Endcap Muon Milestones

These milestones have been agreed by CMS and the LHCC referees:

Endcap Iron

Oct. '96 -- Technical Design Report for coil and yoke

Muon System

Dec. '97 -- Technical Design Report

(a)Endcap Chambers

MF1/2,MF1/3,MF2,MF3,MF4:

Dec. '96 -- Full-size large chamber (six layers)
Dec. '97 -- Final chamber suitable for mass production

Electronics:

Dec. '97 -- Front-end cards for cathodes and anodes

(b)RPCs

Chambers:

Dec. '96 -- Definition of final detector parameters
Dec. '97 -- Final prototype suitable for mass production

Electronics:

Jun. '97 -- Final front-end chips

(c)Alignment

Dec. '96 -- Full scale LINK system bench test
Jun. '97 -- Integrated design for LINK + BARREL + FWD
Dec. '97 -- Full scale system test