ICARUS Collaboration Meeting

20 Apr 2026, 14:30 → 23 Apr 2026, 19:10 Europe/Rome

Aula Magna (Catania)

ICARUS is the world’s first large liquid-argon neutrino detector, and the technology pioneered for the experiment will be the template for future neutrino experiments.

The ICARUS collaboration studied neutrinos at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy — operated by the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) — from 2010 to 2013 under the leadership of Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia. The ICARUS experiment pioneered the use of a new technology for spotting neutrinos using liquid argon, 760 tons of which fill the ICARUS detector.

Now at Fermilab, as part of the SBN program, ICARUS will search for the long-theorized but never-detected sterile neutrino.

ICARUS’s liquid-argon detection technology will also be adapted for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Fermilab’s flagship.   

The 2026 Spring ICARUS Collaboration Meeting will be held in Catania (Italy).

 

Contact: delia.salmieri@cern.ch

https://fnal.zoom.us/j/91845347477?pwd=jZR5E0IvV3Nr1fTEFBqhBgzgLDGQrU.1

 

Monday 20 April

14:30 → 16:45 Opening Session

14:30 Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Prof. Carlo Rubbia (GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute))

14:40 ICARUS detector status

Speaker: Claudio Montanari

15:00 SBND status

15:30 Plans for future running

Speaker: Daniele Gibin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

16:00 Discussion

16:30 → 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 → 19:00 Session 1: Future analysis plans overview

Convener: Mark Richard Convery (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

16:45 Future plans for analysis - overview

Speaker: Elizabeth Worcester

17:30 Phenomenological perspective on sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

18:00 Discussion

Tuesday 21 April

10:00 → 14:00 Session 2: PhD/Master thesis talks and Flash talks

Convener: Anna Heggestuen

11:00 Master Thesis: Analysis of the muon neutrino disappearance channel in ICARUS

Speaker: Alessandro D'Amico (INFN Bologna)

11:30 PhD Thesis: Probing the Dark Sector at ICARUS with a Signature of Two Muons that are Not Contained in the Fiducial Volume

Speaker: Jamie Dyer

12:00 Flash Talk

Speaker: Matt Siden (Colorado State University)

12:15 Flash Talk

Speaker: Sparshita Dey (University of Oxford)

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 → 19:10 Session 3: Joint SBN analysis session on ν oscillation searches

Conveners: Daniele Gibin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)), Elizabeth Worcester

14:00 Overview of joint SBN analyses

Speaker: Christian Farnese (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

14:20 Gump

Speaker: Nathaniel Rowe

14:45 SPINE

Speaker: Justin Mueller

15:10 MAPLE

Speaker: Maria Artero Pons (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

15:35 Inclusive analysis

Speaker: S. Yadav (University of Texas at Arlington)

16:00 Discussion

16:30 Coffee Break

16:45 Interaction model uncertainties

Speaker: Gray Putnam

17:15 Detector model systematics

Speaker: Francesco Poppi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

17:45 Blinding policy

Speaker: Dr Lauren Yates (Fermilab)

18:10 Nue prospects

Speaker: Michael Mooney (Colorado State University)

18:40 Discussion

Wednesday 22 April

10:00 → 14:00 Session 4: Event reconstruction and simulation

Convener: Tracy Usher

10:00 Overview

Speaker: Alice Campani (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

10:30 Multiple Coulomb Scattering

Speaker: Giovanni Chiello (INFN Sezione di Pisa)

10:50 Shower reconstruction

Speakers: Bruce Howard, Giuseppe Cerati (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:20 PMT signal simulation/reconstruction

Speaker: Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

12:00 Discussion

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 → 16:45 Session 6: Event selection and analysis

Convener: Giuseppe Cerati (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:00 PID updates

Speaker: N. Sommaggio (INFN Sezione di Pisa)

14:25 Nue selection with Pandora

Speaker: Riccardo Triozzi

14:50 Nue selection with SPINE

Speaker: Junjie Xia (SLAC)

14:50 Single photon selection

Speaker: Harry Hausner

15:40 Neutrino identification with timing

Speaker: Anna Heggestuen

16:10 Discussion

16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 22:30 Session 6: Neutrino cross-sections measurements

Convener: Vittorio Paolone

16:30 NuMI Nue 1eNpπ Cross Section with SPINE

Speaker: Daniel Carber

16:50 NuMI Nue CC Inclusive

Speaker: Michael Carrigan (Fermilab)

17:10 NuMuCC 1Pion w/ SPINE

Speaker: K. Jung

17:30 NuMI NumubarCC Inclusive Xsec w/ SPINE

Speaker: Dihan Senadheera

17:50 Numu CC0Pi Cross-Section Extraction w/SPINE

Speaker: Renzo Vizarreta (University of Rochester)

18:10 Numu inclusive

Speaker: Promita Roy (Centre for Neutrino Physics, Virginia tech)

18:30 Discussion

20:30 Collaboration Dinner

Thursday 23 April

10:00 → 11:40 Session 7 : BSM Searches

Convener: Prof. Robert Wilson (Colorado State University)

10:00 Overview and future plan including new ideas

Speakers: Animesh Chatterjee (University of Pittsburgh (US)), Vittorio Paolone

10:25 Update on exiting muon analysis

Speaker: Joshua Berger (Colorado State University)

10:50 Update on HNL analysis

Speaker: Gajendra Gurung (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

11:15 Discussion

11:40 → 16:50 Session 8: Infrastructures

Conveners: Alice Campani (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)), Francesco Poppi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

11:40 Overview

Speaker: Tracy Usher

12:00 Release management

Speaker: Jacob Smith (Stony Brook University)

12:20 Detector calibration (TPC)

Speaker: Filippo Varanini (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

12:40 Lunch Break

14:00 Status of productions

Speaker: Alessandro Maria Ricci

14:30 Production planning

Speaker: Giuseppe Cerati (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:15 PROfit update

Speaker: Jacob Larkin (University of Rochester)

15:50 Discussion

16:20 Coffee Break

16:40 → 19:10 Session 9: Reports from Institutional Boards and Conclusions

Convener: Alberto Guglielmi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

16:40 ICARUS resources

Speaker: Prof. Robert Wilson (Colorado State University)

17:00 Ongoing publications report

Speaker: Alessandro Menegolli (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))

17:20 Report on planned conferences

Speaker: Vittorio Paolone

17:40 Institutional Board report

Speaker: Mark Richard Convery (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:00 Report from ICARUS Young

Speaker: Riccardo Triozzi

18:20 Discussion and Conclusions

Speaker: Prof. Carlo Rubbia (GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute))