This is a preliminary draft of a working document. For updates, please go to the American Calorimeter Working Group URL:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/lcd/calorimeter/
For the moment, one can consider the STATUS for everything to be "early".

I. Energy-Flow Related Simulation Projects

Item 
sub-item
Status
Contact(s)
A. Algorithm development
MIP tracking, EM and HAD early
EM Shower recon, photon recon and vertexing T. Abe, G. Bower, M. Iwasaki
neutral had recon, HAD and EM
charged had recon, HAD and EM
B. EFlow implementation
Jet Recon and resolution
Resolution as fn. of granularity, long. seg., tracking efficiency, B field, coil position
Fgures of merit in terms of detector parameters
Develop parameterizations for Fast Sim.

II. Other Full Simulation Projects

Item 
sub-item
Status
Contact(s)
A. Lepton id e, mu, tau
B. Validate GEANT4 shapes, scales, thresholds, geometry N. Graf
comparisons to EGS, Gismo, G3, ...
C. HCal  
Depth: characterize/parameterize punch thru
Coil in/out
Optimal Absorber
D. Detector timing requirements
"IP" backgrounds
accelerator backgrounds
E. New/modified baseline detectors

 

III. Physics and Fast Simulation Projects

Item 
sub-item
Status
Contact(s)
A. Physics benchmarks 
     for jet reconstruction
Separation WW/ZZ -> jets at 1 TeV (t-channel) H. Videau (ECFA/DESY)
Separation H->WW/ZZ -> jets at 300 GeV
Recon hhZ -> jets P. Gay (ECFA/DESY)
Recon of tt or WW -> jets for angular (anom. coupling) analyses M. Iwasaki
HZ->invisible,jets R. VanKooten
B. Resolution parametrizations G. Bower, R. Cassell,
M. Iwasaki
C. Limits of jet resolution "Dan Green" plots for LC
D. Flavor tagging
strategies for including info from VXD in cal. recon. and the reverse
E. Detector timing requirements
"IP" backgrounds
accelerator backgrounds
F, Physics requirements for forward
    tagger		 2-photon, Bhabha, SUSY, ... S. Magill, U. Nauenberg
G. Bhabha requirements for dL/dE D. Cinnabro

 

IV.  Hardware Design - General

Item 
sub-item
Status
Contact(s)
ECal mechanical structure
HCal mechanical structure
Detector technology issues for B=3,4,5 T
Compatibility with LC bunch structure timing
Forward "tagger" design
Constraints due to endcap (barrel) configuration

V.  Hardware Design - Technology Specific

Item 
sub-item
Status
Contact(s)
DHCal, RPCs J. Repond, ANL
Reliability in LC environment
Operating Mode
DHCal, Scintillator D. Chakraborty, NIU
Achievable granularity
Light output
Readout technology - channel count, cost, placement
Response uniformity; calibration
DHCal, GEMs A. White, UTA
Reliability
ECal, Si/W
Si cost
Readout integration: scaling, cooling, detector layout SLAC/Oregon
Readout dynamic range R. Frey
ECal, Crystals
Segmentation