ORCA Meeting

5 Dec 2012, 09:00 → 6 Dec 2012, 13:00 Europe/Rome

Main meeting room (Guesthouse building) (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

The workshop will cover the following topics - Theory - Future plans of reactor experiments: Daya Bay, RENO, Double Chooz, ... - Future plans of beam experiments: GLACIER/LAGUNA-LBNO, ... - PINGU overview (incl. technology/geometry/timescale/cost) - ORCA overview (incl. technology/geometry/timescale/cost) - PINGU and ORCA simulations/analyses Ample time will be reserved for discussions.

Wednesday 5 December

1 Welcome by the LNS Director

Speaker: Giacomo Cuttone (INFN-LNS)

Slides ORCA_MEETING_Cuttone_1.pdf

Session 1

2 Neutrino masses: an introduction

Speaker: Francesco Vissani (INFN - LNGS)

Slides osc.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

3 Methods for measuring mass hierarchy without accelerators or neutrino telescopes

Speaker: Mauro Mezzetto (INFN - Padova)

Slides MH-Mezzzetto.pdf

4 LBNO: neutrino oscillations and facility

Speaker: Adam Noah Messomo (Univ. Geneva)

Slides ORCA-Noah-2012.pdf

13:10 Lunch

Session 2

5 Cosmological implications of the neutrino hierarchy

Speaker: Lucia Aurelia Popa (Institute for Space Science - Bucarest)

Slides lpopa.pdf

6 From AMANDA to PINGU: an on-going journey

Speaker: Elisa Resconi (Univ. Munich)

Slides Catania_2012_Resconi.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

7 ORCA overview

Speaker: Antoine Kouchner (APC - Paris)

Slides ORCA_Overview.pdf

8 About PINGU Simulation and Reconstruction

Speaker: Dr Sirin Odrowski (Univ. Munich)

Slides PINGU_Simulation_Rec_Odrowski.pdf

9 Discussion

Thursday 6 December

Session 1

10 Statistical power of mass hierarchy measurement (with ORCA)

Speaker: Aart Heijboer (Nikhef)

11 Sensitivity studies to mass hierarchy with the GLOBES propagator and a toy Monte Carlo tool

Speaker: Veronique Van Elewyck (APC - Paris)

10:30 Coffee Break

12 Effecitve Volumes and reconstruction

Speaker: Agata Trovato (INFN - LNS Catania)

13 Low energy neutrino simulation and reconstruction with the ORCA detector

Speaker: Apostolos Tsirigotis (HOU - Athens)

14 Discussion and summary