1. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 MINER A Jefferson Lab Collaboration Meeting 22 - 24 August

2. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Agenda of the Meeting FRIDAY, 8/22 8:15 AM Coffee and mingling 8:45 Welcome and organizational remarks, Thia or Steve 8:55 MINERvA News, Jorge Chapter Presentations: 9:30 Quasi-Elastic, Arie / Howard 10:00 Resonances, Steve W. 10:35 Coffee Break 10:50 Nuclear Effects, Jorge 11:30 Total Cross-section and Structure Functions, Jorge / Thia noon Lunch (on your own) 1:15 PM Strangeness and Charm Production, Nick / Vittorio/ Tony 1:55 Generalized Parton Distributions, Wally 2:15 Relevance to Oscillation Program, Debbie / Hugh 2:55 Coffee Break 3:30 Monte Carlo: Steve B. / Dave / Hugh Status and Discussion, Strawman Detector

3. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Agenda - continued SATURDAY, 8/23 8:30 AM Coffee and Mingling Hardware 9:00 MAPMT Electronic Option, Howard 9:40 Model for Photelectron Yield in Bars, Kevin 10:00 II/CCD Update, Ron / Steve 10:20 Coffee Break 10:40 Magnet Options, George 11:10 Update on TOF, Nick 11:30Discussion noon Lunch (on your own) 1:15 PM Monte Carlo Workshop - Dave / Steve B. SUNDAY, 8/24 9:00 AM Results of MC Workshop Structure of the Proposal Timeline for Proposal Writing Funding Issues

4. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 State of the Collaboration A High-Statistics Neutrino Scattering Experiment Using an On-Axis, Fine-grained Detector in the NuMI Beam Argonne - Athens - California/Irvine - Colorado - Dortmund - Duke - Fermilab - Hampton - I I T - INR/Moscow -James Madison - Jefferson Lab Minnesota - Pittsburgh - Rochester - Rutgers - South Carolina - Tufts 18 Groups: Red = HEP, Blue = NP, Green = Theorists only

5. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Current Collaboration Members J.Arrington, D.H.Potterveld, P.E.Reimer Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois C.Andreopoulos, G.Mavromanolakis, P.Stamoulis, N.Saoulidou, G.Tzanakos, M.Zois University of Athens, Athens, Greece D.Casper University of California, Irvine, California E.R.Kinney University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado E. Paschos University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany D.Dutta Duke University, Durham, North Carolina D.Harris, M. Kostin, J.G.Morfin, P.Shanahan Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois M.E.Christy Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia N.Solomey Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois S. Kulagin Institute of Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia I.Niculescu James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia A.Bruell, R. Carlini, R.Ent, D.Gaskell, J. Gomez, C.E.Keppel. W.Melnitchouk, S.Wood Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia M.DuVernois University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota S. Boyd, D. Naples, V. Paolone University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A.Bodek, H. Budd, P. de Babaro, G. Ginther, S, Manly, K. McFarland, W. Sakumoto, P. Slattery, M. Zielinsky University of Rochester, Rochester, New York R.Gilman, C.Glasshausser, R.Ransome Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey T.Bergfeld, A.Godley, S.R.Mishra, C.Rosenfeld University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina H.Gallagher, W.A.Mann Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

6. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Meeting with Hugh Montgomery and Jeff Appel 18 August  Update on the MINER A Collaboration  Physics Goals  Detector Design and Costing  Real Estate Issues  R&D  Funding

7. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Detector Design Status - Kevin  Physics (exclusive final states) requires sophistication  Well along on design of strawman detector t Core (fiducial volume) is solid segmented scintillator bars t Take advantage of FNAL R&D program on extruded scintillator t Outer detector for containment »Magnetization strategy is key unsolved issue »Outer detector is mechanically more complex as well  Photosensors and electronics are potential cost driver t MAPMT most likely (II/CCD still an option) t Well into process of checking various options for electronics driven by past work at FNAL (MINOS, D0)

8. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Detector Design - continued  We will have a good handle on: t Base design (strips, outer detector specs) t Photosensors t Electronics for photosensors t Additional utility requirements for detector  We will likely not have a good handle on: t Installation costs t “Collateral” costs of adding new utilities to the hall t Optimizing for cost t Schedule of installation and construction

9. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Real Estate Issues - NuMI/MINOS Near Hall Interested in the same piece of Real Estate (besides MINER A : 1) Possibly the off-axis near detector 2) A prototype OPERA module Length Available for New Detector: 26 m Plenty of room for everyone…upstream of MINER A Incoming angle: beam: 58 mr.

10. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Funding Issues  To be discussed on Sunday

11. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Nuclear Effects Studies Multiplicites off nuclei - x Bj -dependent ( shadowing, ….) - q-flavor dependent  Current Experimental Knowledge - Multiplicities:  Various 15’ and BEBC studies of - p/D multiplicities (K’s events)  FNAL E-564 compare: 15’ -Ne (A = 20, 4000 events) to -Emulsion ( = 80, 200 events) over Q < 10 and W < 4 GeV t NOMAD???  Current Experimental Knowledge - Shadowing… t Figures at right  Current Experimental Knowledge - Flavor depend. t DIS vs Drell-Yan  Eskola et al. and Kumano nuclear pdfs - no  input CERN/BEBC Bubble Chamber: Ne/D 2 FNAL E-545 Bubble Chamber: Ne/D 2

12. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Nuclear Effects Studies - 2  Improvements with MINER A  3 year MINOS parasitic run 860K events/ton  Multiplicities: Need MC to determine: t multiplicites and ability to discriminate between n and n+1 final states  Ability to distinguish between  p and K  Boson induced: figure at right and new work by Strikman  Flavor dependent - next slide t Major difference in theoretical predictions t Kumano prediction for F L (A) at high -x and small Q

13. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Nuclear Effects Studies - 3 KulaginKumano Valence

14. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Nuclear Effects Studies - 4  Detector requirements for Multiplicities, Boson induced and flavor dependent t Resolution of primary vertex so as to determine on which nuclear target t Accurate measurement of E H  Detector requirements - Multiplicities - fragmentation functions D(z)  identification of  p and K t measurement of momentum of each particle  Detector requirements - Boson Induced t Accurate measurement of x and Q  Detector requirements - Flavor dependent measurements t Accurate measurement of x and Q  Both  and

15. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Total Cross-section and Structure Functions  Current Experimental Knowledge - Total cross-section D. Naples - NuInt02

16. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Total Cross-section and Structure Functions - 2  Current Experimental Knowledge - Nucleon F 2 - high x -BCDMS/SLAC E866 Drell-Yan

17. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Total Cross-section and Structure Functions - 3 PDFs CTEQ Uncertainty Bands Alekhin Partons with uncertainties (solid lines) compared to CTEQ5m (dashed) nd MRST01(dotted)

18. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Total Cross-section and Structure Functions - 3 Improvements X = 0.1 - 0.125 Q 2 = 2 - 4 GeV 2 + y 2 F L (1-y) 2 R = R whitlow Neutrino 1 year he-beam Anti-Neutrino 2 years he-beam

19. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Working Groups: Physics  Quasi-elastic Reaction - (A. Bodek), H. Budd (and A. Mann)  Precision measurement of  E ) and d  /dQ, constrain -beam systematics t Precision determination of F A t Study of nuclear effects and their A-dependence e.g. proton intra-nuclear rescattering  Resonance Production ( , N*..) Exclusive channels - S. Wood (and A. Bodek)  Precision measurement of  and d  /dQ  for individual channels t Detailed comparison with dynamic models, comparison of electro- & photo production the resonance-DIS transition region -- duality  Study of nuclear effects and their A-dependence e.g. 1   2  3  final states  Nuclear Effects - (A. Bruell), JGM and D. Naples  Measure  and p multiplicities as a function of E and A : convolution of quark flavor- dependent nuclear effects and final-state intra-nuclear interactions t Measure NC/CC as a function of E H off different nuclei t Measure shadowing, anti-shadowing and EMC-effect as well as flavor-dependent nuclear effects and extract nuclear parton distributions

20. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Working Groups: Physics - continued  Total Cross-section and Structure Functions - C. Keppel and JGM t Precision measurement of low-energy total cross-section t Understand resonance contributions through the DIS transition region t Detailed study of high-x Bj region,: extract pdf’s and leading exponentials  MINER A and Oscillation Physics - D. Harris and H. Gallagher  MINER A measurements enable greater precision in measure of  m, sin 2  23 in MINOS  MINER A measurements fundamental for  13 in MINOS and off-axis experiments  MINER A measurements as foundation for measurement of possible CP and CPT violations in the  sector  Strange and Charm Particle Production - N. Solomey, V. Paolone (and A. Mann)  Exclusive channel   E ) precision measurements - importance for nucleon decay background studies.  Hyperon Production yielding new measurements of CKM using t Exclusive charm production channels at charm threshold to constrain m c

21. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Working Groups: Physics - continued  Generalized Parton Distributions - W. Melnitchouk (and R. Gilman) t Neutrino equivalent of HVCS t ?

22. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Working Groups: Monte Carlo  Physics Monte Carlo - Dave Casper and Hugh Gallagher  Detector Simulation - Steve Boyd and Dave Casper

23. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Working Groups: Detector  Photosensor MAPMT - Howard Budd (and P. Shanahan)  Photosensor CCD/II - Ron Ransome and Steve Manly  Electronics - Howard  Scibar Shape and Light Yield Studies - Kevin  Magnet Option - George Tzanakos and Arie Bodek  TOF - Nick Solomey

24. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Steps along the way… (in addition to proposal) 1. Discussion of Project with FNAL management 2. Discussion of Project with Jlab management 3. Discussion (informal alert) of Project with DOE - NP and (HEP) 4. Discussion (informal alert) of Project with NSF - NP and EPP 1. Updated EOI for Jlab, DOE and NSF? 2. First Draft of Overview Chapter of Proposal 5. Further (subtle but firm discussions) with Fermilab Management on IMPORTANCE OF EARLY/QUICKER APPROVAL DECISION!

25. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Time frame for Proposal - Overall Editors: C. Keppel, K. McFarland and JGM  21 NovemberHand in to FNAL Directorate  11 November“Final” Draft Circulated to Collaboration  4 - 11 NovemberProposal Preparation Jamboree at Fermilab  28 OctoberCirculate Draft Chapters to Edit teams  21 OctoberMonte Carlo Studies finished - write drafts  6-11 OctoberWIN’03 at Lake Geneva:Neutrino working group (MINER A contribution)  To 21 OctoberMonte Carlo Studies - frequent phone meetings- detector-design/monte-carlo-discussions

26. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Proposed Proposal Outline 1. Executive Summary 2. Overview of the MINER A Experiment 3. Low-energy Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: Theoretical Status 4. Low-energy Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: Experimental Data 5. Effects of Theoretical and Experimental Uncertainties on Neutrino Oscillation Experiments 6. The NuMI Beam 7. Detector Design and Simulation 8. Expected Results: Associated Improvement of Neutrino Oscillation Results 9. Cost and Schedule 10. Conclusions and Request AHigh-energy and running BRunning with LH 2 and LD 2 targets

27. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 Example: BooNe Proposal from Dec. 1997

28. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 BooNe Proposal - continued

29. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 BooNe Proposal - continued

30. Jorge G. Morfín - MINER A - Aug. 2003 BooNe Proposal - continued