Name: PIONEER collaboration meeting
Start: 2023-10-15T17:20:00-07:00
End: 2023-10-18T21:00:00-07:00
Location: University of Washington

PIONEER collaboration meeting

from Sunday 15 October 2023 (17:20) to Wednesday 18 October 2023 (21:00)

Monday 9 October 2023
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Wednesday 11 October 2023
Thursday 12 October 2023
Friday 13 October 2023
Saturday 14 October 2023
Sunday 15 October 2023

Monday 16 October 2023

09:00 Registration and Welcome
Registration and Welcome
09:00 - 10:00
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
10:00
10:00 - 12:20
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

10:00 Welcome

10:05 Theory talk - Vincenzo Cirigliano (University of Washington)

10:35 PEN Overview & Update - Charles Glaser (University of Virginia)

11:30 PIENU Overview & Update - Richard Mischke (TRUIMF)

12:00 Big picture - David Hertzog (University of Washington)
12:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 13:20
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
13:20
13:20 - 17:20
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

13:20 Tracker Status and Plan - Jaydeep Datta (Stony Brook University)

13:45 Overview of ATAR physics requirements and simulation/analysis - Vincent Wong (TRIUMF)

14:10 Readout Board and Mechanical Support for ATAR - David Peterson (University of Washington) Peter Kammel (University of Washington, Seattle) Tim van Wechel (University of Washington)

14:30 ATAR geometry and simulation - Adam Molnar (UCSC) Siddhant Mehrotra (Stony Brook University)

14:55 Preliminary results of Beam Tests - Quentin Buat (University of Washington) Svende Braun (University of Washington)

15:40 Latest characterization of sensors, plus readout electronics and digitizers - Bruce Schumm (SCIPP / UC Santa Cruz) Jennifer Ott (UCSC)

16:10 Hardware Progress from BNL - Siddhant Mehrotra (Stony Brook University) Vladimir Tishchenko (BNL)

16:30 Status of the ATAR baseline design, what we have, what’s missing - Simone Michele Mazza (CERN)

16:45 Evolution of the ATAR alternative design - Xin Qian (BNL)

17:00 ATAR discussions - Simone Michele Mazza (CERN)
17:20 Exotics talk - Shintaro Ito (National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College)
Exotics talk
- Shintaro Ito (National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College)
17:20 - 17:45
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178 sterile, heavy neutrinos - what can we do with PIONEER Phase 2 (20+5 min)
18:30 Collaboration Dinner
Collaboration Dinner
18:30 - 21:00
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Tuesday 17 October 2023
08:30
08:30 - 09:20
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

08:30 Overview of the PiE5 beamline - Peter Kammel (University of Washington, Seattle)

08:45 Modeling of final beam section - Stefan Hochrein (ETH Zürich)

08:55 piE5 optimization with machine learning - Andreas Adelmann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:05 Discussion
09:20
09:20 - 12:45
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

09:20 Generic Calo Simulations - Omar Beesley (University of Washington)

09:40 Acceptance/Tail/Pileup studies - relations between ATAR and Calo - Xin Qian (BNL)

10:05 MEG Calibration that should carry over to PIONEER - Toshiyuki Iwamoto (The University of Tokyo)

10:20 MEG reconstruction of energy resolution - Sei Ban (ICEPP, The university of Tokyo)

10:35 MEG analysis of photonuclear events and pileup handling - Yusuke Uchiyama (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:10 LXe Prototype Status updates - Chloe Malbrunot (TRIUMF)

11:35 LXe procurement - Yousen Zhang (BNL)

11:50 LYSO test beam results - Omar Beesley (University of Washington)

12:05 Calibration methods for LYSO - Erik Swanson (University of Washington)

12:20 specific PSI local testbeam presentation - David Hertzog (University of Washington)

12:35 Closing discussions - Chloe Malbrunot (TRIUMF)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 13:35
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
13:35
13:35 - 15:15
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

13:35 Simulation Tool Overview - Patrick Schwendimann (University of Washington)

14:00 ATAR Event characterization - Quentin Buat (University of Washington)

14:25 Big Overview Summary with Event Mixing - Patrick Schwendimann (University of Washington)

14:55 Simulation Discussion - David Hertzog (University of Washington)
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:35
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
15:35
15:35 - 16:35
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

15:35 External speaker - Dr. Elizabeth Litzler - Elizabeth Litzler (University of Washington)

16:20 DEI committee introduction - Chloe Malbrunot (TRIUMF)
16:35
16:35 - 17:25
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

16:35 DAQ - John Carlton (University of Kentucky) Tim Gorringe (University of Kentucky)

16:45 Electronics development - Lawrence Gibbons (Cornell University)

17:00 Trigger - Dinko Pocanic (University of Virginia)
18:00 Thematic Dinners
Thematic Dinners
18:00 - 20:00
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178

19:30 Frontiers of Physics public lecture
Frontiers of Physics public lecture
19:30 - 21:00
Room: 130 'More perfect than we imagined: A physicist’s view of life, William Bialek, Princeton University' link to the event to register for everyone who is interested: https://phys.washington.edu/events/2023-10-17/more-perfect-we-imagined-physicists-view-life
Wednesday 18 October 2023
08:30
08:30 - 09:00
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

08:30 Speaker’s Committee Report - Jennifer Ott (UCSC)

08:40 1st “Org Chart” Discussion - David Hertzog (University of Washington)
09:00 Pion Lifetime - Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)
Pion Lifetime
- Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)
09:00 - 09:15
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
09:15
09:15 - 10:45
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178
Contributions

09:15 Discussion (all); Where are we now? Summary, wrap-up of progress - Peter Kammel (University of Washington)

10:00 Plans for PSI BVR 55 & 2024 beam time request - Douglas Bryman (UBC / TRIUMF)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:05
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178

11:05 Workshop
Workshop
11:05 - 12:35
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178

12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 13:35
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178

13:35

13:35 - 17:35
Room: CENPA conference room, Room 178