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

5 Jun 2011, 18:00 → 10 Jun 2011, 10:00 Europe/Helsinki

Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (JYFL)

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in realizing a giant neutrino observatory based on the liquid Argon time projection chamber technology, combining next-generation searches for proton decay and neutrino physics with natural and artificial sources. The workshop will include a visit to Pyhäsalmi – the deepest mine in Europe and one of the sites considered by the LAGUNA design study. With distances of 2300 km from CERN and approximately 7000 km from both KEK/JPARC and FNAL, the Pyhäsalmi site offers a potential optimal location for long baseline neutrino oscillation studies. The workshop aims at fostering a collaboration on medium and long term projects among interested researchers. Reviews of the current efforts taking place worldwide towards building large liquid Argon detectors will be presented.

Sunday, 5 June

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome Reception in the Lobby Alba Hotel

Monday, 6 June

08:00 → 20:00 Excursion to Pyhäjärvi town and Pyhäsalmi mine underground visit

Tuesday, 7 June

08:30 → 09:10 Welcome address

08:30 Opening remarks

08:50 Welcome address from the Vice-Rector of University of Jyväskylä

Speaker: Prof. Matti Manninen (University of Jyväskyla)

Slides general_info.pdf general_info.pptx

09:10 → 12:30 Main goals of Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Experiment

09:10 Overview talk on long baseline oscillation experiments

Speaker: Prof. Milind Diwan (BNL)

Slides diwan-GLA2011.pdf

09:50 Overview talk on astrophysical neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)

Slides hannestad_gla2011.pdf hannestad_gla2011.pptx

10:30 Overview talk on proton decay searches

Speaker: Dr Yoshinari Hayato (ICRR)

Slides Hayato_20110607_ProtonDecaySearch.pdf

11:10 Status of CP violation searches in hadronic sector

Speaker: Dr Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)

Slides Cecucci_Status_of_CP_violation_searches_in_hadronic_sector.pdf Cecucci_Status_of_CP_violation_searches_in_hadronic_sector.pptx

11:50 Very Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments using Cyclotron Decay-at-Rest Sources

Speaker: Dr Sanjib Agarwalla (IFIC Valencia)

Slides Agarwalla_GLA2011.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Next generation long baseline neutrino beams

14:00 FNAL-DUSEL + Project X

Speaker: Dr Steve Holmes (FNAL)

Slides GLA2011_SDH.pdf

14:30 Near and far future at J-PARC neutrino beam

Speaker: Prof. Takashi Kobayashi (KEK-IPNS)

Slides koba.110607.GLA11.pdf koba.110607.GLA11.pptx

15:00 Plans for CERN-LAGUNA-LBNO beams and beyond

Speaker: Dr Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

Slides Ilias_Efthymiopoulos.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:40 Large cryogenic systems and industrial components

16:20 Experience and issues in underground construction

Speaker: Dr Alan Auld (Alan Auld Group LTD)

Slides Alan_Auld_GLA2011.pdf Alan_Auld_GLA2011.ppt

16:40 Study of large cryogenic tanks for LAr storage

Speaker: Dr Mike Haworth (Technodyne International Ltd)

Slides Haworth_GLA2011.pdf

17:00 Large tanks and cryogenic facilities

Speaker: Dr Jérôme Sialelli (Société Francaise d’Etudes et de Réalisations d’Equipements Gaziers (Sofregaz))

Slides Sofregaz_GLA2011.pdf Sofregaz_GLA2011.ppt

17:40 → 18:30 Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (I)

poster GLA2011_Conference-Photo.jpg

17:40 ICARUS T600 results

Speaker: Prof. Jan Kisiel (University of Silesia)

Slides GLA2011_kisiel_final.pdf

18:10 Status of ArgonTube

Speaker: Dr Marcello Messina (University of Bern)

Slides Messina_GLA2011.pdf

Wednesday, 8 June

08:30 → 12:35 Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (II)

08:30 ArgoNeut results

Speaker: Prof. Carl Bromberg (Michigan State University)

Slides GLA2011_Bromberg.pdf

08:50 T32 @ J-PARC results

Speaker: Prof. Takasumi Maruyama (KEK-IPNS)

Slides GLA2011_T32.pdf

09:10 Status of MicroBOONE

Speaker: Dr Roxanne Guenette (Yale University)

Slides GLA11_Guenette.pdf

09:30 Status of the LBNE project

Speaker: Prof. Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

Slides Svoboda_LBNE_Status.pdf Svoboda_LBNE_Status.pptx

10:15 Coffee

10:45 Results from XENON-100 and future plans

Speaker: Dr Antonio Jesus Melgarejo Fernandez (Columbia University)

Slides melgarejo_GLA2011.pdf

11:15 Status of XMASS

Speaker: Dr Atsushi TAKEDA (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

