1:14 - seems all are engaged elsewhere ... I assume we will reconvine next
week. nice music !
--
Best regards,
Frank
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Ray F. Cowan wrote:
> 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
>
