8th SHiP Collaboration meeting, Imperial College London

from Monday, 13 June 2016 (12:00) to Wednesday, 15 June 2016 (18:00)
Imperial College London (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016
AM
08:30
Session 3 (until 10:35) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
08:30 Update on neutrino background - Iaroslava Bezshyiko (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:00 Helium bag option for decay volume - Geoff Barber (Imperial College London) Geoffrey John Barber (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:25 Vacuum options for decay volume - Alexander Malinin (National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (RU))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:50 SBT/UVT - Plastic scintillator option - Alexander Korzenev (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
10:15 SBT/UVT : Liquid scintillator option - Heiko Markus Lacker (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
10:35 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Session 4 (until 13:00) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
11:00 News and progress in SHiPId - Walter Marcello Bonivento (INFN Cagliari)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
11:30 PID performance in FairShiP with real  HNL and DP decays - Behzad Hosseini (University and INFN Naples) Behzad Hosseini (INFN - Cagliari)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
11:55 CALO Status and new ideas - Mauro Villa (University of Bologna)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
12:20 MUON Status - Gaia Lanfranchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:00
Session7 (until 10:45) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:00 Physics intro - Nicola Serra (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:10 News from theory - Oleksii Boiarskyi (Leiden University (NL))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
09:40 Summary of Dark Sector Workshop at SLAC - Andrei Golutvin (Imperial College London) Gaia Lanfranchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
10:10 Hidden particle simulation and sensitivity - Konstantinos Petridis (University of Bristol (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
10:30 Optimization of HNL selection   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
10:45 --- coffee ---
11:15
Session 8 (until 13:00) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
11:15 Optimization of identification of HNL signal - Samuel Baxter (University of Copenhagen (DK))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
11:40 Using NA61 to measure muon flux - Eric Van Herwijnen (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
12:05 Measurement of charm differential cross-section - Antonia Di Crescenzo (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) Antonia Di Crescenzo   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
12:30 Possibilities of using NA62 in beam dump mode - Gaia Lanfranchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
PM
12:15
Lunch (until 14:00) (Blackett Lab, Lecture Theatre 2)
14:00 News and objectives of the meeting - Andrei Golutvin (Imperial College London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:15
Session 1 (until 15:30) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:15 Plans of the Beyond Collider Physics study group - Mike Lamont (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:40 SPS proton sharing in the future - Gianluigi Arduini (CERN) Hannes Bartosik (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:05 Update on beam delivery and SPS extraction studies - Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:30 --- coffee ---
15:55
Session 2 (until 17:30) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:55 Detector session intro - Richard Jacobsson (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:00 Muon shield intro - Mitesh Patel (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:10 Muon shield and geometry reoptimization - Hans Dijkstra (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:35 Status of magnetic models for muon shield - Victoria Bayliss (STFC)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
17:00 Target R&D plans - Marco Calviani (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
17:10 Acceptance studies and plans for muon shield optimisation - Oliver Lantwin (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
17:30
Country Representative Board - Eric Van Herwijnen (CERN) (until 18:30) (Room 539, Level 5, Blackett Lab)
18:30
Welcome Drink (until 20:00) (Common Room, Level 8)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session5 (until 15:20) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:00 Spectrometer Straw Tracker status - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:10 Spectrometer Straw Tracker - Test beams - Katerina Kuznetsova (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:35 Spectrometer Timing Detector - Plastic scintillator option - Philippe Mermod (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:00 Spectrometer Timing Detector - MRPC option - Paulo Fonte   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:20 --- Coffee ---
15:45
Session6 (until 18:05) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:45 Configuration of the tau neutrino detector - Annarita Buonaura (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:10 Analysis of nuclear emulsion test-beam data - Valeri Tioukov (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) Valeri Tioukov (INFN NAPOLI)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:35 Use of emulsion shifter for the neutrino target - Masahiro Komatsu (Nagoya University (JP)) Saturo Takahashi   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:55 RPC chambers for the muon spectrometer - Giuseppe Iaselli (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
17:15 DAQ system - Stefania Xella (University of Copenhagen (DK))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
19:00
Collaboration Dinner - 1-3 old brompton road, sw7 3hz (until 21:30) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session 9 (until 15:15) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:00 Plans towards the paper on SHiP optimization - Nicola Serra (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:20 Discussion   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
14:40 Project status and plans - Richard Jacobsson (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:00 Discussion   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
15:15 --- Coffee ---
15:45 CRB Report - Eric Van Herwijnen (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)
16:05 Close-out - Andrei Golutvin (Imperial College London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Lab)