Email from Jim:
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:35:18 -0500 From: Jim BirchallTo: Juliette Mammei , Roger Carlini , Klaus Grimm , Mark Pitt , Neven Simicevic , Greg Smith , Allena Opper , Tony Forest , Norman Morgan , Mike Finn , David Armstrong , Yongguang Liang , Shelley Page , Dave Mack , Richard Jones Subject: Fwd: Qweak working group - next meeting Just a further note that the figure of merit of 0.52 noted below would let us measure Qw to an absolute statistical accuracy of 2.3E-3 in 2200 hours with a beam polarization of 85%, that is to 3.0% of Qw using the TDR value of Qw = 0.0756. To reach the TDR goal of 2.8% of Qw we would need to run for 2550 hours. A version of the downstream collimator with its sharper cutoff in angle, wider plateau in angular acceptance and potentially better separation of elastics from inelastics should ultimately do better than this. Jim