Albrecht Karle
(o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
14/10/2013, 09:30
IceCube - Albrecht Karle
Status and Highlights
Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey
(IFIC (CSIC-UV))
14/10/2013, 09:50
ANTARES - Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey
A few selected ANTARES results will be reported.
Prof.
Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev
(Institute for nuclear research)
14/10/2013, 10:05
Baikal - Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev
The Prototyping phase of the BAIKAL-GVD project has been started in April 2011 with the deployment of a three string engineering array which comprises all basic elements and systems of the Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) in Lake Baikal. In April 2012 the version of engineering array which comprises the first full-scale string of the GVD demonstration cluster has been deployed and operated during...
Prof.
Uli Katz
(ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)
14/10/2013, 10:25
KM3NeT - Uli Katz
The KM3NeT neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea is approaching the first construction phase in 2014/15. The technical solutions to be implemented will be discussed and first results of prototyping activities presented. The talk will conclude with an outlook to the future plans for KM3NeT.
Markus Ahlers
(o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
14/10/2013, 10:40
Ahlers - AP interpretation of IC excess
I summarize excluded and tentative explanations of the IceCube excess and highlight multi-messenger studies.
Lukas Schulte
(o=bonn,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
14/10/2013, 11:30
Wavelength-shifting optical modules - Stephan Schulte
Large-scale underground water-Cherenkov neutrino observatories rely on single photon sensors whose sensitive area for Cherenkov photons one wants to maximise. Low dark noise rates and dense module spacing will thereby allow to substantially decrease the energy threshold in future projects. We describe a feasibility study of a novel type of single photon sensor that employs organic...
Salvatore Galata
(APC)
14/10/2013, 11:30
Galata - Simulation for ORCA
Simulation activities for the feasibility study of ORCA for measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy are described. The two mainstream simulation chains, one with a 'reference' detector and one with a dense detector are presented.
Dr
Clancy James
(University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
14/10/2013, 11:45
James - KM3 simulation
The km3 simulation package is the standard software suite used by the ANTARES collaboration to simulate the emission and detection of Cherenkov photons. Here, the three programs comprising km3 are described, and the performance of km3's latest revision evaluated. Particular focus is paid to the use of the one-particle approximation, by which Cherenkov emission from hadronic cascades is...
Dr
Paolo Desiati
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
14/10/2013, 12:05
Desiati - Nu Gen with CORSIKA
In this presentation I'll review the importance to improve atmospheric neutrino production to probe the sources of systematics in the background estimation for neutrino telescopes. The generation of prompt components by heavy quark mesons is also discussed.
Mr
Kai Krings
(o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
14/10/2013, 12:10
Krings - PINGU precision atmos osc
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Mr
Tamas Gal
(ECAP)
14/10/2013, 12:25
Gal - Trigger studies ORCA
Trigger algorithms and evaluation of trigger performances for the ORCA detector.
Mr
Luigi Antonio Fusco
(INFN and University of Bologna)
14/10/2013, 12:40
Fusco - Mu background ORCA
A strong background for the observation of atmospheric neutrino induced upgoing muons is due to the presence of wrongly reconstructed muons. A strategy for the rejection of this background is presented, relying on the output of the reconstruction code "reco".
Mr
Juan-Pablo Yanez
(DESY)
14/10/2013, 14:30
Yanez - DeepCore oscillation
Oscillation results from the first year of the completed IceCube DeepCore detector
Andreas Gross
(TU Munich)
14/10/2013, 14:45
Clark / Gross - PINGU mass hierarchy
Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy
aart heijboer
(nikhef)
14/10/2013, 15:10
Heijboer - ORCA mass hierarchy
ORCA mass hierarchy sensitivity study
Dr
Clancy James
(University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
14/10/2013, 15:35
James / Hofestadt - Intrinsic physics limitations
At the characteristic energies (~20 GeV and below) at which ORCA/PINGU will look for hierarchy-dependent effects in the neutrino interaction rate, random fluctuations in the event characteristics will play a significant roll in limiting the accuracy of any reconstruction. In this contribution, the effects of such fluctuations in the determination of the energy and direction of muon tracks and...
Dr
Walter Winter
(Wurzburg university)
14/10/2013, 16:30
Winter - PINGU mass hierarchy sensitivity
I present an independent study of the PINGU mass hierarchy sensitivity based on the GLoBES (General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator) software, with the same methods and assumptions as used for the beam experiments. Particular attention will be given to the treatment of experiment properties and parameter correlations.
