ICARUS Collaboration Meeting

14 Apr 2025, 10:00 → 17 Apr 2025, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac (CERN)

ICARUS is the world’s first large liquid-argon neutrino detector, and the technology pioneered for the experiment will be the template for future neutrino experiments.

The ICARUS collaboration studied neutrinos at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy — operated by the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) — from 2010 to 2013 under the leadership of Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia. The ICARUS experiment pioneered the use of a new technology for spotting neutrinos using liquid argon, 760 tons of which fill the ICARUS detector.

Now at Fermilab, as part of the SBN program, ICARUS will search for the long-theorized but never-detected sterile neutrino.

ICARUS’s liquid-argon detection technology will also be adapted for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Fermilab’s flagship. 

Monday 14 April

14:30 → 16:30 Opening Session

Convener: Prof. Carlo Rubbia (GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute))

14:30 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Carlo Rubbia (GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute))

14:40 ICARUS Detector Status

Speaker: Claudio Montanari

15:00 Data collected with Run 4

Speakers: Guadalupe Moreno Granados (Virginia Tech), Jamie Dyer

15:20 Booster and NuMI Beam Status and Perspective

Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)

15:45 Discussion

16:30 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 19:50 Cross-Section and BSM analyses with NuMI

Convener: Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh)

16:40 Cross-Sections Measurements

Speaker: Dr Stephen Dolan (CERN)

16:50 1muNp: nu-mu cross-section

Speakers: Bruce Howard, Jae Sung Kim (University of Rochester (US))

17:15 1mu(N>=2)p: nu-mu cross-section

Speaker: John Smedley

17:40 Reverse horn current: 1muNp Cross-Section

Speaker: D. Senadheera (University of Pittsburgh)

17:55 Nu-mu-CC inclusive cross-section

Speaker: Promita Roy (Centre for Neutrino Physics, Virginia tech)

18:10 Nu-mu 1pi cross sections

Speaker: S. Yadav (University of Texas Arlington)

18:25 Beam Systematics

Speaker: Prof. Daniel David Cherdack (University of Houston (US))

18:40 Beyond Standard Model

Speakers: Animesh Chatterjee (Physical Research Laboratory (India)), Jamie Dyer

19:10 Discussion

Tuesday 15 April

14:30 → 16:40 Coffee Break

Convener: Tracy Usher

14:30 Data processing, MC production and computing resources

Speaker: Promita Roy (Centre for Neutrino Physics, Virginia tech)

15:00 Event Simulation and Reconstruction

Speaker: Alice Campani

15:30 Detector Calibration

Speaker: Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

15:50 Event selection: Cosmic Rays rejection

Speaker: Francesco Poppi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

16:10 Discussion

16:40 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 19:00 Event selection for Oscillation Analysis (BNB nu-mu)

Convener: Elizabeth Worcester

16:50 Event selection with ML (SPINE)

Speaker: Francois Drielsma

17:20 Event Selection with Pandora

Speaker: Maria Artero Pons (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

17:45 MC to Data Agreement

Speaker: Christian Farnese (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

18:10 Beam and Data Quality

Speaker: Jacob Smith (Stony Brook University)

18:30 Discussion

Wednesday 16 April

11:00 → 13:10 Reports from Institutional Boards and SBND

Convener: Delia Salmieri (CERN)

11:00 SBND Status Report

Speaker: Ornella Palamara (Fermilab)

11:25 ICARUS Resources

Speaker: Prof. Robert Wilson (Colorado State University)

11:40 Report on ICARUS Publications

Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Menegolli (Department of Physics, University of Pavia and INFN Pavia (Italy))

11:55 Report on planned Conferences

Speaker: Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh)

12:10 Report from the ICARUS Institutional Board

Speaker: Mark Richard Convery (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:25 Report from SBN ICARUS Young

Speaker: Jacob Smith (Stony Brook University)

12:40 Discussion

13:10 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 17:00 Oscillation Analysis (BNB nu-mu)

Convener: Prof. Robert Wilson (Colorado State University)

14:30 Detector Systematics Studies

Speaker: Jacob Zettlemoyer

14:45 Fitting Framework and Sensitivities to Oscillations

Speaker: Jacob Larkin (University of Rochester)

15:10 Beam flux and neutrino cross-section systematics

Speaker: Prof. Daniel David Cherdack (University of Houston (US))

15:40 Neutrino interaction systematics with MC mock data

Speakers: Elizabeth Worcester, Jean Wolfs (University of Rochester)

16:10 Discussion

16:40 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:30 Plans for present analysis

Convener: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:00 Plans for analysis

Speakers: Daniele Gibin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)), Elizabeth Worcester

17:45 Discussion

19:30 → 21:30 ICARUS Collaboration Dinner

Restaurant Le Lacustre (Geneva Downtown) - Quai du Général-Guisan 5, 1204 Genève, phone +41 22 317 40 00

Thursday 17 April

14:00 → 16:50 Developments towards future analyses

Convener: Luca Stanco (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

14:00 Nu-e event selection with ML (SPINE)

Speaker: Daniel Carber

14:20 E.M. Shower Reconstruction (Pandora)

Speaker: Riccardo Triozzi

14:40 Pi0 Reconstruction with ML (SPINE)

Speaker: Lane Kashur

15:00 New Simulation of BNB Neutrino Flux

Speaker: Dr Leonidas Aliaga Soplin (Fermilab)

15:15 Updated MC model and 2D deconvolution of wire signals

Speaker: Gray Putnam

15:50 New SBN MC production and ICARUS data processing

Speaker: Joseph Zennamo

16:05 MC Simulation with Data Overlays

Speaker: Ivan Caro Terrazas

16:20 Discussion

16:40 Coffee Break

16:50 → 18:25 PhD/Master thesis talks and Flash talks

Convener: Anna Heggestuen

16:50 Master Thesis: Muon momentum reconstruction by MCS

Speaker: Giovanni Chiello (INFN Sezione di Pisa)

17:05 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Enrico Vedovato ((INFN Padova and Padova University))

17:15 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Nicola Sommaggio ((INFN Padova and Padova University))

17:25 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Zihao Lin (University of Rochester)

17:35 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Noah VARDY (Colorado State University)

17:45 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Melanie Alicea (Colorado State University)

17:55 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Julia Gao (Colorado State University)

18:05 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Carlo Gulizia (INFN LNS and Catania University))

18:15 Young ICARUS Flash Talk

Speaker: Mattia Sotgia ((INFN Genova and Genova University))

18:25 → 18:40 -: Concluding remarks

Convener: Prof. Carlo Rubbia (GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute))