6/19/2015
Calibration Initiation
The meeting had about 20 attendees, and had many in-depth discussions. We also had several people who wanted to attend but missed due to connection problem or other conflicts. I will not include names for attendees and who made comments in this first meeting, but will do so in the future meetings (especially about comments).
Before and during the meeting, we have heard from Southern Methodist University (Tom Coan), University of Sussex (Jeff Jartnell, Simon Peeters, Lisa Falk), Colorado State University (Bob Wilson), University of Hawaii at Manoa (Jelena Maricic, Yujing Sun), and South Dakoda School of Mines & Technology (Juergen Reichenbacher) of their specific interests in the Calibration System.
General suggestions include
1) A focus on fundamental studies instead of only about building detectors;
2) Establish some good documentation with effective version control
3) Appropriate communication with computing group
4) Etc.
Sussex (Jeff) has a focus on using stopping muon to do energy calibration. They have experience in applying such tech at NOvA experiment, and now have student and postdoc working on applying such tech for 35 ton. Many tech questions were raised during the presentation: the feasibility for liquid argon detector, etc. I asked Jeff to present details (by him or his student) in a near future meeting. Will communicate with Jeff about this again in the coming week.
Colorado State (Bob) wants to bring synergies from the WA104 and the other CERN Neutrino Platform experiments to the Prototype Experiment. This has particular connection to the design of muon system. It’s also suggested that 35 ton has explored some nice ideas. The Prototype Experiment doesn’t have a firm idea on this yet, so it’s worth to check on all these ideas.
South Dakoda (Juergen) has studied of using 60Co source for detector calibration. They have a well-funded team and very good experience on applying such idea in other experiments (Double-Chooz). Will show more details in future meetings.
We will do biweekly meeting first. Since it is fairly hard to find good time for everybody, I will send a Doodle poll based on Central Time 9AM to 5PM. The meeting would need at least an hour, and could easily run up to 2 hours (this first meeting lasted for 1 hour 20 minutes by cutting several discussion short, sorry).
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