Theia Workshop

US/Central
Wednesday, December 12th and Thursday, December 13th - Hornet's Nest (WH8XO) - Friday, December 14th - Curia II (WH2SE) (Fermilab)

Wednesday, December 12th and Thursday, December 13th - Hornet's Nest (WH8XO) - Friday, December 14th - Curia II (WH2SE)

Fermilab

Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL), Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)
Description
Theia is a potential multi-purpose, large-scale neutrino detector in its very early design stages. It aims to utilize water-based liquid scintillator or lightly-doped oil as a detector medium coupled with very fast timing to study a broad physics program. Its prospects include the capability to detect and measure neutrinos over a very broad energy spectrum, with the potential to deduce the hierarchical nature of neutrinos, measure the level of CP violation in the lepton sector and potentially determine whether the neutrino is Majorana in nature. Furthermore, Theia will be able to study neutrinos from multiple sources including the Fermilab LBNF beam, atmospheric neutrinos, the Earth, the Sun, galactic supernovae, and the diffuse flux of cosmological supernova neutrinos. Remote connection info: NOTE THAT THERE IS A PASSWORD "GOL18" (for "Goddess Of Light") Join Zoom Meeting https://fnal.zoom.us/j/716855615?pwd=SEdiclA4bWFBVmJudlhJYkdZVW8wZz09 Password: GOL18 One tap mobile +16699006833,,716855615# US (San Jose) +16465588656,,716855615# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 716 855 615 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aejzhLLoTg
Participants
  • Andrew Mastbaum
  • Andrey Elagin
  • Bethany Goldblum
  • Bjoern Wonsak
  • Christine Kraus
  • Christopher Grant
  • Ed Blucher
  • Elizabeth Worcester
  • Emrah Tiras
  • Eric Marzec
  • Evan Angelico
  • Gabriel D. Orebi Gann
  • Guang Yang
  • Jonathan Eisch
  • Joshua Klein
  • Juan Manfredi
  • Kenneth Lande
  • Matthew Wetstein
  • Michael Wilking
  • Michael Wurm
  • Minfang Yeh
  • Richard Bonventre
  • Robert Svoboda
  • Runyu Jiang
  • Steve Dye
  • Tanner Kaptanoglu
  • Valentina Lozza
  • Vincent Fischer
    • 08:45 09:00
      Welcome
    • 09:00 10:30
      Theia Physics: Long baseline
      • 09:00
        LBL overview 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Michael Wilking (Stony Brook University)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        LBL event selection 20m
        Speaker: Dr Guang Yang (Stony brook university)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        LBL sensitivities 20m
        Speaker: Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee
    • 11:00 12:30
      Theia Physics: Low energy and astro
      • 11:00
        NL Double beta decay 30m
        Speaker: Dr Andrew Mastbaum (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Supernova and DSNB 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Michael Wurm (JGU Mainz)
        Slides
      • 12:05
        Solar 20m
        Speaker: Richard Bonventre (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch
    • 13:30 15:00
      Theia collaboration plans
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee
    • 15:30 17:00
      R&D: WbLS
      • 15:30
        Geometry considerations 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Stephen Dye
        Slides
      • 16:00
        WbLS 20m
        Speaker: Dr Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 16:35
        CHESS status and plans 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
    • 09:00 10:30
      Theia Physics: Antineutrino, reconstruction
      • 09:15
        ML reconstruction of DBD events 30m
        Speaker: Andrey Elagin (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Spherical harmonics and directionality 30m
        Speaker: Runyu Jiang
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Directional reconstruction 15m
        Speaker: Johann Martyn
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee
    • 11:00 12:30
      R&D: WbLS, fast photon detection
      • 11:00
        WbLS at 88" Cyclotron 20m
        Speaker: Dr Juan Manfredi
      • 11:25
        LAPPD characterisation at Sandia 20m
        Speaker: Ben Land (UCB)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Spectral separation 15m
        Speaker: Tanner Kaptanoglu
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Fast 8" PMTs 15m
        Speaker: Tanner Kaptanoglu
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch
    • 13:30 14:50
      R&D: WbLS and fast photon detection
      • 13:30
        LAPPD characterisation at FNAL test beam 20m
        Speaker: Evan Angelico (University of Chicago)
      • 13:55
        LAPPD characterisation at Iowa 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Matt Wetstein (Iowa State University)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Antineutrino studies 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Stephen Dye
        Slides
    • 14:50 15:20
      Coffee
    • 15:20 17:00
      Theia collaboration plans: Summer workshop, strategy
    • 09:00 10:30
      R&D
      • 09:00
        ANNIE 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Matt Wetstein (Iowa State University)
      • 09:20
        WATCHMAN/AIT 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Christopher Grant (Boston University)
      • 09:40
        R&D discussion 50m
        Discussion of coherent R&D plan, including plans to leverage existing and planned effort for other projects (WATCHMAN/AIT, ANNIE phase III etc).
        Speaker: Prof. Christopher Grant (Boston University)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee
    • 11:00 13:00
      R&D: Cavern
      • 11:00
        Cavern discussion 1h
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Close out discussion 1h
    • 13:00 15:30
      R&D: OPTIONAL ANNIE TOUR IN THE PM