AGENDA: UPenn Workshop

US/Eastern
    • 09:00 10:30
      Overview: Welcome, motivations, context
      Convener: Josh Klein (Penn)
    • 10:30 11:00
      MORNING COFFEE BREAK 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Scintillator development and application: Scintillator development
      Convener: Jose Maneira (LIP)
    • 12:30 13:30
      LUNCH BREAK 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      Scintillator development and application: Scintillator applications
      Convener: Andy Mastbaum (Rutgers)
      • 13:30
        Development of slow water-based scintillator 12m
        Speaker: Bruno Gelli (UC Davis)
      • 13:45
        WbLS analysis at ANNIE 12m
        Speaker: Johann Martyn (U Mainz)
      • 14:00
        Muon analysis at the BNL 1-ton 12m
        Speaker: Adam Baldoni (PSU)
      • 14:15
        Panel Discussion: scintillator development 45m

        Critical technical advances moving forward
        Tradeoffs in materials (bkds, optics, cost, recon…)

        Speakers: (Moderator) Bob Svoboda (UC Davis), Hans Stieger (TU Munich), Minfang Yeh (BNL), Szymon Manecki (SNOLAB), Weronika Wolszczak (LBNL)
    • 15:00 15:30
      AFTERNOON TEA BREAK 30m
    • 15:30 17:00
      Analysis: Techniques and detector design
      Convener: Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
    • 09:00 10:30
      Instrumentation: Advanced photon detection
      Convener: Leon Pickard
    • 10:30 11:00
      MORNING COFFEE BREAK 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Instrumentation: Readout
      Convener: Logan Lebanowski (LBNL)
    • 12:30 13:30
      LUNCH BREAK 1h
    • 12:30 13:30
      Theia: coordination group (by invitation)
      Convener: Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
    • 13:30 15:00
      Instrumentation: Applications and development
      Convener: Milind Diwan (BNL)
      • 13:30
        Fast PMT measurements 12m
        Speaker: Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
      • 13:45
        Photon counting in Cher/scint detectors 12m
        Speaker: Joshua Cates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
      • 14:00
        Dichroicon occupancy and shadowing from Michel electrons in Eos 12m
        Speaker: Ben Harris (U Pennsylvania)
      • 14:15
        Panel Discussion 45m

        Critical technical advances; tradeoffs (bkds, optics, cost, recon…)

        Speakers: (Moderator) Milind Diwan (BNL), Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkeley, LBNL), Rick Van Berg (U Pennsylvania), Chris Grant (Boston U), Dr Carl Grace (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • 15:00 15:30
      AFTERNOON TEA BREAK 30m
    • 15:30 17:00
      Demonstrators and prototypes: session 1
      Convener: Ed Callaghan
    • 09:00 10:20
      Demonstrators and prototypes: session 2
      Convener: Sam Naugle (Penn)
    • 10:20 10:50
      MORNING COFFEE BREAK 30m
    • 10:50 11:25
      Demonstrators and prototypes: session 3
      Convener: Bob Svoboda (UC Davis)
    • 11:25 12:25
      Towards a large detector
      Convener: Josh Klein (Penn)
      • 11:25
        Panel Discussion 1h

        Reference design for a large detector, how to optimize, decision points
        Most promising techniques, critical path on prototypes, what to test

        Speakers: Bob Svoboda (UC Davis), Jeter Hall (SNOLAB), Joshua Klein (University of Pennsylvania), Matt Wetstein (Iowa State U), Milind Diwan (BNL)
    • 12:25 13:25
      LUNCH BREAK 1h
    • 13:25 14:35
      New ideas
      Convener: Adam Baldoni (PSU)
    • 14:35 15:05
      AFTERNOON TEA BREAK 30m
    • 15:05 15:55
      Overview: Closing
      Convener: Gabriel Orebi Gann
      • 15:05
        Overview and path forwards 30m
        Speaker: Jose Maneira (LIP)
      • 15:45
        Closing and thanks 10m