Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Anomaly Measurements: U.S. Planning Meeting

Dec 11, 2012, 8:00 AM → Dec 12, 2012, 6:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

LLNL, Livermore CA

Meeting Logistics SBL_Reactor_Agenda.pdf SBL_Reactor_Directions.pdf

Tue, December 11

Arrival & Introduction

1 Badging&Setup

2 Welcome to LLNL and Introduction

Speaker: Adam Bernstein

Physics Overview

3 Potential Impact of New Measurements on Reactor Spectrum and Flux Predictions

Speakers: Patrick Huber, Patrick Huber (UW)

Slides huber-llnl12.pdf

4 Potential Impact of New Measurements and Applied Neutrino Physics Goals

Speaker: Nathaniel Bowden

Slides Y12M12D11_Impact_Applied.pdf

5 International context and experimental requirements for a definitive short-baseline reactor experiment

Speaker: Karsten Heeger

Slides reactorUS_context.pdf

10:25 AM coffee

Potential Reactor Sites

6 Advanced Test Reactor: Site and Core Characteristics

Speaker: Sean Morrell

Slides ATR_for_LLNL_12-2012.pdf

7 High Flux Isotope Reactor: Site and Core Characteristics

Speaker: Chris Bryan

Slides Summary_of_HFIR_-_Short_Baseline_Neutrino.pdf

8 NIST: Site and Core Characteristics

Speaker: Pieter Mumm

Slides NIST_facility-v2.pdf

9 SONGS: Site and Core Characteristics

Speaker: Nathaniel Bowden

Slides Y12M12D11_SONGS.pdf

12:05 PM lunch

Detection Materials

10 Scintillator Development at BNL

Speaker: Minfang Yeh

Slides Scintillation_Detector_at_BNL_for_SBL_v1.pdf

11 Scintillator Development at LLNL

Speaker: Andrew Glenn

Slides glenn22ReactorNeutrino.pdf

12 Scintillator Development at NIST

Speaker: Pieter Mumm

Slides NIST_Scintillator.pdf

2:45 PM coffee

Detector Concepts

13 Homogenous Scintillator Detector

Speaker: Tim Classen

Slides Short_Baseline_MC_IM.pdf

14 Segmented Detector Considerations and Concept

Speaker: Mr Bryce Littlejohn (University of Cincinnati)

Slides Dec2012_Segementation.pdf

Wed, December 12

Sensitivity Calculations

15 Sensitivity Calculations - UC/UW

Speaker: Bryce Littlejohn

Slides Bryce_Sensitivity.pdf

16 Sensitivity Calculations - LLNL

Speaker: Nathaniel Bowden

Slides Y12M12D12_LLNL_Sensitivity.pdf

R&D I

17 Background Considerations

Speaker: Pieter Mumm

Slides NIST_BG.pdf

18 R&D Plans - LLNL

Speaker: Nathaniel Bowden

Slides Y12M12D12_LLNL_R&D.pdf

19 R&D Plans - UNC

Speaker: Reyco Henning (UNC)

Slides Henning_UNCR&D.pdf

10:20 AM coffee

R&D II

20 R&D Plans - UW

Speaker: Prof. Karsten Heeger (University of Wisconsin)

Slides reactorUS_UWR&D.pdf

21 R&D Plans - NIST

Speaker: Pieter Mumm

22 R&D Plans - UH

Speaker: John Learned

Slides mtc_review_LLNL_12-11-12.pdf

12:00 PM lunch

Discussions

3:30 PM coffee

Summary