State of the Nu-tion pre-meeting

23 Jun 2017, 08:00 → 24 Jun 2017, 18:00 UTC

Toronto

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

Friday, 23 June

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome and Introduction

slides logistics_intro_kmahn_sotn.pdf

09:00 Introduction and logistics

Speaker: Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)

09:30 → 10:30 Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

09:30 T2K CC0pi cross section measurement

Speaker: Mr Stephen Dolan (University of Oxford)

Slides sDolanNutionTalkV5.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

11:00 MINERvA CC0pi cross section measurement

Speaker: Dr Daniel Ruterbories (University of Rochester)

Slides MINERvA-State_of_Nution_DeepDive_06232017_v4.pdf

12:00 ArgoNeuT CC coherent analysis

Speaker: Tingjun Yang (FNAL)

Slides argoneutcoh.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Deep dives

Detailed descriptions of analysis approaches from active experiments

14:00 NOvA cross section measurement approach so far

Speaker: Dr Mathew Muether (Wichita State University)

Slides State_of_the_Nution.pdf

14:30 Discussion

15:00 → 15:30 Detector systematics and reconstruction

15:00 Summary of domain adversarial approach to systematics and some simple results (MINERvA)

Speaker: Dr Anushree Ghosh

Slides Nu-Tion_anushree.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Detector systematics and reconstruction

16:00 MicroBooNE as a Laboratory for Studying nu + Ar Interactions

Speaker: Dr Joel Mousseau (University of Michigan)

Slides talk.pdf

16:30 NINJA: particle ID with emulsion detectors

Speaker: Dr Tsutomu Fukuda (Nagoya University)

Slides NuTionWS0623_Fukuda.pdf

17:00 Discussion

Saturday, 24 June

09:30 → 10:30 Choice of observables

09:30 MINERvA CCQE recoil analysis vs CC0pi

Speaker: Dr Minerba Betancourt (Fermilab)

Slides Nu_tion_Betancourt.pdf

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Cross-section systematics

11:00 Introduction to NUISANCE

Speaker: Mr Clarence Wret (Imperial College London)

Slides Nution_NUISANCE_comp.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Deborah Harris

Slides Background_Predictions_MINERvA.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Unfolding

14:00 Unfolding and pathologies

Speaker: Dr Mikael Kuusela

Slides Toronto_June_2017.pdf

14:45 Example of analysis without unfolding

Speaker: Mr Lukas Koch

Slides LikelihoodMachine_v2.pdf

15:05 Data releases and complications. Do we need unfolding?

Speaker: Dr Morgan Wascko (Imperial College London)

Slides wascko_20170624.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Unfolding

16:30 → 17:30 Summary and closing discussion