MuCool meeting minutes
     FRIDAY, 29th Oct at 1:30 PM CDT
    in the 10th floor conference room.

 Scribe:  Dave Neuffer

Topics:

 1.  LBNL Update - The workshop on cooling simulation and theory is proceeding 
at LBNL.  Some discrepancies between cooling codes have been resolved, 
With careful parametrization ICOOL simulations seem accurate.  Progress toward
complete scenario simulation was reported.  the workshop will be continued
Nov. 8-12 at Fermilab. 

 2.  Ed Black reported LH2 window calculations and presented progress on
mechanical
design.  

 3. Steve Geer initiated discussion on MUCOOL Long-Term plans 
Design, construction of components, testing and insertion into a beam line
might take ~4 years. We might benefit  from a faster start with a  
"mini-cooling" experiment ... main goal would be to learn how to make 
the measurements and get the beam understood etc. Need to understand
whether this would help us or distract us. We need also to understand 
the ultimate cooling experiment needed before some lab somewhere will 
be able to buy into, and get approval for, a nu-factory cooling channel. 
For example, do we ultimately need to build a test cooling channel 
(10% -> 10m long ?) and operate it as a channel to learn about whether 
we can debug and tune it (instrumentation, feedback ??). 
We want a good discussion at the MUCool collaboration meeting.