Theia workshop

Apr 12, 2018, 9:00 AM → Apr 14, 2018, 1:00 PM US/Pacific

University of California, Davis

Robert Charles Svoboda (University of California Davis (US)), Jingbo Wang (University of California Davis (US)), Vincent Fischer (University of California at Davis), Leon Pickard, Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL), Gabriel Orebi Gann (LBL)

Theia is a potential multi-purpose, large-scale neutrino detector in its very early design stages. It aims to utilize water-based liquid scintillator or lightly-doped oil as a detector medium coupled with very fast timing to study a broad physics program. Its prospects include the capability to detect and measure neutrinos over a very broad energy spectrum, with the potential to deduce the hierarchical nature of neutrinos, measure the level of CP violation in the lepton sector and potentially determine whether the neutrino is Majorana in nature. Furthermore, Theia will be able to study neutrinos from multiple sources including the Fermilab LBNF beam, atmospheric neutrinos, the Earth, the Sun, galactic supernovae, and the diffuse flux of cosmological supernova neutrinos.

Please send the title of your talk to vfischer@ucdavis.edu 

Thu, April 12

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Opening Session: Welcome, Goals of Workshop

Putah Creek Lodge

Convener: Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

welcome.pdf

9:10 AM → 10:30 AM Path to THEIA: Overviews

9:10 AM Theia Overview - Josh Klein, Penn

theia_overview_davis.pdf

9:50 AM ANNIE Science Overview: Matt Wetstein, Iowa State

2018-04 ANNIE Theia Physics.pdf

10:10 AM WATCHMAN Science Overview: Adam Bernstein, LLNL

WATCHMAN_4_THEIA_2018.pdf

WATCHMAN_4_THEIA_2018.pptx

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 12:10 PM Path to THEIA: Excavation and Location

10:50 AM Sanford Underground Research Facility – Status report on the LBNF Project: David Vardiman, SURF

Vardiman_-_FroST_-_THEIA_detector_workshop_2018 FINAL.pdf

11:20 AM Discussion: Opportunity for THEIA at LBNF: Robert Svoboda, UC Davis

11:40 AM Discussion of the path to Theia: Michi Wurm, Univ. of Mainz

theia_discussion_slide.pdf

12:10 PM → 1:20 PM Lunch Break

catered lunch

1:20 PM → 3:00 PM Common R&D: Overview and Discussion

1:20 PM Overview of WATCHMAN R&D Relevant to THEIA: Matthew Malek, Sheffield

Malek-THEIA-20180412.pdf

1:45 PM Advanced Instrumentation Testbed: Sean Paling, Boulby Underground Lab

Boulby_THEIA_April18_Paling.pdf

Boulby_THEIA_April18_Paling.pptx

2:05 PM Overview of ANNIE R&D Relevant for THEIA: Jonathan Eisch, Iowa State

20180412 ANNIE R&D for THEIA.pdf

2:30 PM Archimedes and Honey Bees: Design considerations for large monolithic detectors: Steve Dye, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa

Archimedes_Dye_Theia_Davis.pdf

2:45 PM Discussion

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Coffee break

3:20 PM → 5:35 PM Common R&D: Targets and Photosensors

3:20 PM Super-Kamiokande Gd doping: Mark Vagins, UC Irvine/IPMU

Gad_Theia180412.pdf

Gad_Theia180412.ppt

3:40 PM Directionality in Liquid Scintillator: Bjoern Worsak, Hamburg

TheiaMC_Slides_April2018Davis_clean.pdf

4:00 PM High Energy Event Reconstruction: Leon Pickard, UC Davis

Simulation_and_Reconstruction_of_LBNF_Events_In_Theia.pdf

4:20 PM Low-energy directional reconstruction: Johann, U Mainz

wurm_lscd_in_borexino_theia_apr18.pdf

4:40 PM ANNIE Reconstuction using LAPPDs: Jingbo Wang, UC Davis

ANNIE_reconstruction_using_LAPPD_JWang.pdf

5:00 PM PMT production rates, glass, and strength: Robert Svoboda, UC Davis

PMT Production.pdf

Fri, April 13

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Common R&D: Scintillator and Water Targets

9:00 AM Techniques and Issues in Gd Water Doping: Vincent Fischer, UC Davis

Gd_loading_techniques_TheiaCollab_13-04-18_FISCHER.pdf

9:20 AM WbLS Development, Production, and Purification: Minfang Yeh, BNL

water-based liquid scintillator for THEIA UC Davis Minfang Yeh.pdf

10:00 AM Te-loading in SNO+: Szymon Manecki, Queens University

manecki_SNO+THEIA_2018.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 12:20 PM Common R&D: Photosensors

10:50 AM Latest Results From Chess: Javi Caravaca, UC Berkeley

CHESS_THEIA_CM_Apr18_v2.pdf

11:20 AM LAPPD characterization: Matt Wetstein, Iowa State

2018-04 Theia LAPPD.pdf

11:50 AM LAPPD Production: Evan Angelico, Univ. of Chicago

angelico_theia18_compressed.pdf

12:20 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Theia White Paper Discussions

1:30 PM NLDBD white paper results - Valentina, Lindley

Theia_Meeting_NLDBD_April2018.pdf

1:50 PM NLDBD with machine learning: Andrey Elagin

AElagin_for_THEIA_at_UCDavis_v5.pdf

2:05 PM NLDBD results discussion

theia_dbd_20180413.pdf

2:25 PM Long baseline white paper results - Mike Wilking

wilking.pdf

2:45 PM Long baseline results discussion

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Coffee Break

3:20 PM → 5:10 PM Theia White Paper Discussions

3:20 PM Solar neutrino white paper results - Richie Bonventre

bonventre_theia.pdf

3:40 PM Solar neutrino results discussion

4:05 PM Anti-neutrino white paper results: Steve Dye, UH Manoa

Theia_antinu_Apr2018.pdf

4:25 PM Anti-neutrino results discussion

4:50 PM Other physics topics - discussion

Sat, April 14

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Discussions: International Perspectives and Proposals

Make Draft Outlines/Schedules

9:00 AM International Perspectives: Canada, Finland, Germany, UK, USA

9:45 AM Discussion of Common R&D and Proposals

Common R&D USA.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 12:30 PM Discussions: Theia Organization and Proposals

Make Draft Outlines/Schedules