town hall notes

• more signature driven, but still have habit of relying on models. should work on new signatures. what topologies are we missing?
  • what format for these discussions?
  • blue-sky white paper?
  • need a least one representative model to convince people of trigger (in common between experiments)?
    • covered by simplified models in white paper?
• assess importance of workshop based on agenda
  • day-wise separation of working groups
  • easier to organize workshop and easier to plan for people to come
• one-week, once per year workshop at cern + smaller working group meetings throughout the year on video
• too early to influence HL-LHC?
  • no: L1 trigger TDR in CMS this year
    • room for readjustment after these documents come out
    • larger community could help influence here
• wide community influence before LHC, Tevatron, etc: need the same for HL-LHC, rather than technology-driven
• would American colleagues rather have a workshop in the US?
  • yes, strong general feeling
  • Berkley, Tawain workshops are great
  • North American influence lately has been less in these workshops
    • not sure if 1 main workshop + smaller workshops elsewhere would help with this?
• workshops at cern:
  • can often wander off and talk with other people at cern
  • more removed location forces everyone to stay and participate
  • although, 2 reasons to go to cern, easier to justify the expense of travel
• Berkley:
  • smaller group, people put their laptops away
• parts of the community that we’re not connecting with?
• HNL community: workshops very useful, for theorists and experimentalists
  • limited by manpower: the more that happens in workshops, the more interest generated, the more results we get