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Charles Lane (Drexel University), Jelena Maricic (Drexel University)
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Advances in Neutrino Technology
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  • Monday, 10 October
    • Introduction
      Conveners: Prof. Charles Lane (Drexel University), Dr Jelena Maricic (Drexel University)
      • 08:00
        Workshop registration

        registration

      • 1
        Welcome
        Speakers: Prof. Charles Lane (Drexel University), Dr Jelena Maricic (Drexel University)
        Slides
    • Session 1: Current Prospects

      Prospects of current and near-term neutrino experiments in light of T2K and MINOS results

      • 2
        Prospects of current and near-term neutrino experiments in light of T2K and MINOS results
        Speaker: Dr Yoshinari Hayato (Kamioka, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 3
        Status of NOvA
        Speaker: Luke Corwin (Indiana University)
        Slides
    • Session 2A: Future experiments

      Status of LBNE/HyperK/LENA

      • 4
        Overview of LBNE
        Speaker: James Stewart (BNL)
        Slides
      • 5
        Overview of HyperKamiokande
        Speaker: Masato Shiozawa (ICRR-University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 10:45
        coffee break
      • 6
        Overview of LENA
        Speaker: Juergen Winter (Technischen Universität München)
        Slides
    • Session 2B: Challenges and Advances

      Summary of technological challenges/advances for reactor/geo/solar neutrinos and neutrino anomaly

      • 7
        Mini Time Cube and reactor neutrino anomaly
        Speaker: John Learned (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
      • 12:30
        Lunch (brought in)
      • 8
        Positronium signature in liquid and plastic scintillator
        Speaker: Davide Franco (APC Univ. Paris 7)
        Slides
      • 9
        Neutron detection and identification using ZnS:Ag/6LiF in segmented neutrino detectors
        Speaker: David Reyna (Sandia National Laboratory)
        Slides
    • Session 3: Photon Detectors I

      Photon Detectors I

      • 10
        PMT development at ETL
        Speaker: Ron McAlpine (Electron Tube Enterprises)
        Slides
      • 11
        PMT development at Hamamatsu
        Speaker: Yuji Yoshizawa (Hamamatsu Corporation)
      • 12
        PMT response
        Speaker: Stan Seibert (University of Pennsylvania)
        Slides
      • 13
        PMT-LENA
        Speaker: Juergen Winter (Technischen Universität München)
        Slides
      • 15:55
        coffee break
      • 14
        PMT pressure tests
        Speaker: Milind Diwan (BNL)
        Slides
      • 15
        WLS plates for LBNE
        Speaker: William Johnston (Colorado State Univ.)
        Slides
      • 16
        Winston cones for LBNE
        Speaker: Stefano Perasso (Drexel University)
        Slides
  • Tuesday, 11 October
    • Session 4: Photon Detectors II

      Photon Detectors: II

      • 17
        LAPPDs: MCPs and overview
        Speaker: Prof. Henry Frisch (Enrico Fermi Institute and Argonne National Lab)
        Slides
      • 18
        LAPPDs: photocathode research
        Speaker: Klaus Attenkofer (Univ of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 19
        LAPPDs: picosecond readout
        Speaker: Eric Oberla (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 20
        Discussion on photodetectors
        Speakers: Mayly Sanchez (Iowa State University), Paul Mantsch (FNAL), Dr Zelimir Djurcic (ANL)
        Slides
    • 10:30
      coffee break
    • Session 5: Materials

      Materials and water/scintillator systems

      • 21
        Gd overview
        Speaker: Mark Vagins (UC Irvine, Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)
        Slides
      • 22
        Water quality: Gd
        Speaker: Andre Renshaw (UC Irvine)
        Slides
      • 23
        MC studies on photo coverage with Gd
        Speaker: John Felde (UC Davis)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Lunch (brought in)
      • 24
        Water detector at LLNL
        Speaker: Steven Dazeley (LLNL)
        Slides
      • 25
        Overview of scintillation systems
        Speaker: Daniel Bick (DESY)
        Slides
      • 26
        Water-based liquid scintillator for large physics experiments
        Speaker: Dr Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 27
        Scintillator (SNO+ Nd loaded, LENS with In, Gd loading)
        Speaker: Liang Ming Hu (Virginia Tech)
        Slides
      • 28
        LS veto for large arrays of macro bolometers
        Speaker: Paolo Gorla (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata)
        Slides
      • 29
        Material compatibility testing
        Speaker: Sunej Hans (BNL)
        Slides
    • Session 6: Vetos/Liners

      Vetos/Liners/Containers

      • 30
        Liner for LBNE Water Cherenkov detector
        Speaker: Farshid Feyzi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 31
        SNO experience
        Speaker: Doug Hallman (Laurentian University)
        Slides
      • 32
        KamLAND experience
        Speaker: Masayuki Koga (Tohoku University)
        Slides
  • Wednesday, 12 October
    • Sesson 7: Site Studies

      Site Studies

      • 33
        Physics arguments for detector locations
        Speaker: Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (Jyvaskyla University)
        Slides
      • 34
        Geotechnical studies for LENA at Pyhasalmi
        Speaker: Guido Nuijten (Rockplan)
        Slides
      • 35
        US Geotechnical studies for LBNE at Homestake
        Speaker: David Vardiman (Sanford Lab)
        Slides
      • 36
        Site studies for Hyper-K
        Speaker: Hiroshi Kurokawa (Mitsui Company)
        Slides
    • 10:30
      coffee break
    • Session 8: Software and Analysis

      Software and Analysis

      • 37
        Polfit tool for SK
        Speaker: Kimihiro Okumura (ICRR-University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 38
        Reconstruction using timing for water detectors
        Speaker: Matt Wetstein (University of Chicago/ANL)
        pictures
        Slides
      • 12:00
        lunch (brought in)
      • 39
        CHROMA (ray tracing + reconstruction)
        Speaker: Stan Seibert (University of Pennsylvania)
        more information
        Slides
        Video
      • 40
        LNBE WC detector reconstruction and LCs
        Speaker: Xin Qian (Caltech)
        Slides
    • Round table discussion

      discussion and recap

      • 41
        Discussion: Neutron yield in atmospheric neutrino interactions: do we need to mount an experiment to measure it?
        Convener: Svoboda (UC Davis)
        Speaker: Zelimir Djurcic (ANL)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        coffee break
      • 42
        OPERA discussion (Convener: John J. Learned)
        Speaker: Mayly Sanchez (Iowa State Uniiversity)
        • a) What can MINOS and T2K say about OPERA result?
          Slides
      • 43
        Recap and future steps (Convener: Milind Diwan)
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