Hi Everyone,
Our next weekly LQS group meeting will be Thursday, Sept. 18, at 1 PM
Eastern time. In addition to round-table reports (not pizza), we'll
discuss the new MiniBooNE report of the first off-axis neutrino events.
The paper is available at
> 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.
I will be at the SiD workshop at Boulder from Wednesday to Friday this week,
so I may or may not be able to call in. Someone else should lead the
discussion this week.
Also, I'm eager to receive suggestions for other papers/topics to discuss
in future meetings.
Thanks much,
--Ray
