Minutes of NuInt01 Meeting ('01-Jul-27)

From: Makoto Sakuda (sakuda@neutrino.kek.jp)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 17:00:26 JST

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    Subject: Minutes of NuInt01 Meeting ('01-Jul-27)
    Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:00:26 +0900
    From: Makoto Sakuda <sakuda@neutrino.kek.jp>
    
    Subject: Minutes of NuInt01 Meeting ('01-Jul-27)
     Morfin,Para (FNAL), Lipari (Rome), Walter (BU)
     Suzuki,Itow (ICRR), Sakuda,Hayato,Seki,Ishida (KEK)
    
    This is just a memorandum of the meeting.  
    (I may have missed many things.)
    Let's work on the each session. 
     
    Regards,
    Makoto Sakuda
    
    PS: Dave sent me a message saying that his building was
    blown up by a chemistry student and set on fire last
    Monday. Although his wing did not burn, 
    no one is allowed to enter it this week. 
    He was not able to attend, even come close to, the meeting.
    
    Agenda of the meeting
    1) Title
    2) Organizing committee
    3) SAC
    4) Preface 
     (skipped due to lack of time)
    5) Announcement and Bulletin 
    6) Accomodation
    7) VISA (can be included in 5))
    8) Web
    9) Poster
    10) Program  
    11) Schedule 
    
    ***********************************************
    1)      The First International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions
            in the few GeV region  (NuInt01)
    
     December 13(Thurs)-16(Sun), 2001 at KEK,
     Workshop Place: KEK seminar hall (Bldg.4) 
     (R345 is also available for working group meetings)
                 
    2) Organizing and Program Committee
     D.Casper(UCI)
     Y.Hayato (KEK)
     T.Ishida (KEK) -secretary
     Y.Itow (ICRR)  -secretary
     P.Lipari (Rome)
     J.Morfin (Fermi) co-chairman
     K.Nakamura (KEK)
     A.Para (Ferimi)
     M.Sakuda (KEK)  co-chairman
     R.Seki (KEK)	
     Y.Suzuki (ICRR) co-chairman
     C.Walter(BU)
    
     3) Sientific Advisory Committee:
     Y.Akaishi(KEK)
     H.Gallagher(UMN)	
     T.Kajita (ICRR)
     K.Kaneyuki (ICRR)
     W.A.Mann(Tufts) --> not yet (Morfin will check)
     M.Nakahata (ICRR)
     K.Nishikawa (Kyoto) *
     V.Palladino (Napoli)
     L.Stodolsky (Max Plank)
     E.Kearns (Boston)
     C.K.Jung(SUNY)
     W.Haxton(Washington)
     P.Vogel
     V.R.Pandharipande (Illinois)
     K. Langanke
     H. Toki (RCNP, Osaka)
    
      **************************************************************
    4) Preface  
         The First International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions
            in the few GeV region  (NuInt01)
    
          December 13(Thurs)-16(Sun), 2001 at KEK,
    
          The discovery of muon-neutrino oscillations in atmospheric
      neutrinos by the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment has triggered
      many proposals for neutrino oscillation experiments using conventional
      low-energy neutrino beams for precise determination of the oscillation
      parameters.
    
         The accelerator-based, long-baseline neutrino oscillation
      experiment, the K2K, uses a neutrino beam with <E_nu> = 1.3
      GeV interacting with nuclei in the Super-K detector.  
       As the experiment collects more data, 
     the contribution of systematic errors may become
      more significant in the oscillation analysis. Important sources of these
      systematic errors are the uncertainty in the neutrino-nucleus cross
      sections and subsequent nuclear effects in the few GeV energy region
      such as Pauli Blocking, nucleon binding, pion absorption, nuclear
      correlations, and final-state interactions.
         Since more precise knowledge of neutrino-nucleus interactions in
      the few GeV region will also be of vital importance in the near future
      at JHF, Fermilab/MINOS and CERN/Gran Sasso, as well as future
      atmospheric neutrino experiments and next generation proton-decay
      experiments, it would be timely to organize an international
      workshop on this subject.
         The purpose of this workshop is to form and develop a strong
      community of nuclear and high-energy physicists in order to meet
      the many challenges in current neutrino physics. By examining our
      knowledge of this subject and noting where theoretical and experimental
      expertise is needed, international effort can be more efficiently applied
      to the problem.
         Note that an additional benefit of this effort may be the establishment
      of a new field of nuclear physics using neutrino beams as well as
      electron beams for precise measurements of lepton-nucleus interactions.
    
     5) Announcement to general participants with a registration form:
    
    We (Local OPC) will fix the first bulletin within a week. 
    We will set up Web page which includes a registration form,
    accomodation, registration fee, proceedings, and
    contribution papers. --- This was discussed among Japanese
    OPC after this meeting. 
    
