Third EUROnu Annual Meeting

18 Jan 2011, 08:30 → 21 Jan 2011, 18:00 GMT

Pickavance Lecture Theatre (mainly) (RAL)

This is the third annual meeting of the EUROnu FP7 consortium. For more details, see http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/euro-neutrino/Annual-meeting-2011/EUROnu2011.html

Tuesday, 18 January

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:45 WP2 & 3 joint parallel session

Conveners: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London), Marco Zito

09:00 General Status of the IDR for AccWP

Speaker: J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides JSBerg-110118.pdf

09:25 Proton driver

Speaker: Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)

Slides PD_JPasternak_EUROnu.ppt

09:45 An investigation of pencil shaped solid target

Speaker: Peter Loveridge (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides PL_EUROnuAnnualMeeting_Jan2011.pdf PL_EUROnuAnnualMeeting_Jan2011.ppt

10:05 A static pebble bed target

Speaker: Tristan Davenne (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides A_Static_Packed_Bed_Target.pdf A_Static_Packed_Bed_Target.ppt

10:25 Summary of the LBNE target work

Speaker: Tristan Davenne (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides lbnetalk18thjan.pdf lbnetalk18thjan.ppt

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:45 WP2 parallel session 2

Convener: Marco Zito

11:00 Additional discussion on target

11:20 Sensitivity with pebble bed target and other studies

Speaker: Andrea Longhin (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

Slides LONGHIN_WP2_18jan2011.pdf

11:40 Horn studies

Speaker: Benjamin Lepers (IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides ral_presentation1.pdf

12:00 MiniBoone-like horn - dynamic response to magnetic and and thermal pulses

Speaker: Piotr Cupial (Cracow University of Technology)

Slides Annual_meeting_RAL.pdf

11:00 → 12:45 WP3 parallel session 2

Convener: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London)

11:00 Front End Overview

Speaker: Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)

Slides Muon_Front_End_Status.odp Muon_Front_End_Status.pdf

11:30 Yield Calculations

Speaker: Gersende Prior (CERN)

Slides 20100118_euronu_yield.pdf

11:50 Studies of ionization cooling lattices for the Neutrino Factory

Speaker: A. Alekou (Imperial College)

Slides EUROnuMeeting_AA.pptx

12:10 Status of LINAC and RLA

Speaker: Dr Kevin Beard (Muons, Inc)

Slides kbb2L.euronu.pdf

11:00 → 12:45 WP5 parallel session 2

Convener: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

11:00 Description of latest MIND analysis

Speaker: Anselmo Cervera Villanueva (Unknown)

Slides mind_euronu_january11.pdf

11:30 Description of Near Detector flux analysis

Speaker: Roumen Tsenov (Faculty of Physics)

Slides RTsenov-Euronu-RAL.pdf RTsenov-Euronu-RAL.ppt

12:00 Description of Water Cherenkov analysis

Speakers: Alessandra Tonazzo (Laboratoire APC - Astroparticules et Cosmologie-Universite de Pa), Nikolaos Vassilopolous (APC Paris)

Slides nvwp5euronu11.pdf

12:30 Discussion

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 WP2 parallel session 3

Convener: Marco Zito

14:00 Assessment of the cooling options for a Superbeam horn

Speaker: Bogdan Szybinski (Cracow University)

Slides p_aw_bsz.pdf p_aw_bsz.ppt

14:20 Discussion on Horn Baseline

14:40 Preliminary Radiation Studies

Speaker: Nicos Vassilopoulos (IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides wp2_euronu11_nv.pdf

15:00 Safety workshop

Speaker: Marcos Dracos (Centre de Recherches Nucleaire, Hautes Energies)

15:10 Baseline discussion

15:20 Status of the report

15:40 Discussion on presentations in the plenary session

14:00 → 15:45 WP3 parallel session 3

Convener: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London)

14:00 FFAG design and EMMA experiments

Speaker: shinji machida (STFC/RAL)

Slides machida20110118.ppt

14:30 FFAG injection studies

Speaker: David Kelliher (ASTeC/RAL/STFC)

Slides kelliher_euronu_injectextract.pptx

15:00 FFAG Hardware design

Speaker: Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)

Slides FFAG_H_JPasternak_EUROnu.ppt

14:00 → 15:45 WP4 parallel session 1

Conveners: Christian Hansen (Unknown), elena wildner (CERN)

14:00 → 15:45 WP5 & 6 joint parallel session

Conveners: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow), Prof. Pilar Hernandez (University of Valencia)

14:00 Neutrino cross sections from a theoretical perspective

Speaker: Luis Alvarez-Ruso

Slides LAR_v2.pdf LAR_v2.ppt

14:30 Nuclear effects in the neutrino-nucleus cross section and the determination of neutrino oscillation parameters

Speaker: Dr Davide Meloni (Wuerzburg University)

Slides talk_meloni.pdf

15:00 Treatment of systematic uncertainties in MIND analysis

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides MIND_Systematics_EuroNu_Jan11_Soler.pdf MIND_Systematics_EuroNu_Jan11_Soler.ppt

15:25 Discussion on treatment of systematics

15:45 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:45 WP2 parallel session 4

Convener: Marco Zito

16:00 Overflow and discussion

16:00 → 17:45 WP3 parallel session 4

Convener: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London)

16:00 Decay rings and Instrumentation

Speaker: Marco Apollonio

Slides EuroNu_Apollonio.ppt

16:40 Costing

Speaker: Cristian Bontoiu (High Energy Phys.Group-Blackett Laboratory-Imperial College Sci.)

Slides 15.euronu(ian2011).pdf

17:00 “Final” Discussion of IDR

Speaker: J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:00 → 17:45 WP4 parallel session 2

Conveners: Christian Hansen (Unknown), elena wildner (CERN)

16:00 → 17:45 WP5 parallel session 4

Convener: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

16:00 → 17:45 WP6 parallel session 2

Convener: Prof. Pilar Hernandez (University of Valencia)

16:00 Interpretation of MINOS data in terms of non-standard neutrino interactions

Speaker: Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

Slides EuroNuWP6.pdf

16:30 NSI at a NuFact: Correlation and CP violation effects

Speaker: Jacobo Lopez-Pavon (CSIC)

Slides EuronuNSI_Jacobo.pdf

17:00 Short-Baseline $\bar\nu_{\mu}\to\bar\nu_{e}$ Oscillations

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN)

Slides giunti-110118-ral-sbl.pdf

Wednesday, 19 January

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

09:10 → 09:50 Review of neutrino physics

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN)

Slides giunti-110119-ral-rev.pdf

09:50 → 10:20 Status of EUROnu

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (Unknown)

Slides EUROnu-intro-19Jan11.ppt

10:20 → 10:45 Summary of WP2

Speaker: Marco Zito

Slides 003-zito.pdf

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:25 Summary of WP3

Speaker: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London)

Slides EuronuannualmeetingRAL2011JP01.pdf

11:25 → 11:50 Summary of WP4

Speaker: elena wildner (CERN)

Slides MidTerm-WP4-Status.pdf MidTerm-WP4-Status.pptx

11:50 → 12:15 Summary of WP5

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides Summary_WP5_Soler.pdf Summary_WP5_Soler.ppt

12:15 → 12:40 Summary of WP6

Speaker: Prof. Pilar Hernandez (University of Valencia)

Slides WP6_RAL_Jan_2011.pptx

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 WP2 presentations

Convener: Marco Zito

14:00 Flux and sensitivity studies

Speaker: Andrea Longhin (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

Slides LONGHIN_EURONUWP2_19jan2011.pdf

14:20 Target

Speaker: Dr Otto Caretta (STFC, RAL)

Slides Otto_EURONu_RAL__01_10_new.pdf Otto_EURONu_RAL__01_10_new.pptx

14:40 Horn Studies I

Speaker: Benjamin Lepers (IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides horn_study.pdf

15:00 Horn studies II and integration

Speaker: Piotr Cupial (Cracow University of Technology)

Slides Plenary_RAL_cupial.pdf

15:45 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:45 WP3 presentations

Convener: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London)

16:00 Proton Driver

Speaker: John Thomason (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides 12_thomason.ppt

16:20 Neutrino Factory Target

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (Unknown)

Slides EUROnu-targets-18Jan11.ppt

16:40 Front End

Speaker: Gersende Prior (CERN)

Slides 20100118_euronu_frontend.pdf

17:00 Linacs and RLA

Speaker: Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London)

Slides 15-kurup.ppt

17:20 FFAG

Speaker: Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)

Slides FFAG_Main_JPasternak_EUROnu190111.pdf FFAG_Main_JPasternak_EUROnu190111.ppt

Thursday, 20 January

09:00 → 10:45 WP4 presentations

Conveners: Christian Hansen (Unknown), elena wildner (CERN)

