Name: 2nd Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project
Start: 2013-01-14T08:00:00+09:00
End: 2013-01-15T20:00:00+09:00
Location: No location set

2nd Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project

from Monday 14 January 2013 (08:00) to Tuesday 15 January 2013 (20:00)

Monday 14 January 2013
08:00
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Registration
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Goals of Meeting - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

09:15 Steering Report - Tsuyoshi NAKAYA (Kyoto University)
09:30
09:30 - 09:50
Contributions

09:30 J-PARC and beam-line upgrade - Taku Ishida (KEK)
09:50
09:50 - 11:45
Contributions

09:50 CP study - Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

10:35 Considerations for a Near Detector for the Tokai-to-HK experiment - Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia/Institute of Particle Physics)

10:55 Off-Axis Detectors as Direct Measurements of Neutrino Energy Reconstruction - Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester) Mark Hartz (University of Toronto and York University)

11:15 Atmospheric Neutrino Sensitivity Studies - Roger Wendell (ICRR)

11:30 Muon charge identification with gadolinium-loaded water - Christopher Mauger (LANL)
11:45 Lunch
Lunch
11:45 - 13:25
13:25
13:25 - 15:50
Contributions

13:25 Improvement of event selection of proton decay searches - Shunichi Mine (UCI)

13:40 Improvement of proton decay analysis in p-->nu-bar+K^+ - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

13:55 Spallation background - Yasuo Takeuchi (Dept. of Physics, Grad. School of Science, Kobe Univ.)

14:15 Solar neutrinos and supernova burst neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

14:35 SRN search with HK - Takatomi Yano (Okayama Univ.)

15:20 Neutrinographic imaging of the earth - Akimichi Taketa (Earthquake Research Institute)
15:50
15:50 - 17:10
Contributions

15:50 Excavation of the Hyper-K cavern - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

16:20 Hyper-K liner and PMT support design - Hide-Kazu TANAKA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

16:50 Geomagnetic field compensation - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)
17:10 Break
Break
17:10 - 17:35
17:35
17:35 - 18:35
Contributions

17:35 Water for Hyper-K - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR/IPMU)

18:00 Gadolinium for Hyper-K - Mark Vagins (IPMU)

18:20 Preliminary results on water-based liquid scintillator in a proton beam - David Jaffe (BNL)
Tuesday 15 January 2013
10:00
10:00 - 11:20
Contributions

10:00 Overview of the photodetector development - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

10:15 HPD development - Yasuhiro NISHIMURA (ICRR)

10:35 A new design of large area MCP-PMT for the next generation neutrino experiments - Yuekun Heng (Experimental Physics Center, Institute of High Energy Physics)

10:55 Update on Photomultiplier Evaluation and Development in the U.S. - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

11:05 Photo-detector development for maximizing the overall photon detection efficiency - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)
11:20
11:20 - 11:45
Contributions

11:20 Baseline design of the DAQ and Electronics System - Yoshinari Hayato (ICRR, Kamioka)
11:45 Lunch
Lunch
11:45 - 13:05
13:05
13:05 - 15:25
Contributions

13:05 Overview of software development towards Hyper-K - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

13:15 WCSim strategy and status - Chris Walter (Duke University)

13:30 Hyper-K Geometry for WCSim - Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)

13:40 WCsim tuning - Alex Himmel (Duke University)

13:55 High Energy reconstruction performance - Tarek Akiri (Duke University)

14:10 Recent Updates on fiTQun, a New Event Reconstruction Algorithm for Water Cherenkov Detectors - Shimpei Tobayama (University of British Columbia)

14:35 Computing Strategy for Hyper-Kamiokande - Francesca Di Lodovico (Queen Mary, University of London)

15:15 The Super-KAVE - Kate Scholberg Scholberg (Duke University)
15:25
15:25 - 17:00
Contributions

15:25 HK calibration overview & PMT/electronics calibration - Hide-Kazu TANAKA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

15:45 Considerations for the calibration of water properties and reflection at HK - Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia/Institute of Particle Physics)

16:00 Low energy calibration - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

16:15 High energy calibration - Shunichi Mine (UCI)

16:30 Outer detector calibration - Shunichi Mine (UCI)

16:40 Calibration source deployment system - Szymon Manecki (VirginiaTech)
17:00 Break
Break
17:00 - 17:25
17:25
17:25 - 18:25
Contributions

17:25 Discussions

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