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, January 14, 2013 (8:00 AM) to Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (8:00 PM)

Monday, January 14, 2013
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Registration
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Goals of Meeting - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

9:15 AM Steering Report - Tsuyoshi NAKAYA (Kyoto University)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM J-PARC and beam-line upgrade - Taku Ishida (KEK)
9:50 AM
9:50 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

9:50 AM CP study - Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

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

10:55 AM 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 AM Atmospheric Neutrino Sensitivity Studies - Roger Wendell (ICRR)

11:30 AM Muon charge identification with gadolinium-loaded water - Christopher Mauger (LANL)
11:45 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:45 AM - 1:25 PM
1:25 PM
1:25 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

1:25 PM Improvement of event selection of proton decay searches - Shunichi Mine (UCI)

1:40 PM Improvement of proton decay analysis in p-->nu-bar+K^+ - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

1:55 PM Spallation background - Yasuo Takeuchi (Dept. of Physics, Grad. School of Science, Kobe Univ.)

2:15 PM Solar neutrinos and supernova burst neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

2:35 PM SRN search with HK - Takatomi Yano (Okayama Univ.)

3:20 PM Neutrinographic imaging of the earth - Akimichi Taketa (Earthquake Research Institute)
3:50 PM
3:50 PM - 5:10 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Excavation of the Hyper-K cavern - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

4:20 PM Hyper-K liner and PMT support design - Hide-Kazu TANAKA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

4:50 PM Geomagnetic field compensation - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)
5:10 PM Break
Break
5:10 PM - 5:35 PM
5:35 PM
5:35 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

5:35 PM Water for Hyper-K - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR/IPMU)

6:00 PM Gadolinium for Hyper-K - Mark Vagins (IPMU)

6:20 PM Preliminary results on water-based liquid scintillator in a proton beam - David Jaffe (BNL)
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

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

10:15 AM HPD development - Yasuhiro NISHIMURA (ICRR)

10:35 AM 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 AM Update on Photomultiplier Evaluation and Development in the U.S. - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

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

11:20 AM Baseline design of the DAQ and Electronics System - Yoshinari Hayato (ICRR, Kamioka)
11:45 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:45 AM - 1:05 PM
1:05 PM
1:05 PM - 3:25 PM
Contributions

1:05 PM Overview of software development towards Hyper-K - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

1:15 PM WCSim strategy and status - Chris Walter (Duke University)

1:30 PM Hyper-K Geometry for WCSim - Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)

1:40 PM WCsim tuning - Alex Himmel (Duke University)

1:55 PM High Energy reconstruction performance - Tarek Akiri (Duke University)

2:10 PM Recent Updates on fiTQun, a New Event Reconstruction Algorithm for Water Cherenkov Detectors - Shimpei Tobayama (University of British Columbia)

2:35 PM Computing Strategy for Hyper-Kamiokande - Francesca Di Lodovico (Queen Mary, University of London)

3:15 PM The Super-KAVE - Kate Scholberg Scholberg (Duke University)
3:25 PM
3:25 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:25 PM HK calibration overview & PMT/electronics calibration - Hide-Kazu TANAKA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

3:45 PM Considerations for the calibration of water properties and reflection at HK - Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia/Institute of Particle Physics)

4:00 PM Low energy calibration - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

4:15 PM High energy calibration - Shunichi Mine (UCI)

4:30 PM Outer detector calibration - Shunichi Mine (UCI)

4:40 PM Calibration source deployment system - Szymon Manecki (VirginiaTech)
5:00 PM Break
Break
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM
5:25 PM
5:25 PM - 6:25 PM
Contributions

5:25 PM Discussions

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