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\section{The Canadian Responsibilities in CDF-II}

The CDF detector was rolled onto the Tevatron beamline in March 2001
and commissioned in the following 18 months. Between October 2002 and
July 2004 we recorded 400 pb$^{-1}$ of data that is now being used to
produce physics. We surpassed the 1 fb$^{-1}$ mark in August of 2005
and are on track to record 1.5 fb$^{-1}$ of data prior to the next
scheduled shutdown in March 2006. Over the next three years the
Fermilab plan calls for a further doubling of our dataset by Spring
2007 and yet another doubling by the end of 2008, at which point we
should have in excess of 6 fb$^{-1}$ of data for physics studies.
This represents a factor of fifteen more data than is currently
available and will give us access to a wealth of new measurements.

In order to achieve this goal we must continue to operate CDF
efficiently over the next three years and preserve the detector and
trigger performance in the face of instantaneous luminosities that
will more than double during that period.  The IPP group is
contributing to CDF-II in four ways: First, our CFI computing
infrastructure has allowed us to continue to take responsibility for the
generation of the bulk of CDF-II's Monte Carlo simulation samples for
physics analyses. Second, we play a growing role in the development of
tools to facilitate off-site computing and maintain the calorimeter
reconstruction software we developed for Run II. Third, we remain
involved in the silicon vertex detector performance studies.  Each of
these contributions will be described in more detail in the sections
that follow. Finally, we provide personnel to staff 20 one week-long
shifts at
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Fermilab each year -- our share of this aspect of CDF operations.

\input mc_part_05.tex

\input calo_part_05.tex

\input silicon_part_05.tex

\input alberta_part_05.tex



