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 [log in to unmask] 617-253-8561 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 >