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

Welcome and Introduction

slides logistics_intro_kmahn_sotn.pdf

1 Introduction and logistics

Speaker: Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)

Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

2 T2K CC0pi cross section measurement

Speaker: Mr Stephen Dolan (University of Oxford)

Slides sDolanNutionTalkV5.pdf

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

3 MINERvA CC0pi cross section measurement

Speaker: Dr Daniel Ruterbories (University of Rochester)

Slides MINERvA-State_of_Nution_DeepDive_06232017_v4.pdf

4 ArgoNeuT CC coherent analysis

Speaker: Tingjun Yang (FNAL)

Slides argoneutcoh.pdf

12:30 p.m. Lunch

Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

5 NOvA cross section measurement approach so far

Speaker: Dr Mathew Muether (Wichita State University)

Slides State_of_the_Nution.pdf

6 Discussion

Detector systematics and reconstruction

7 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. Coffee break

Detector systematics and reconstruction

8 MicroBooNE as a Laboratory for Studying nu + Ar Interactions

Speaker: Dr Joel Mousseau (University of Michigan)

Slides talk.pdf

9 NINJA: particle ID with emulsion detectors

Speaker: Dr Tsutomu Fukuda (Nagoya University)

Slides NuTionWS0623_Fukuda.pdf

10 Discussion

Sat, June 24

Choice of observables

11 MINERvA CCQE recoil analysis vs CC0pi

Speaker: Dr Minerba Betancourt (Fermilab)

Slides Nu_tion_Betancourt.pdf

12 Discussion

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

Cross-section systematics

13 Introduction to NUISANCE

Speaker: Mr Clarence Wret (Imperial College London)

Slides Nution_NUISANCE_comp.pdf

14 Background subtraction when model is horribly wrong: lessons from MINERvA

Speaker: Dr Deborah Harris

Slides Background_Predictions_MINERvA.pdf

15 Discussion

12:30 p.m. Lunch

Unfolding

16 Unfolding and pathologies

Speaker: Dr Mikael Kuusela

Slides Toronto_June_2017.pdf

17 Example of analysis without unfolding

Speaker: Mr Lukas Koch

Slides LikelihoodMachine_v2.pdf

18 Data releases and complications. Do we need unfolding?

Speaker: Dr Morgan Wascko (Imperial College London)

Slides wascko_20170624.pdf

3:30 p.m. Coffee break

Unfolding

Summary and closing discussion