Name: Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project
Start: 2012-08-21T17:00:00+09:00
End: 2012-08-23T20:45:00+09:00
Location: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo

Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project

from Tuesday 21 August 2012 (17:00) to Thursday 23 August 2012 (20:45)

Monday 20 August 2012
Tuesday 21 August 2012
17:00 Registration (1)
Registration (1)
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

17:00 Registration (1)
Reception
Reception
17:00 - 20:00
Room: Cafeteria
Contributions

17:00 Reception
Wednesday 22 August 2012
08:00 Registration (2)
Registration (2)
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

08:00 Registration (2)
09:00
09:00 - 11:40
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 HEP and Neutrino Project status (Japan/Asia) - Yasuhiro OKADA (KEK)

09:25 Neutrino Project status (USA) - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

09:50 Neutrino Project Status (Europe) - Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)

10:40 Japan HEP future project subcommittee report - Toshinori MORI (ICEPP, Tokyo)

11:00 Japan CRC future project subcommittee report - Nobuyuki KANDA (Osaka City)

11:20 Goals of the meeting - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)
11:40 Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria
13:00
13:00 - 13:55
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:00 J-PARC Status - Yujiro IKEDA (JAEA)

13:25 J-PARC upgrade - Tadashi KOSEKI (KEK)
13:55
13:55 - 17:35
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:55 Long baseline experiment and proton decay search using Hyper-K - Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

14:25 Systematics in CPV measurement - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

14:40 Towards Reduced Neutrino Flux & Interaction Uncertainties for a J-PARC to Hyper-K Experiment - Mark Hartz (University of Toronto/York University)

15:00 Irreducible Cross-Section Uncertainties for Electron Neutrino Appearance? - Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)

15:20 Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at Hyper-Kamiokande - Roger Wendell (ICRR)

15:45 Cosmic background study for atm. nu and proton decay - Kimihiro Okumura (ICRR)

16:25 Solar neutrinos and supernova burst neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

16:50 Supernova neutrino astronomy with Hyper-Kamiokande - Shunsaku Horiuchi (CCAPP, Ohio State University)

17:15 Dark Matter Sensitivity Studies - Carsten Rott (CCAPP / Ohio State University)
17:35 Excavation
Excavation
17:35 - 19:05
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

17:35 Excavation of the Hyper-K cavern - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

17:55 The LAGUNA Feasibility Study for the LSC to Host a Next-Generation Mega-ton type Neutrino and Nucleon Decay Experiment - Luis Labarga (Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

18:10 Hyper-K liner and PMT support - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

18:30 Water containment and PMT deployment designs for the LBNE water detector - Jim Stewart (BNL)

18:50 Studies of a "thin" veto for LBNE - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)
19:10 Party
Party
19:10 - 21:10
Room: Plaza Ikoi
Contributions

19:10 Party
Thursday 23 August 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:05
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Basic water plan for Hyper-K - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR)

09:25 Gd Option for Hyper-K - Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU)

09:45 Benefits of and progress towards massive water-based liquid scintillator detectors - David Jaffe (BNL)
10:05
10:05 - 11:40
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:05 Hybrid Photo-Detector study at Kamioka - Yasuhiro NISHIMURA (ICRR)

10:55 LBNE photosensor R & D including light collection options - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

11:10 Mechanical Performance of Large Format Underwater Photo-multiplier - Jiajie Ling (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:25 Photomultiplier Tube Glass Failure in Neutrino Detection: Challenges and Opportunities - S. K. Sundaram (Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering, Alfred University)
11:40 Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria
13:00
13:00 - 13:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:00 Photo-detector development for maximizing the overall photon detection efficiency - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

13:15 Development of a Large Area Photodetector with a Fast Phosphor Anode - Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)
13:30
13:30 - 13:55
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:30 Current baseline design of HK DAQ system - Yoshinari Hayato (Kamioka obs., ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
13:55
13:55 - 14:50
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:55 Overview of software development towards Hyper-K - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

14:05 A New Method for Event Reconstruction in Large Water Cherenkov Detectors - Michael Wilking (TRIUMF)

14:25 Development of GEANT4 based water Cherenkov detector simulation, WCSim - Chris Walter (Duke University)
14:50 Break
Break
14:50 - 15:15
Room: Lecture Hall
15:15
15:15 - 16:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

15:15 SK calibration overview - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

15:40 Considerations for Calibration Source Deployment in Hyper-Kamiokande - Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia/Institute of Particle Physics)

15:55 Automated calibration system for the Daya Bay reactor anti-neutrino experiment - Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

16:10 Borexino calibration system - Szymon Manecki (VirginiaTech)

16:25 LBNE WCD calibration system design and energy calibration requirements for large water Cherenkov detectors - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Thomas Kutter (LSU)
16:45
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:45 Cavity and Tanks - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

16:45 Photo-sensor - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo) Yasuhiro NISHIMURA (ICRR)

16:45 DAQ system - Yoshinari Hayato (Kamioka obs., ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

16:45 Software - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

16:45 Calibration - Hide-Kazu TANAKA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

16:45 Water System - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR/IPMU) Mark Vagins (IPMU)
17:45
17:45 - 18:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

17:45 Discussion for Physics Potentials
18:45
18:45 - 19:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

18:45 Final Discussion Session

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