ANT11 Talks


Agenda


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Monday, October 10, 2011
8:00 – 8:30 Workshop registration
8:30 – 8:35 Welcome and things to do in Philly
Chuck Lane/Jelena Maricic

8:35 – 9:10 Session 1: Prospects of current and near term neutrino experiments in light of T2K result and MINOS
Convener: Shozawa (60 min)
8:35 – 9:10 (30 + 5 min) Prospects of current and near term neutrino experiments in light of T2K result and MINOS - Yoshinari Hayato
9:10 – 9:35 (20 + 5 min) Status of NOvA - Luke Corwin

9:35 – 11:50 Session 2A: Status for LBNE/HyperK/LENA
Convener: Svoboda (105 min)
9:35 – 10:10 (30 + 5 min) Overview of LBNE - Jim Stewart
10:10 – 10:45 (30 + 5 min) Overview of HyperKamiokande - Masato Shiozawa

10:45 – 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 – 11:45 (30 + 5 min) Overview of LENA - Juergen Winter

11:45 – 14:20 Session 2B: Summary of technological challenges/advances for reactor/geo/solar neutrinos and neutrino anomaly
Convener: Dye (95 min)
11:45 – 12:30 (40 + 5 min) Mini Time Cube and the reactor antineutrino anomaly - John Learned

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (brought on site)

13:30 – 13:55 (20 + 5 min) Positronium signature in liquid and plastic scintillator - Davide Franco
13:55 – 14:20 (20 + 5 min) Neutron detection and identification using ZnS:Ag/6LiF in segmented antineutrino detectors - David Reyna

14:20 – 17:10 Session 3: Photon detectors I
Convener: Mantsch & Van Berg (170 min)
14:20 – 14:45 (20 + 5 min) PMT development at ETL - Ron McAlpine
14:45 – 15:10 (20 + 5 min) PMT development at Hamamatsu - Yuji Yoshizawa
15:10 – 15:35 (20 + 5 min) PMT response - Anthony LaTorre
15:35 – 15:55 (15 + 5 min) PMT-LENA - Juergen Winter

15:55 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:50 (30 + 5 min) PMT pressure tests - Milind Diwan
16:50 – 17:10 (15 + 5 min) WLS plates for LBNE - William Albert
17:10 – 17:30 (15 + 5 min) Winston cones for LBNE - Stefano Perasso

18:30 – 22:00 Workshop Dinner (City Tavern)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

8:55 – 10:30 Session 4: Photon detectors II
Convener: Djurcic & Sanchez (120 min)
8:55 – 9:20 (20 + 5 min) LAPPDs: MCPs and overview - Henry Frisch
9:20 – 9:45 (20 + 5 min) LAPPDs: Photocathode research - Klaus Attenkofer
9:45 – 10:10 (20 + 5 min) LAPPDs: Picosecond Readout - Eric Oberla
10:10 – 10:30 (15 + 5 min) Prospectives and summary on photodetectors - Paul/Sanchez/Djurcic

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 – 15:50 Session 5: Materials and water/scintillator systems
Convener: Vagins - water (+Gd); Yeh - scintillator systems (240 min)
10:50 – 11:20 (25 + 5 min) Gd overview - Mark Vagins
11:20 – 11:45 (20 + 5 min) Water quality Gd - Andrew Renshaw
11:45 – 12:10 (20 + 5 min) MC studies on photo coverage with Gd - John Felde

12:10 – 13:10 Lunch (brought on site)

13:10 – 13:40 (25 + 5 min) Water detector at LLNL - Steven Dazeley
13:40 – 14:10 (25 + 5 min) Overview of scintillation systems - Daniel Bick
14:10 – 14:35 (20 + 5 min) Water-based liquid scintillator for large physics experiments - Minfang Yeh
14:35 – 15:00 (20 + 5 min) Scintillator (SNO+ Nd loaded, LENS with In, Gd loading) - Liang Ming Hu
15:00 – 15:25 (20 + 5 min) LS veto for large arrays of macro bolometers - Paolo Gorla
15:25 – 15:50 (20 + 5 min) Material compatibility testing - Sunej Hans

15:50 – 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 – 17:25 Session 6: Vetos/Liners/Containers
Conveners: Milenkovic & Maricic (75 min)
16:10 – 16:35 (20 + 5 min) Liner for LBNE Water Cherenkov detector - Farshid Feyzi
16:35 – 17:00 (20 + 5 min) SNO experience - Doug Hallman
17:00 – 17:25 (20 + 5 min) KamLAND experience - Masayuki Koga


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

8:30 – 10:30 Session 7: Site studies
Convener: Svoboda (120 min)
8:30 – 9:00 (25 + 5 min) Physiscs arguments for detector locations - Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska
9:00 – 9:30 (25 + 5 min) Geotechnical studies for LENA at Pyhasalmi - Guido Nuijten
9:30 – 10:00 (25 + 5 min) US Geotechnical studies for LBNE at Homestake - David Vardiman
10:00 – 10:30 (25 + 5 min) Site studies for Hyper-K - Hiroshi Kurokawa

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 14:00 Session 8: Software and analysis
Convener: Junk (120 min)
11:00 – 11:30 (25 + 5 min) Polfit tool for SK - Kimihiro Okumura
11:30 – 12:00 (25 + 5 min) Reconstruction using timing for water detectors - Matt Wetstein

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (brought on site)

13:00 – 13:25 (20 + 5 min) CHROMA (ray tracing + reconstruction) - Stan Seibert
13:25 – 14:00 (30 + 5 min) LBNE WC detector reconstruction and LCs - Xin Qian

Round table discussion
14:00 – 15:00 Discussion: Neutron yield in atmospheric neutrino interactions: Do we need to mount an experiment to measure it? Convener: Svoboda
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 – 16:20 Discussion: What can MINOS and T2K say about OPERA result? Convener: Learned
15:20 – 15:40 Review and prospects: MINOS/T2K, Mayly Sanchez
15:20 – 16:20 Discussion: Recap and future steps