29th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting

Oct 5, 2015, 8:00 AM → Oct 9, 2015, 7:00 PM Europe/Berlin

October 5 to 7, 2015
28th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting

October 7, 2015
SDS IIb Workshop, Forward Beam Monitor Workshop

October 8, 2015
CKr Source Review, Software and Analysis Workshop

October 9, 2015
Workshop on keV sterile Neutrinos

Map of KIT Campus North Map-Campus-Nord.pdf

Mon, October 5

8:00 AM → 8:45 AM Transport from Hotel Eden: Departure 8:00

8:45 AM → 9:15 AM Registration: Registration, Come together, Coffee

Convener: Katharina Fischer

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM Announcement of organizational issues

Conveners: Katharina Fischer, Markus Steidl (KIT)

9:30 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary I

Convener: Kathrin Valerius

9:30 AM Welcome

Speakers: Christian Weinheimer, Guido Drexlin

9:40 AM Status of Rear-Section

Speaker: Florian Priester (KIT)

9:55 AM Satus of the WGTS

Speaker: Andreas Kosmider (KIT)

10:20 AM Status of the DPS

Speaker: Lutz Bornschein

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee Break

11:15 AM → 1:00 PM Plenary II

Convener: Klaus Helbing (U Wuppertal)

11:15 AM Status of the CPS

Speaker: Markus Steidl (KIT)

11:40 AM Status on the Loop System

Speaker: Michael Sturm (KIT)

12:00 PM Status of SDS

Speaker: Thomas Thuemmler (KIT)

12:25 PM The KATRIN Slow Control and Network Status

Speaker: Andreas Kopmann (KIT)

12:40 PM The KATRIN Time Schedule

Speaker: Rainer Gumbsheimer (KIT)

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch break: Canteen

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM Parallel A1: STS Hardware, R&D, Simulations

Convener: Florian Priester (KIT)

2:30 PM Update on the Forward Beam Monitor

Speakers: Enrico Ellinger (U Wuppertal), Hickford Stephanie (U Wuppertal)

2:45 PM 83mKr for KATRIN

Speaker: Drahos Venos (Rez)

3:00 PM 83mKr generator for KATRIN

Speaker: Jana Sentkerestiova (Czech Academy of Sciences)

3:15 PM Commissioning of an experimental setup for investigations on laser induced contamination in the LARA system

Speaker: Michael Groß (KIT)

3:30 PM Testing the impact of the Rear Wall potential on the WGTS plasma potential

Speaker: Laura Kuckert (KIT)

3:45 PM Simulations for the Krypton mode of WGTS

Speaker: Moritz Machatschek (KIT)

2:30 PM → 4:05 PM Parallel A2: SDS 2b -Part 1

Convener: Philipp Ranitzsch (U Muenster)

2:30 PM Simulations of stored electrons in main spectrometer

Speaker: Ferenc Glueck (KIT)

2:45 PM Origin of Rydberg atoms

Speaker: Guido Drexlin (KIT)

3:00 PM Rydberg background model measurements

Speaker: Nikolaus Trost (KIT)

3:20 PM Background energy spectroscopy

Speaker: Stephan Dyba (U Muenster)

3:35 PM UV light investigations

Speakers: Nikolaus Trost (KIT), Philipp Ranitzsch (U Muenster)

4:05 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee

4:30 PM → 6:15 PM Parallel B1: STS Research and Developement

Convener: Michael Sturm (KIT)

4:30 PM Tritium circulation test - Testing the efficiency of the KATRIN outer loop

Speaker: Sebastian Fischer (KIT)

4:45 PM Column density measurement with the Rear Section eGun

Speaker: Florian Heizmann (KIT)

5:00 PM Adsorption of gaseous tritium on gold coated beryllium investigated with TRIADE

Speaker: Manuel Klein (KIT)

5:15 PM Hyperfine interaction measurements on MoS sources

Speaker: Marius Arenz (U Bonn)

5:30 PM Reproducability of the work function of galvanically produced Au electrode surfaces

Speaker: Jan Kahlenberg (U Mainz)

5:45 PM First Kelvin Probe results of Rear Wall candidates

Speaker: Kerstin Schönung (KIT)

4:30 PM → 6:15 PM Parallel B2: SDS 2b -Part 2

Convener: Florian Fraenkle (KIT)

4:30 PM Measurement of secondary electron emission

Speaker: Axel Mueller (KIT)

4:45 PM Measurements with a 60Co source

Speaker: Philipp Ranitzsch (U MUenster)

5:00 PM Gamma flux levels with water shield

Speaker: Joachim Wolf (KIT)

5:15 PM Magnetic field measurements

Speaker: Moritz Erhard (KIT)

5:30 PM New independent absolut calibration of the KATRIN high voltage dividers

Speaker: Oliver Rest (U Muenster)

5:45 PM Status of eGun analysis & simulations

Speaker: Jan Behrens (U Münster)

6:30 PM → 6:45 PM Transport to hotel: Departure in front of B401

Tue, October 6

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Transport from Hotel Eden

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary III

Convener: Volker Hannen (U Muenster)

9:00 AM Status update from the high voltage task

Speaker: Oliver Rest (U Muenster)

9:20 AM Status and recent progress on Electron Optics

Speaker: Philipp Ranitzsch (U Muenster)

