Bullets

Benchmark Electroweak Reaction on the Deuteron

Calibration of Fundamental Astrophysics Reactions

Additional Impact

Muon Capture on the Deuteron (4)

Theory

Experiment

Status of Basic Muon Capture Reactions

Peter, Anders, FredM, Kuniharu ? Here we also should summarize the MuCap status, so that the committe knows about the progress.

L1A extraction

Experimental Strategy (5)

Overview

Kinetic Simulations

• Kinetic uncertainties for different target scenarios
• How far can we get with MuCap conditions
  

Experimental Setup (10)

Cryogenic TPC

• Pad plane and many issues
  
• Monte Carlo of signals, pictures from HD run

Cryogenics and Gas system

Sacha, many issues

Detectors

Electronics and Data Acquisition

Statistics and Systematics (10)

Statistics

Systematics

Brendan, please check MuCap part of table

Clean Muon Stop
Resolution, Monte Carlo response, Bernhard

Gas Purity Sasha, Dave

Fusion Processes Peter, PNPI

Measuring Program (3)

Stage 1

Stage 2

Organization (4)

Responsibilities

Budget Draft

Time Line

Request to PSI

References (3)

Appendix (2)

Additional Physics Opportunities

Tim, Bernhard, Peter, Evgenny ?

Special studies and Tasks

*Below is the proposal skeleton. I tentatively assigned names to convener of the various parts. Suggestion for overall editors: Dave and Peter.*

*The symbol indicates that a little study/writeup documented in a note or webpage would be helpful to present the information, in addition to the proposal text.*

Topics

topic	think about
Beam and geomtry optimization MC	Dave, Bernhard
electrostatic simulation help	Dave ?
full FADC readout	Fred, Tim, Rob?
high energy Dalitz plot region	Tim, Bernhard
impurity detection with capture	Dave, Peter
kinetics studies	see below
long shot asymmetry measurement in capture process	Tim
Monte Carlo of proposed set-up	Bernhard, but needs help in the long run, Dave?
Pad plane design	undergrad, Peter
physics motivation ?	Anders, Fred, Kuniharu
residual mud polarization in stage 1	Tim
what can we learn from neutrons, setup, statistics, MC	Tim

kinetics studies

*Peter K has prepared a Mathemetica notebook and a study which present the formalism. The formalism should be checked by Claude and our Gatchina friends. The study also includes numerical sensitivity estimates which already are included in the present proposal release. Steve will check this calculation using a different formalism developed for his thesis. What remains to be done is a Monte Carlo generation of the distributions and fit with different fit ranges and background. Also the specific capture neutron and fusion distributions should be analyzed. The questions include:*

• influence of kinetics parameters at phi=0.01, T=300 and phi=0.05, T=30.
• What additional kinetics information can we get from fusion and capture neutrons. Can we perform the experiment at phi=0.01, T=300?
• Can we measure Rq/Rd from the neutron time distribution, which precision and statistics.
• The above mentioned polarization observables.

*Sara will provide the function for the time distributions as a root TF1. Dave volunteered to perform the MC generation and fits. Tim is interested in studying what can be learned from the neutrons.*