IceCube Gen2/PINGU meeting (Jan. 2015)

24 Jan 2015, 10:00 → 28 Jan 2015, 17:30 US/Central

Supernova Conference Room, 222 W. Washington Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 5117, Madison, WI 53703

The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, WIPAC, at UW–Madison hosts the IceCube Gen2/PINGU meeting at 222 W. Washington Ave. in Madison, WI from January 24 to January 28, 2015. 
 
Registration for the meeting will be $40 and includes breaks, materials, and a conference dinner on Monday evening.  The registration fee will be waived if you are not attending the dinner.  

Saturday, 24 January

10:00 → 12:00 Systematic uncertainty studies

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

on your own

14:00 → 16:00 Calibration: and future systematic studies

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Calibration

Sunday, 25 January

09:00 → 10:15 Analysis updates

10:15 → 10:45 coffee break

10:45 → 12:30 Analysis updates

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

on your own

14:30 → 17:30 Coordination

next steps for LOI, analysis
coordination and budgeting
the optimized detector and
funding

Monday, 26 January

09:00 → 10:00 New Photon Detection Technologies

10:00 → 10:20 break

10:20 → 11:45 New Photon Detection Technologies

11:45 → 13:30 Lunch

on your own

13:30 → 18:40 Surface detector R&D

13:30 Surface Detector R&D Overview, objective - Albrecht Karle

Slides Surface_R&D_AlbrechtKarle.pdf Surface_R&D_AlbrechtKarle.pptx

14:00 Surface Detector R&D Surface veto simulation - Javier Gonzales

Slides jgonzalez_veto.pdf

14:30 Surface Detector R&D Prototype for next year - Delia Tosi

Slides Gen2Workshop_Jan2015_compressed.pptx

15:00 break

15:30 Toy MC Simulation of a Surface Array - Sebastian Euler

Slides Gen2Workshop_15-01-26_v1.5.pdf

15:50 Surface Detector R&D Prototype readout options - John Kelley

Slides Surface_Array_Readout_Jan_2015.pdf

16:10 Surface Detector R&D TAXI as readout - Timo Karg

Slides TAXI_Readout.pdf

16:30 Surface Detector R&D Mechanical options - Perry Sandstrom

Slides MSN_Workshop_Gen2_Surface_Veto_Minos.pptx

16:50 discussion/plan

18:40 → 21:40 Dinner at the Old Fashioned

dinner included in the registration fee

Tuesday, 27 January

08:15 → 10:30 Surface detector R&D: Surface Extension

08:30 Surface Detector R&D Veto efficiency studies from CORSIKA

09:00 Surface Detector R&D Summary of the Monday PM session (short-term surface R&D)

09:30 discussion

09:45 Surface Detector R&D Surface extensions/surface veto (long-term)

Slides dtj.pptx

10:15 discussion

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Gen2 working group planning

11:00 Gen2-High-Energy Working Group working group plans

12:30 → 14:00 lunch

on your own

14:00 → 15:45 Gen2 Hardware

14:00 Hardware Summary of the Monday AM (hardware) session

14:30 Hardware Drill ideas

14:45 Hardware Remote DOMHubs

Slides Gen2_FieldHubs.pdf

15:00 Hardware Cables, cost and power

15:45 → 16:15 coffee break

16:15 → 17:30 Open discussion

work time/ additional topics

Wednesday, 28 January

08:30 → 10:15 Gen2 Physics Studies

08:30 Physics Studies Detector design studies (Aachen)

09:00 Phyics Studies Point Source Studies

Slides 2015-01-28_coenders_Gen2.pdf

09:20 CORSIKA background studies in HEX

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Euler (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides Gen2Workshop_15-01-28_v1.7.pdf

09:40 Cascades in HEX

Speaker: Joanna Kiryluk (o=stonybrook,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides HEX6a.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 coffee break

10:45 → 12:30 Gen2 Physics Goals

10:45 Physics Goals Discussion: how to converge, weighting of physics goals, benchmark fluxes and backgrounds

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

on your own

14:00 → 15:45 Design

constraints from NSF

14:00 Design, constraints, going forward Design ideas

Slides South_Pole_with_High_Energy_considerations.pdf

14:20 Design, constraints, going forward Constraints from NSF

15:45 → 16:15 coffee break

16:15 → 17:30 Gen2 Going Forward

16:15 Going Forward Discussions: tasks going forward