Name: IceCube-Gen2 Calibration Workshop
Start: 2021-04-07T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-04-09T12:55:00-05:00
Location: No location set

IceCube-Gen2 Calibration Workshop

from Wednesday 7 April 2021 (08:00) to Friday 9 April 2021 (12:55)

Monday 5 April 2021
Tuesday 6 April 2021
Wednesday 7 April 2021
08:00 Session 1
Session 1
08:00 - 09:30
Contributions

08:00 Intro and Gen2 Schedule - Dawn Williams (University of Alabama)

08:10 Acoustic Modules for Gen2 - Christoph Günther (RWTH Aachen)

08:40 Gen2 Camera-based calibration system - Carsten Rott (University of Utah)

09:05 Dust logging in gen2 - Benjamin Jones (University of Texas at Austin) Segev BenZvi (University of Rochester)
09:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Session 2
Session 2
10:00 - 11:30
Contributions

10:00 Calibrating IceCube track reconstructions by using DM-Ice coincidence events using 2012-2020 data - Teppei Katori (King's College London)

10:20 Water Tank Testing and Calibration - Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)

10:30 Gen2 - Optical calibration / in-situ POCAM? - Felix Henningsen (Universität München) Tobias Pertl (Universität München) Nikhita Khera (Universität München) Christian Spannfellner (Technische Universität München) Elisa Resconi (Universität München) Leonard Geilen (Universität München)

10:40 LED Flashers in Gen2 - Martin Rongen (RWTH Aachen University)

11:00 Discussion: what do we need for Gen2 Phase II proposal and Gen2 PDR? - Dawn Williams (University of Alabama)
Thursday 8 April 2021
08:00 Session 1
Session 1
08:00 - 09:36
Contributions

08:00 Introduction to In-Ice Neutrino Radio-detection Calibration - Allan Hallgren (Uppsala Universitet)

08:05 In-situ calibration and anechoic chamber measurement for radio antenna development [Time: 13+4] - Myoungchul Kim (Chiba University)

08:22 On unexplained features in ARA and other data, ice properties and goals [Time: 13+4] - David Besson (University of Kansas)

08:39 Plans for radio transmitters in distant holes in the Gen2 radio array [Time: 13+4] - David Besson (University of Kansas)

08:56 Passive sources of radio calibration [Time: 8+0] - Cosmin Deaconu (University of Chicago)

09:04 IceCube-Gen2 Radio Array Surface Calibration: Opportunities from Unique Transmitter and Receiver Systems [Time: 8+4] - Jordan Hanson (Whittier College)

09:16 Finite Difference Time-Domain Methods for Askaryan Propagation Modeling in IceCube-Gen2 [Time: 8+0] - Hanson Jordan (Whittier College)

09:24 Advanced Propagation: Greenland FDTD Case Study and the Potential for Parabolic Equation Modeling [Time: 8+4] - Cosmin Deaconu (University of Chicago)
09:36 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:36 - 10:05
10:05 Session 2
Session 2
10:05 - 11:35
Contributions

10:05 Calibrating In-Ice Antennas: Lessons Learned from ARA [Time: 13+4] - Kaeli Hughes (University of Chicago)

10:22 In-situ calibration device for the measurement of the snow accumulation and the index-of-refraction profile [Time: 10+3] - Jakob Beise (Uppsala Universitet) Christian Glaser (Uppsala Universitet)

10:35 Lessons learned from the calibration of ARIANNA surface station [Time: 10+3] - Steve Barwick (University of California, Irvine)

10:48 Calibration procedure for the hardware of RNO-G [Time: 10+3] - Maddalena Cataldo (DESY Zeuthen)

11:01 Simulation of radio signals from air showers measured by in-ice radio antennas [Time: 10+3] - Simon De Kockere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

11:14 Lessons learnt from radio detection of air showers [Time: 10+3] - Christian Glaser (Uppsala Universitet)
Friday 9 April 2021
08:00 Session 1
Session 1
08:00 - 09:45
Contributions

08:00 Introduction - Frank Schroeder (University of Delaware / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

08:05 Characterisation and pre-calibration of the scintillation detectors of the IceTop surface enhancement - Thomas Huber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

08:30 Continuous calibration of scintillators after deployment - Matt Kauer (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

08:55 Calibration of the Radio Components for the Surface Array at KIT - Roxanne Turcotte (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

09:20 Calibration of surface radio antennas after deployment - Hrvoje Dujmovic (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
09:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:45 - 10:10
10:10 Session 2
Session 2
10:10 - 11:35
Contributions

10:10 Carsten group intro - Carsten Rott (University of Utah)

10:15 Calibrating the IceCube's optical array with cosmic ray events - Xinhua Bai (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

10:40 Calibration of the Gen2 in-ice arrays using the surface array - Frank Schroeder (University of Delaware / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:05 Discussion

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