Minutes of OPC meeting (08/Sep/'01)

From: Makoto Sakuda (sakuda@neutrino.kek.jp)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 19:03:26 JST

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    Subject: Minutes of OPC meeting (08/Sep/'01)
    Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:03:26 +0900
    From: Makoto Sakuda <sakuda@neutrino.kek.jp>
    
    Dear OPC members,
    
    I note the agreement today in **). There are many things
    that I did not catch. Please correct.
    
    **) Second circular in Web will have a scientific program showing the topics 
     without speaker's names to show the outline of the workshop. 
    (I will announce it to OPC before updating the Web.)
    
    (We did not have time to discuss the session length. Now, 
    we may have to think how to arrange all talks in 4 days.)
    
    Regards,
    Makoto Sakuda
    
    - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------
      1. Welcome address by S.Yamada (KEK)  
      2. Objectives and Motivations   (Conveners: Sakuda*,Suzuki,Lipari)
    
     1) PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF NEUTRINO OSCILLATION PARAMETERS 
          with LONG-BASELINE ACCELERATOR BEAMS
    
    **    1) Overview  ---        
          How much is each neutrino oscillation experiment affected by the
          systematic errors due to cross sections and nuclear effects?
    
         The following talks explain the experment briefly and
         describe the effect of neutrino-nucleus interactions. (20min ) 
            a) nu-mu->nu-mu and nu-mu->nue at K2K and JHF --
            b) nu-mu->nu-mu and nu-mu->nue at MINOS      --
    **      c) nu-mu->nu-mu and nu-mu->nue at CNGS       --
            d) nu-mu->nu-tau appearance  ---  Komatsu (Nagoya)
    **      e) Measurement of CP violation at Superbeams and
             neutrino-factory  
            Difference between nu_mu and nu_mu_bar beams 
            should be noted.                       --- Bernstein or...
    
      2) ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS
        Determination of neutrino oscillation parameters
        with atmospheric neutrinos.        -- E.Kearns or Kajita/Kaneyuki
    
      3) PROTON DECAYS
         Prospect of the proton decay experiment and 
         background for proton decay  -- Shiozawa (ICRR) or (UNO)
    
      4) ASTROPHYSICS
            Supernova     --- K.Langanke* 
            Leptogenesis  --- E. Paschos
     
      5) QCD OR STRONG INTERACTIONS   --- Mangano 
    
    3. Theoretical Issues of Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions and Nuclear Effects
                (Conveners: Morfin*, Seki, Lipari, Para)
     *) 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. 
    
     1) NUCLEAR EFFECTS IN ELECTRON-NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS THEORY:
    	V. Pandharipande* - multi-body theory of e-Nucleus interactions
    	T. Thomas  (Backup; M. Strikman) - nonP/PQCD look at e-Nucleus int.
    	W. Melnitchouk - Resonance region to DIS, q-hadron duality
    
     2)EXPERIMENT:
            I. Sick (Backup; R. Milner) - low energy nuclear effects
            C. Keppel/JLAB (Backup: G. Garvey) - elastic to resonance to DIS
    						nucleon & nucleus
     3) PION-ABSORPTION STUDIES
            R. Redwine - LADS pi absorption experiment results
    
     4) NEUTRINO-NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS INCLUDING NUCLEAR EFFECTS
    	E. Paschos* - Neutrino nucleus interactions and Leptognesis
    	O. Benhar - Final State Interactions in Neutrino Nucleus Scattering
    	J. Marteau - although in MC benchmark session, talk to give the
    		     details of physics going into MC 
    	(Backup; P. Bernardini - nuclear re-interactions, P. Vogel for
    		sub-GeV presentations)
      **) It is important to understand the origin of the
        discrepancy between Marteau's calculation and others. 
    
    4. Overview of the existing and new data on
       neutrino-nucleus interactions and their uncertainties 
          (Conveners: Itow*/Suzuki/Sakuda)
    
             *) Specify the accuracy of the cross section measurements and
               of verifying nuclear effects, even if the measurement is
               direct or indirect.
     Review:
            1) Nu-nucleus Data and their systematic errors
               Low energy and DIS         --  M.Sakuda
                                              J.Morfin 
                 i) Quasi-elastic interactions 
                   Cross section and MA 
                ii) 1pi production
                   Cross section and MA
               iii) NC interactions (Elastic and pi production)  
                iv) Total Cross section measurements and
                    Structure fuctions    
                  
            2) New data on iv) ---- Anatoli Vovenko (IHEP)
    **      3) New data from NOMAD  --- M.Veltri  
    
    **) Archive of database of existing neutrino-nucleus
        interactions -- This is a long term project and we keep
        it mind. 
     
