1. Success of the first NA61 run
NA61 news and plans
NA61 Collaboration meeting, Budapest, May 14-19, 2012
Success of the first NA61 run
with ion beams
Migration of data
analysis to Shine
Be+Be at 150A GeV/c

2. Detector upgrades in 2011 He beam pipe P rojectile S pectator D-
with
a resolution of 1
nucleon
He beam pipe -
reduction of the δ -
electron
background by a factor of 10 Z -
detector -
measure ion
charge
for on -
line
selection of secondary
ions A -
detector -
measures
mass
composition
of secondary
ion beam
Low Momentum Particle Detector -
measures target nucleus spectators

3. Congratulation to the PSD team !
The PSD construction was completed on
The extension of the transverse acceptance
was needed for the low energy runs in 2012
Congratulation to the PSD team !
(INR Moscow + Polish groups, CF and many others)

4. Running/planned hardware upgrades
- ToF HV upgrade (to be ready in 2012)
Good progress, congratulations to the Belgrade group!
- TPC calibration pulsers, designed/produced in IKF,
ready for installation at CERN,
Many thanks to Rainer!
- new BPD preamplifiers, designed/produced in Krakow,
Many thanks to Krakow group
- ToF read-out upgarde (to be ready by 2014)
R&D phase (thanks to Slava), moderate progress,
Urgent need to fix a solution, manpower, finances,
Hope for progress at this meeting
- vertex detector for open charm+ measurements
(to be ready by 2016), no significant progress,
Your active participation in this challenging project is
needed (from physics/simulation to
detector R&D/construction

5. Data taking: 2011 2011: p+p at 13, 158 GeV/c and
Be+Be at 40, 75 and 150A GeV
2011: p+p at 13, 158 GeV/c and
for more details see the latest Cern Courier artilce
by Herbert and Ilias:
Congratulations to
Herbert, Peter (NA61)
Ilias, Django (CERN) !

6. - Data taking: 2011 2011: successful tests of:
Congratulations to
the Budapest group !
(Dezso, Andras, ...)
2011: successful tests of:
- Low Momentum Particle Detector
(test for p+Pb at 158 GeV/c in 2012) and
- extraction of the primary Pb beam at 80A GeV/c
(test for runs with primary Ar and Xe beams
in 2014/2015)

7. Status of the NA61 data taking within ion program
Pb+Pb
2016+ ?
Xe+La
2015
Ar+Ca
2014
Be+Be
2011 -
2012
p+Pb
2012/14
p+p
2009/10/11
momentum (A GeV/c)

8. Test data taking for neutrino Fermilab experiments in 2012
Data taking for the T2K and CR programs completed in 2010
Test data taking for neutrino Fermilab experiments in 2012
pion+C
2009
p+LT
p+C
/2012
momentum (A GeV/c)

9. Software upgrade - the second SHINE workshop took place in February,
- many already moved analysis software to Shine/Shoe
Shine/Shoe ready to be used by all of us
- Shoe dsts produced in parallel to the old root ones
- next large scale production without root61 mdst!,
Please, move your analysis/calibration software to
Shine as soon as possible.
- work to move the reconstruction chain to Shine (still with old
clients/modules) is progressing (many thanks to Oskar!),
It is important to concentrate effort and finish this project soon
- work started on the calibration automation within Shine
(thanks to Andras and Roland)

10. Thanks and congratulation for the first pro version of Shine/Shoe
to the Shine team !
POA: Darko, Michael, Tom and
Andras, Oskar, Roland, Antoni
for the first pro version of Shine/Shoe

11. Virtualization Local reference cloud Software installed on CVMFS
Reference private Cloud implementation using OpenNebula enabling data (re)processing at CERN and elsewhere
Commissioned
Software installed on CVMFS
CVMFS is a distributed file system software distribution used by LHC experiments
NA61 software installed
Virtual clusters
On-demand creation of custom clusters on top of virtualized infrastructure
Scripts created
CERNVM batch system
Uses Condor batch system
NA61 scripts for job submission adapted to Condor
Validation
Jobs running on CERNVM and LXPLUS must produce identical results
Work in progress
Data bookkeeping web interface
Present all available data, production and job status using Web interface
Nice progress, very important to conclude
the project (run reconstruction using VMs)
within the allocated time (by October 2012)

