The Proton Driver is a new 8 GeV accelerator complex being considered to replace the existing Fermilab Linac and Booster. With the Proton Driver as the new injection system into the Main Injector, the goal for the latter is to deliver 2 MW of protons in the energy range of 40-150 GeV. 2 MW of 8 GeV proton beam from the Proton Driver would also be possible.

This would represent an increase of 4x the current Main Injector beam power. Combined with possible advances in detector technology, the Proton Driver era could be one of unprecedented gains in precision measurements of meson decays and rare processes, baryon and meson spectroscopy, and hadronic interactions.

The main purpose of the working group is to explore the new physics questions that might be relevant in the Proton Driver era, and the experimental challenges.
 

                                             Kaons and Pions Working Group Parallel Sessions
 



Wednesday 6 October
08:30-15:30
 Plenary Session
15:30
 Coffee Break
15:50
 Working Group Sessions 1
 
 10 min Working Group Introduction Convener (TBD)
 30 min Baryon Spectroscopy with Meson Beams Winston Roberts (Old Dominion Univ.) 
 40 min Opportunities in Meson Spectroscopy:
Present Status and Future Opportunities		 Ted Barnes (Oak Ridge National Lab) 
17:30
 Reception


Thursday 7 October
09:00-10:00
 Plenary Session
10:00
 Coffee Break
10:30
 Working Group Sessions 2
 
 40 min  Kaon Physics in the Proton Driver Era  Yuval Grossman (SLAC/Technion) 
 30 min T-Violation at JPARC Jun Imazato (KEK)
12:30
 Lunch
14:00
 Working Group Sessions 3
 
30 min Pi0nn at JPARC Mitsuhiro Yamaga 
(Osaka University) 
30 min  Status and Future of Kaon Physics at BNL  Toshio Numao (Triumf) 
15:30
 Coffee Break
15:50
 Working Group Sessions 4
 
 30 min K+nn at CERN/SPS Augusto Ceccucci (CERN) 
 30 min K+nn at the Fermilab Main Injector Steve Kettell (BNL) 


Friday 8 October
09:00-10:00
 Plenary Session
10:00
 Coffee Break
10:30
 Working Group Sessions 5
 
 30 min Theory of Pion Decays William Marciano (BNL) 
 30 min Rare Pion Decays Dinko Pocanic (Univ. of Virginia) 
 30 min KN Interactions  Galileo Violini (Univ. of Calabria) 
12:30
 Lunch
14:00
 Working Group Sessions 6
 
 30 min Lattice Gauge Theory Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)
 30 min Experimental Opportunities in Kaon Decays at the Proton Driver  Yau Wah  (University of Chicago)
 30 min Experimental Challenges at the Proton Driver  Robert Tschirhart (Fermilab) 
15:30
 Coffee Break


Saturday 9 October
08:30-12:00
 Plenary Session