FroST - Topical Workshop for THEIA

Oct 22, 2016, 8:30 AM → Oct 24, 2016, 1:00 PM 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.

Sat, October 22

8:30 AM → 8:55 AM Arrivals & Coffee (Included)

9:00 AM → 10:25 AM Session 1: Science Program

Convener: Josh Klein

9:00 AM Welcome and Workshop Goals

Speaker: Michael Wurm

Slides wurm_frost_intro.pdf

9:20 AM Overview of THEIA Physics in 2025 - High Energy (LBL, p Decay)

Speaker: Hirohisa Tanaka

Slides Tanaka_-_Frost_2016.pdf

9:55 AM THEIA Introduction / Overview

Speaker: Gabriel Orebi Gann

Slides Orebi_Gann_-_2016-10-22_FROSTii_THEIA.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break (Included)

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

Convener: Josh Klein

10:55 AM THEIA Possible Configurations

Speaker: Edward Blucher

Slides blucher_theia_configurations_2016.pdf

11:25 AM Long Baseline

Speaker: Michael Wilking

Slides theia_lbl_status.pdf

11:50 AM Supernovae

Speaker: Zhe Wang

Slides SRN-Slow-LS-wangzhe.pdf

12:15 PM Geo-Neutrinos

Speaker: Stephen Dye

Slides Theia_geonu.pdf

12:45 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch (Included)

2:00 PM → 3:55 PM Session 2: General Discussion

Convener: Edward Blucher

2:00 PM Discussions

3:20 PM Reconstructing Neutrino Interactions in LS Detectors

Speaker: John Learned

Slides FROST_jgl_talk_10-16.ppt

3:40 PM Reconstruction in LS

Speaker: Sebastian Lorenz

Slides 20161022_SLorenz_Tracking_FroST_Mainz_V2.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break (Included)

4:25 PM → 5:50 PM Session 2: General Discussion

Convener: Edward Blucher

4:25 PM C-14 in LS

Speaker: Timo Enqvist

Slides C14.pdf

4:45 PM WATCHMAN

Speaker: Steven Dazeley

Slides FRost2016Dazeley.pptx

5:10 PM miniBooNE

Speaker: Martin Tzanov

Slides tzanov_frost-ii.pdf

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Conference Dinner (Included)

Sun, October 23

9:00 AM → 10:20 AM Session 3: Relevant Experiments and R&D

Convener: Milind Divan

9:00 AM Overview of THEIA Physics in 2025 - Low Energy

Speaker: Kai Zuber

Slides FROST16-Zuber.pdf

9:35 AM JUNO

Speaker: Livia Ludhova

Slides JUNO_FROST_Ludhova.pdf

10:00 AM ANNIE

Speaker: Frank Krennrich

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

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break (Included)

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

Convener: Milind Diwan

10:50 AM LAPPD

Speaker: Andrey Elagin

Slides AElagin_FroST_Oct2016_v2.pdf

11:15 AM MCP-PMTs

Speaker: Sen Qian

Slides Qian_THEIA-20161023--V5.0.pdf

11:40 AM CHESS

Speaker: Gabriel Orebi Gann

Slides 2016-10-23_FROSTii_CHESS.pdf

12:05 PM WbLS Purification and Material Compatibility

Speaker: Robert Svoboda

Slides Svoboda_WbLS_Purification.pdf

12:35 PM → 1:40 PM Lunch (Included)

1:50 PM → 2:50 PM Session 3: Relevant Experiments and R&D

Convener: Milind Diwan

1:50 PM Neutrino beam parameters

Speaker: Eric Zimmerman

Slides frost16-Zimmerman.pdf

2:10 PM Discussion of Critical R&D and How to Coordinate

2:55 PM → 4:00 PM Session 4: Potential Sites and Excavations

Convener: John Learned

2:55 PM Excavations

Speaker: Kenneth Lande

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

3:30 PM SURF - LBNE Work

Speaker: David Vardiman

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

4:05 PM → 4:25 PM Coffee Break (Included)

4:30 PM → 6:20 PM Session 4: Potential Sites and Excavations

Convener: John Learned

4:30 PM Finland

Speaker: Wladyslaw Trzaska

Slides THEIA_in_Finland.pptx

5:00 PM Korea

Speaker: Seon-Hee Seo

Slides 2016-10-23_T2HKK-site_FroST_Seo.pdf

5:30 PM Discussion on Sites

6:05 PM 0nbb event topology reconstruction

Speaker: Andrey Elagin

Slides AElagin_FroST_Oct2016_0vbb_v2.pdf

Mon, October 24

9:00 AM → 10:35 AM Session 5: Next Steps and Outlook

Convener: Robert Svoboda

9:00 AM White Paper Workshop

9:50 AM Working Groups

10:40 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee Break (Included)

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM Session 5: Next Steps and Outlook

Convener: Robert Svoboda

11:00 AM Mode of International Organization

11:45 AM Pending and Planned Proposals

12:30 PM Discussion on Next Meeting