Referee Report for OLYMPUS

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Referee Report for OLYMPUS

• Elke Aschenauer / Naohito Saito

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Observation

• The collaboration has worked out the installation
  scenario with DESY local group.
• The collaboration also established a first draft
  of commissioning and data taking schedule.
• Funding from the US side is critical to start the
  experiment still under discussion
• Expect feedback soon (today?)
• Funding proposal in Germany involving three
  Universities may not go through
• 235 k Euro for trigger and DAQ PD positions
• Funding Source(s) for followings are not
  identified
• New intersection 280 k Euro
• DORIS modification 500 k Euro
• DORIS ops 450k Euro
• OLYMPUS ops 600 k Euro

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Recommendation

• Collaboration is encouraged
• to further explore the technical aspects of the
  experiment
• Critical review of the installation process with
  a possible backup plans
• Commissioning strategy robust enough for timely
  completion
• to identify DEDICATED Person-Power
• Critical for the experiment with limited time
  window
• to actively search for funding possibilities
• Another review might be necessary before summer
  with the input from the all funding
  possibilities, especially the ones from the US ?
  drop dead date of the project
• May need labs help to support this kind of small
  experiments, not included in the five year plan