Name: 34th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2018-02-19T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-02-24T12:40:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday, February 19, 2018
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Christian Weinheimer (University of Muenster) Guido Drexlin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

9:05 AM Organizational issues - Joachim Wolf (KIT - ETP) Markus Steidl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

9:10 AM KATRIN safety Issues - Martin Mark (KIT)

9:25 AM STS status - Markus Steidl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

9:45 AM The KATRIN magnets: Operational results and Status - Woosik Gil (KIT)

10:05 AM Results from the performance tests of the CPS - Carsten Röttele (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:25 AM Status of the Tritium Loop System - Florian Priester (KIT)
10:45 AM

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:15 AM Status of LARA - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics)

11:25 AM Rear Section - Recent Changes - Klaus Schlösser (KIT)

11:40 AM Status of the Rear-Section e-gun - Philipp Ranitzsch (IKP, Muenster University)

11:50 AM Update on rear wall illumination - Alexander Fulst (Uni Münster)

12:00 PM SDS Status - Thomas Thümmler (KIT)

12:20 PM DAQ system - performance of the new firmware - Andreas Kopmann (KIT) John Wilkerson (UNC) Mark Howe (UNC)

12:40 PM Schedule of 2018 - Guido Drexlin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Markus Steidl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Measurements
Measurements
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Overview on recent SDS3 measurements - Florian Fraenkle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2:55 PM Detailed data analysis of Krypton spectra - Martin Slezák (MPP Munich)

3:15 PM First Tritium: Goals, Plans, Realization - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics)

3:40 PM Update from TRISTAN - Susanne Mertens (MPP/TUM)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Measurement & Simulation
Measurement & Simulation
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Characterizing the remaining background in KATRIN - Anna Pollithy (MPP/TUM)

4:55 PM Modeling and optimizing the transmission function - Ferenc Glück (KIT) Jan Behrens (KIT-ETP)

5:15 PM Updates on Alignment and Kassiopeias Global Geometry - Marco Deffert (KIT)

5:40 PM MS magnetic field modeling - Ferenc Glück (KIT)
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Update from Analysis Task - Diana Parno (University of Washington) Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Susanne Mertens (MPP/TUM)

9:30 AM Status updates from analysis WGs 1-5 - WG conveners

10:10 AM Data Blinding - Joachim Wolf (KIT - ETP) Valerian Sibille (MIT)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM KATRIN and a Guest contribution
KATRIN and a Guest contribution
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM HV measurements with collinear laser spectroscopy - Wilfried Nörtershäuser (Uni Darmstadt)

11:50 AM New KATRIN Movie - Joachim Wolf (KIT - ETP)

12:15 PM Collaboration photo - All
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Preparation for Tritium
Preparation for Tritium
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: R 410
Contributions

1:45 PM Tritium re-emission from the spectrometer walls - Manuel Klein (KIT)

2:00 PM Data challenge and Tritium analysis with SAMAK - Pablo Morales (MPP/TUM)

2:15 PM A minimal SSC-model for the first light of KATRIN - Dominik Fuchs (MPP/TUM)

2:30 PM Data generation and fitting strategies - Christian Karl (MPP/TUM) Frank Edzards (MPP/TUM)

3:00 PM Prospects of Time-Focusing Time-of-Flight (TFTOF) - Nicholas Steinbrink (Uni Münster)

3:15 PM Pre-spectrometer background investigations - Johannes Heizmann (KIT)
Krypton analysis
Krypton analysis
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: R 206
Contributions

1:45 PM Calibration of high voltage at the ppm level by the difference of Kr-83m conversion electron lines - Oliver Rest (Uni Münster)

2:00 PM Krypton data analysis with SAMAK - Lisa Schlüter (MPP/TUM)

2:15 PM Krypton data analysis with a Bayesian approach - Martin Ha Minh (MPP/TUM)

2:30 PM Alignment estimation via Krypton Line Position Deviation - Wonqook Choi (KIT)

2:45 PM Updates on the 41keV line analysis - Larisa Thorne (Carnegie Mellon University)

3:00 PM Update on CKrS ellipsometry analysis - Mariia Fedkevych (PhD student at WWU Muenster)

3:15 PM Results of event by event simulation of the WGTS on GPUs - Norman Haussmann (Uni Wuppertal)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Paper Working Groups
Paper Working Groups
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Collaboration Board
Collaboration Board
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: R 224

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: CARLS Wirtshaus
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
9:00 AM Backgrounds & sterile neutrinos
Backgrounds & sterile neutrinos
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: R 410
Contributions

9:00 AM keV-scale sterile neutrino search at Troitsk with the TRISTAN detector: phase-1 and phase-2 - Konrad Altenmüller (MPP/TUM) Tim Brunst (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

