achieved and revisited requirements for the next generation - Detectors, sub-detectors and components must survive transport loads - Thermal expansion differences inside the detector - Mass and therefore radiation lengths of electronics - Mass and radiation lengths of cables and pipes - Humidity control, inside detector volume and along services - Gas flushing and gas cooling of tracking detectors - Structural issues concerning humidity or outgassing - Choices of construction materials - Rails for support and guidance - Alignment systems, requirements and "weak modes" of the system, in-situ adjustments, sensors including load sensors - Pipe materials, pipe connection techniques and fittings - Vibration issues such as bond wire vibration (transport, operation) - Effects on mechanics during fast discharge of magnet coils - Tracker to beam-pipe interfaces, bakeout scenarios - Failure management: What do we do (or have/have not done) to achieve a tracker with maximum duty cycle - Service management: What strategies do we have to deal with services? How can we minimize installation and testing times? - Radiation and mechanics: A discussion about the impacts of radiation on the design, materials and also issues like access constraints - Maintenance scenarios and the required special tools List of speakers: Eric Anderssen Andrea Basti Richard French Mark Gallilee Corrado Gargiulo Jean-Christophe Gayde Alan Honma Nick Lumb Alessandro Mapelli Steve McMahon Antti Onnela Andrei Ostapchuk Paolo Petagna Romualdo Santoro Bart Verlaat Georg Viehhauser Eric Vigeolas Bruno Wittmer