# Presentation: 123011

## Muon CollaborationMeeting

- Steve Geer                                                                                   MUTAC Review,    14-15 Jan, 2003

- WELCOME

## 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 R&D plans given our best knowledgeof the FY04 funding.
- The focus of the MC Collaboration meeting is to review and discuss our FY04 R&D plans.

## AGENDA

## Collaboration  Assets 

- Funding is tight, but we have some important assets:

- The Collaboration membership remains healthy ... 130 members.
- We continue to have lots of ideas ... 5 workshops in the last year, not including MUCOOL & MICE meetings. Progress on cost reduction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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

## Muon Collaboration Membership - 2

## Muon Collaboration Membership - 3

## MuonCollaborationMembership - 4

## MEETINGS:  July 2002 – January 2003 

## MEETINGS:  February 2003 – October 2003

## MUTAC Review – January 2003

*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.” *

- 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:

*MCOG has concluded that it is imperative that DOE seek to provide enhanced **R&D 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.*

- Steve Geer                                                          MC Collaboration Meeting         June 2003

## MCOG Recommendations to the DOE(Spring 2003)

- 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 R&D 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.
- MCOG supports participation by the U.S. in the Muon Ionization Cooling Exp-eriment (MICE) and urges DOE to support this valuable international activity.
- 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 R&D activities described above.

- Steve Geer                                                          MC Collaboration Meeting         June 2003

## 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 R&D.

- Steve Geer                                                          MC Collaboration Meeting         June 2003

## Supportfrom theneutrinocommunity

- 											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  R&D 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 R&D at the FY01 level of  8M$ per year. We understand that since that  recommendation support for the all important R&D has been  significantly  reduced. We believe it is important to maintain an investment in the long-term future. Since the HEPAP subpanel presentations the R&D 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 R&D to the level  that the subpanel recommended.cc:  Steve Geer       Bob Palmer

- Steve Geer                                                          MC Collaboration Meeting         June 2003

## 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 !

- Steve Geer                                                          MC Collaboration Meeting         June 2003