2nd International Workshop towards the Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Experiment (GLA2011)

from Sunday, 5 June 2011 (18:00) to Friday, 10 June 2011 (10:00)
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (JYFL)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Jun 2011
6 Jun 2011
7 Jun 2011
8 Jun 2011
9 Jun 2011
10 Jun 2011
AM
08:00
Excursion to Pyhäjärvi town and Pyhäsalmi mine underground visit (until 20:00) ()
08:30
Welcome address (until 09:10) ()
08:30 Opening remarks   ()
08:50 Welcome address from the Vice-Rector of University of Jyväskylä - Prof. Matti Manninen (University of Jyväskyla)   ()
Slides
09:10
Main goals of Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Experiment (until 12:30) ()
09:10 Overview talk on long baseline oscillation experiments - Prof. Milind Diwan (BNL)   ()
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09:50 Overview talk on astrophysical neutrinos - Prof. Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)   ()
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10:30 Overview talk on proton decay searches - Dr Yoshinari Hayato (ICRR)   ()
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11:10 Status of CP violation searches in hadronic sector - Dr Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)   ()
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11:50 Very Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments using Cyclotron Decay-at-Rest Sources - Dr Sanjib Agarwalla (IFIC Valencia)   ()
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08:30
Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (II) (until 12:35) ()
08:30 ArgoNeut results - Prof. Carl Bromberg (Michigan State University)   ()
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08:50 T32 @ J-PARC results - Prof. Takasumi Maruyama (KEK-IPNS)   ()
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09:10 Status of MicroBOONE - Dr Roxanne Guenette (Yale University)   ()
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09:30 Status of the LBNE project - Prof. Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)   ()
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10:15 --- Coffee ---
10:45 Results from XENON-100 and future plans - Dr Antonio Jesus Melgarejo Fernandez (Columbia University)   ()
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11:15 Status of XMASS - Dr Atsushi TAKEDA (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)   ()
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11:35 Status of WARP - Dr Claudio Montanari (INFN Pavia)   ()
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12:05 Status of ArDM - Dr Alessandro Curioni (ETH Zurich)   ()
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08:30
Improvements of the Liquid Argon Charge Imaging technology (II) (until 10:00) ()
08:30 Development and experience with very high voltage feed-throughs - Prof. Hanguo Wang (UCLA)   ()
08:50 Status of LAPD - Dr Brian Rebel (FNAL)   ()
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09:20 Status and plans with 6m3 at CERN - Dr Alberto Marchionni (ETH Zurich)   ()
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09:40 Liquid Argon Purification Studies using a Novel Recirculation System - Dr Kostas Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool)   ()
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10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Underground location studies (until 12:00) ()
10:30 Pyhäsalmi site study - Lauri Uotinen (Kalliosuunnittelu Oy Rockplan Ltd)   ()
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11:00 Okinoshima site study - Prof. Masakazu Yoshioka (KEK-IPNS)   ()
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11:30 Preliminary design of the undeground facilities for the GLACIER experiment cavern at Canfranc - Dr Clemente Sáenz Sanz (ACCIONA Ingeniería)   ()
08:00
Departure (until 10:00) ()
PM
19:00
Welcome Reception in the Lobby Alba Hotel (until 21:00) ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Next generation long baseline neutrino beams (until 15:30) ()
14:00 FNAL-DUSEL + Project X - Dr Steve Holmes (FNAL)   ()
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14:30 Near and far future at J-PARC neutrino beam - Prof. Takashi Kobayashi (KEK-IPNS)   ()
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15:00 Plans for CERN-LAGUNA-LBNO beams and beyond - Dr Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)   ()
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15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Large cryogenic systems and industrial components (until 17:40) ()
16:20 Experience and issues in underground construction - Dr Alan Auld (Alan Auld Group LTD)   ()
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16:40 Study of large cryogenic tanks for LAr storage - Dr Mike Haworth (Technodyne International Ltd)   ()
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17:00 Large tanks and cryogenic facilities - Dr Jérôme Sialelli (Société Francaise d’Etudes et de Réalisations d’Equipements Gaziers (Sofregaz))   ()
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17:40
Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (I) (until 18:30) ()
poster
17:40 ICARUS T600 results - Prof. Jan Kisiel (University of Silesia)   ()
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18:10 Status of ArgonTube - Dr Marcello Messina (University of Bern)   ()
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12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (III) (until 15:30) ()
14:30 Design and Performance of the ATLAS LAr calorimeter - Prof. Jose Del Peso (UAM)   ()
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15:00 The cryogenic systems of the LHC experiments - Dr Johan Bremer (CERN)   ()
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15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Improvements of the Liquid Argon Charge Imaging technology (I) (until 17:50) ()
16:00 Recent results on LAr LEM TPC R&D - Mr Filippo Resnati (ETH Zurich)   ()
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16:20 Micromegas for charge readout of double phase Liquid Argon TPCs - Dr Marco Zito (CEA Saclay)   ()
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16:40 Development of cold electronics - Prof. Veljko Radeka (BNL)   ()
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17:10 Development of new solutions for warm electronics - Prof. Sandro Centro (Padova University and INFN Padova)   ()
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17:30 Lightguide detector for LAr TPC: Optical Simulation and Reconstruction Methods - Mr Benjamin Jones (MIT)   ()
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19:00 --- Evening Cruise ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Visit to the JYFL Accelerator Laboratory (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Studies on event reconstruction (until 15:50) ()
14:30 LArSoft - Dr Eric Church (FNAL)   ()
15:00 QScan - Mr Devis Lussi (ETH Zurich)   ()
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15:30 Data handling and storage services - Dr Pirjo-Leena Forsström (Director, Data Services for Science and Culture, CSC)   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Future steps towards the realization of a Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Detector (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Double-LAr proposal at CERN PS - Dr Alberto Guglielmi (Padova University and INFN Padova)   ()
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17:00 Status of LBNE LAr and LAr1 - Dr Bruce Baller (FNAL)   ()
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17:30 An underground kton-scale pilot project - Prof. Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)   ()
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18:00 Discussion and conclusion - Prof. Takuya Hasegawa (KEK-IPNS)   ()
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19:00 --- Conference Dinner in ALBA Hotel ---