ISS:

1
Introduction

• ISS
• Comment
• Layout
• Early warnings
• Funding
• RG, bid for continuation
• Issues
• Reports
• Six-month progress report
• Annual report
• Future meetings

2
International scoping study

• Launched!
• Focus of meeting today
• and UKNF activity over the coming months
• First plenary meeting at CERN 22 24 Sep 05

3
Possible u/gs to RAL/Harwell site
D.Findlay
4
Possible u/gs to RAL/Harwell site
D.Findlay
5
NF Layout D.Findlay and C.Prior, some i/p from KL
6
Neutrino Factory Target Surface Decay
channel 50m, surface Phase rotation 50m,
surface Cooling 100m, surface FFAG 3-8 GeV 64m
?, surface FFAG 8-20 GeV 160m ?, 15m below
ground FFAG 20-50 GeV 400m ?, 30m below
ground Race-track storage ring Leg to Gran
Sasso 503.5m Leg to Soudan 563.7m Findlay
four-straight storage ring Leg to Gran
Sasso 100m Leg to Soudan 500m Leg to
SuperKamiokande 1000m
9001000 m below ground
To Soudan (500 m)
Return leg
To G Sasso (100 m)
To Super-K (1000 m, projection)
Return leg (vertical)
3 FFAGs 38 GeV820 GeV2050 GeV
To Soudan
3 GeV linac Cooling Phase rot. Target
To G Sasso
Super-beam to Gran Sasso Injector linac 100m,
surface Synchrotrons 50m and 100m
? Surface Extraction line 50m,
surface Target Surface Decay channel 100m Point
s to Gran Sasso
10 GeV synch. booster linac
To G Sasso
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Early warnings

• Funding
• Next RG round January 2006
• UKNF/MICE posts ring fenced to 31Mar07
• Bid for continuation
• UKNF award resource for 2004/05 2006/07
• So need new bid to provide resource for 2007/08 ?
• Timetable not yet given but can work backwards
• Award provides resource from 01Apr07
• Peer-review process complete Dec06/Jan07
• Proposal submitted end of summer 2006
• PPARC call could be earlier
• Need to prepare revised plan starting Q1 2006

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Early warnings

• Six-monthly report due end of September
• Plan in Str.Grp. meeting this pm but
• Short status/plans text by WPM
• Financial summary
• RAL annual report
• Due January 2006
• Initiate, by WPM, November 2005

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Issues for development of programme

• Have been/are building broader activity
• Physics/phenomenology
• Accelerator
• Concept
• Proton driver front end
• Target
• Muon front end and cooling (MICE)
• Design study
• Detectors
• Clear need to produce coherent plan
• Issues
• Inter-disciplinary
• Much of RD is interdisciplinary, yet
• Hard to engage engineering departments
• No engagement with EPSRC
• Development of capability
• Capability manufacturing techniques and,
  eventually, capacity
• How to engage with industry
• Management of risk

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Next UKNF/MICE-UK meetings

• 06Sep05 PG with MICE-UK meeting at RAL
• PG focus hydrogen system RD
• 05Oct05 PG Imperial
• PG focus instrumentation system (tracker,
  beam-line scintillators, other)
• 02Nov05 PG with MICE-UK meeting at RAL
• PG focus MICE software
• 07Dec05 PG Oxford
• PG Focus AFC in Oxford
• (Tue) 10Jan06 PG with MICE-UK meeting at RAL
• PG Focus Hall infrastructure
• (Wed) 11Jan05 UKNF meeting at RAL
• (Wed) 01Feb06 PG Glasgow
• PG Focus Beam-line preparations
• (Wed) 01Mar06 PG with MICE-UK meeting at RAL
• PG Focus Planning for exploitation phase
  Phase II bids
• (Wed) 05Apr06 PG Liverpool
• PG Focus Instrumentation
• (Wed) 02May06 PG with MICE-UK meeting at RAL

Agreed
Proposed