9:40 AM Overview on SDS2b results

Speaker: Florian Frankle (KIT)

10:10 AM Rydberg atoms: a novel source of background

Speaker: Guido Drexlin (KIT)

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee

11:15 AM → 12:45 PM Plenary IV

Convener: Nikita Titov (INR Troitsk)

11:15 AM IR-measurement of Van-Der-Waals bound Hydrogen Dimers between 20 and 30 K”

Speakers: Robin Größle (KIT), Sebastian Mirz (KIT)

11:30 AM Report on the Software & Analysis Workshop

Speaker: Kathrin Valerius (KIT)

11:55 AM Review of the systematics budget for a KATRIN 1 eV measurement

Speaker: Hendrik Seitz-Moskaliuk (KIT)

12:15 PM Neutrino mass sensitivity: early data and high-statistics data

Speaker: Marco Kleesiek (KIT)

12:45 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM → 4:15 PM Parallel C1: STS Analysis, Simulation & Steriles

Convener: Susanne Mertens (KIT)

2:15 PM Influence on the response function from the elastic electron scattering in the source

Speaker: Alexey Lokhov (Trotisk)

2:30 PM Measurement of the Main Spectrometer work function with the Rear Section eGun

Speaker: Florian Heizmann (KIT)

2:45 PM Towards a full simulation of the expected FBM detector signal in tritium mode

Speaker: Norman Haußmann (U Wuppertal)

3:00 PM Final states distribution version and negative neutrino mass puzzle

Speaker: Nikita Titov (tbd)

3:15 PM keV sterile neutrino search by TOF - preliminary sensitivity simulation results

Speaker: Nicholas Steinbrink (tbd)

3:30 PM Transmission properties of the MS when operated to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Anton Huber (KIT)

3:45 PM Detector Design Studies for keV-scale sterile neutrino search

Speaker: Marc Korzeczek (KIT)

4:00 PM Requirements on read-out electronics for keV-scale sterile neutrino search

Speaker: Kai Dolde (KIT)

2:15 PM → 4:15 PM Parallel C2: Simulations

Convener: Alexander Jansen (KIT)

2:15 PM Improvements of three-dimensional field computation methods

Speaker: Daniel Hilk (KIT)

2:30 PM FFTM for charge density calculations

Speaker: Wolfgang Gosda (KIT)

2:45 PM Geant simulation of environmental gammas in the spectrometer hall.

Speaker: Luke Kippenbrock (U Washington)

3:00 PM Response of a proportional counter to 37Ar and 71Ge: measured spectra versus GEANT4 simulation

Speaker: Dzhonrid Abdurashitov (Troitsk)

3:15 PM STS EMD issues

Speaker: Ferenc Glueck (KIT)

3:30 PM Magnetic field and flux tube in DPS and CPS

Speaker: Rudolf Sack (KIT)

3:45 PM EMD COMSOL calculations for the CPS

Speaker: Carsten Roettele (KIT)

4:15 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break: Quick break

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Board Meeting

Convener: Joachim Wolf

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Guided Tours: WGTS, DPS, CPS, Spectrometer

Conveners: Kosmider, Andreas, Lutz Bornschein, Michael Sturm, Thomas Thuemmler, Woosik Gil

6:30 PM → 7:00 PM Transport to CM Diner: Departure from B401

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Collaboration Dinner: Individual Return

Wed, October 7

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Transport from Hotel Eden

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Guided Tours: Tritium Laboratory (Coll. Board)

Conveners: Kosmider, Andreas, Lutz Bornschein, Michael Sturm, Thomas Thuemmler, Woosik Gil

8:30 AM → 8:45 AM Registration

8:45 AM → 9:15 AM Bachelor Session

Convener: Joachim Wolf (KIT)

8:45 AM Characterization of muon system for improved spatial resolution

Speaker: Julian Zimmer (KIT)

9:00 AM Temperature dependence of radon adsorption on the main spectrometer baffles

Speaker: Fabio Bertucco (KIT)

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM Registration

Convener: Katharina Fischer

9:30 AM → 11:05 AM Plenary V

Convener: Magnus Schloesser (U Madrid)

9:30 AM Status report on an electron tagger for KATRIN

Speaker: Hamish Robertson (U Seattle)

9:50 AM keV-scale sterile neutrinos (Pre- and post KATRIN sterile neutrino search)

Speaker: Susanne Mertens (KIT)

10:10 AM Neutrino Mass Models

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (KIT)

11:05 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee

11:30 AM → 12:55 PM Plenary VI

Convener: Joseph Formaggio

11:30 AM Safety at KATRIN

Speaker: Martin Mark (KIT)

11:45 AM Report from the Publ. Committee

Speaker: Alan POON (LBNL)

12:05 PM Report from the Conf. Committee

Speaker: Guido Drexlin (KIT)

12:25 PM Report from the Collaboration Board

Speaker: Mr Johannes Bluemer (KIT)

12:55 PM → 1:55 PM End of Collab. Meeting

1:55 PM → 5:55 PM Forward Beam Monitor Workshop

Convener: Stephanie Hickford

1:55 PM → 5:55 PM SDS IIb Workshop

Convener: Florian Fraenkle

Thu, October 8

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM CKr Source Review

Convener: Markus Steidl

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Software and Analysis Workshop

Convener: Dr Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)