Name: NuXTract 2023 - Towards a consensus in neutrino cross sections
Start: 2023-10-02T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-06T17:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

NuXTract 2023 - Towards a consensus in neutrino cross sections

from Monday 2 October 2023 (09:00) to Friday 6 October 2023 (17:00)

Monday 2 October 2023

13:30 Welcome Coffee Break
Welcome Coffee Break
13:30 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Welcome

14:15 Introduction: T2K - Sam Jenkins (University of Liverpool)

14:20 Introduction: MINERvA - Noah Vaughan (Oregon State University)

14:25 Introduction: NOvA - Gregory Pawloski

14:30 Introduction: MicroBooNE - Afroditi Papadopoulou

14:35 Introduction: ProtoDUNE-SP - Richard Diurba (University of Bern)

14:40 Introduction: NINJA - Hitoshi Oshima (ICRR, the University of Tokyo)

14:45 Introduction: ICARUS - Stephen Dolan (CERN)

14:50 Introduction: SBND - Vishvas Pandey (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:55 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:00 What do next-generation experiments need - Callum David Wilkinson (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

16:40 Statistical methods: past, present and future - Lukas Koch (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

17:20 Discussion
Tuesday 3 October 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Weiner SVD, conditional covariance formalism - Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:00 NOvA’s approach to cross-section analyses and publishing results - Gregory Pawloski Gregory Pawloski (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
11:00
11:00 - 12:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 MINERvA's experience of cross-section extraction methods - Noah Vaughan (Oregon State University)

11:30 Cross-section extraction using template fitting in T2K cross-section measurements - Margherita Buizza Avanzini (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Margherita Buizza Avanzini
12:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 - 13:40
Room: 222/R-001
13:40
13:40 - 15:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

13:40 Binned log-likelihood template fitting with T2K - Nick Latham

14:00 Forward folding - Lukas Koch (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

14:30 Unbiased reconstruction of calorimetric variables in cross-section analyses - Katharina Lachner (University of Warwick)

14:50 Unfolding: Machine learning approaches - Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:10 Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross-section Measurements - Andrew Cudd (University of Colorado Boulder)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

16:00 Unfolding: a statistician's perspective - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))

16:25 Treating Detector Systematics via a Likelihood Free Inference Method - Alexandra Trettin (University of Manchester)
Wednesday 4 October 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

09:00 MicroBooNE's approach to exclusive cross-section measurements - Afroditi Papadopoulou

09:30 MicroBooNE's approach to inclusive cross-section measurements - Bannanje Nitish Nayak (University of California Irvine (US))

10:00 Preview of new techniques for future MicroBooNE cross-section data releases - Steven Gardiner
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 513/1-024
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

11:00 Experimental data from a theoretical needs POV I - Kajetan Niewczas

11:30 Experimental data from a theoretical needs POV II - Alexis Nikolakopoulos (Ghent University)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 513/1-024
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

14:00 Enabling BSM Studies With Neutrino Data - Joachim Kopp (CERN)

14:30 The theory experience using experimental data - Guillermo D. Megias (University of Seville (Spain))
15:15
15:15 - 15:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

15:15 A modified slicing method with multi-dimensional unfolding to measure hadron-argon cross-section on ProtoDUNE-SP - Yinrui Liu (University of Chicago (US))
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 513/1-024
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

16:00 Standardizing data releases - Luke Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16:30 MINERvA's approach to data preservation - Noah Vaughan (Oregon State University)

17:00 Data release discussion
Thursday 5 October 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Dealing with high dimensional efficiency corrections in T2K's cross-section measurements - Sam Jenkins (University of Sheffield) Sam Jenkins (University of Liverpool)

09:30 Neutrino cross-section measurements in the NINJA experiment - Hitoshi Oshima (ICRR, the University of Tokyo)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

10:00 Common tools (NuSystematics, GUNDAM, NUISANCE etc) - Laura Munteanu (CERN)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:00 Measuring an Argon-Kaon Plus Cross Section by Unfolding Thin-Slice Targets - Richard Diurba (University of Bern)

11:25 Likelihood-fit-based Pion-Ar Cross Section Measurement Using ProtoDUNE-SP - Jacob Michael Calcutt (Oregon State University (US))
12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

12:00 GENIE’s fits to cross section data - Julia Tena Vidal (Tel Aviv University (IL))
12:30

12:30 - 12:50

12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 MicroBooNE Tuning - Michael Kirby (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 Challenges in fitting to xsec data - Jaafar Chakrani (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:00 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

16:00

16:00 - 18:00

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
Friday 6 October 2023
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:30 Data release, data presentation & documentation, and data preservation
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:00 Unfolding, regularisation and efficiency corrections

11:20 Fake data studies and validations

11:40 Fitting cross-section measurements
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001

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