From hawker@fnal.gov Tue Nov 23 11:15:13 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:59:36 -0600
From: Eric Hawker <hawker@fnal.gov>
To: nu-factory-non-osc@fnal.gov
Subject: non-oscillation meeting minutes (11/16/99)


Hello,

     Here are the meeting minutes from the last non-oscillation meeting.



- Kevin McFarland led a discussion on neutrino-electron scattering. These 
  events have large backgrounds and small cross sections. This means to 
  get the 10**7 or 10**8 events needed for a good
  measurement the experiment will need a big target. A good measurement of
  the Pt of the event is also needed (also true for Structure Function
  measurements I believe), but this will be difficult given the divergence
  of the neutrino beam. 

- The Pt spectrum of inverse muon decay events could be used to 
  constrain (measure?) the actuall divergence of the beam. This could be 
  important for long-baseline experiments.

- Heidi has produced the next version of code to make ntuples of beam
  characteristics and cross sections. See 
  http://www.nuhep.nwu.edu/~schellma/neutrino_factory/ntuples/v0/


- Gerry Garvey will give a short presentation about posible Form Factor
  measurements at the 12/14 meeting of the non-oscilation physics group.
  He thinks that a 10% measurement of the hydrogen and deuterium form
  factors at Q**2 <.1 GeV**2 could provide a very good measurement of
  delta s.

- The non-oscillation group will be aiming for a completed rough draft of
  its section by about the end of January/begining of February. Also
  around that time we will try to have a "Neutrino Factory Physics
  workshop"

- The next non-oscilation group meeting will be on 11/30/99 at 11:30 CST
  in WH12NW.


Eric