      New data:
             K2K
                 4) CC (mu + X) 
                 5) CC (mu p + X)
                 6)  NC (pi0)   
                 7)  CC (mu-pi0) 
             SK
                 8)  Atomospheric data on NC(pi0)/CC(e) 
    
             *) Study of the proton decay backgrounds by the measurements /
       	    Mu-pi0 study really estimates e-pi0 backgrounds? /
      	    Kaon production by neutrino interactions (BEBC?/K2K)
       
    5. Comparison of the benchmark MC and theoretical calculations
                 Conveners: Casper*/Seki/Hayato/H.R.Gallagher
    
      **) Casper will discuss with Seki, update the benchmark calculations
       and propose to the following people a concrete scheme to 
       compare the distributions/calculations before the meeting:
         Hayato, Gallagher, Zucchelli, Mills, Rubbia ?, Seki/Nakamura, 
         Marteau, Paschos, Lipari ,....
       Good communication and coordination before the workshop are important.
      **) E_nu=0.3-0.5 (low energy) and 5 GeV (high energy) 
        will be included in the benchmarck calculations.
      
        i) MC Generators:
        > 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). 
              1) NEUT   (Hayato)
              2) NUANCE (Casper)
              3) MINOS/Soudan II (Gallagher)
              4) OPERA/NOMAD/DONUT (Piero Zucchelli) 
      **      5) MiniBooNE  (Mills?)
              6) A brief summary of MC results
    
       ii) Theoretical calculations
               7) J. Marteau
               8) E. Paschos 
               9) H. Nakamura 
      **      10) P. Lipari
    
       iii) Summary of comparison of benchmark calculations (MC+Theory)(0.5 hours)
    
       ----  Coffee break ---
    
    6. Panel Discussion 
        Conveners: Seki*/Hayato/Casper/H.R.Gallagher
       Chair, Seki; Associate Chair, D. Casper
     Panel discussions are carried out by:
      V. R. Pandharipande, Y.Hayato, K. Kaneyuki, P. Vogel, 
      K. Kubodera, K. Langanke, Resonance/DIS   
    
     **) Ask G.Garvey/R. Milner to attend.
    
          The following six issues are discussed.  An leader is assigned for each 
          issue, who is responsible to come up with consensus among the panelers 
          and the audiance on the current status of the issue in 30 minutes.
          For each topic, the leaders are first to describe his view of the issue  
          briefly (say, 5-10 minutes), and discussions are to follow it. 
          The leaders will be responsible to write a summary for the proceedings. 
          Tentative leaders are listed in parentheses.
    
     In MC environment for (nu,l) and (nu,l p), separately: 
        1) How should Fermi gas model be applied and made realistic? (Vogel)
        2) How important nuclear correlations are and how 
           should be incorporated, and how the final-state 
           interactions are best treated? (Pandharipande)  
        3) How should the pion production be treated?  (Hayato/Kaneyuki)
    
      As an item which is uncertain but likely to have practical consequences:
        4) How vector current is made to be conserved 
         in nuclei, off-shell effects should be treated, 
         and how the axial currents and form factors are 
         modified in nuclei?  (Kubodera)     
    **  5) Resonances/DIS  (A.Bodek ?) <-- Morfin 
    
     General discussion: 
       6) The universal neutrino-nucleus MC code. (Casper)  
    
     7. Future experiments and facilities (Conveners: Para*,Itow,Walter)
    
      1) merits/disadvantages of the existing neutrino beams 
       (K2K, CERN, FNAL-Booster, FNAL-NuMI,....) -  Andre Rubbia
    
      2) new near detector of K2K, its physics goals and potential 
    
      3) experimentation at JLAB: what are the existing fecilities/experiments, 
       potential for modifications and upgrades, potential for new initiatives
                               
      4) near detector station at NuMI: overview, potential for dedicated 
      experiments, constraints..  -  Rob Plunkett
     
     5) - 'small ICARUS' detector as potential technique for studies of low energy 
      neutrino interactions -  Flavio Cavanna
    
     6) Cross section measurements at CERN AD, Fermilab Debuncher 
                                                    
      **) Morfin will talk with Para. 
     
    8. Summary and Goals for the next NuInt02  
    
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