State of the Nu-tion pre-meeting

Jun 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m. → Jun 24, 2017, 6:00 p.m. UTC

Toronto

Callum Wilkinson (University of Bern), Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)

Fri, June 23

9:00 a.m. → 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

slides logistics_intro_kmahn_sotn.pdf

9:00 a.m. Introduction and logistics

Speaker: Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)

9:30 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

9:30 a.m. T2K CC0pi cross section measurement

Speaker: Mr Stephen Dolan (University of Oxford)

Slides sDolanNutionTalkV5.pdf

10:30 a.m. → 11:00 a.m. Coffee break

11:00 a.m. → 12:30 p.m. Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

11:00 a.m. MINERvA CC0pi cross section measurement

Speaker: Dr Daniel Ruterbories (University of Rochester)

Slides MINERvA-State_of_Nution_DeepDive_06232017_v4.pdf

12:00 p.m. ArgoNeuT CC coherent analysis

Speaker: Tingjun Yang (FNAL)

Slides argoneutcoh.pdf

12:30 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. → 3:00 p.m. Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

2:00 p.m. NOvA cross section measurement approach so far

Speaker: Dr Mathew Muether (Wichita State University)

Slides State_of_the_Nution.pdf

2:30 p.m. Discussion

3:00 p.m. → 3:30 p.m. Detector systematics and reconstruction

3:00 p.m. Summary of domain adversarial approach to systematics and some simple results (MINERvA)

Speaker: Dr Anushree Ghosh

Slides Nu-Tion_anushree.pdf

3:30 p.m. → 4:00 p.m. Coffee break

4:00 p.m. → 5:30 p.m. Detector systematics and reconstruction

4:00 p.m. MicroBooNE as a Laboratory for Studying nu + Ar Interactions

Speaker: Dr Joel Mousseau (University of Michigan)

Slides talk.pdf

4:30 p.m. NINJA: particle ID with emulsion detectors

Speaker: Dr Tsutomu Fukuda (Nagoya University)

Slides NuTionWS0623_Fukuda.pdf

5:00 p.m. Discussion

Sat, June 24

9:30 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Choice of observables

9:30 a.m. MINERvA CCQE recoil analysis vs CC0pi

Speaker: Dr Minerba Betancourt (Fermilab)

Slides Nu_tion_Betancourt.pdf

10:00 a.m. Discussion

10:30 a.m. → 11:00 a.m. Coffee break

11:00 a.m. → 12:30 p.m. Cross-section systematics

11:00 a.m. Introduction to NUISANCE

Speaker: Mr Clarence Wret (Imperial College London)

Slides Nution_NUISANCE_comp.pdf

11:30 a.m. Background subtraction when model is horribly wrong: lessons from MINERvA

Speaker: Dr Deborah Harris

Slides Background_Predictions_MINERvA.pdf

12:00 p.m. Discussion

12:30 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. → 3:30 p.m. Unfolding

2:00 p.m. Unfolding and pathologies

Speaker: Dr Mikael Kuusela

Slides Toronto_June_2017.pdf

2:45 p.m. Example of analysis without unfolding

Speaker: Mr Lukas Koch

Slides LikelihoodMachine_v2.pdf

3:05 p.m. Data releases and complications. Do we need unfolding?

Speaker: Dr Morgan Wascko (Imperial College London)

Slides wascko_20170624.pdf

3:30 p.m. → 4:00 p.m. Coffee break

4:00 p.m. → 4:30 p.m. Unfolding

4:30 p.m. → 5:30 p.m. Summary and closing discussion