Frontiers of liquid Scintillator Technology (FroST16)

18 Mar 2016, 02:00 → 20 Mar 2016, 18:00 US/Central

Illinois Accelerator Research Center Building

There is a large international community interested in and pursuing liquid scintillator experiments for precision neutrino physics.  The Frontiers of liquid Scintillator Technology (FroST) workshop aims to bring together this community to discuss the requirements and challenges of moving forwards in this field, to discuss the physics that can be addressed by such detectors, the range of capabilities that can be achieved, ongoing R&D, and the optimal path forwards for this experimental program. 

Friday, 18 March

08:45 → 09:45 Introductory Talks

08:45 Welcome and Introduction to Workshop

Speaker: Dr Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

09:00 Introduction to FroST

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

Slides 2016-03-18_FroST_Intro.pdf

09:15 Overview Talk

Speaker: Prof. Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

Slides huber-FROST.pdf

09:45 → 12:30 Physics Topics: Impact of and requirements for LS measurements

Impact of and Requirements for LS Measurement

09:45 Mass Hierarchy and CP Violation

Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)

Slides etw_longbaseline_frost2016.pdf

10:10 Neutrinoless DBD

Speaker: Prof. Mark Chen

Slides FroST_DBD.pptx

10:30 Normal Hierarchy overview

Speaker: Prof. Steve Biller

Slides FRoST_2016.key

10:50 Coffee break

11:15 Solar Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Michael Smy (UCI)

Slides frost16.pdf

11:40 Supernova

Speaker: Prof. Mark Vagins (UC Irvine, Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)

Slides SN_FroST16.pdf

12:05 DSNB

Speaker: Prof. Michael Wurm

Slides wurm_dsnb_frost16.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch & Discussion

14:00 → 15:25 Physics Topics

Impact of and Requirements for LS Measurement

14:00 Proton Decay

Speaker: Prof. Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

Slides 20160318_Proton_Decay.pdf

14:25 Geoneutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

Slides 10Gratta.pdf

15:00 Sterile Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech)

Slides Link_FRoST.pptx

15:25 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:25 Experiment Overviews: Status, sensitivities and future goals

Status, Sensitivity, Future Goals

15:45 KamLAND and KamLAND-Zen

Speaker: Dr Itaru Shimizu (Tohoku University)

Slides FroST-KamLAND-Shimizu.pdf

16:10 SNO+

Speaker: Dr Szymon Manecki

Slides SNO+SzManecki_Frost_2016.pdf

16:35 Borexino

Speaker: Prof. Marco Pallavicini (INFN and University of Genova)

Slides FROST-2016-FNAL-PALLAVICINI.pdf

17:00 SuperK

Speaker: Prof. Akira Konaka

Slides sk-frost.pdf

Saturday, 19 March

09:00 → 12:30 Experiment Overviews

Status, Sensitivity, Future Goals

09:00 Daya Bay / RENO / Double Chooz

Speaker: Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul National University)

Slides Seo_theta13_FroST2016.pdf

09:25 NOvA

Speaker: Prof. Stuart Mufson (Indiana U)

Slides Frost2016.pdf

09:50 JUNO

Speaker: Dr Boxiang Yu

Slides Status_of_JUNO_Liquid_Scintillator-n.pdf

10:15 Short Baseline Reactor Projects

Speaker: Prof. Karsten Heeger (Yale University)

Slides reactorSBL-FROST-Heeger.pdf

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 NuPRISM

Speaker: Dr Mark Hartz (Kavli IPMU (WPI), University of Tokyo/TRIUMF)

Slides nuprism_frost.pdf

11:40 ANNIE

Speaker: Dr Matthew Malek (University of Sheffield)

Slides Malek-20160319-ANNIE-FroST.pdf

12:05 LENA

Speaker: Dr Timo Enqvist (University of Oulu)

Slides Lena.pdf

12:30 → 12:40 Group photograph

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

13:30 → 13:50 New Results from Double Chooz

Speaker: Dr Anatael Cabrera (CNRS/IN2P3 - APC & LNCA Laboratories (France))

Slides DC-IV@FRosT16_Anatael+Masaki_160319.pdf

14:00 → 14:25 Experiment Overviews

Status, Sensitivity, Future Goals

14:00 THEIA

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

Slides 2016-03-19_FroST_THEIA.pdf

14:25 → 17:20 Technology

14:25 LS and WbLS Technology, Optics

Speaker: Dr Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Liquid_Scintillator_FroST_Yeh.pdf

14:55 Loading Techniques

Speaker: Dr Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:10 Wbls performance

Speaker: Dr Lindsey Bignell

Slides FroST_2016.pdf

15:25 Coffee break

16:00 Nanoparticles Loading

Speaker: Dr Taritree Wongjirad (MIT)

Slides 2016_03_19_FROST_QD_NuDOT.pdf

16:15 Purification and Low Background

Speaker: Prof. Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

Slides Liquid_Scintillator_Purification_System_final.pptx

16:45 Addressing Spallation Backgrounds

Speaker: Ms Shirley Li (The Ohio State University)

Slides FroST_Li.pdf

17:00 Cherenkov Scintillation Separation

Speaker: Dr Zhe Wang (Tsinghua University)

Slides Separate_C_S.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Slides dinner.pdf

Sunday, 20 March

08:30 → 11:30 Technology

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

Speaker: Prof. Fumi Suekane

Slides 160320_suekane.pptx

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

Speaker: Dr Anatael Cabrera

Slides DoubleCalo_Anatael_160320.pdf

09:30 Containment technology

Speaker: Prof. Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

Slides Nylon_vessels_-_FROST.pptx

10:00 Hamamatsu New Developements

Speaker: Mr Yuji Hotta

10:20 Coffee break

10:45 LAPPDs and alternative photo-detection methods

Speaker: Dr Matt Wetstein (University of Chicago/ANL)

Slides FROST_mw.pdf

11:15 Particle ID and event reconstruction algorithms in scintillator

Speaker: Mr Michinari Sakai (University of Hawaii)

Slides high_energy_neutrino_directionality_event_imaging_and_particle_id_in_the_kamland_liquid_scintillator.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Panel discussion on physics priorities, international perspectives and path forwards

Convener: Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)

slides frost_panel.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch & Discussion