Name: 8th International Workshop on Neutrino Beams & Instrumentation
Start: 2012-11-06T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-11-10T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Monday, 5 November 2012
Tuesday, 6 November 2012

17:00

17:00 - 21:00
Room: Restaurant 1, Glass box
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
08:30
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

08:30 Welcome from NBI 2012 - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN) Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

08:40 Welcome - Steve Myers (CERN)

08:50 Opening presentation - Konrad Elsener (CERN)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

09:00 T2K Operation summary (earthquake recovery+beamline survey) - Takanobu Ishii (KEK)

09:15 NuMI Operation summary 2005-2012 - Samuel Robert Childress (Unknown)

09:30 MiniBOOnE Operation summary - Eric D. Zimmerman (University of Colorado)

09:45 CNGS Operation summary - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

10:00 Discussion

10:20 Practial Issues for NBI 2012 - Ans Pardons (CERN)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
10:50
10:50 - 12:30
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

10:50 Fermilab Neutrino Beams & Experiments: 2013-2020 - Alberto Marchionni (Univ. + INFN)

11:10 LBNE design overview and progress - Vaia Papadimitriou

11:30 J-PARC upgrade plan/Future LBL experiment in Japan - Taku Ishida (IPNS, KEK)

11:50 NuSTORM, le-NUFACT: synergies with LBL 'technology' - Alan Bross (Fermilab)

12:10 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

14:00 LBNO project overview and prospects - Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

14:20 A Short Baseline to the CERN North Area - design overview - Marco Calviani (CERN)

14:40 Target Station Challenges for High-Power Super-Beams - Dan Wilcox (STFC - RAL)

15:00 Discussion
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
15:45
15:45 - 17:00
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

15:45 Proton beam monitoring and control: NuMI to LBNE - Samuel Robert Childress (Unknown)

16:00 T2K proton beam monitoring - Hidekazu Kakuno (University of Tokyo)

16:15 Experience with CNGS Primary Beam Line Instrumentation - Lars Jensen (CERN)

16:30 T2K OTR system - Mark Hartz

16:45 Discussion
17:00 Fresh air Break
Fresh air Break
17:00 - 17:15
17:15
17:15 - 18:30
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

17:15 Secondary beam monitoring: NuMI to LBNE - Laura Loiacono (University of Rochester)

17:30 T2K muon monitors - Takahiro Hiraki (Kyoto University)

17:45 Diamond Detectors for CNGS - Hendrik Jansen (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

18:00 T2K decay volume/beam dump commissioning/operational experience - Taku Ishida (IPNS, KEK)

18:15 Discussion
19:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday, 8 November 2012
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

08:45 Radiation damage studies on graphite and beryllium - Nick Simos (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:05 Recent experience with NuMI graphite targets and dumps - James Hylen (Unknown)

09:25 Performance and operational feedback of T2K graphite target - Takeshi Nakadaira (HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KEK)

09:45 CNGS target operation and modified design - Marco Calviani (CERN)

10:05 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

11:00 High intensity beam test of beryllium for target and beam window - Brian Hartsell (Fermilab)

11:20 Fermilab High power target program: status and plan - Patrick Hurh (FNAL)

11:40 HiRadMat: a facility at CERN for material and assembly testing - Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

11:55 Granular target and tests at HiRadMat - Nikolaos Charitonidis (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

12:10 Granular target and tests at HiRadMat – CFD Simulations - Chris Densham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12:25 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:05
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

13:30 CERN horn experience - Ans Pardons (CERN)

13:40 T2K horn operational experience - Tetsuro Sekiguchi (KEK)

14:00 Horn design for NuMI, NOvA and LBNE - James Hylen (Unknown)

14:20 New T2K horn - Stephen Coleman (Univ. Colorado)

14:35 T2K horn field measurements - Andrew Missert (Univ. Colorado)

14:50 Discussion
15:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:05 - 15:35
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
15:35
15:35 - 17:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

15:35 Fatigue studies for horns - Larry Bartoszek (Bartoszek Engineering)

16:00 Power supply design for high-frequency pulsing horns for the CERN to Frejus SuperBeam - Pascal POUSSOT (CNRS-IPHC STRASBOURG- France)

16:15 4-in-one horn design for the CERN to Frejus Super Beam - Nikolaos Vassilopoulos (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

16:30 Feasibility study of the distribution of 4x1 MW beam power onto the 4-horn system of the EUROnu SPL Super Beam - Elian Bouquerel (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

16:50 Discussion
17:00

17:00 - 19:00
Friday, 9 November 2012
08:45
08:45 - 10:15
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

08:45 CNGS operation and environmental issues - Heinz Vincke (CERN)

09:05 NuMI experience with Tritium - James Hylen (Unknown)

09:25 T2K radioactive drainage treatment - Yuichi Oyama (KEK)

09:45 T2K radioactivity in the exhaust air - Taku Ishida (IPNS, KEK)

10:00 Discussion
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:35
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
10:35
10:35 - 11:35
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

10:35 Radiation protection challenges for deep underground vs shallow beams - Samuel Robert Childress (Unknown)

10:55 Target chase, decay and absorber cooling for LBNE - Alberto Marchionni (Univ. + INFN)

11:15 ACTIWIZ material database - Chris Theis (CERN) Helmut Vincke (CERN)
11:35 Quick lunch break
Quick lunch break
11:35 - 12:00

12:00 Excursion
Excursion
12:00 - 22:00
Saturday, 10 November 2012
09:30
09:30 - 11:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:30 Remote handling experiences at NuMI - Patrick Hurh (FNAL)

09:50 T2K remote handling - Tetsuro Sekiguchi (KEK)

10:10 Remote handling activities at CERN - Jean-Louis Grenard (CERN)

10:30 Lessons learned from WANF dismantling - Ans Pardons (CERN)

10:50 Targets for SuperBeams - Chris Densham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:10 Discussion
11:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50
Room: 222/R-001
11:50
11:50 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:50 Summary talk - Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

12:10 Next NBI announcement - Alberto Marchionni (Univ. + INFN)