09:00 Production Ring for 8Li and 8B

Speaker: Elena Benedetto (Unknown)

Slides EB_ral_euronu.pdf

09:20 Collection Device Status

Speaker: Semen Mitrofanov (UCL)

Slides RALmitsem.pdf RALmitsem.ppt

09:40 Status of the 8B production experiment at LNL

Speaker: Gianmaria Collazuol (INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN))

Slides 03_collazuol.pdf

10:00 ECR Source Status

Speaker: Thierry Lamy (LPSC Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC))

Slides 04_lamy.ppt

10:20 Collective Effects in the Decay Ring

Speaker: Christian Hansen (Unknown)

Slides bbCollective_RAL.pdf

10:30 Proposal for a new Decay Ring Lattice

Speaker: Antoine Chance (CEA Saclay)

Slides 2011_01_20_Chance_DR.pdf

10:40 WP4 Questions

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:45 WP5 presentations

Convener: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

11:00 Introduction to WP5

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides Introduction_WP5_Soler.pdf Introduction_WP5_Soler.ppt

11:25 MIND Status

Speaker: Anselmo Cervera Villanueva (Unknown)

Slides mind_euronu_plenary_january11.pdf

11:50 Near Detector Status

Speaker: Roumen Tsenov (Faculty of Physics)

Slides ND_Status_RTsenov-Euronu-RAL.pdf ND_Status_RTsenov-Euronu-RAL.ppt

12:15 Water Cherenkov Status

Speakers: Alessandra Tonazzo (Laboratoire APC - Astroparticules et Cosmologie-Universite de Pa), Nikolaos Vassilopolous (APC Paris)

Slides nvwp5euronu11_plenary.pdf nvwp5euronu11_plenary.ppt

12:40 Questions

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 WP6 presentations

Convener: Prof. Pilar Hernandez (University of Valencia)

14:00 Review of betabeam setups

Speaker: Andrea Donini (CSIC)

Slides 11_donini.pdf

14:35 Optimization of Nufact: revisited

Speaker: Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (IFIC - Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular)

Slides RAL.pdf

15:10 Tau contamination at the NUFACT

Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Slides euronu_coloma.pdf

15:45 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:45 Baseline review

Presentation and discussion of baselines to be considered in EUROnu

Convener: Rob Edgecock (Unknown)

16:00 What information is required by WP6

Speaker: Prof. Pilar Hernandez (University of Valencia)

16:10 Superbeam baseline(s) and discussion

Speaker: Marco Zito

Slides 15_longhin.pdf

16:35 Neutrino Factory baseline(s) and discussion

Speaker: Juergen Pozimski (Imperial College London)

Slides EuronuannualmeetingRAL2011JP02.pdf

17:00 Beta Beam baseline(s) and discussion

Speaker: elena wildner (CERN)

Slides Baseline.pdf Baseline.pptx

17:25 Detectors baseline(s) and discussion

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides Detector_Baseline_Soler_Jan11.ppt

18:40 → 18:45 Bus departure for dinner at Exeter College

The bus will depart from outside Ridgeway House.

Friday, 21 January

09:00 → 09:30 Status of costing for EUROnu

Speaker: Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

Slides ie-AnnualMeeting_Jan11.pdf ie-AnnualMeeting_Jan11.pptx

09:30 → 10:00 Safety panel and plans

Speaker: Marcos Dracos (Centre de Recherches Nucleaire, Hautes Energies)

Slides marcos_safety.pdf marcos_safety.ppt

10:00 → 10:20 ECFA panel

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides 03-long.pptx

10:20 → 10:45 Preparations for CERN Strategy review

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:45 IAP meeting

Convener: Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:00 → 12:45 IDR presentations

Convener: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

11:00 Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides 04-long.pptx

11:10 Physics at the Neutrino Factory

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (Unknown)

Slides 05-pascoli.pdf

11:40 Accelerator Facility

Speaker: J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides JSBerg-110121.pdf

12:10 Neutrino Detectors

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides IDR_Detectors_Soler.ppt

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 GB Meeting

Convener: Rob Edgecock (Unknown)

14:00 Project coordinators report

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (Unknown)

14:20 EUROnu technical review

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (Unknown)

14:30 ECFA panel

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

14:40 IAP report

Speaker: Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides Zisman_IAPreport-1-21-11-R1a.pdf Zisman_IAPreport-1-21-11-R1a.ppt

15:10 Discussion of matters arising

15:25 Steps after EUROnu

15:40 Next EUROnu annual meeting