Name: MANTS Meeting
Start: 2013-10-14T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-10-15T19:31:00+02:00
Location: Garching, Germany

MANTS Meeting

from Monday, October 14, 2013 (8:00 AM) to Tuesday, October 15, 2013 (7:31 PM)

Monday, October 14, 2013

8:30 AM Registration All Day

8:30 AM - 9:29 AM

9:29 AM Status and Highlights from Experiments: HE 009 - near Kim
HE 009 - near Kim
9:29 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM IceCube: Albrecht Karle
Albrecht Karle
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM IceCube - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
9:50 AM Antares: Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey
Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey
9:50 AM - 10:05 AM
Contributions

9:50 AM ANTARES Highlights - Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey (IFIC (CSIC-UV))
10:05 AM Baikal / GVD: Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev
Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev
10:05 AM - 10:25 AM
Contributions

10:05 AM Baikal/GVD - Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev (Institute for nuclear research)
10:25 AM KM3Net: Uli Katz
Uli Katz
10:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

10:25 AM News from KM3NeT - Uli Katz (ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)
10:40 AM Astrophysical Interpretation of IceCube Excess: Markus Ahlers
Markus Ahlers
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

10:40 AM Astrophysical Interpretations of the IceCube Excess - Markus Ahlers (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
11:00 AM Break
Break
11:00 AM - 11:29 AM
11:30 AM Low Energy: Horsal HE 008
Horsal HE 008
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Introducing WOM: The Wavelength-Shifting Optical Module - Lukas Schulte (o=bonn,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

12:10 PM PINGU Precision for Atmospheric Oscillation Parameters - Kai Krings (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
Simulations: Horsal HE 009
Horsal HE 009
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Status of simulations for ORCA - Salvatore Galata (APC)

11:45 AM The km3 simulation package - Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)

12:05 PM Understanding Atmospheric Background in Neutrino Telescopes - Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

12:25 PM Trigger Studies for ORCA - Tamas Gal (ECAP)

12:40 PM Atmospheric muons rejection for ORCA - Luigi Antonio Fusco (INFN and University of Bologna)
1:00 PM Lunch will be provided
Lunch will be provided
1:00 PM - 2:29 PM

2:29 PM Future Detectors - Low Energy: HE 009 - near Kim
HE 009 - near Kim
2:29 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM DeepCore oscillation results: Juan-Pablo Yanez
Juan-Pablo Yanez
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM DeepCore oscillation results - Juan-Pablo Yanez (DESY)
2:45 PM Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy: Gross/Clark
Gross/Clark
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy - Andreas Gross (TU Munich)
3:10 PM ORCA mass hierarchy sensitivity study: Aart Heijboer
Aart Heijboer
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM
Contributions

3:10 PM ORCA mass hierarchy sensitivity study - aart heijboer (nikhef)
3:35 PM Intrinsic physics limitations: Clancy James / Jannik Hofestadt
Clancy James / Jannik Hofestadt
3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
Contributions

3:35 PM Intrinsic physics limitations to reconstruction - Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
4:00 PM Break
Break
4:00 PM - 4:29 PM

4:29 PM Future Detectors - Low Energy: HE 009 - near Kim
HE 009 - near Kim
4:29 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy: Walter Winter
Walter Winter
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM PINGU mass hierarchy sensitivity - Walter Winter (Wurzburg university)
4:50 PM Beam options: Jurgen Brunner
Jurgen Brunner
4:50 PM - 5:10 PM
Contributions

4:50 PM Beam options - Juergen Brunner (DESY)
5:10 PM Discussion

5:10 PM - 6:00 PM

7:30 PM Social Dinner - CAVOS Taverna, Koeniginstrasse, 34 80802 Muenchen www.cavos-taverna.de

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
9:30 AM Reconstruction: High Energy - Horsal 008
High Energy - Horsal 008
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM The cascade reconstruction in the Baikal experiment - Bair Shaybonov (JINR)

9:50 AM Cascade Reconstruction in IceCube - Claudio Kopper (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

10:10 AM Shower reconstruction and analysis with ANTARES & KM3NeT - Florian Folger (Mr)

10:30 AM Event fitting with direct event re-simulation - Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
Reconstruction: Low Energy - Konferenzraum - down the stairs across from Kim into the building next door, up one flight of stairs, and follow the signs to the room
Low Energy - Konferenzraum - down the stairs across from Kim into the building next door, up one flight of stairs, and follow the signs to the room
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Neutrino reconstruction for PINGU - Rezo Shanidze (DESY)

9:45 AM Reconstruction and energy estimation for tracks - Agata Trovato (LNS - INFN)

10:00 AM Reconstruction and energy estimation for tracks - Robert Bormuth (Nikhef)

10:15 AM Flavor Separation - Thomas Heid (ECAP)

10:30 AM A particle identification algorithm for PINGU - Ty DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
11:00 AM Break
Break
11:00 AM - 11:29 AM

11:29 AM Future Detectors - High Energy: Horsaal 008
Horsaal 008
11:29 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Neutrino Self-Veto: Tom Gaisser
Tom Gaisser
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

11:30 AM Atmospheric neutrino self-veto - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)
11:50 AM Intermediate energy starting tracks: Jacob Feintzeig
Jacob Feintzeig
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

11:50 AM Lowering IceCube's energy threshold for point source searches in the southern sky - Jacob Feintzeig (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
12:10 PM Veto and HE Starting Events - Nathan Whitehorn
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

12:10 PM IceCube In-Ice Veto For High-Energy Starting Events - Nathan Whitehorn (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
12:30 PM Air Cherenkov Surface Veto: Tyce DeYoung
Tyce DeYoung
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM A low energy air Cherenkov veto system - Tyce DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:44 PM

1:44 PM Future Detectors - High Energy: Horsaal 008
Horsaal 008
1:44 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Considerations for surface veto strategies / IceVeto: Albrecht Karle / Jan Auffenberg
Albrecht Karle / Jan Auffenberg
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Considerations for a surface veto array and a look at event rates - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
2:00 PM Multi-string extensions / IceCube ++ studies: Christopher Wiebusch / David Altmann
Christopher Wiebusch / David Altmann
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM DecaCube Part I - David Altmann (o=humboldt,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

2:10 PM DecaCube - IceCube++ - Part II - Christopher Wiebusch (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
2:20 PM KM3NeT options: Rosa Coniglione
Rosa Coniglione
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM KM3NeT and diffuse flux: first preliminary results - Rosa Coniglione (INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
2:40 PM Discussion

2:40 PM - 2:59 PM

2:59 PM Future Directions in Neutrino Astronomy: Horsaal 008
Horsaal 008
2:59 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Global Neutrino Telescope Coordination: Christian Spiering / TBD
Christian Spiering / TBD
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:20 PM Panel Discussion

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM

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