Re: a few thoughts on more

[Frederick Gray <fegray@berkeley.edu>]

> What I mean is closing the gate after say 1 us and then analyzing the
> pulses which did *not* have an incoming muon during the pulse open
> time. Then you would only see the background deformation. It needs
> more carefull thinking which systematic effects you can catch with
> such a method. But it is important to work out these tests to
> judge whether kicking is a good option.

OK, now I understand (you might want to consider adding something like the 
explanation above to the the document).  Another possibility that I can think 
of would be to construct a lead plate that exactly covers the active region of 
the muPC.  Then you will only see the "sneaky" muons.

> BTW: Could you send me your APS talk for the talk collection. It will
> also be helpful for getting my PANIC talk together.

Sure: they (muCap and muLan) are already posted on our Berkeley talks page --
  http://weak0.physics.berkeley.edu/weakint/research/muons/papers/aps05-mucap-gray.pdf
  http://weak0.physics.berkeley.edu/weakint/research/muons/papers/aps05-mulan-gray.pdf
If you want to borrow any figures, just let me know which ones, and I will
be happy to extract them for you.

Thanks,

-- Fred

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