NuMu2019 Workshop @PSI

25 Oct 2019, 14:00 → 26 Oct 2019, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

WHGA/001 (PSI)

Peter Kammel (University of Washington, Seattle), Federico Sanchez Nieto (Univ. Geneva), Klaus Stefan Kirch (Paul Scherrer Institut), Bernhard Lauss (Paul Scherrer Institut), Stefan Ritt (Paul Scherrer Institut), Adrian Signer

Exploring synergies between Muon Capture and Neutrino Scattering:  prospects for a next generation muon capture experiment with ultimate precision and its impact on neutrino oscillation physics.

WebEx link (video conferencing): https://psi-ch.webex.com/psi-ch/j.php?MTID=m56b887a60a4e16337c1cadf1a709db8b

Friday 25 October

14:00 → 15:50 Session: Neutrino-nucleus cross-sections at the frontier of particle physics

14:00 Welcome

NuMu2019f.pdf

14:10 Impact of neutrino-nucleus physics on oscillation experiments and related neutrino cross section measurements

Speaker: Federico Sanchez Nieto (Univ. Geneva)

nuCrossSectionPSI2019_fsanchez.pdf

14:55 Modelling neutrino-nucleus interactions

Speaker: Alessandro Lovato (Argonne National Laboratory)

PSI_Lovato_19.pdf

15:25 Axial form factor from neutrino scattering - remote talk

Speaker: Richard Hill (Univ. of Kentucky)

hill_numu2019.pdf

15:50 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:10 Session: Muon capture and the axial form factor

16:15 Precision theory of muon capture on the proton - remote talk

Speaker: William Marciano (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

PSIWorkshop.pdf

16:45 Axial form factor on the lattice

Speaker: Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)

Gupta_2019_AFF_PSI_X.pdf

17:15 Review of MuCap experiment

Speaker: Peter Winter (Argonne National Lab)

MuCap_Review_NuMu2019.pptx

17:45 Measurement of the nucleon axial form factor with pion electroproduction

Speaker: Ulrich Mueller (Inst. für Kernphysik, Univ. Mainz)

numu2019-mueller.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner at OASE/PSI Restaurant

Saturday 26 October

09:00 → 10:40 Session: Towards a 0.3% measurement of mu+p capture

09:00 MuCap TPC: Design and performance

Speaker: Malte Hildebrandt (Paul Scherrer Institut)

hildebrandt-NuMu2019-2019-01-26.pdf

09:20 Baseline concept for new experiment

Speaker: Peter Kammel (UW and CENPA)

NuMuCap.pdf

NuMuCap.pptx

09:50 MPGD-based Time Projection Chambers

Speaker: Piotr Gasik (TU Munich, CERN)

gasik_NuMu2019.pdf

10:20 Mu- beams and beam development at PSI

Speaker: Andreas Knecht (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Andreas Knecht - mu- beams - NuMu2019.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:30 Session: Round table on physics and towards forming a collaboration

11:10 Round table discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch at Auditorium Tent