From: "Dave Casper" <dcasper@uci.edu> To: "'Makoto Sakuda'" <sakuda@neutrino.kek.jp>, <opc.nuint01@neutrino.kek.jp> Subject: RE: OPC meeting Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:32:39 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c12f26$a75d0b00$6401a8c0@LAGUNA> Sakuda-san, et al., The proposed outline for the program looks good to me, although I have two suggestions. First, add to Item #5 (comparison of Monte Carlos) an explicit mention of the goal of producing a universal Monte Carlo program akin to Lund. I think this is essential for future progress and is a natural long-term goal for us. Second, add to Item #4 (Neutrino-Nucleus Review) an explicit mention of the goal of collecting first a comprehensive list of references to all existing neutrino data, and for the longer term, putting as much data as possible into some kind of computer-accessible database. With regard to both these items, I think it is good to set goals for producing concrete, tangible results so that (unlike too many conferences) we do not talk forever and in the end accomplish little of lasting value. Our meeting is quite unique in the sense that we have an opportunity to produce results which will be of enormous importance to all neutrino experiments for many years. Of course, we will not achieve these goals in one meeting, but in my opinion we should use this first workshop to plan specific future steps toward them. A video conference would be great - barring another explosion in our lab, I am available anytime for the next month. I have a few suggestions concerning possible speakers: 1) Neutrino/Nucleus Theory: The most recent and comprehensive work I am aware of is the work of Jacques Marteau from Lyon (Nucl.Phys A663: 783 (2000)). This was his PhD thesis, and I suspect he has moved on to something else since then, but either he or his thesis advisor (J. Delorme) may be worth inviting. There is also Peter Vogel from Caltech. 2) Concerning final-state interactions, Paschos, Pasquali and Yu have written a couple papers over the past ~year (see hep-ph/0107261 and hep-ph/0005255) which are directly relevant to this question. We might invite one of them. I think Paschos is at IAS(Princeton) and the other two are at Dortmund. 3) I hope my friend (and HARP colleague) Piero Zucchelli, who wrote the neutrino MC for Chorus, will be able to attend and participate in the MC comparison. I will invite him today. Since he has recently proposed a novel low-energy neutrino beam (using relativistic Helium-6 ions as the source) for oscillation experiments, I think he is quite interested in the subject of our meeting. Best regards, Dave dcasper@uci.edu
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