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, October 2, 2023 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 6, 2023 (5:00 PM)

Monday, October 2, 2023

1:30 PM Welcome Coffee Break
Welcome Coffee Break
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
2:00 PM Welcome and introduction
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome

2:15 PM Introduction: T2K - Sam Jenkins (University of Liverpool)

2:20 PM Introduction: MINERvA - Noah Vaughan (Oregon State University)

2:25 PM Introduction: NOvA - Gregory Pawloski

2:30 PM Introduction: MicroBooNE - Afroditi Papadopoulou

2:35 PM Introduction: ProtoDUNE-SP - Richard Diurba (University of Bern)

2:40 PM Introduction: NINJA - Hitoshi Oshima (ICRR, the University of Tokyo)

2:45 PM Introduction: ICARUS - Stephen Dolan (CERN)

2:50 PM Introduction: SBND - Vishvas Pandey (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:55 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
4:00 PM General overview
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

4:00 PM What do next-generation experiments need - Callum David Wilkinson (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

4:40 PM Statistical methods: past, present and future - Lukas Koch (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

5:20 PM Discussion
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
9:00 AM General overview
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Weiner SVD, conditional covariance formalism - Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
10:00 AM Experiment Overview
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

11:30 AM 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 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: 222/R-001
1:40 PM Methods
1:40 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

1:40 PM Binned log-likelihood template fitting with T2K - Nick Latham

2:00 PM Forward folding - Lukas Koch (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

2:30 PM Unbiased reconstruction of calorimetric variables in cross-section analyses - Katharina Lachner (University of Warwick)

2:50 PM Unfolding: Machine learning approaches - Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

3:10 PM Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross-section Measurements - Andrew Cudd (University of Colorado Boulder)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
4:00 PM Methods
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

4:00 PM Unfolding: a statistician's perspective - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))

4:25 PM Treating Detector Systematics via a Likelihood Free Inference Method - Alexandra Trettin (University of Manchester)
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
9:00 AM Experiment Overview
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

9:00 AM MicroBooNE's approach to exclusive cross-section measurements - Afroditi Papadopoulou

9:30 AM MicroBooNE's approach to inclusive cross-section measurements - Bannanje Nitish Nayak (University of California Irvine (US))

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

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

11:30 AM Experimental data from a theoretical needs POV II - Alexis Nikolakopoulos (Ghent University)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 513/1-024
2:00 PM Data release
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

2:00 PM Enabling BSM Studies With Neutrino Data - Joachim Kopp (CERN)

2:30 PM The theory experience using experimental data - Guillermo D. Megias (University of Seville (Spain))
3:15 PM Experiment Overview
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

3:15 PM A modified slicing method with multi-dimensional unfolding to measure hadron-argon cross-section on ProtoDUNE-SP - Yinrui Liu (University of Chicago (US))
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 513/1-024
4:00 PM Data release
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

4:00 PM Standardizing data releases - Luke Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London)

4:30 PM MINERvA's approach to data preservation - Noah Vaughan (Oregon State University)

5:00 PM Data release discussion
Thursday, October 5, 2023
9:00 AM Experiment Overview
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

9:00 AM Dealing with high dimensional efficiency corrections in T2K's cross-section measurements - Sam Jenkins (University of Sheffield) Sam Jenkins (University of Liverpool)

9:30 AM Neutrino cross-section measurements in the NINJA experiment - Hitoshi Oshima (ICRR, the University of Tokyo)
10:00 AM Data release
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 PM GENIE’s fits to cross section data - Julia Tena Vidal (Tel Aviv University (IL))
12:30 PM Workshop photo, by the LHC beam pipe outside R1

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
2:00 PM Fitting and tuning to data
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

2:00 PM MicroBooNE Tuning - Michael Kirby (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:30 PM Challenges in fitting to xsec data - Jaafar Chakrani (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

3:00 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

4:00 PM Breakout sessions

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

7:00 PM Party

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
Friday, October 6, 2023
9:30 AM Summary and closing discussions
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

9:30 AM Data release, data presentation & documentation, and data preservation
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 222/R-001
11:00 AM Summary and closing discussions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:00 AM Unfolding, regularisation and efficiency corrections

11:20 AM Fake data studies and validations

11:40 AM Fitting cross-section measurements
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001

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