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Agenda for Nov 28, 2012

Other Business

  • Chao - questions about the LAr comparison… Is the task understood? Progress? (no depth meeting this week)
  • LRT2013 conference call next week. Who will join?
  • We need a plan for funding travel to LRT2013.

March 4 meeting at SLAC

  • 2nd announcement needs to go soon with agenda.
  • Please enter info right here before NEXT WEEK if your name is next to it.

8:30-9:00 Introduction to our plans and working groups

9-12: Simulation

  1. Advances and Future Plan in Geant4 (Dennis Wright)
  2. Advances in FLUKA (SLAC Mario/Ludavico) —Tony confirm with name of talk and person
  3. Fluka v Geant comparisons
    1. Tony, Anthony, Allison update on muon production of neutrons —(Anthony name suggestion: Detailed cosmogenic comparison of Fluka and Geant4 physics
    2. Melinda update on FLUKA v Geant in NMM contextMelinda cannot commit to any talks & there's not likely to be anything to report on this topic
    3. Angie Homestake comparison (Raul's FLUKA vs Geant4) —Angie come up with name of talk. These 2 talks could be combined into one?
  4. Invited Geant and FLUKA physics Talks rolled into one Summary Talk —(Matthew has agreed)
    • Posted longer talks if they already exist
  5. Status of the Depth Task Force Simulations (LAr, LXe, Ge) —Who wants to give this? Prisca?

- Forum on Muon generation

  1. Muons generated through GEANT4 (Chao) name please - this should be SHORT 10 min
  2. Ideas on how to incorporate MUSUN into GEANT4 (Anthony) name - again short.
  3. Discussion
  4. Any other forums here?

1-3: Radiogenic Challenge

  1. Universal Materials Database: Status and plans for LRT2013 (Jodi, 20 min)
  2. Status of evaluation of (alpha,n) reaction - (alpha,n) cross sections on different materials, neutron energy spectrum, neutron yield, U and Th content in the rock and different materials
  3. Status of Comparison of Cross Sections from EMPIRE and TALYS of Common Materials (Scorza, Palladino, Qiu - 15 min)
  4. Discussion and Planning for additional data
    1. Notre Dame, TUNL, Invitation emails are being sent
    2. Planning for how to combine (or not) Materials database, Geant4, alpha-n etc.
    3. talking about radiogenic measurements/stockpiling of materials
    4. Comparison with other predictions

3:30-5:30 Experimental Handles on Neutron Bkgd

  1. Status of the Soudan Neutron Multiplicity Meter —Yu Chen
  2. SD neutron detector — Chao name of talk
  3. Muon system and time stamps —Anthony name of talk
  4. The WATCHMAN Project —Marc Bergevin (UC Davis postdoc)
    • New Bernstein gd-loaded water detector —Anthony to meet with Bernstein at Boulby
  5. Other sites and other experiments? HALO sitewho will contact them?

6-7 AARM Planning meeting

  1. Recruiting people for the working groups
  2. Plans for LRT2013
  3. How to organize around the Cosmic Frontier workshop
    • Liason jobs and info gathering?
    • Capabilities tie-in?
    • Screening Facility?

Group Dinner

Updates from Working Groups

  • Universal database = Jodi
  • Cosmogenic Group = Angie and Chao
  • Fluka v Geant = Anthony and Toni
  • Radiogenic data = DongMing
  • Neutron benchmarking = Ray and Anthony
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