12. Calibration
data calibration almost finished, analysis is on-going
- 2010/2011 data calibration has started
- (slow) progress on calibration documentation and automation
- first steps to move calibration to Shine
Many thanks to Grzegorz and all calibrators for their hard work
It is crucial to complete calibration
of the 2010/2011 data as soon as possible
Physics results from these data sets
are urgently needed
(Be+Be for the SPSC in October 2012)

13. Publications
Measurement of Production Properties of Positively Charged Kaons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c.
The NA61/SHINE Collaboration (N. Abgrall et al.). Dec pp.
e-Print: arXiv: [hep-ex]
To be published in Phys. Rev. C
Cern Courier article on the NA61 T2K program
Cern Courier article on the NA61 heavy ion program
Cern Courier article on the NA61 secondary ion beams
In preparation:
Pilot analysis of the NA61/SHINE 2007 long target data
Authors: NA61/SHINE + selected members of the T2K Beam group

14. Analysis Interesting pilot results for 2009 data were presented
at the Wroclaw meeting
Many thanks to the analysis coordinators:
Kasia, Alberto, Boris, Michael
In particular, corrected
2009 data were shown
By Martin, Michael, Alex
and Antoni
Unexpected Antoni's discovery

15. Data taking plan: 2012 2012 run (start June 18 – end October 8):
test run: 7 days (requested 14)
proton run: 8 weeks (as requested)
Be run: 6 weeks (as requested)
At the end of the test run a 2-day long test for the
Fermilab neutrino experiments is planned
At the end of the proton run a check run for
pion+C at 158 GeV/c is planned.

16. - in 2013, ECR source & Linac 3 will run for 13 weeks with Ar
Preparations for the 2012, 2014 and 2015 runs
with ion beams are going well
Report from Django Manglunki (BE, ion coordinator):
- in 2013, ECR source & Linac 3 will run for 13 weeks with Ar
and 13 weeks with Xe, to prepare the 2014 and 2015 NA61 runs,
- the 2014 Ar run will need ~10 weeks of preparation in LEIR,
PS and SPS,
- same for the Xe run in 2015, but in 2015 we expect an ion run
for LHC so the whole ion complex will have to start early in the year,
- in order to have primary ion beams in the North Area at the same
time as protons for other users (LHC, HiRadMat, CNGS?),
a new interlock has to be operational;
this is conditioned by the pulling of cables between several buildings
of the SPS (BA3, BA2, BA5).

17. Possible extensions of the NA61 program
Proposals to be formulated for
by July 31, 2012

18. Possible extensions of the NA61 program:
Measurements for the Fermilab neutrino program and
other reference measurements for future neutrino experiments
- eight US groups (Fermilab, Los Alamos as well as Universities
Texas, Colorado, Northwestrn, Pittsburgh, Rochester
and William and Mary) intend to join NA61 in order to perform measurements needed for the Fermilab neutrino program
- NA61 agreed to help the US groups in the proposal
preparatory phase by:
- granting access to the NA61 resources and meetings,
- devoting 2 days of the June PSD calibration run for
the beam/data taking feasibility test (the corresponding
agreement is in preparation)

19. Possible extensions of the NA61 program:
Energy scan with Pb+Pb collsions:
Pb+Pb
2016+
Xe+La
2015
Ar+Ca
2014
Be+Be
2011 -
2012
p+Pb
2012/14
p+p
2009/10/11
energy (A GeV)

20. Possible extensions of the NA61 program:
Open charm production in Pb+Pb collisions at SPS:
Pb+Pb
2016+
Xe+La
2015
Ar+Ca
2014
Be+Be
2011 -
2012
p+Pb
2012/14
p+p
2009/10/11
energy (A GeV)