Application for Membership in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment

1. Application for Membership in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment Christopher White Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois Christopher White Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting

2. Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, Illinois • Private Science and Engineering School (1894) • Armour College of Engineering • College of Science and Letters • College of Architecture • Chicago-Kent School of Law • Stuart School of Business • Student Body: ~6500 total students (invention of magnetic recording, cellular phones, development of space technologies) Christopher White Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting

3. Division of Physics • 17 tenured or tenure track faculty • 6 research faculty • 3 emeritus + Leon Lederman • Center for Accelerator and Particle Physics • Howard Rubin (MINOS, HyperCP) • Porter Johnson (HEP Theory) • Daniel Kaplan (MuCool, MICE, HyperCP) • Christopher White (MINOS, HyperCP) • Linda Spenzouris (Accelerator physics) • Yagmur Torun (ILC RF Cavity Design) • 4 graduate students, 4 post-docs, and ~4 undergraduate students Christopher White Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting

4. Professional History • BS from University of Illinois • Worked for 3 summers building CDF detectors (Kruse and Errede) • PhD from the University of Minnesota • BNL E838 (Marvin Marshak, Alan Carroll) 1990 • Post-doc at Ohio State University • Cleo II – tau physics WG (precision measurement of the tau lifetime) • RD-42 – development of CVD diamond detectors • Research Staff then Faculty at IIT (1995) • HyperCP (FNAL E871) – Physicist-in-Charge for 1999 run • MINOS (FNAL E875) – Near detector electronics and assembly • Elected to FNAL UEC (elected Chairman in 2003) • Program Director, Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research (ICAR) • DOE support for MINOS and HyperCP research activities Christopher White Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting

5. IIT Contributions to MINOS Near DetectorInstallation and Commissioning Christopher White - Bill Luebke IIT has been involved with near detector electronics, detector installation, detector integration, and outreach. This work has included one graduate and five undergraduate students. Christopher White Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting

6. IIT Contributions to Electronics • VTM, GPS, Clock Fanout design and fabrication • Participation in system integration and testing • Testing “menu” cards • Rachel Lipanovich, Amy Thompson • Ryan Dolan, Mike McVady • Repairing RPS units • Rachel Lipanovich and Amy Thompson

7. Near Detector Surface Assembly Christopher WhiteMINOS Meeting – April 7, 2002 • People Responsible • Jim Kilmer • Cat James • John Voirin + crew • Jesse Guerra + crew • Module Production • Host of many at ANL • Plane Production • Schedule

8. IIT Contributions to Rack Assembly • 3 undergraduate students involved with rack preparation work • Rachel Lipanovich • Amy Thompson • Larry Parrington • IIT personnel stepped-up and accepted new responsibilities, providing much needed supervision and labor • IIT personnel identified design flaws and fine-tuned/optimized rack layout

9. Other IITContributions • Participation at CalDet • White, Luebke, Hanlet • 4-weeks of installation shifts • White, Brennan • Electronics installation • Luebke • System debugging • 6+ weeks of control room shifts • White, Brennan, Rubin, de Jong • Participating in Rock Muon • studies and analysis.

10. Plans for contributing to Daya Bay Simulations Electronic design/testing (Sabbatical leave available in 2007) Christopher White Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting