Minutes from June 10 Meeting
At today's meeting Maury went over his initial draft of the outline for
our study group's report. By the end of the summer we will produce a
document which describes a wide range of detector technologies for a NUMI
off-axis experiment, and hopefully discuss what detector r&d is needed
before one could propose an experiment.
The structure for the detector part
was suggested as follows: for every detector idea there would be one
section just outlining the basic concept and technique for that specific
detector, and that section would be roughly the same for each detector idea.
Then, for some of the detectors listed below there would be a very short
r&d section which might say "this technique is not likely to work for this
specific energy regime, so no r&d is recommended..." but then mention
what energy regime this detector would be appropriate for...
By clicking on the
Current Verion of Outline for Document
you can see what names we originally thought of for different people
to write the different sections. Please don't be alarmed if you see your
name but you weren't at this meeting...but please consider yourself
strongly invited to contribute!
For those of you who want to just read it on this page, you can see a
rough outline here:
- Introduction
- Physics Motivation
- Detector Issues and Comparison
- Detector Requirements for theta_13
- Neutral Current Rejection in a superbeam
- Charge identification in a neutrino factory
- Operation at the Surface
- Expandability
- Tau Identification
- Cost Comparisons : Physics reach per M$, or do we know enough yet to
even write this section?
- Total Absorption Detectors
- Liquid Argon
- Water Cerenkov
- AQUARICH-type
- KAMLAND-type
- Sampling Detectors
- Absorber Possibilities
- Steel
- Plastic
- Low-Z Fill (walnuts, coal, corn?)
- Detector Possibilities
- Liquid Scintillator
- RPC/gas
- Solid Scintillator
- Emulsion
- Other R& D Issues
- Cross Sections
- Pion Yields
- Targeting Studies appropriate for NUMI beamline
- Summary and Conclusions
Schedule for this document:
- June 17 Identify authors
- July 7 Individual contributions start to appear
- July 20, Individual contributions deadline
- August 7 Additions deadline
- August 15 Executive Summary Only
- September 1 Done and Turn in for fall PAC
Deborah Harris
Last modified: Mon Jul 15 10:19:40 CDT 2002