NEUTRINO FACTORY &  MUON STORAGE RINGS AT CERN

• 09:00 Welcome (Carlo Wyss)
• 09:15 Motivation 0: A bit of physics: neutrino factory vs alternatives (JJ. Gomez-Cadenas)
• 09:40 Motivation I: what does neutrino factory gain with cooling (Alessandra Lombardi)
• 10:00 Motivation II: why does neutrino factory need a cooling experiment (Dan Kaplan)
• 10:30 coffee break

11:00 report from working groups :
• Group a : Simulations
• Results of simulations of emittance measurement, requirements on beam purity (Patrick Janot)
lunch break
 
• 14:00

Group a : Simulations(ctd)
• The FNAL cooling simulations (Daniel Elvira)
• 200 MHz cooling experiment (Bob Palmer TBC)

                   How to get better equilibrium emittance? Consistency with ring cooler?
• Results of simulations of emmittance reduction (Migliorati)
• Scenarios for experiments to be made with the facility, requests on beam and detectors (Hanke)
• coffee break
Group f : Beams
• Design of a 200-300 MeV Muon Beam at PSI for the Muon Cooling Experiment (C. Petitjean)
• Possible beam at RAL (R. Edgecock)
Group g : RF  X rays
• X ray emission: how bad is it ? (Norem TBC)

• 17:00 end of plenary session

Friday 26 October 2001

• 9:00-12:30  : parallel group meetings
ROOMS availailable:
• simulations:     PS large conf room
• detectors:         PS auditorium
• magnets:           PS Small 6-2002
• RF and X-rays  PS Small 6-2008  or  CLIC room 18-3030
• liquid H2 absorbers: PS Small 37-R019
• beams :             Bibliotheque PS

• 14:00 : Resume plenary meeting

Group c : RF system
• RF cavities design (200 MHz) (Bob Rimmer)
• Economics of RF power vs number of cavities (Working group report)
• 88 MHz option (Roland Garoby)
• results from lab G (Al Moretti)
Group g : X rays
• Experimental results (Yagmur Torun or Nick Solomey)
• X ray emission: how to reduce it? (Jim Norem)
Group b: Hydrogen absorbers (all or some may shift to saturday morning)
• Hydrogen absorber issues (Mary-Anne Cummings)
• R&D status of the convection type Liquid H2 absorber at KEK (Shigeru Ishimoto)
• Design and cost of LH2 absorbers (Ed Black)

 
• 20:00 Workshop dinner PLEASE REGISTER!

• 9:00

Group c : Magnets
• Magnet issues (Mike Green)
• Size and design of the experimental solenoids? (group report)
Group e: Diagnostics
• beam particle ID
• tracking
• particle ID
• Running-in scenario for the cooling experiment
• 14:00

Organizational talks :
• How can we finance this thing?
• US (Mike Zisman)
• Europe (Rob Edgecock, Helmut Haseroth, Alain Blondel)
• What is the overall programme of R&D needed before we can actually finalize the design of the experiment? Where is the bottleneck? (Zisman, Geer)
• Status of write-up (Alain Blondel)
•  Discussion and conclusions (Moderated by S. Geer)

 
• 17:00 End