IceCube Gen2/PINGU meeting (Jan. 2015)

Jan 24, 2015, 10:00 AM → Jan 28, 2015, 5:30 PM 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.  

Sat, January 24

10:00 AM → 12:00 PM Systematic uncertainty studies

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

on your own

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Calibration: and future systematic studies

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM coffee break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Calibration

Sun, January 25

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM Analysis updates

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM coffee break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Analysis updates

12:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

on your own

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Coordination

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

Mon, January 26

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM New Photon Detection Technologies

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM break

10:20 AM → 11:45 AM New Photon Detection Technologies

11:45 AM → 1:30 PM Lunch

on your own

1:30 PM → 6:40 PM Surface detector R&D

1:30 PM Surface Detector R&D Overview, objective - Albrecht Karle

Slides Surface_R&D_AlbrechtKarle.pdf Surface_R&D_AlbrechtKarle.pptx

2:00 PM Surface Detector R&D Surface veto simulation - Javier Gonzales

Slides jgonzalez_veto.pdf

2:30 PM Surface Detector R&D Prototype for next year - Delia Tosi

Slides Gen2Workshop_Jan2015_compressed.pptx

3:00 PM break

3:30 PM Toy MC Simulation of a Surface Array - Sebastian Euler

Slides Gen2Workshop_15-01-26_v1.5.pdf

3:50 PM Surface Detector R&D Prototype readout options - John Kelley

Slides Surface_Array_Readout_Jan_2015.pdf

4:10 PM Surface Detector R&D TAXI as readout - Timo Karg

Slides TAXI_Readout.pdf

4:30 PM Surface Detector R&D Mechanical options - Perry Sandstrom

Slides MSN_Workshop_Gen2_Surface_Veto_Minos.pptx

4:50 PM discussion/plan

6:40 PM → 9:40 PM Dinner at the Old Fashioned

dinner included in the registration fee

Tue, January 27

8:15 AM → 10:30 AM Surface detector R&D: Surface Extension

8:30 AM Surface Detector R&D Veto efficiency studies from CORSIKA

9:00 AM Surface Detector R&D Summary of the Monday PM session (short-term surface R&D)

9:30 AM discussion

9:45 AM Surface Detector R&D Surface extensions/surface veto (long-term)

Slides dtj.pptx

10:15 AM discussion

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Gen2 working group planning

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

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM lunch

on your own

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Gen2 Hardware

2:00 PM Hardware Summary of the Monday AM (hardware) session

2:30 PM Hardware Drill ideas

2:45 PM Hardware Remote DOMHubs

Slides Gen2_FieldHubs.pdf

3:00 PM Hardware Cables, cost and power

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM coffee break

4:15 PM → 5:30 PM Open discussion

work time/ additional topics

Wed, January 28

8:30 AM → 10:15 AM Gen2 Physics Studies

8:30 AM Physics Studies Detector design studies (Aachen)

9:00 AM Phyics Studies Point Source Studies

Slides 2015-01-28_coenders_Gen2.pdf

9:20 AM CORSIKA background studies in HEX

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Euler (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides Gen2Workshop_15-01-28_v1.7.pdf

9:40 AM Cascades in HEX

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

Slides HEX6a.pdf

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM coffee break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Gen2 Physics Goals

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

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

on your own

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Design

constraints from NSF

2:00 PM Design, constraints, going forward Design ideas

Slides South_Pole_with_High_Energy_considerations.pdf

2:20 PM Design, constraints, going forward Constraints from NSF

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM coffee break

4:15 PM → 5:30 PM Gen2 Going Forward

4:15 PM Going Forward Discussions: tasks going forward