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, August 21, 2012 (5:00 PM) to Thursday, August 23, 2012 (8:45 PM)

Monday, August 20, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
5:00 PM Registration (1)
Registration (1)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

5:00 PM Registration (1)
Reception
Reception
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria
Contributions

5:00 PM Reception
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
8:00 AM Registration (2)
Registration (2)
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

8:00 AM Registration (2)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

9:00 AM HEP and Neutrino Project status (Japan/Asia) - Yasuhiro OKADA (KEK)

9:25 AM Neutrino Project status (USA) - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

9:50 AM Neutrino Project Status (Europe) - Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)

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

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

11:20 AM Goals of the meeting - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)
11:40 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 1:55 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:00 PM J-PARC Status - Yujiro IKEDA (JAEA)

1:25 PM J-PARC upgrade - Tadashi KOSEKI (KEK)
1:55 PM
1:55 PM - 5:35 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:55 PM Long baseline experiment and proton decay search using Hyper-K - Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

2:25 PM Systematics in CPV measurement - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

2:40 PM Towards Reduced Neutrino Flux & Interaction Uncertainties for a J-PARC to Hyper-K Experiment - Mark Hartz (University of Toronto/York University)

3:00 PM Irreducible Cross-Section Uncertainties for Electron Neutrino Appearance? - Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)

3:20 PM Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at Hyper-Kamiokande - Roger Wendell (ICRR)

3:45 PM Cosmic background study for atm. nu and proton decay - Kimihiro Okumura (ICRR)

4:25 PM Solar neutrinos and supernova burst neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

4:50 PM Supernova neutrino astronomy with Hyper-Kamiokande - Shunsaku Horiuchi (CCAPP, Ohio State University)

5:15 PM Dark Matter Sensitivity Studies - Carsten Rott (CCAPP / Ohio State University)
5:35 PM Excavation
Excavation
5:35 PM - 7:05 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

5:35 PM Excavation of the Hyper-K cavern - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

5:55 PM 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)

6:10 PM Hyper-K liner and PMT support - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

6:30 PM Water containment and PMT deployment designs for the LBNE water detector - Jim Stewart (BNL)

6:50 PM Studies of a "thin" veto for LBNE - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)
7:10 PM Party
Party
7:10 PM - 9:10 PM
Room: Plaza Ikoi
Contributions

7:10 PM Party
Thursday, August 23, 2012
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:05 AM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Basic water plan for Hyper-K - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR)

9:25 AM Gd Option for Hyper-K - Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU)

9:45 AM Benefits of and progress towards massive water-based liquid scintillator detectors - David Jaffe (BNL)
10:05 AM
10:05 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

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

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

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

11:25 AM Photomultiplier Tube Glass Failure in Neutrino Detection: Challenges and Opportunities - S. K. Sundaram (Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering, Alfred University)
11:40 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:00 PM Photo-detector development for maximizing the overall photon detection efficiency - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

1:15 PM Development of a Large Area Photodetector with a Fast Phosphor Anode - Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:30 PM Current baseline design of HK DAQ system - Yoshinari Hayato (Kamioka obs., ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
1:55 PM
1:55 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:55 PM Overview of software development towards Hyper-K - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

2:05 PM A New Method for Event Reconstruction in Large Water Cherenkov Detectors - Michael Wilking (TRIUMF)

2:25 PM Development of GEANT4 based water Cherenkov detector simulation, WCSim - Chris Walter (Duke University)
2:50 PM Break
Break
2:50 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

3:15 PM SK calibration overview - Yusuke Koshio (Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

3:40 PM Considerations for Calibration Source Deployment in Hyper-Kamiokande - Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia/Institute of Particle Physics)

3:55 PM Automated calibration system for the Daya Bay reactor anti-neutrino experiment - Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

4:10 PM Borexino calibration system - Szymon Manecki (VirginiaTech)

4:25 PM LBNE WCD calibration system design and energy calibration requirements for large water Cherenkov detectors - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Thomas Kutter (LSU)
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

4:45 PM Cavity and Tanks - Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

4:45 PM Photo-sensor - Shoei Nakayama (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo) Yasuhiro NISHIMURA (ICRR)

4:45 PM DAQ system - Yoshinari Hayato (Kamioka obs., ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

4:45 PM Software - Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

4:45 PM Calibration - Hide-Kazu TANAKA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

4:45 PM Water System - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR/IPMU) Mark Vagins (IPMU)
5:45 PM
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

5:45 PM Discussion for Physics Potentials
6:45 PM
6:45 PM - 7:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

6:45 PM Final Discussion Session

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