Minutes - April 12th 2012

LHEP-T2K Group meeting

(12.04.2012, 11:00)

General matters

- Tomoko is back at work, her task will be to finalize the paper on nuclear emulsions (muon flux measurements).

- Aki will be in Japan most of June, attending OPERA collaboration meeting (CM), Kyoto conference and T2K shifts.

- The new OPERA spokesperson (after Antonio resigned) is Nakamura (not the author of the PDG).

- Martti has been asked to attend a conference in Padova from June 6th-8th, and give a talk on Bern accelerator activity.

Shifts

- see [1]

LEM software status

- There is no current information about the status of the detector so far, but it is presumably taking data.

- The software for LEM has been installed, but no progress could be made regarding physics analysis. It would be nice to be able to produce MC events.

- The next LEM meeting has not been scheduled yet.

- Fatih must provide a result on muon reconstruction (with improved efficiency) as soon as possible.

- The quality of the software should be improved.

Takeover of ND280 experience

- Eike is back from holidays and has time to transfer his experience to Hieho and Martti.

- The goal will be to run the software "T2K style", not "Eike style". :)

- Hieho is playing with the software to see if he can identify Pi+, Pi- or K0 events. This is not yet a "work project", only a way to gain experience with the ND280 software.

- Martti must learn to use ROOT as fast as possible, starting with the official ROOT documentation and tutorials. The physics background is secondary for the moment.

Collaboration meeting

- The CM schedule for our group (travel dates etc.) can be found here: [2]

- For future CMs, attendants will be expected to give talks on their work.

Next group meetings are scheduled for May 3rd and May 17th, after the T2K CM.

- Martti, 12.04.2012