1. NA61 news and plans Results, results, results ... π- + C → h- + X
NA61 Collaboration meeting, CERN, October 8-12, 2012
Results, results, results ...
π- + C → h- + X
NA61 data/EPOS

2. Data taking: 2012/2013 2012 run was hampered by numerous problems
with the VTX-1 and VTX-2 magnets.
About two months of the beam time were lost.
The lost time is partly compensated by the shift of the
Be runs to December 2012 and January/February 2013
2012/2013 tests and data taking:
- PSD calibration (muon and proton beams at 158 GeV/c)
- p+C at 120 GeV/c (VTX-1 off)
- pion/kaon+C at 158 GeV/c (VTX-1 off)
- p+Pb at 158 GeV/c
- Be+Be at 13A, 20A, 30A GeV/c (to be taken)

3. Status of the NA61 data taking
within the ion program
Xe+La
2015
delay of LS1
may shift Ar
and Xe runs
Ar+Ca
2014
Be+Be
2011 -
2012
p+Pb
2012/14
p+p
2009/10/11
momentum (A GeV/c)

4. Status of the NA61 data taking within the neutrion and CR programs
kaon+C
2012
pion+C
2009
p+LT
p+C
/2012
momentum (GeV/c)

5. Considered major detector upgrades:
Feasibility studies of the DRS DAQ upgrade which may include:
- ToF-L/R,
- BPD,
- PSD,
- Beam,
In total about 2600 channels. To be ready by June 2014
Estimated resources: 300k CHF, 5 FTEs x 2 years
Many thanks to Sandro
for pushing the project!
Still many issues to
clarify/define before
the CB approval

6. and Yasir for their effort
Considered major detector upgrades:
Significant progress on the vertex detector simulations.
Considered measurements of D0 production in 2017+
Many thanks to Pawel
and Yasir for their effort
Still a long way to go before
a detector technology/design
can be fixed

7. Running detector upgrades:
- ToF HV upgrade (Jovan, ...)
- TPC calibration pulser (Rainer, Krzysztof, ...)
- TPC gas monitoring system (Hermann-Josef)

8. … and continuous attempts to upgrade the logo and posters:

9. Software upgrades Legacy software: continuous maintenance
and minor updates. (Boris, Marek, Seweryn, ...)
Shine: the third workshop focused on the reconstruction
chain has just finished: porting and validation of legacy
Clients, development of native modules. (the Shine group)
Virtualization: the legacy reconstruction works with
CERNVM. Automated processing linked to the NA61
bookkeeping under construction. (Dag, Predrag, Sasha)
Hope to start reconstruction within Shine
using CERNVM soon, by the end of 2012?

10. Calibration Calibration of 2010 and 2011 data is advanced, and
the 2012 data calibration started. (Grzegorz, Alex, many)
QA and calibration software is being moved to/written in
Shine. (Andras, Roland, US-NA61, many)
Calibration and QA within Shine should be ready
very soon, before the reconstruction with Shine
starts.

11. Results, results, results, … (Kasia, Boris, Michael)
From the smeared multiplicities of identified hadrons ...
the example for p+p at 158 GeV/c (Maja)
pion
proton
kaon
… to the momentum spectra of
the first moment (Szymon,
NA61-T2K, …) and unfolded
second moments (Maja, Anar)

12. First moments:
Szymon

13. First moments:
Magda, Sebastien

14. Second moments:
Variance/Mean
Maja

15. … but the old h- and h+ analysis has its merits:
large acceptance and high statistics
Antoni

16. Hans, Michael, Martin

17. Hans, Michael, Martin
and many more results released for the summer conferences,
in particular the included fluctuations and correlations by Tobiasz and Bartek

18. Recent papers: Pion emission from the T2K replica target:
method, results and application
Revised version will be submitted soon to NIMA

19. Beyond the approved program
The NA61 Addendum-6 and the contribution to the ESPP
present plans beyond the approved program:
- measurements of Pb+Pb collisions for the ion program,
- measurements for the Fermilab neutrino program,
- measurements for the CERN (LBNO) neutrino program

20. The ESPP dominated by the LHC community, but still
were marked in two points:
From the summary slides of the Krakow ESPP meeting: