Initial Meeting

Agenda or Points we need to clearify

• 1.0 General
• 1.1 Dead line : 2008-10-01
• 1.1 Money for us for this pre-project (who what, time accounting).
• 1.2 Goal of this pre-project : 3 years' research plan in 20 pages, delivered as application to SNF.

• 0.0 Time for this meeting
• 0.1 Vacations
• 0.2 Next meetings

• 2.0 Research plan

• 2.1 Our objectives (what kind of interactions do we intend to reconstruct and identify)

short term project muon decay, long term project pion decay and neutrino interaction.
Automatic way to estimate purity with muons and laser. (BR)

• 2.2 Methods

Muon energy reconstruction via elastic scattering: Kalman filter ? (BR)
For the project, both standard fits and progressive methods (Kalman) (SH) 

• 2.3 Data
• 2.4 Time table and milestones

• 3.0 Deliverables for the application (to be done before October ?)

Cosmic muons (measured and simulated) ? We need a run with more purity for very long muon tracks (BR).
Gammas (measured and simulated) ? at the moment we have 40.000 events of gamma source (Cobalt_60)(BR)
Some rough track fitting and particle identification ?
International collaborators ?
Submitted paper ? I think we can publish a paper when the energy calibration of the TPC is done (BR).  
Next TPC data taking before end of June. Aim: Energy calibration of the TPC with long passing-through muon tracks and muon decay tracks (BR). 
For the end of September: run with the laser source (BR).
For the end of July we will have muon decay tracks (real data). We already have muon decay from Geant4. (BR)

• 4.0 Project needs to beestimated
• 4.1 Equipment
• 4.2 People (academics, phds, technical)
• 4.3 Travels

Attachment : Application Summary

• Part 1

- CV from all involved. - Scientific Networks (Swiss and international) - Other Support (staff, office, workshops, computers, libraries etc, other funds) 5.0 Requested funding 5.1 Equipment 5.2 Equipment maintenance 5.3 Travels, conferences etc. 5.4 Others 6.0 Personnel 6.1 Salaries, academics, phds, technical staff. 6.2 Security 7.0 Budget 8.0 Administration

• Part 2

1.0 Summary (one page) 2.0 Research Plan (max 20 pages) 2.1 Status of the field (publications by others) - 1 page 2.2 Research of the applicants (with publications) - 1 page 2.3 Plan, goals and objectives, methods, data. 2.4 Time table and milestones. 2.5 Relevance for own and other domains.