9:25 AM A model for a keV-scale sterile neutrino search with KATRIN: SSC-sterile - Alexey Lokhov (Troitsk) Federico Roccatti (MPP/TUM) Madlen Steven (MPP/TUM)

9:45 AM KIT TRISTAN lab: characterising the IPE4 DAQ system - Till Bergmann (MPP/TUM)

10:00 AM Rydberg background modelling - Dominic Hinz (KIT)

10:15 AM Background Dependence on Retarding Potential near the Endpoint of Tritium - Fabian Block (KIT)

10:30 AM Ion scattering simulations in the KATRIN spectrometers - Woo-Jeong Baek (KIT)

10:45 AM Performance of the new detector veto and SDS3-Xmas muon analysis - Sanshiro Enomoto (University of Washington)
Hardware
Hardware
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: R 206
Contributions

9:00 AM Optical system for the RS e-gun - Lutz Schimpf (KIT)

9:15 AM Setup and comissioning of the rear section e-gun - Rudolf Sack (Westfaehlische Wilhelms Universitaet)

9:30 AM WGTS: Cooling in the 5 m long capillary pipe - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics)

9:45 AM Motion control for a detector system in safety critical applications in physics experiments - Armen Beglarian (IPE, KIT)

10:00 AM Repair and calibration of the K65 HV divider - Oliver Rest (Uni Münster)

10:15 AM Screening of UV-PIN-Diodes to be used as Electron Detectors - Sven Triebskorn (KIT)

10:30 AM Work function measurement of Rear Wall gold pads - Fabian Friedel (KIT)
11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Report from the Publication Committee - Alan Poon (Berkeley Lab)

11:40 AM Status and results from TRIMS - Diana Parno (University of Washington) Hamish Robertson (University of Washington)

12:00 PM Report form the board meeting - Marc Weber (KIT)

12:10 PM Report from the Executive Board - John Wilkerson (UNC)

12:20 PM Report from the Conference Committee - Guido Drexlin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: R 410
Contributions

2:00 PM SDS3 measurements: overview - Florian Fraenkle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2:20 PM Rate, Pixel Distribution and Energy Spectrum in the SDS3 Christmas Long-term Measurement - Fabian Block (KIT)

2:40 PM Non poissonian behaviour of the background rate during recent SDS3 measurements - Woo-Jeong Baek (KIT)

3:00 PM Background studies: discussion - Florian Fraenkle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Hands-on tutorial - Git(Lab), Slack, TeamSpeak, KATRIN Wiki
Hands-on tutorial - Git(Lab), Slack, TeamSpeak, KATRIN Wiki
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Introduction - Jan Behrens (KIT-ETP)

4:50 PM Git & GitLab tutorial - Alexander Fulst (WWU Münster)

5:10 PM Preparations for Git workshop

5:50 PM Good coding practices - Valérian Sibille (MIT)

6:20 PM Git workshop + dinner
Thursday, February 22, 2018
9:00 AM First Tritium Task Group
First Tritium Task Group
9:00 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: 410
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics)

9:07 AM Loop hardware operation for first tritium - Florian Priester (KIT)

9:27 AM Spectrometer hardware operation for first tritium - Florian Fraenkle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

9:47 AM Lessons learned from krypton run and implications for first tritium - Alexander Jansen (KIT)

10:07 AM Proposals for measurements - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics)

10:35 AM Prioritization of proposals - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics)

10:50 AM Conclusions & action items
12:10 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Blinding strategy
Blinding strategy
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Data Quality and Run Table
Data Quality and Run Table
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM Near-online analysis
Near-online analysis
2:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM Introduction - Susanne Mertens

2:50 PM Objective of near-online analysis - Philipp Ranitzsch (IKP, Muenster University) Stephanie Hickford (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

3:20 PM Group work on near-online analysis

4:50 PM Wrap-up
Friday, February 23, 2018
9:00 AM RunSummary
RunSummary
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Susanne Mertens

9:30 AM Demonstration of Run Summary production - Sanshiro Enomoto (University of Washington)

10:30 AM Discussion on Run Summary
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Fitting
Fitting
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction - Susanne Mertens

2:30 PM Overview on fitting options - Martin Slezák (MPP Munich) Thierry Lasserre (CEA)

3:00 PM Group work on fitting

4:30 PM Wrap-up
Saturday, February 24, 2018
9:30 AM Results & Unblinding
Results & Unblinding
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Presentation of results - Susanne Mertens (MPP Munich)

10:00 AM Unblinding - Thierry Lasserre (CEA)

11:00 AM Wrap-up - Susanne Mertens (MPP Munich)