17 June 2008PC Analysis PC Schedule 2008 Tuesdays alternate weeks 29 April  13 May  27 May (1 week before CM21)  17 June 1 July (JC away – can someone deputise, or is everyone at Nufact?) 15 July 29 July 12 August

17 June 2008PC Agenda for Analysis Meeting 17 June 15:30 GMT JC - Meeting schedule / Longitudinal cooling in Step III / dE/dX Model sensitivity UB - CR - ?? MR - Step III with G4MICE/ICOOL comparison MR - Emittance measurements with TOFs DF - Spectrometer alignment TH - Spectrometer field mapping KT – Initial Emittance measurements JC/All - Analysis workshop AOB Apologies from David Forrest & Paul Soler (Nufact School)

17 June 2008PC Bob Palmer’s talk at “NF-MC synergy” meeting, Fermilab, 13 June 2008 Needs some study & optimisation There will be ~6 months – 1 year between Steps III and IV We should think of doing this (Chris has done some work already) Could also imagine STEP IV.1 (no RF but better optics than III.1/2 STEP III.2 STEP V.1

17 June 2008PC SENSITIVITY OF COOLING TO dE/dX MODELS Talk by R. Fernow at NF-MC synergy meeting, 13 July 2008 Stronger sensitivity of cooling and muons/proton to dE/dX and multiple scattering models than expected (see RF’s talk). Important to get right for predicting performance of NF & MuCollider. Problem with tails of distributions??? Tails are small-ish, shouldn’t matter?? Some discussion of possibility/necessity of clean dE/dX measurement (~Muscat + Energy Loss) Can MICE, e.g. STEP III, usefully measure dE/dX distribution??? (Probably doesn’t have good enough energy resolution; need de <<1 MeV Very important that we understand what G4MICE (& ICOOL) are using – only ‘physics’ knobs in simulation are dE/dx and scattering. Believe G4 has only one model of dE/dX distribution (anybody know?); several are implemented in ICOOL. This will be important when we start to compare measurements & simulations.