New and Enhanced Photosensor Technologies for Underground/underwater Neutrino Experiments (NEPTUNE 2020)

4 Nov 2020, 08:30 → 6 Nov 2020, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Gianfranca De Rosa (NA), Pasquale Migliozzi (NA)

Due to Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent decision of the Italian Government, we are forced to cancel the workshop that was already postponed from March to November.

 

 

Over the last years some of the most important discoveries in particle (discovery of neutrino oscillations) and astro-particle physics (discovery of extra-galactic high-energy neutrinos) have been achieved by experiments detecting scintillation or Cherenkov light, produced by the charged particles produced in the neutrino interactions, by means of photosensors. Currently, several programs are ongoing for the upgrade of the existing facilities or the development of next generation ones. Also in this case the detection principle exploits the scintillation or Cherenkov light produced by charged-particles. Therefore, the development of new and enhanced photosensors is a key step towards the construction of new and more sensitive experiments both in particle and astro-particle physics.

 

The goal of this workshop is to review the state of the art and future developments in the field of photosensors, with particular attention to the high pixelation photosensor approach using small PMTs, and their applications. The properties of materials used to build instrumentation based on photosensors and the electronics will be some of the topics of the workshop. The calibration of the devices as well as the event reconstruction and Monte Carlo technique will be also addressed.

 

This workshop is co-funded by INFN - Sezione di Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Pancini" and Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.

 

 

 

Wednesday, 4 November

1 Welcome

Recent progress in photosensor developments

2 The CHIPS PMT system

Speaker: Stefano Germani

3 40K calibration of the DOMs in the sea

Speaker: Paolo Fermani

4 Study of the R14374 Hamamatsu PMTs performance

Speaker: Oleg Kalekin

5 PMT development and characterization for mDOM

Speaker: Jonas Reubelt

10:20 Coffee break

Recent progress in photosensor developments

6 JUNO PMT system

Speaker: TBD TBD

7 Development and measurement of new large-aperture photodetectors

Speaker: Yasuhiro Nishimura

8 3-inch PMT characterization

Speaker: TBD TBD

9 The Accelerator Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) and First Use of Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPDs) in a Neutrino Detector

Speaker: Matthew Malek

High-voltage generation, electronic read-out and signal processing

10 KM3NeT PMT base developments

Speaker: Deepak Gajanana

11 Communication between in-ice modules and surface in IceCube Upgrade

Speaker: John Kelley

13:00 Lunch

High-voltage generation, electronic read-out and signal processing

12 Readout electronics/mainboard for mDOM

Speaker: Karl-Heinz Sulanke

13 JUNO HV generation system

Speaker: TBD TBD

14 JUNO Readout system

Speaker: TBD TBD

15 mPMT electronics for mPMT in Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Marcin Ziembicki

16 CHIPS and ICECube HV and readout systems

Speaker: John Kelley

15:40 Coffee break

High-voltage generation, electronic read-out and signal processing

17 Design verification tests of the PMT-HV-Base for the IceCube mDOM

Speaker: Judith Schneider

18 Electronics for Large Arrays of Photodetectors

Speaker: Nicola Paoli

Calibration systems

19 Time-over-threshold PMT calibration in the KM3NeT project

Speaker: Oleg Kalekin

20 PMT and DOM simulation in KM3NeT

Speaker: Vladimir Kulikovskiy

21 IWCD mPMT calibration

Speaker: Thomas Lindner (TRIUMF)

Thursday, 5 November

multi-PMT systems for photodetection

22 KM3NeT DOM and future developments

Speaker: Daniele Vivolo

23 IceCube Upgrade and IceCube-Gen2 overview

Speaker: Claudio Kopper

24 Module design concepts for IceCube-Gen2

Speaker: Markus Ackermann

25 DOM behavior as a function of the temperature and humidity

Speaker: Carlos Maximiliano Mollo (maximil@na.infn.it)

10:20 Coffee break

multi-PMT systems for photodetection

26 JUNO Dual Calorimetry system description

Speaker: TBD TBD

27 mPMT prototype test in MEMPHINO

Speaker: Mathieu Guigue

28 mPMT for Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Vincenzo Berardi

29 mPMT prototype for IWCD

Speaker: Lindner Thomas

Opening of the KM3Net integration point

Simulation and Results from experiments taking data

30 JUNO Data & Simulation

Speaker: TBD TBD

31 Optical TPC analysis for IWCD

Speaker: Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)

32 Impact of mPMT to HyperK

Speaker: Benjamin Quilan

33 Angle and position dependent response of PMTs in a KM3NeT DOM

Speaker: Thijs Juan van Eeden

15:50 Coffee break

Calibration systems

34 Calibration system in Super-Kamiokande and plans for Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Shunichi Mine

35 CERN water Cherenkov beam test

Speaker: Akira Konaka

36 22. Time Synchronization Schemes for the Future Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment

Speaker: Stefano Russo

Friday, 6 November

Mechanics of underground/underwater multi-PMT devices

37 Mechanical design of the mDOM for IceCube Upgrade

Speaker: Lew Classen

38 Vessel materials for mPMT in Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Roberto Spina (roberto.spina@poliba.it )

39 Acrylic cover in Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Alan Cosimo Ruggeri

40 Mass spectrometry and NRA for the KM3NeT materials

Speaker: Fabio Marzaioli

41 Underwater cabling and interconnect solutions for JUNO

Speaker: Armand Hattat

42 Chips detector planes

Speaker: Jennifer Thomas

11:00 Coffee break

Available facilities for tests

Summary talk