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-==== Agenda for Nov 7, 2012 ====+===== Agenda for Nov 7, 2012 =====
  
-=== March meeting at SLAC === +==== March meeting at SLAC ===
-=== LRT at Gran Sasso - April 10-12 === +  * Announcement - finish a draft announcement today - will need immediate feedback  by email. 
-=== Updates from Working Groups ===+=== 8:30-9:00 Introduction to our plans and working groups === 
 +=== 9-12: Simulation  === 
 +  - Advances in Geant4 (Dennis Wright) 
 +  - Advances in FLUKA (SLAC Mario/Ludavico?
 +  - Fluka v Geant comparisons 
 +    - Tony, Anthony, Allison update on muon production of neutrons (incl. any Borexino results) 
 +    - Melinda update on FLUKA v Geant in NMM context 
 +    - Angie Homestake comparison (Raul's FLUKA vs Geant4) 
 +    - Discussion Topics (please help fill these out) 
 +      * Muon generation and inclusion in FLUKA and Geant4 (e.g. MUSUN v Geant4) 
 +      * Muon-Nuclear vs. other processes neutron energy contribution 
 +  - Invited Geant and FLUKA physics Talks rolled into one Summary Talk (Matthew S?)  
 +      * Posted longer talks if they already exist 
 +  - Status of the Depth Task Force Simulations (LAr, LXe, Ge) 
 + 
 +=== 1-3: Radiogenic Challenge === 
 +  - Universal Database:Status and plans for LRT2013 (Jodi or Loach ) 
 +  - Status of alpha n measurements (DongMing revise this title)  
 +  - Discussion and Planning for additional data  
 +    - Notre Dame, TUNL, ??  DongMing please advise.  We can then invite some people too. 
 +    - Planning for how to combine (or not) Materials database, Geant4, alpha-n etc. 
 +    - talking about radiogenic measurements/stockpiling of materials 
 + 
 +=== 3:30-5:30 Experimental Handles on Neutron Bkgd === 
 +  - NMM (Melinda or Ray) 
 +  - SD neutron detector (Chao) 
 +  - Muon system and time stamps (Anthony) 
 +  - Plans for upgrades and new instruments at Soudan(several people?  ideas?) 
 +  - Other sites and other experiments? HALO [[http://www.snolab.ca/halo/faq.html|site]] 
 +=== 6-7 AARM Planning meeting === 
 +  - Recruiting people for the working groups 
 +  - Plans for LRT2013 
 +  - How to organize around the Cosmic Frontier workshop  
 +    * Liason jobs and info gathering? 
 +    * Capabilities tie-in? 
 +    * Screening Facility? 
 +=== Group Dinner === 
 +==== LRT at Gran Sasso - April 10-12 (Jodi) ===
 +  * Status (letter) 
 +  * What should we do to prepare??  
 +==== Updates from Working Groups ====
   * Universal database = Jodi   * Universal database = Jodi
   * Cosmogenic Group = Angie and Chao   * Cosmogenic Group = Angie and Chao
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