Mr
Juergen Brunner
(DESY)
14/10/2013, 16:50
Brunner - Beam options
The potential of a long baseline neutrino beam pointing towards PINGU or ORCA is discussed in the context of the neutrino mass hierarchy determination
Dr
Rezo Shanidze
(DESY)
15/10/2013, 09:30
Kappes - Event recon
Level 2 reconstruction for PINGU is discussed in this talk.
In addition to standard reconstruction algorithms used in
IceCube and PINGU, it includes new reconstruction algorithms
like Santa, IgelFit and HybridReco/MultiNest.
Bair Shaybonov
(JINR)
15/10/2013, 09:30
Shaybonov - Cascade recon in Baikal
A new analysis of the data from the NT200 neutrino telescope based on the reconstruction of parameters for high-energy cascades generated in neutrino interactions has yielded new upper limits on the diffuse neutrino fluxes predicted by a number of theoretical models. The upper limit on the all-flavor neutrino flux with an energy spectrum E-2 is 2.9 10-7 GeV cm-2 s-1 ster-1
Agata Trovato
(LNS - INFN)
15/10/2013, 09:45
Trovato - Recon and E estimates
The reconstruction algorithm used for the ORCA feasibility study will be described. The code reconstructs the direction of muon track coming from the muon neutrino and estimates the muon energy. The performance of the algorithm will be shown.
Claudio Kopper
(o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 09:50
Kopper - Cascade recon in IC
Cascade Reconstruction in IceCube
Mr
Robert Bormuth
(Nikhef)
15/10/2013, 10:00
Bormuth - Recon and E estimates
Results for an alternative track reconstruction in Orca using the GridFit method developed within Antares.
Florian Folger
(Mr)
15/10/2013, 10:10
Folger - Cascade recon in ANTARES and KM3NeT
An overview of the shower activities in ANTARES & KM3NeT
Mr
Thomas Heid
(ECAP)
15/10/2013, 10:15
Thomas Heid - Flavor separation
The talk is about the afforts which are taken to distinguish between track-like events and shower-like events. In ORCA it is necessary to make this decision as the calculations for mass hierarchy determination is based on muon neutrinos.
Ty DeYoung
(o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 10:30
DeYoung / Groh - Flavor / Particle ID
We will describe a particle identification algorithm based on identification of "superluminal" hits -- photons arriving earlier than expected from propagation of light from a reconstructed cascade vertex.
Dmitry Chirkin
(o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 10:30
Chirkin - DirectFit
DirectFit, likelihood, GZK cluster
Thomas Gaisser
(University of Delaware)
15/10/2013, 11:30
Gaisser - Nu self-veto
Muons produced in the same event as an atmospheric neutrino will exclude the atmospheric neutrino from a sample of events required to originate inside a fiducial volume of a detector. I will discuss how the veto is evaluated for use in the IceCube High Energy Starting Event analysis.
Jacob Feintzeig
(University of Wisconsin--Madison)
15/10/2013, 11:50
Feintzeig - Intermediate Energy Starting Tracks
Veto techniques are opening up new doors for point source searches in IceCube. Traditional IceCube point source analyses are only sensitive to PeV-scale fluxes in the southern hemisphere. We demonstrate that extending the “high-energy starting event” veto to lower energies allows IceCube to probe southern sky sources in the 10 TeV – 1 PeV regime. After discussing the event selection and...
Nathan Whitehorn
(o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 12:10
Veto and HE Starting Events - Nathan Whitehorn
Description of event selection and in-data background estimation used in the recent IceCube high-energy results, along with other details on the analysis.
Tyce DeYoung
(o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 12:30
Air Cherenkov Surface Veto - Ty DeYoung
Preliminary ideas regarding a surface veto array based on simple imaging air Cherenkov telescopes will be presented. Early studies suggest that cosmic ray primaries responsible for atmospheric neutrinos above an energy threshold of a few TeV could be tagged efficiently.
Albrecht Karle
(o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 13:45
Karle / Auffenberg - IceVeto
I will have a brief look at a surface veto array upgrade. Simulated event rates in IceCube suggest that surface veto detectors will add of order 10 muon neutrino events after atmospheric veto cut depending the threshold. Such strategies may offer benefits for lower energy source searches. They need to be compared to other muon neutrino search channels.
Mr
David Altmann
(o=humboldt,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 14:00
Wiebusch / Altmann - Multi-string extensions
Part I
Prof.
Christopher Wiebusch
(o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
15/10/2013, 14:10
Wiebusch / Altmann - Multi-string extensions
C
Dr
Rosa Coniglione
(INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
15/10/2013, 14:20
Coniglione - KM3NeT options
The prediction on diffuse flux for the KM3NeT will be shown.