    > Lists we have or we need: Neutrino98, NOON2000 participant list
    
    Seki ---	Japanese Nuclear Physics Community
    Walter --- DPF bulletin
    SLAC Conf. information, Kim`s and Goodmann`s 
    Suzuki --Announcement at APS/JPS meeting at Hawaii.
    Lipari -- Announcement at Lepton Photon Conference 
    
     6) Accommodations (Ishida/Sakuda)
      Urban Hotel near KEK or Hotel Okura.
     Web application is possible. They provide a transportation from Hotel to KEK.
       20 KEK dorm rooms (twins) can be reserved. Need final agreement
    from KEK Division Heads. We recommend KEK dorms for young
    students or postdocs. 
    
     7) VISA?
     8) Home page (Hayato+Ishida)
     9) Poster 
      Anyone can propose a good poster. 
     ========================================================================
     10) Tentative Program: 
    
     Names in () are the conveners, who are responsible for
     organizing the talks and speakers in the session. 
     The one with *) in () is in charge of the session. 
    
      1. Welcome address by S.Yamada (KEK)  
      2. Objective and motivation of the workshop 
         (Conveners: Sakuda,Suzuki,Lipari)
           a) We need overview: 
            *)How much is each neutrino oscillation experiment affected by the
              systematic errors due to cross sections and nuclear effects?
            *)Prospects of the current and near future
              experments on neutrino cross section measurements
              and nuclear effects.
           b) Effect of neutrino interactions to atm-neutrino analysis
     		--> Lipari, Kaneyuki 
           c) Contributions to the proton decay search 
           d) Astrophysics and new Physics
               We must find a speaker for d).
     		--> Toki (app. to SN simulation?, axial vector…?)
     		--> Haxton
    3. Theoretical issues in the neutrino interaction and nuclear effects 
                (Conveners: Morfin*, Seki, Lipari, Para)
     1) What is known in electron-nucleus interactions (e,e') and
     (e,e'p) about nuclear effects  in relation to the
      corresponding neutrino-nucleus interactions at 0.5 to 10 GeV resgion. 
        *) V.R. Pandharipande -- Theoretical Review 
        *) Philipone (he has been in CEBAF PAC committee) 
             or his recommended speaker 
                            -- Experimental Review
              a) Fermi gas model
              b) Nuclear correlations
              c) Final-state interactions such as nucleon rescattering
              d) Exchange current effects
              e) pi,K,Lambda absorption in nucleus
    
     2) Phenomenological review in relation to neutrino-nucleus interactions
     	         -- P.Vogel ?
     *)Seki will send the info (Pandharipande et al) to Morfin. 
    
    4. Overview of the existing and new data on
       neutrino-nucleus interactions and their uncertainties 
          (Conveners: Sakuda/Itow/Suzuki)
              a) Nu-nucleon and -deuteron 
                   Data and their systematic uncertainty / Theoretical comments 
              b) Nu-nuclei
                   Data and their systematic errors
              d) Atomospheric data
              e) Continuation from/to the DIS and resonance regions
     		-- Morfin will ask C.Keppel (Jefferson Lab) to give a talk.
              f) K2K data
              g) Proton decay data 
                   Study of the proton decay backgrounds by the measruements /
      	      Mu-pi0 study really estimates e-pi0 backgrounds? /
      	      Kaon production by neutrino interactions (BEBC?/K2K)
    
             *) Specify the accuracy of the cross section measurements and
               of verifying nuclear effects, even if the measurement is
               direct or indirect.
    
      5. Comparison of the benchmark MC and theoretical calculations 
                         Conveners: Seki*/Hayato/Casper/H.R.Gallagher
     Generators:  
              a) NEUT (Hayato)
              b) NUANCE (Casper)
           	  c) MINOS/Soudan II (Gallagher) 
              d) OPERA/NOMAD/DONUT 
           *) Lipari will tell us the name for OPERA/ICARUS MC. 
      
     Comparison:
              a) Quasi-elastic
              b) Charged pion production
              c) Coherent pi0 production
    
       *) It is important that all groups use the same
    parameters for the neutrino-nucleon cross sections, for
    example, vector and axial form factors. Then, specify which models 
    or papers they use for nuclear effects (Fermi-gas model
    etc). We compare the basic distributions for leptons,
    protons or their correlations. 
      Note: Seki will organize this comparison session.
    
       *) Morfin will contact E.A.Paschos (Dortmund).
    
     6. Panel Discussion with nuclear physicists  
       Summary and Future Direction may be discussed. 
        
     7. Future experiments and facilities (Conveners: Para*,Itow,Walter)
              a) K2K/JHF 
              b) Near detectors; NUMI
              c) Cross section measurements at CERN AD, Fermilab Debuncher
              d) Nu-factory 
    
     8. Closing remarks and announcement of the next workshop
              (Convener: Suzuki*)
    
    > =====================================================================
    Schedule 
      *) First announcement in Web -- in one week.
           Info (Outline of the program, OPC, SAC, 
           Registration form, Accomodation, Registration
           fee, Proceedings, and contribution papers) is included.
          After Local OPC decides a plan in a week, OPC will receive a
         notice and comment on it.  
      *) Beginning of September --- OPC meeting 
              Decide talks in each session in mid-August.
              Communicate via e-mails 
      *) We will see in September how many people show
        contributions to the workshop. Second bulletin may come in a 
        month. 
    
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