Slides takeda-gla2011-20110603-ver4.pdf takeda-gla2011-20110603-ver4.ppt

11:35 Status of WARP

Speaker: Dr Claudio Montanari (INFN Pavia)

Slides WArP_GLA2011.pdf WArP_GLA2011.pptx

12:05 Status of ArDM

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Curioni (ETH Zurich)

Slides curioni_ArDM_GLA2011.v1.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Status of ongoing or planned Liquid Argon and Xenon based projects (III)

14:30 Design and Performance of the ATLAS LAr calorimeter

Speaker: Prof. Jose Del Peso (UAM)

Slides ATLAS_LAr_Calo.pdf

15:00 The cryogenic systems of the LHC experiments

Speaker: Dr Johan Bremer (CERN)

Slides LHCEXPcryo.pdf LHCEXPcryo.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:50 Improvements of the Liquid Argon Charge Imaging technology (I)

16:00 Recent results on LAr LEM TPC R&D

Speaker: Mr Filippo Resnati (ETH Zurich)

Slides FResnati_GLA2011_small.pdf

16:20 Micromegas for charge readout of double phase Liquid Argon TPCs

Speaker: Dr Marco Zito (CEA Saclay)

Slides MZ-GLA2011-MM.pdf

16:40 Development of cold electronics

Speaker: Prof. Veljko Radeka (BNL)

Slides Radeka_GLA2011.pdf Radeka_GLA2011.pptx

17:10 Development of new solutions for warm electronics

Speaker: Prof. Sandro Centro (Padova University and INFN Padova)

Slides Centro_GLA2011.pdf

17:30 Lightguide detector for LAr TPC: Optical Simulation and Reconstruction Methods

Speaker: Mr Benjamin Jones (MIT)

Slides Jones_GLATalk.pdf

19:00 → 23:00 Evening Cruise

Thursday, 9 June

08:30 → 10:00 Improvements of the Liquid Argon Charge Imaging technology (II)

08:30 Development and experience with very high voltage feed-throughs

Speaker: Prof. Hanguo Wang (UCLA)

08:50 Status of LAPD

Speaker: Dr Brian Rebel (FNAL)

Slides Rebel_lapd_gla_2011.pdf

09:20 Status and plans with 6m3 at CERN

Speaker: Dr Alberto Marchionni (ETH Zurich)

Slides AMarchionni_GLA2011.pdf

09:40 Liquid Argon Purification Studies using a Novel Recirculation System

Speaker: Dr Kostas Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool)

Slides Mavrokoridis_GLA2011.pdf Mavrokoridis_GLA2011.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:00 Underground location studies

10:30 Pyhäsalmi site study

Speaker: Lauri Uotinen (Kalliosuunnittelu Oy Rockplan Ltd)

Slides 2011_06_09_Uotinen_Pyhasalmi_Site_Study.pdf

11:00 Okinoshima site study

Speaker: Prof. Masakazu Yoshioka (KEK-IPNS)

Slides GLA2011Okinoshima_Site_Study.pdf GLA2011Okinoshima_Site_Study.pptx

11:30 Preliminary design of the undeground facilities for the GLACIER experiment cavern at Canfranc

Speaker: Dr Clemente Sáenz Sanz (ACCIONA Ingeniería)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Visit to the JYFL Accelerator Laboratory

14:30 → 15:50 Studies on event reconstruction

14:30 LArSoft

Speaker: Dr Eric Church (FNAL)

Slides

• LArSoft-GLA2011.key
• LArSoft-GLA2011.pdf
• LArSoft-GLA2011.ppt

15:00 QScan

Speaker: Mr Devis Lussi (ETH Zurich)

Slides Lussi_Qscan_GLA2011.pdf

15:30 Data handling and storage services

Speaker: Dr Pirjo-Leena Forsström (Director, Data Services for Science and Culture, CSC)

Slides Jyvaskyla_Datacenter_storage2.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:30 Future steps towards the realization of a Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging Detector

16:30 Double-LAr proposal at CERN PS

Speaker: Dr Alberto Guglielmi (Padova University and INFN Padova)

Slides GLA2011_Guglielmi.pdf GLA2011_Guglielmi.ppt

17:00 Status of LBNE LAr and LAr1

Speaker: Dr Bruce Baller (FNAL)

Slides Baller_LAr40_and_LAr1_-_GLA2011.pdf Baller_LAr40_and_LAr1_-_GLA2011.pptx

17:30 An underground kton-scale pilot project

Speaker: Prof. Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)

Slides Rubbia_GLA2011.pdf

18:00 Discussion and conclusion

Speaker: Prof. Takuya Hasegawa (KEK-IPNS)

Slides GLA_Discussion__finalremark.pdf

19:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner in ALBA Hotel

Friday, 10 June

08:00 → 10:00 Departure