• What is the potential for conventional neutrino measurements at short baselines at a low-energy neutrino factory or at a high-energy muon storage ring?

Specifically, what are the prospects for (i) extracting parton distributions from hydrogen targets? (ii) measuring neutrino cross sections? (iii) determining the  weak mixing parameter and the strong coupling constant?
 
• Can a neutrino program based on intense pion beams share detector facilities with a neutrino factory?

 
• What novel experiments could be carried out using polarized targets or silicon targets? What is their scientific importance? Are there other ways to obtain  equivalent information?

Meeting Minutes:

• 7 March 2001
• 21 March 2001
• 4 April 2001
• 17 April 2001
• 19 April 2001: Summary presentations:
• 2 May 2001
• 16 May 2001
• 4 June 2001
• 20 June 2001???(Next meeting: 10am Eastern/ 9am Central-Tentative)

Reports and Presentations:       (Any contribution to these or related projects is welcome)

Nuclear Physics Studies at Fermilab using the new Proton Driver

by Weiren Chou and Jorge G. Morfin Here is the reference in Postscript or in PDF.
 

Working Group  Presentations:

Jorge Morfin  (19 April 2001)

Jon Arrington  (19 April 2001)

Fred Olness (Cover page)   or (Full talk)  (19 April 2001)

Bonnie Flemming  (19 April 2001)

Chuck Horowitz  (2 May 2001)

References and Notes:

Neutrino Factory Physics Study Group

The intense muon beams needed for high luminosity muon colliders produce intense beams of neutrinos. Dedicated muon storage rings with long straight sections pointing in the desired directions have been proposed to exploit these neutrinos. The Fermilab directorate have requested a 6 month study to assess the physics capabilities of a neutrino factory.
 

Workshop On Fixed Target Physics At The Main Injector.

Papers in SPIRES-HEP submitted to the Meeting/Conference. 1-4 May 1997, Batavia, Illinois.

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON FIXED TARGET PHYSICS AT THE MAIN INJECTOR.

By Gregory J. Bock, Jorge G. Morfin (Fermilab). FERMILAB-CONF-97-279, Sep 1997.
Proceedings consists of summaries of the 11 workshops.
160pp.  PDF file is here  (8MB) or  here is a 2-up version  (8MB) to save trees.

The JLab 12 Gev upgrade.

This workshop touches on many of the topics of interest to our booster study.
You can find the white paper  and   associated documents here.
 

NuMI notes

Maintained by Maury Goodman, maury.goodman@anl.gov .
NuMI notes are an internal document system of the Fermilab NuMI group, the MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. They should be considered informal and should not be quoted or referenced.  The link is here.

Neutrino Fluxes, Hadron Production and the Hadronic Hose

NuMI-B-700 (3503 kbytes) M. Messier et al., Neutrino Fluxes, Hadron Production and the Hadronic Hose, December 2000

Muon Collider Workshop

Papers in SPIRES-HEP submitted to the Meeting/Conference.
Here is a report from the Muon Collider Workshop with some ideas about what to do with lots of neutrinos.

• DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING AT A MUON COLLIDER: NEUTRINO PHYSICS.

By H. Schellman et al. 1997.  Given at Workshop on Physics at the First Muon Collider and at the Front End of the Muon Collider, Batavia, IL, 6-9 Nov 1997.  In *Batavia 1997, Physics at the first muon collider* 166-176.

Physics at the front-end of a neutrino factory: a quantitative appraisal

73+1 pages, 33 figs. Report of the nuDIS Working Group for the ECFA-CERN Neutrino-Factory study
We present a quantitative appraisal of the physics potential for neutrino experiments at the front-end of a muon storage ring. We estimate the extraction of individual quark and antiquark densities from polarized and unpolarized deep-inelastic scattering. In particular we study the implications for the undertanding of the nucleon spin structure. We assess the determination of alpha_s from scaling violation of structure functions, and from sum rules, and the determination of sin^2(theta_W) from elastic nu-e and deep-inelastic nu-p scattering. We then consider the production of charmed hadrons, and the measurement of their absolute branching ratios. We study the polarization of Lambda baryons produced in the current and target fragmentation regions. Finally, we discuss the sensitivity to physics beyond the
 

The Potential for Neutrino Physics at Muon Colliders and Dedicated High Current Muon Storage Rings

Authors: I. Bigi, T. Bolton, J. Formaggio, D. A. Harris, B. Kayser, B. J. King, K. S. McFarland, J. Morfin, A. A. Petrov, H. Schellman, R. Shrock, P. G. Spentzouris, M. Velasco, J. Yu
Comments: 107 pages, 16 figures, to be published in Physics Reports
Conceptual design studies are underway for muon colliders and other high-current muon storage rings that have the potential to become the first true ``neutrino factories''. Muon decays in long straight sections of the storage rings would produce precisely characterized beams of electron and muon type neutrinos of unprecedented intensity. This article reviews the prospects for these facilities to greatly extend our capabilities for neutrino experiments, largely emphasizing the physics of neutrino interactions. 

more ideas here

 

Working Group Members, Friends, and Associates:

Robert Bernstein   rhbob@fnal.gov
Sam Zeller         gpzeller@merle.it.northwestern.edu
Richard Ball       rdb@ph.ed.ac.uk
John Arrington          johna@anl.gov
Hal Jackson           hal@anl.gov
Roy Holt           holt@anl.gov
Don Geeseman           geesaman@anl.gov
Hugh Gallagher          gallag@hep.umn.edu
Unki Yang          ukyang@hecate.fnal.gov
Rex Tayloe          rex@iucf.indiana.edu
Jorge Morfin           jorge@fnal.gov
Paul Reimer          reimer@anl.gov
Bonnie Fleming           bfleming@fnal.gov
Wally Melnitchouk  wmelnitc@physics.adelaide.edu.au
David Anderson  dfa@fnal.gov
Charles J. Horowitz  charlie@iucf.indiana.edu
Fred Olness          olness@mail.smu.edu
 

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