Thursday 25 october 2001

• 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
    • Emittance Reduction Measurement: Results of Simulations, Beam Requirements (Patrick Janot)
• lunch break 
• 14:00 Report from working groups :
  • Group a : Simulations (ctd)
    • Status Report on GEANT4, Simulations of the 44/88 MHz Cooling Channel (Daniel Elvira), The FNAL Cooling Simultations (P. Spentzouris)
    • 200 MHz cooling experiment (Bob Palmer TBC)

• Results of simulations of emmittance reduction (Migliorati)
• Scenarios for experiments to be made with the facility, requests on beam and detectors (K. Hanke)
• coffee break
• Report from working groups :
  • 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)
• Questions to working groups and organization (A. Blondel)
• 17:00 End of plenary session
  • Working group can have first meetings
  • Steering group meeting
    

Friday 26 October 2001

• 9:00-12:30 : Parallel group meetings
  • Beam dynamics and simulation concept
  • Study of Quadrupole Cooling Channel : part 1, part 2, part 3

  ROOMS available:

  • 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 : Resume plenary meeting :
  • Group d : 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)
    • Baseline scenario (A. Blondel)
  • Discussion and conclusions (Moderated by S. Geer) 
• 17:00 End

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T. Kehrer - Last modified on November 21st, 2001