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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
    • 08:00 → 08:35
      Introduction
      Conveners: Prof. Charles Lane (Drexel University), Dr Jelena Maricic (Drexel University)
      • 08:00
        Workshop registration 30m

        registration

      • 08:30
        Welcome 5m
        Speakers: Prof. Charles Lane (Drexel University), Dr Jelena Maricic (Drexel University)
        Slides
    • 08:35 → 09:35
      Session 1: Current Prospects

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

      • 08:35
        Prospects of current and near-term neutrino experiments in light of T2K and MINOS results 35m
        Speaker: Dr Yoshinari Hayato (Kamioka, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 09:10
        Status of NOvA 25m
        Speaker: Luke Corwin (Indiana University)
        Slides
    • 09:35 → 11:45
      Session 2A: Future experiments

      Status of LBNE/HyperK/LENA

      • 09:35
        Overview of LBNE 35m
        Speaker: James Stewart (BNL)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Overview of HyperKamiokande 35m
        Speaker: Masato Shiozawa (ICRR-University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 10:45
        coffee break 25m
      • 11:10
        Overview of LENA 35m
        Speaker: Juergen Winter (Technischen Universität München)
        Slides
    • 11:45 → 14:20
      Session 2B: Challenges and Advances

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

      • 11:45
        Mini Time Cube and reactor neutrino anomaly 45m
        Speaker: John Learned (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
      • 12:30
        Lunch (brought in) 1h
      • 13:30
        Positronium signature in liquid and plastic scintillator 25m
        Speaker: Davide Franco (APC Univ. Paris 7)
        Slides
      • 13:55
        Neutron detection and identification using ZnS:Ag/6LiF in segmented neutrino detectors 25m
        Speaker: David Reyna (Sandia National Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 14:20 → 17:30
      Session 3: Photon Detectors I

      Photon Detectors I

      • 14:20
        PMT development at ETL 25m
        Speaker: Ron McAlpine (Electron Tube Enterprises)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        PMT development at Hamamatsu 25m
        Speaker: Yuji Yoshizawa (Hamamatsu Corporation)
      • 15:10
        PMT response 25m
        Speaker: Stan Seibert (University of Pennsylvania)
        Slides
      • 15:35
        PMT-LENA 20m
        Speaker: Juergen Winter (Technischen Universität München)
        Slides
      • 15:55
        coffee break 20m
      • 16:15
        PMT pressure tests 35m
        Speaker: Milind Diwan (BNL)
        Slides
      • 16:50
        WLS plates for LBNE 20m
        Speaker: William Johnston (Colorado State Univ.)
        Slides
      • 17:10
        Winston cones for LBNE 20m
        Speaker: Stefano Perasso (Drexel University)
        Slides
  • Tuesday, 11 October
    • 08:55 → 10:30
      Session 4: Photon Detectors II

      Photon Detectors: II

      • 08:55
        LAPPDs: MCPs and overview 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Henry Frisch (Enrico Fermi Institute and Argonne National Lab)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        LAPPDs: photocathode research 25m
        Speaker: Klaus Attenkofer (Univ of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        LAPPDs: picosecond readout 25m
        Speaker: Eric Oberla (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Discussion on photodetectors 20m
        Speakers: Mayly Sanchez (Iowa State University), Paul Mantsch (FNAL), Dr Zelimir Djurcic (ANL)
        Slides
    • 10:30 → 10:50
      coffee break 20m
    • 10:50 → 16:10
      Session 5: Materials

      Materials and water/scintillator systems

      • 10:50
        Gd overview 30m
        Speaker: Mark Vagins (UC Irvine, Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Water quality: Gd 25m
        Speaker: Andre Renshaw (UC Irvine)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        MC studies on photo coverage with Gd 25m
        Speaker: John Felde (UC Davis)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Lunch (brought in) 1h
      • 13:10
        Water detector at LLNL 30m
        Speaker: Steven Dazeley (LLNL)
        Slides
      • 13:40
        Overview of scintillation systems 30m
        Speaker: Daniel Bick (DESY)
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Water-based liquid scintillator for large physics experiments 25m
        Speaker: Dr Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 14:35
        Scintillator (SNO+ Nd loaded, LENS with In, Gd loading) 25m
        Speaker: Liang Ming Hu (Virginia Tech)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        LS veto for large arrays of macro bolometers 25m
        Speaker: Paolo Gorla (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata)
        Slides
      • 15:25
        Material compatibility testing 25m
        Speaker: Sunej Hans (BNL)
        Slides
    • 16:10 → 17:25
      Session 6: Vetos/Liners

      Vetos/Liners/Containers

      • 16:10
        Liner for LBNE Water Cherenkov detector 25m
        Speaker: Farshid Feyzi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 16:35
        SNO experience 25m
        Speaker: Doug Hallman (Laurentian University)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        KamLAND experience 25m
        Speaker: Masayuki Koga (Tohoku University)
        Slides
  • Wednesday, 12 October
    • 08:30 → 10:30
      Sesson 7: Site Studies

      Site Studies

      • 08:30
        Physics arguments for detector locations 30m
        Speaker: Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (Jyvaskyla University)
        Slides
      • 09:00
        Geotechnical studies for LENA at Pyhasalmi 30m
        Speaker: Guido Nuijten (Rockplan)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        US Geotechnical studies for LBNE at Homestake 30m
        Speaker: David Vardiman (Sanford Lab)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Site studies for Hyper-K 30m
        Speaker: Hiroshi Kurokawa (Mitsui Company)
        Slides
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 → 14:00
      Session 8: Software and Analysis

      Software and Analysis

      • 11:00
        Polfit tool for SK 30m
        Speaker: Kimihiro Okumura (ICRR-University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Reconstruction using timing for water detectors 30m
        Speaker: Matt Wetstein (University of Chicago/ANL)
        pictures
        Slides
      • 12:00
        lunch (brought in) 1h
      • 13:00
        CHROMA (ray tracing + reconstruction) 25m
        Speaker: Stan Seibert (University of Pennsylvania)
        more information
        Slides
        Video
      • 13:25
        LNBE WC detector reconstruction and LCs 35m
        Speaker: Xin Qian (Caltech)
        Slides
    • 14:00 → 18:20
      Round table discussion

      discussion and recap

      • 14:00
        Discussion: Neutron yield in atmospheric neutrino interactions: do we need to mount an experiment to measure it? 1h
        Convener: Svoboda (UC Davis)
        Speaker: Zelimir Djurcic (ANL)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        coffee break 20m
      • 15:20
        OPERA discussion (Convener: John J. Learned) 1h
        Speaker: Mayly Sanchez (Iowa State Uniiversity)
        • What can MINOS and T2K say about OPERA result? 20m
          Slides
      • 16:20
        Recap and future steps (Convener: Milind Diwan) 1h
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