2016-01-08-Physics¶

Physics coordinator report, 2016-01-08

• Optics review
  • Paperwork has been put together, a bit too long, Ken is doing some cutting
  • Talks due on Monday for practice session
• SSD w/o M1
  • Two new iterations from Ao on settings (17 December and 31 December), following some back and forth about current limits and other details
  • we have settled on a set for the optics review;
  • Bz looks rather low in d/s spectrometer (~ 2 T)
  • analysis of tracker reconstruction (Rogers, Dobbs) in progress
• Detector alignment
  • Francois, Chris Hunt, both leant on to produce notes
  • John Nugent has successful MC alignment
• Magnet alignment
  • Sophie is concentrating on transfer matrix-based FC alignment; validating routines using straight track data (where analytical transfer matrix is obvious)
• PID
  • TOF vs tracker PID first pass has been done; 2 % pion impurity under the muon peak (4 T run) looks quite comparable with pion contamination paper
• Xenon analysis
  • Data taken, first pass analysis performed, comparison with no absorber data ongoing
  • Rumours/discovery of Helium in "straight tracks" absorber; who is responsible for material budget?
• EMR paper accepted by J. Inst.
• Pion contamination paper - J. Inst. struggling to find referees
• Demo paper - no progress
• Step IV paper - see VC report
  • Next step is to make latex outline of the MICE note and organise deadlines
  • Expect a couple of iterations on tracker reconstruction at least