Project List

Below are projects which are looking for additional effort. If you are interested in any of these, please add your name after them and/or contact the spokespeople.

Hardware

• Compact Photon Source (CPS)
  • Simulations of energy deposition and radiation budget
    • CPS option -- Hovanes, Frank Goldenbaum
    • Tagger Magnet option --
  • Investigate photon beam monitoring for photon beam monitoring/tuning with intense photon beam
• Kaon Production Target (KPT)
  • Simulation of energy deposition --
• Kaon Flux Monitor (KFM)
  • Magnet
    • Simulations/optimization --
  • Tracking chambers
    • Simulations/optimization --
  • Time-of-flight counters
    • Simulations/optimization --
  • Magnetless configuration
    • Simulations/optimization --
  • Electronics/DAQ
• Start Counter
  • Simulate possible improvements in reconstruction of various reactions by improvements in Start Counter time resolution or geometry --
  • Evaluation of SiPM options for KLF --
• Cryogenic Target -- Chris Keith

Software

• Implement realistic KL beam timing in HDGeant4 --
• Implement realistic KL beam reconstruction --
• Study kinematic fitting with KL beam --
• Study PID using time-of-flight with KL beam --

Analysis

Hyperon Spectroscopy

• -- Mikhail
• Production off proton
  • K_L p → K_S p
  • K_L p → π⁺ Λ
  • K_L p → π⁺ Σ⁰
  • K_L p → π⁰ Σ⁺
  • K_L p → π⁺ Λ
  • K_L p → K⁺ Ξ⁰
  • K_L p → K⁺ n
• Production off neutron
  • K_L n → K⁺ Ξ^-

Kaon Spectroscopy

• Kappa -- Moskov and Shankar
  • K_L p → K⁺ π^- p
  • K_L p → K^- π⁰ Δ⁺⁺
  • K_L p → K_L π^- Δ⁺⁺
• Kaon beta-decay -- Mikhail
• K_L p → K⁺ π^- π⁰ p

Other Reactions

• Neutron induced reactions?