Name: Frontiers of liquid Scintillator Technology (FroST16)
Start: 2016-03-18T02:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-03-20T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Illinois Accelerator Research Center Building

Frontiers of liquid Scintillator Technology (FroST16)

from Friday, 18 March 2016 (02:00) to Sunday, 20 March 2016 (18:00)

Monday, 14 March 2016
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Friday, 18 March 2016
08:45
08:45 - 09:45
Contributions

08:45 Welcome and Introduction to Workshop - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

09:00 Introduction to FroST - Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

09:15 Overview Talk - Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)
09:45 Impact of and requirements for LS measurements
Impact of and requirements for LS measurements
09:45 - 12:30
Contributions

09:45 Mass Hierarchy and CP Violation - Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)

10:10 Neutrinoless DBD - Mark Chen

10:30 Normal Hierarchy overview - Steve Biller

11:15 Solar Neutrinos - Michael Smy (UCI)

11:40 Supernova - Mark Vagins (UC Irvine, Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)

12:05 DSNB - Michael Wurm
12:30 Lunch & Discussion
Lunch & Discussion
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:25
Contributions

14:00 Proton Decay - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

14:25 Geoneutrinos - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

15:00 Sterile Neutrinos - Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech)
15:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:25 - 15:45
15:45 Status, sensitivities and future goals
Status, sensitivities and future goals
15:45 - 17:25
Contributions

15:45 KamLAND and KamLAND-Zen - Itaru Shimizu (Tohoku University)

16:10 SNO+ - Szymon Manecki

16:35 Borexino - Marco Pallavicini (INFN and University of Genova)

17:00 SuperK - Akira Konaka
Saturday, 19 March 2016
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Daya Bay / RENO / Double Chooz - Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul National University)

09:25 NOvA - Stuart Mufson (Indiana U)

09:50 JUNO - Boxiang Yu

10:15 Short Baseline Reactor Projects - Karsten Heeger (Yale University)

11:15 NuPRISM - Mark Hartz (Kavli IPMU (WPI), University of Tokyo/TRIUMF)

11:40 ANNIE - Matthew Malek (University of Sheffield)

12:05 LENA - Timo Enqvist (University of Oulu)
12:30 Group photograph
Group photograph
12:30 - 12:40

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
13:30 New Results from Double Chooz - Anatael Cabrera (CNRS/IN2P3 - APC & LNCA Laboratories (France))
New Results from Double Chooz
- Anatael Cabrera (CNRS/IN2P3 - APC & LNCA Laboratories (France))
13:30 - 13:50
14:00
14:00 - 14:25
Contributions

14:00 THEIA - Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
14:25
14:25 - 17:20
Contributions

14:25 LS and WbLS Technology, Optics - Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:55 Loading Techniques - Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:10 Wbls performance - Lindsey Bignell

16:00 Nanoparticles Loading - Taritree Wongjirad (MIT)

16:15 Purification and Low Background - Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

16:45 Addressing Spallation Backgrounds - Shirley Li (The Ohio State University)

17:00 Cherenkov Scintillation Separation - Zhe Wang (Tsinghua University)
18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 20:00
Sunday, 20 March 2016
08:30
08:30 - 11:30
Contributions

08:30 R&D experience for KamLAND 3M liter Liquid Scintillator Detector - Fumi Suekane

09:00 LAND Photo-Detection Systems for High Precision Calorimetry - Anatael Cabrera

09:30 Containment technology - Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

10:00 Hamamatsu New Developements - Yuji Hotta

10:45 LAPPDs and alternative photo-detection methods - Matt Wetstein (University of Chicago/ANL)

11:15 Particle ID and event reconstruction algorithms in scintillator - Michinari Sakai (University of Hawaii)
11:30

11:30 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch & Discussion
Lunch & Discussion
13:00 - 14:30