FroST - Topical Workshop for THEIA

22 Oct 2016, 08:30 → 24 Oct 2016, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Room 03-431 (Institute of Physics, JGU Mainz)

Michael Wurm (JGU Mainz/PRISMA), Paul Hackspacher (Uni Mainz)

Credit: photo/©: Wladek Trzaska, University of Jyväskylä

 

The first topical workshop of the FroST series will be held October 22-24 at Mainz University (Germany). Discussion will focus on the plans and prospects for realizing the THEIA detector - a large water-based liquid scintillator experiment. Discussion will include both physics prospects and technological challenges, as well as international perspectives and funding prospects.

Saturday 22 October

08:30 → 08:55 Arrivals & Coffee (Included)

09:00 → 10:25 Session 1: Science Program

Convener: Josh Klein

09:00 Welcome and Workshop Goals

Speaker: Michael Wurm

Slides wurm_frost_intro.pdf

09:20 Overview of THEIA Physics in 2025 - High Energy (LBL, p Decay)

Speaker: Hirohisa Tanaka

Slides Tanaka_-_Frost_2016.pdf

09:55 THEIA Introduction / Overview

Speaker: Gabriel Orebi Gann

Slides Orebi_Gann_-_2016-10-22_FROSTii_THEIA.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break (Included)

10:55 → 12:35 Session 1: Science Program

Convener: Josh Klein

10:55 THEIA Possible Configurations

Speaker: Edward Blucher

Slides blucher_theia_configurations_2016.pdf

11:25 Long Baseline

Speaker: Michael Wilking

Slides theia_lbl_status.pdf

11:50 Supernovae

Speaker: Zhe Wang

Slides SRN-Slow-LS-wangzhe.pdf

12:15 Geo-Neutrinos

Speaker: Stephen Dye

Slides Theia_geonu.pdf

12:45 → 13:50 Lunch (Included)

14:00 → 15:55 Session 2: General Discussion

Convener: Edward Blucher

14:00 Discussions

15:20 Reconstructing Neutrino Interactions in LS Detectors

Speaker: John Learned

Slides FROST_jgl_talk_10-16.ppt

15:40 Reconstruction in LS

Speaker: Sebastian Lorenz

Slides 20161022_SLorenz_Tracking_FroST_Mainz_V2.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 Coffee Break (Included)

16:25 → 17:50 Session 2: General Discussion

Convener: Edward Blucher

16:25 C-14 in LS

Speaker: Timo Enqvist

Slides C14.pdf

16:45 WATCHMAN

Speaker: Steven Dazeley

Slides FRost2016Dazeley.pptx

17:10 miniBooNE

Speaker: Martin Tzanov

Slides tzanov_frost-ii.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner (Included)

Sunday 23 October

09:00 → 10:20 Session 3: Relevant Experiments and R&D

Convener: Milind Divan

09:00 Overview of THEIA Physics in 2025 - Low Energy

Speaker: Kai Zuber

Slides FROST16-Zuber.pdf

09:35 JUNO

Speaker: Livia Ludhova

Slides JUNO_FROST_Ludhova.pdf

10:00 ANNIE

Speaker: Frank Krennrich

Slides ANNIE-Talk-FROST-2016-Oct-23-2016-F.Krennrich.pdf

10:25 → 10:45 Coffee Break (Included)

10:50 → 12:25 Session 3: Relevant Experiments and R&D

Convener: Milind Diwan

10:50 LAPPD

Speaker: Andrey Elagin

Slides AElagin_FroST_Oct2016_v2.pdf

11:15 MCP-PMTs

Speaker: Sen Qian

Slides Qian_THEIA-20161023--V5.0.pdf

11:40 CHESS

Speaker: Gabriel Orebi Gann

Slides 2016-10-23_FROSTii_CHESS.pdf

12:05 WbLS Purification and Material Compatibility

Speaker: Robert Svoboda

Slides Svoboda_WbLS_Purification.pdf

12:35 → 13:40 Lunch (Included)

13:50 → 14:50 Session 3: Relevant Experiments and R&D

Convener: Milind Diwan

13:50 Neutrino beam parameters

Speaker: Eric Zimmerman

Slides frost16-Zimmerman.pdf

14:10 Discussion of Critical R&D and How to Coordinate

14:55 → 16:00 Session 4: Potential Sites and Excavations

Convener: John Learned

14:55 Excavations

Speaker: Kenneth Lande

Slides Lande_-_FROST_talk_-_23oct16.pdf Lande_-_FROST_talk_-_23oct16.pptx

15:30 SURF - LBNE Work

Speaker: David Vardiman

Slides Vardiman_-_FroST_-_THEIA_detector_workshop_Final.pdf Vardiman_-_FroST_-_THEIA_detector_workshop_Final.pptx

16:05 → 16:25 Coffee Break (Included)

16:30 → 18:20 Session 4: Potential Sites and Excavations

Convener: John Learned

16:30 Finland

Speaker: Wladyslaw Trzaska

Slides THEIA_in_Finland.pptx

17:00 Korea

Speaker: Seon-Hee Seo

Slides 2016-10-23_T2HKK-site_FroST_Seo.pdf

17:30 Discussion on Sites

18:05 0nbb event topology reconstruction

Speaker: Andrey Elagin

Slides AElagin_FroST_Oct2016_0vbb_v2.pdf

Monday 24 October

09:00 → 10:35 Session 5: Next Steps and Outlook

Convener: Robert Svoboda

09:00 White Paper Workshop

09:50 Working Groups

10:40 → 10:55 Coffee Break (Included)

11:00 → 13:00 Session 5: Next Steps and Outlook

Convener: Robert Svoboda

11:00 Mode of International Organization

11:45 Pending and Planned Proposals

12:30 Discussion on Next Meeting