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)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 2, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
Oct 4, 2023
Oct 5, 2023
Oct 6, 2023
AM
9:00 AM
General overview -Dr Clarence Wret (University of Rochester (US)) Clarence Wret (until 10:00 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM Weiner SVD, conditional covariance formalism - Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:00 AM
Experiment Overview - Clarence Wret Dr Clarence Wret (University of Rochester (US)) (until 10:30 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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 ---
11:00 AM
Experiment Overview -Dr Clarence Wret (University of Rochester (US)) Laura Munteanu (CERN) Clarence Wret Laura-Iuliana Munteanu (CERN) (until 12:10 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:00 AM MINERvA's experience of cross-section extraction methods - Mx 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  
9:00 AM
Experiment Overview - Pablo Samuel Barham Alzas (CERN) (until 10:30 AM) (513/1-024)
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 ---
11:00 AM
Data release -Dr Stephen Dolan (CERN) (until 12:30 PM) (513/1-024)
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)  
9:00 AM
Experiment Overview - Laura Munteanu (CERN) Laura-Iuliana Munteanu (CERN) (until 10:00 AM) (222/R-001)
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 (until 10:30 AM)
10:00 AM Common tools (NuSystematics, GUNDAM, NUISANCE etc) - Laura Munteanu (CERN)   (222/R-001)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Experiment Overview - Pablo Samuel Barham Alzas (CERN) (until 12:00 PM)
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))  
9:30 AM
Summary and closing discussions (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Data release, data presentation & documentation, and data preservation  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Summary and closing discussions -Dr Stephen Dolan (CERN) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Unfolding, regularisation and efficiency corrections  
11:20 AM Fake data studies and validations  
11:40 AM Fitting cross-section measurements  
PM
1:30 PM --- Welcome Coffee Break ---
2:00 PM
Welcome and introduction -Dr Stephen Dolan (CERN) (until 3:30 PM)
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 - Dr Stephen Dolan (CERN)  
2:50 PM Introduction: SBND - Dr Vishvas Pandey (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
2:55 PM Discussion  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
General overview -Dr Vishvas Pandey (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 6:00 PM)
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  
12:10 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:40 PM
Methods - Adi Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv University (IL)) (until 3:30 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Methods - Adi Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv University (IL)) (until 5:00 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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 - Ms Alexandra Trettin (University of Manchester)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Data release -Dr Vishvas Pandey (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 3:15 PM) (513/1-024)
2:00 PM Enabling BSM Studies With Neutrino Data - Joachim Kopp (CERN)  
2:30 PM The theory experience using experimental data - Dr Guillermo D. Megias (University of Seville (Spain))  
3:15 PM
Experiment Overview (until 3:30 PM)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Data release - Adi Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv University (IL)) (until 6:00 PM) (513/1-024)
4:00 PM Standardizing data releases - Dr Luke Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
4:30 PM MINERvA's approach to data preservation - Mx Noah Vaughan (Oregon State University)  
5:00 PM Data release discussion  
12:00 PM
Fitting and tuning to data -Dr Clarence Wret (University of Rochester (US)) Clarence Wret (until 12:30 PM)
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 (until 12:50 PM)
12:50 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Fitting and tuning to data - Clarence Wret Dr Clarence Wret (University of Rochester (US)) (until 3:30 PM)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Breakout sessions (until 6:00 PM)
7:00 PM
Party (until 9:00 PM) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---