Muon Collaboration Meeting

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Muon CollaborationMeeting
WELCOME
Steve Geer
MUTAC
Review, 14-15 Jan, 2003
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Focus of Meeting
In the last few days we have heard a lot about
our technical progress over the last year. The
MC business we have not discussed in NUFACT is
theoptimization of our FY04 RD plans given our
best knowledgeof the FY04 funding. The focus of
the MC Collaboration meeting is to review and
discuss our FY04 RD plans.
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AGENDA
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Collaboration Assets
Funding is tight, but we have some important
assets

1. The Collaboration membership remains healthy
   130 members.
2. We continue to have lots of ideas 5 workshops
   in the last year, not including MUCOOL MICE
   meetings. Progress on cost reduction.
3. We have had an excellent MUTAC report, with a
   continued endorsement of our work from MCOG.
   Furthermore, since the January review we continue
   to make progress with new results that will
   provide ammunition for the next review.
4. We continue to have support from the neutrino
   community. Neutrino Factories made it on the list
   of future HEP facilities considered by the
   recent HEP Facilities Committee (scientific
   importance rated as too early to tell seems
   appropriate). Superbeams with neutrino factory
   class proton drivers MW-scale target halls may
   be on the horizon.
5. The MUCOOL Test Area construction is going well,
   and MICE seems to be well on the way to
   Scientific Approval. NSF will decide on funding
   early next year (we are told).
6. ICAR has been funded for another year, and Rol
   Johnson has good news about funding for new Muons
   Inc initiatives.

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Muon Collaboration Membership
130 Enthusiastic Members from 37 Institutions
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Muon Collaboration Membership - 2
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Muon Collaboration Membership - 3
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MuonCollaborationMembership - 4
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MEETINGS July 2002 January 2003
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MEETINGS February 2003 October 2003
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MUTAC Review January 2003
The review this year was in January, and resulted
once again in a very positive report. In their
transmittal letter to the laboratory directors,
MCOG say
The successful record of progress is epitomized
by the summary judgment in the report, namely
that Overall, MUTAC was impressed by the
accomplishments since the last meeting,
particularly given the strained financial
situation. MUTAC can enthusiastically assure
MCOG that the limited funding is being well and
carefully utilized.
MCOG has concluded that it is imperative that DOE
seek to provide enhanced RD funding for this
work if it is to meet either the intent or the
recommendations of the Long Range Plan laid out
in the 2002 Gilman Report of HEPAP.
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MCOG Recommendations to the DOE(Spring 2003)

1. In the area of experimental work, the highest
   priority should continue to be accorded to the
   800 MHz and 200 MHz RF work, especially the
   testing of the 800 MHz cavity in a magnetic
   field. This work is critical to the advancement
   andeventual success of the MUCOOL and MICE
   projects. High power target RD is important to
   a number of future high energy accelerator
   projects under consid-eration in the U.S.
   program and this work should be continued as
   resources allow.
2. MCOG supports participation by the U.S. in the
   Muon Ionization Cooling Exp-eriment (MICE) and
   urges DOE to support this valuable international
   activity.
3. The creative conceptual advances made by the Muon
   Collaboration are strength-ening the notion that
   a muon-storage-ring-based neutrino factory is
   feasible andwill offer opportunities for a
   future facility. As such, we recommend continued
   support for conceptual development activities in
   parallel with the strengthened experimental and
   engineering RD activities described above.

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Visits to the DOE, NSF, HEPAP
Since last summer we have November Presented
MC case to HEPAP February Presented our plans
to the Future HEP Facilities Committee March
Visited Germantown to make the case to the
DOE Now Trying to get a second visit to DOE
scheduled to brief the new management
Also there was a delegation (included Maury, Dan,
and Alvin) that visited NSF to make the general
case for accelerator RD.
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Supportfrom theneutrinocommunity
6 January, 2003   To  John
O'FallonFrom  J. Conrad       W.
Louis       D. Michael       M.
Shaevitz       S. Wojcicki Dear John, We
would like to encourage you to increase support
for Neutrino Factory RD in FY04.   Neutrino
oscillation physics has entered a very exciting
period. In the not-too-distant future we expect
that results from MiniBooNE and MINOS will add to
the excitement. No matter what the results are
from these experiments it is already clear that
more ambitious long-baseline experiments will be
needed in the future. It also seems increasingly
likely that we will ultimately need the full
power of a Neutrino Factory to unambiguously
determine all of the parameters that describe
neutrino oscillations. This will be particularly
true if the LMA solution to the solar neutrino
problem is confirmed (which initial KamLAND
results suggest is the case), or if MiniBooNE
and/or MINOS make discoveries that indicate there
is more going on than just three-flavor
mixing.   The HEPAP subpanel recommended a
funding level for Neutrino Factory RD at the
FY01 level of 8M per year. We understand that
since that recommendation support for the all
important RD has been significantly reduced.
We believe it is important to maintain an
investment in the long-term future. Since the
HEPAP subpanel presentations the RD seems to
have made good progress, and the physics case for
an eventual Neutrino Factory has, if anything,
grown stronger. We would therefore like to
encourage a restoration of the support for
Neutrino Factory RD to the level that the
subpanel recommended.cc  Steve Geer    
Bob Palmer
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The Bottom Line
FY04 funding appears to be flat (wrt FY03). We
were hoping for better and we will need an
increase in the future if we are to meet our
goals. Bob, Mike, and I will continue to do
everything we can think of to bring about
increased funding. The news is not all bad. We
have reason to expect FY04 to be a productive
year, and to hope that MICE will get funded. We
also have reason to believe that there is a good
chance for an International Study 3 in a couple
of years which could yield a cheaper Neutrino
Factory design and a stronger international
Neutrino Factory community. Perhaps in a couple
of years MW-scale proton drivers with MW-scale
targets will also be under constructions !