MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october MICE collaboration meeting 13 at RAL News The international context Goals of the meeting

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october NEWS 1 Italian funding approved. Approval in principle (subject to a number of succesful milestones) of TOF construction and MUCAL 2. Bulgaria collaborators 3. DAQ group started 4. Analysis group started 5. design and safety reviews have progressed 6. KEK tracker test successfull 7. we started purchasing big items (cooling plan for Psi solenoid, for instance) 8. first funding agency committee meeting happened (19 september 2005)

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october at this point MICE (PhaseI) is an approved and funded project in 6 countries -- UK: 9.7M£ -- USA: funding from the NFMCC (DOE baseline scenario 4.125M$) +RF source + NSF grant 300k$ + MRI grant 750k$. -- Japan: US-Japan ~$100k/yr, UK-Japan (travel funds) (+ 1M$ requested) -- Switzerland: PSI solenoid + Uni-Geneva-NSwissF (80KCHF/yr)+ 1 PDA+1PhDS +CERN RF. -- Netherlands: Mag probes (in production!) + 1 PhDS -- Italy (TOF, Calorimeter) Summary:

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october Conclusions 1.The MICE experiment is scientifically approved and recognized internationally it has structure, charter, project management. 2. The collaboration is making excellent progress in all fronts: simulations R&D engineering prototyping construction we will review these aspects at this collaboration meeting 3. The funding for phase I is essentially complete only Cherenkov II remains a question. 4. The funding for phase II is being prepared. We have a baseline solution for MICE up to step V but it will be late. Work is needed to assure that step VI can be performed in good time for the decision making-year 2010.

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october Around us: -- International scoping study -- CERN council to define strategy for particle physics in Europe

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october will be a time of major decisions in particle physics LHC will be completed first results will appear ILC  first results from MINOS, OPERA double-CHOOZ might be available. T2K will be starting and very rapidly dominating! It will be time for the next step in neutrino physics! TARGET DATE: 2010 Barry Barish, CERN SPC sept05

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october evolution of sin 2 2  13 observation and study of CP violation requires -- all accelerator neutrinos -- high precision in neutrino vs antineutrino normalization -- redundancy. probably out of reach of these experiments  need to go further Mezzetto

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october By 2010 we must know how much these facilities cost and how long they would take to build. 4MW, 1 Mton upgrade of T2K NUFACT with thick magnetized Iron detector in two locations 7000km and 3000 km 2010 assume 2% flux error in T2K vs. 5% matter eff. error on nufact and 5 GeV muon thres.

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october alternatively could simply add a large magnet to a NOvA-like design! (cost?) Jeff Nelson

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october Time scales: NUFACT05 26 June 2005 launch of scoping study CERN September 2005 first meeting (physics meeting nov. at ICL) KEK January 2006, RAL April 2006 (BENE) (2-6 may meeting on the future of EU-HEP in DESY-Zeuthen) UC Irvine August 2006 (just before NUFACT06) NUFACT06 (summer 2006) discussion of results of scoping study September 2006 ISS report 2007 full design study proposal submission to EU as design study conclusions of Design Study & CDR NB: This matches well the time scales set up at CERN – participation of CERN is highly desirable to ensure that the choices remain CERN-compatible. This effort is similar to and synergetic with the PAF and POFPA working groups at CERN. NNBB we will try to have an available report at each ISS meeting.

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october information on the C.E.R.N. strategy group the membership consists of 1. a preparatory group constituted of scientists selected 'ad hominem' (I am a member of this) 2. representatives from the member states 3. representatives of the main institutions/laboratories the aim of the strategy group is to establish a document to be voted by C.E.R.N. council (i.e. having the value of an international treaty!) describing the strategy for particle physics in Europe in general and at CERN in particular. Non member states (USA, Russia, Japan, China, India, Australia etc.. if I am not mistaken) have observer status. This statement can contain obvious things such as commitment to LHC completion and exploitation, can endorse the time scales for decisions on the linear collider, can issue recommendations for increased R&D on accelerators or the need for inter-European or global collaboration on design studies for new facilities, endorse the interest of neutrino or non-accelerator programs, etc. The difference with previous exercises is the very official character (binding to the member states) that this one will take.

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october The process will have three major milestones jan feb.06 in ORSAY: a public Symposium (similar to a 'town meeting') involving a presentations by young European physicists organized around the main particle physics themes. (we should be very present!) From this symposium the preparatory group will produce a "briefing book" which will serve as basis for 2. the workshop of the strategy group itself, which will take place in Zeuthen (Berlin) from 2-6 May This will be essentially a week long closed meeting, in which the 40+ members will be preparing a statement and supporting documents to be endorsed by council in an 3. exceptional C.E.R.N. council meeting in July 2006 in Lisbon. in the above CERN means 'the lab in Meyrin+Prevessin' and C.E.R.N. means the "European Council for Particle Physics"

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october Goals of the MICE meeting  - STEP I: April 2007 = 525 days away! STEP II: October 2007 PHASE I Understand where we stand in our preparations for Steps I and II. -- beam line: target, optics, tuning and correction abilities, diffuser -- TOF, Cherenkov(s), MUCAL -- spectrometer solenoid -- tracker -- installation and cabling -- trigger -- controls and monitoring -- DAQ and event processing -- software: particle ID, reconstruction of tracks -- analysis: form run plan, reconstruction of « beam», emittance, transmission

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october STEP III: 2008 distance between spectrometers will be 800 mm How do we extract systematics from this step?

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october STEP IV: 2008 STEP V 2008? STEP VI 2009? PHASE II -- liquid hydrogen! safety and infrastructure! -- absorbers solid and H2 -- RF power -- RF cavities and how far can we go in gradient with mag. field? -- do we have everyting we need in optics? -- can we do this in 2009?

MICE collaboration meeting Alain Blondel october THANKS: Paul DrummPaul Drumm, Ken Long, Debbie Loader for the meeting organizationKen LongDebbie Loader Wing Lau and Yagmur Torun for the agenda Let us have a good meeting!