2015-05-08 Physics coordinator report¶

• Moving to weekly analysis meetings, every Thursday bar VC week

Step I papers¶

• EMR paper - now at MICE internal referees
• Pion contamination paper - analysis ongoing, implemented Feldman-Cousins test following DAQ fixes, new measurement found
• Beam polarisation measurement - analysis is "close", expect to begin publication bureaucracy by CM42

Step IV¶

• Preliminary analysis on magnet multipole components in presence of iron;
  • solenoid field component scales linearly except near end walls
  • small skew quad component;
  • measured magnet alignment - see Blackmore VC talk
• 2015/01 run plan is in "final draft" http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/documents/131
  • Caveat:
    • we will be running at 2 V and 50/64 Hz;
    • and we have a better estimate of the data rate with no cooling channel magnets;
    • these need to be folded in; looks like tracker "straight tracks" validation will take quite a bit longer...
  • Now developing detailed run settings; plan to draw in more optics people to help here
  • Call for physics shifters in 2015/01 has gone out
• 2015/02 run plan initiated; at "headings" level, seeking input from relevant parties
  • Will be posted at http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/documents/139

Demonstration of Ionisation Cooling¶

• Optimising FC separation
• IPAC paper forms zero draft