Hi ray,

I blew it totally last week and forgot to send an announcement.  I am  
not doing well scheduling my self these days.  So, this week, we can  
read miminoone paper and hear about sid workshop.

Peter

Peter Fisher
MIT
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On Sep 22, 2008, at 6:59 PM, "Ray F. Cowan" <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Our next LQS group meeting will be Thursday, Sept. 25, at 1 PM  
> Eastern time.  I wasn't at the meeting last week, and it sounds like  
> there weren't
> many people in attendance, so I'm guessing their was no paper  
> discussion.
> So let's try again this week to discuss:
>
> http://arxiv.org/abs//0809.2447
>
> "We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in
> the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. The
> MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuMI production target,
> at 110 mrad angle ($6.3^{\circ}$) with respect to the NuMI beam
> axis. Samples of charged current quasi-elastic $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\nu_e$
> interactions are analyzed and found to be in agreement with
> expectation. This provides a direct verification of the expected pion
> and kaon contributions to the neutrino flux and validates the modeling
> of the NuMI off-axis beam."
>
> As always, suggestions for interesting papers to discuss are always  
> welcome.
>
> Thanks much,
> --Ray
>