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

Session: Neutrino-nucleus cross-sections at the frontier of particle physics

1 Welcome

NuMu2019f.pdf

2 Impact of neutrino-nucleus physics on oscillation experiments and related neutrino cross section measurements

Speaker: Federico Sanchez Nieto (Univ. Geneva)

nuCrossSectionPSI2019_fsanchez.pdf

3 Modelling neutrino-nucleus interactions

Speaker: Alessandro Lovato (Argonne National Laboratory)

PSI_Lovato_19.pdf

4 Axial form factor from neutrino scattering - remote talk

Speaker: Richard Hill (Univ. of Kentucky)

hill_numu2019.pdf

15:50 Coffee Break

Session: Muon capture and the axial form factor

5 Precision theory of muon capture on the proton - remote talk

Speaker: William Marciano (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

PSIWorkshop.pdf

6 Axial form factor on the lattice

Speaker: Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)

Gupta_2019_AFF_PSI_X.pdf

7 Review of MuCap experiment

Speaker: Peter Winter (Argonne National Lab)

MuCap_Review_NuMu2019.pptx

8 Measurement of the nucleon axial form factor with pion electroproduction

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

numu2019-mueller.pdf

19:00 Dinner at OASE/PSI Restaurant

Saturday 26 October

Session: Towards a 0.3% measurement of mu+p capture

9 MuCap TPC: Design and performance

Speaker: Malte Hildebrandt (Paul Scherrer Institut)

hildebrandt-NuMu2019-2019-01-26.pdf

10 Baseline concept for new experiment

Speaker: Peter Kammel (UW and CENPA)

NuMuCap.pdf

NuMuCap.pptx

11 MPGD-based Time Projection Chambers

Speaker: Piotr Gasik (TU Munich, CERN)

gasik_NuMu2019.pdf

12 Mu- beams and beam development at PSI

Speaker: Andreas Knecht (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Andreas Knecht - mu- beams - NuMu2019.pdf

10:40 Coffee Break

Session: Round table on physics and towards forming a collaboration

13 Round table discussion

12:30 Lunch at Auditorium Tent