h1. PC 120426

h1. Phone Meeting

*Thursday 26 April* at *14.00 GMT*.

Dial-in information is available "here":http://www.readytalk.com/an.php?tfnum=8667401260 where some numbers are:

| *Country* | *Number* |

| Switzerland | 0800705351 |

| UK | 08004960576 | 

| USA | 1-866-740-1260 | 

After connecting, type in the MICO access code (ie. *5673390*) then hit #. 

h2. Agenda

* analysis of existing data 

** contamination of pion in muon beam with KL (Bogomilov attachment:PIMU_stat_err.pdf, D'Orestano)

*** comment (results are nice at 1-2% level, 

*** seems ready to next step (complete and make MICE note) 

*** but need enough numbers to understand precision and robustness. 

*** suggest presenting a detailed estimate of statistical error in one case.  

** follow up on e+ e- difference rate effect (Bonesini)  

*** we either need a recipe from the analysis side (measure time between hits or average) 

*** or from the hardware side

* Step 1 emittance paper discussion (Blackmore)

* Beamline and optics  (Ole Hansen, Maria Leonova)

** optics for EMR run

** varying the D2/D1 ratio

** Requirements from tracker for calibrations and alignments (Long)

* Step IV

** Step IV run plan progress (Snopok et al)

** Step IV absorber measurements MS and dE/dx in Geant4(Carlisle ) 

*** report after addressing GEANT4 people with issue, expressed in terms of MS angle

* Standing items 

** More on MICE timing?  (Linda Coney or Yordan Karadhzov)

** Maus status (Chris Rogers) 

* next meetings and agendas (all)

* A.O.B. 

h2. Shift plan repository

Link to "new Shift Plan repository":http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/operations/wiki/RunPlans

h2. Uploading presentations

Instructions on how to upload a talk if you're a presenter.

# Click on "edit" (and concentrate!)

# Click on the open box below "files"

# Browse and enter your file name (e.g. mytalk.pdf )

# Enter the following line in the agenda box below your name (without the 'pre' tags)

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