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

from Sunday, June 5, 2011 (6:00 PM) to Friday, June 10, 2011 (10:00 AM)
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (JYFL)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 5, 2011
Jun 6, 2011
Jun 7, 2011
Jun 8, 2011
Jun 9, 2011
Jun 10, 2011
AM
8:00 AM
Excursion to Pyhäjärvi town and Pyhäsalmi mine underground visit (until 8:00 PM)
8:30 AM
Welcome address (until 9:10 AM)
8:30 AM Opening remarks  
8:50 AM Welcome address from the Vice-Rector of University of Jyväskylä - Prof. Matti Manninen (University of Jyväskyla)  
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9:10 AM
Main goals of Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Experiment (until 12:30 PM)
9:10 AM Overview talk on long baseline oscillation experiments - Prof. Milind Diwan (BNL)  
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9:50 AM Overview talk on astrophysical neutrinos - Prof. Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)  
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10:30 AM Overview talk on proton decay searches - Dr Yoshinari Hayato (ICRR)  
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11:10 AM Status of CP violation searches in hadronic sector - Dr Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)  
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11:50 AM Very Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments using Cyclotron Decay-at-Rest Sources - Dr Sanjib Agarwalla (IFIC Valencia)  
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8:30 AM
Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (II) (until 12:35 PM)
8:30 AM ArgoNeut results - Prof. Carl Bromberg (Michigan State University)  
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8:50 AM T32 @ J-PARC results - Prof. Takasumi Maruyama (KEK-IPNS)  
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9:10 AM Status of MicroBOONE - Dr Roxanne Guenette (Yale University)  
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9:30 AM Status of the LBNE project - Prof. Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)  
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10:15 AM --- Coffee ---
10:45 AM Results from XENON-100 and future plans - Dr Antonio Jesus Melgarejo Fernandez (Columbia University)  
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11:15 AM Status of XMASS - Dr Atsushi TAKEDA (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)  
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11:35 AM Status of WARP - Dr Claudio Montanari (INFN Pavia)  
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12:05 PM Status of ArDM - Dr Alessandro Curioni (ETH Zurich)  
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8:30 AM
Improvements of the Liquid Argon Charge Imaging technology (II) (until 10:00 AM)
8:30 AM Development and experience with very high voltage feed-throughs - Prof. Hanguo Wang (UCLA)  
8:50 AM Status of LAPD - Dr Brian Rebel (FNAL)  
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9:20 AM Status and plans with 6m3 at CERN - Dr Alberto Marchionni (ETH Zurich)  
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9:40 AM Liquid Argon Purification Studies using a Novel Recirculation System - Dr Kostas Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool)  
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10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:30 AM
Underground location studies (until 12:00 PM)
10:30 AM Pyhäsalmi site study - Lauri Uotinen (Kalliosuunnittelu Oy Rockplan Ltd)  
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11:00 AM Okinoshima site study - Prof. Masakazu Yoshioka (KEK-IPNS)  
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11:30 AM Preliminary design of the undeground facilities for the GLACIER experiment cavern at Canfranc - Dr Clemente Sáenz Sanz (ACCIONA Ingeniería)  
8:00 AM
Departure (until 10:00 AM)
PM
7:00 PM
Welcome Reception in the Lobby Alba Hotel (until 9:00 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Next generation long baseline neutrino beams (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM FNAL-DUSEL + Project X - Dr Steve Holmes (FNAL)  
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2:30 PM Near and far future at J-PARC neutrino beam - Prof. Takashi Kobayashi (KEK-IPNS)  
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3:00 PM Plans for CERN-LAGUNA-LBNO beams and beyond - Dr Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)  
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3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Large cryogenic systems and industrial components (until 5:40 PM)
4:20 PM Experience and issues in underground construction - Dr Alan Auld (Alan Auld Group LTD)  
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4:40 PM Study of large cryogenic tanks for LAr storage - Dr Mike Haworth (Technodyne International Ltd)  
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5:00 PM Large tanks and cryogenic facilities - Dr Jérôme Sialelli (Société Francaise d’Etudes et de Réalisations d’Equipements Gaziers (Sofregaz))  
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5:40 PM
Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (I) (until 6:30 PM)
poster
5:40 PM ICARUS T600 results - Prof. Jan Kisiel (University of Silesia)  
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6:10 PM Status of ArgonTube - Dr Marcello Messina (University of Bern)  
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12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (III) (until 3:30 PM)
2:30 PM Design and Performance of the ATLAS LAr calorimeter - Prof. Jose Del Peso (UAM)  
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3:00 PM The cryogenic systems of the LHC experiments - Dr Johan Bremer (CERN)  
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3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Improvements of the Liquid Argon Charge Imaging technology (I) (until 5:50 PM)
4:00 PM Recent results on LAr LEM TPC R&D - Mr Filippo Resnati (ETH Zurich)  
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4:20 PM Micromegas for charge readout of double phase Liquid Argon TPCs - Dr Marco Zito (CEA Saclay)  
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4:40 PM Development of cold electronics - Prof. Veljko Radeka (BNL)  
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5:10 PM Development of new solutions for warm electronics - Prof. Sandro Centro (Padova University and INFN Padova)  
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5:30 PM Lightguide detector for LAr TPC: Optical Simulation and Reconstruction Methods - Mr Benjamin Jones (MIT)  
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7:00 PM --- Evening Cruise ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Visit to the JYFL Accelerator Laboratory (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
Studies on event reconstruction (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM LArSoft - Dr Eric Church (FNAL)  
3:00 PM QScan - Mr Devis Lussi (ETH Zurich)  
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3:30 PM Data handling and storage services - Dr Pirjo-Leena Forsström (Director, Data Services for Science and Culture, CSC)  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee ---
4:30 PM
Future steps towards the realization of a Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Detector (until 6:30 PM)
4:30 PM Double-LAr proposal at CERN PS - Dr Alberto Guglielmi (Padova University and INFN Padova)  
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5:00 PM Status of LBNE LAr and LAr1 - Dr Bruce Baller (FNAL)  
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5:30 PM An underground kton-scale pilot project - Prof. Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)  
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6:00 PM Discussion and conclusion - Prof. Takuya Hasegawa (KEK-IPNS)  
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7:00 PM --- Conference Dinner in ALBA Hotel ---