34th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting
Feb 19, 2018, 8:00 AM
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Feb 24, 2018, 12:40 PM
Europe/Berlin
Description
February 19 to 23, 2018
34th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting
Participants
Alan Poon
Alexander Fulst
Alexander Jansen
Alexander Kraus
Alexander Marsteller
Alexander Osipowicz
Alexey Lokhov
Ana Paula Vizcaya Hernández
Anatoly Berlev
Andreas Kopmann
Anna Pollithy
Anton Huber
Armen Beglarian
Beate Bornschein
Benedikt Bieringer
Bennet Krasch
Caroline Rodenbeck
Carsten Röttele
Choi Wonqook
Christian Karl
Christian Weinheimer
Christophe Schwachtgen
Cornelius Schätz
Daniel Hilk
Diana Parno
Dominic Hinz
Dominik Fuchs
Drahos Venos
Ellen Förstner
Emma Malcherek
Fabian Block
Fabian Friedel
Federico Roccati
Felix Knapp
Ferenc Glück
Florian Fraenkle
Florian Heizmann
Florian Priester
Frank Edzards
Genrich Zeller
Gregg Franklin
Guido Drexlin
Hamish Robertson
Helmut Telle
Hendrik Seitz-Moskaliuk
Jan Behrens
Jasmin Bouazza
Joachim Wolf
Johannes Heizmann
John Wilkerson
Jonas Kellerer
Julius Hartmann
Katharina Fischer
Kathrin Valerius
Klaus Helbing
Klaus Müller
Klaus Schloesser
Konrad Altenmüller
Larisa Thorne
Leonard Köllenberger
Leonardo Schoch
Lisa Schlüter
Lukas Voß
Lutz Bornschein
Lutz Schimpf
Madlen Steven
Magnus Schlösser
Manuel Klein
Marc Korzeczek
Marco Deffert
Mariia Fedkevych
Mark Howe
Markus Steidl
Martin Ha Minh
Martin Mark
Martin Slezák
Martin Suchopar
Michael Schrank
Michael Sturm
Moritz Machatschek
Nicholas Steinbrink
Nikita Titov
Norbert Kernert
Norman Haußmann
Oliver Rest
Pablo Israel Morales Guzman
Peter Doe
Peter Plischke
Philipp Ranitzsch
Rainer Gumbsheimer
Robin Größle
Rudolf Sack
Sanshiro Enomoto
Sascha Wüstling
Sebastian Mirz
Sergey Zadorozhnyy
Stephan Dyba
Stephanie Hickford
Susanne Mertens
Sven Triebskorn
Thierry Lasserre
Thomas Thümmler
Till Bergmann
Tim Brunst
Uwe Besserer
Valérian Sibille
Vladislav Pantuev
Volker Hannen
Woo-Jeong Baek
Woosik Gil
Monday, February 19
Mon, Feb 19
Tue, Feb 20
Wed, Feb 21
Thu, Feb 22
Fri, Feb 23
Sat, Feb 24
Plenary 1: Beamline
Convener
:
Alexander Jansen
(
KIT
)
1
Welcome
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Christian Weinheimer
(
University of Muenster
)
,
Guido Drexlin
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
2
Organizational issues
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Joachim Wolf
(
KIT - ETP
)
,
Markus Steidl
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
3
KATRIN safety Issues
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Martin Mark
(
KIT
)
4
STS status
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Markus Steidl
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
5
The KATRIN magnets: Operational results and Status
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Woosik Gil
(
KIT
)
6
Results from the performance tests of the CPS
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Carsten Röttele
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
7
Status of the Tritium Loop System
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Florian Priester
(
KIT
)
Slides
Coffee Break
Plenary 2: Beamline
Convener
:
Stephanie Hickford
(
U Wuppertal
)
8
Status of LARA
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
9
Rear Section - Recent Changes
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Klaus Schlösser
(
KIT
)
10
Status of the Rear-Section e-gun
Speaker
:
Philipp Ranitzsch
(
IKP, Muenster University
)
11
Update on rear wall illumination
Speaker
:
Alexander Fulst
(
Uni Münster
)
12
SDS Status
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Thomas Thümmler
(
KIT
)
13
DAQ system - performance of the new firmware
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Andreas Kopmann
(
KIT
)
,
John Wilkerson
(
UNC
)
,
Mark Howe
(
UNC
)
14
Schedule of 2018
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Guido Drexlin
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
,
Markus Steidl
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
Lunch break
Canteen
Canteen
KIT, CN
Plenary 3: Measurements
Convener
:
Philipp Ranitzsch
(
IKP, Muenster University
)
15
Overview on recent SDS3 measurements
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
16
Detailed data analysis of Krypton spectra
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Martin Slezák
(
MPP Munich
)
17
First Tritium: Goals, Plans, Realization
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
18
Update from TRISTAN
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP/TUM
)
Coffee Break
Plenary 4: Measurement & Simulation
Convener
:
Magnus Schlösser
(
KIT
)
19
Characterizing the remaining background in KATRIN
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Anna Pollithy
(
MPP/TUM
)
20
Modeling and optimizing the transmission function
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Ferenc Glück
(
KIT
)
,
Jan Behrens
(
KIT-ETP
)
21
Updates on Alignment and Kassiopeias Global Geometry
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Marco Deffert
(
KIT
)
22
MS magnetic field modeling
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Ferenc Glück
(
KIT
)
Tuesday, February 20
Mon, Feb 19
Tue, Feb 20
Wed, Feb 21
Thu, Feb 22
Fri, Feb 23
Sat, Feb 24
Plenary 5: Analysis
Convener
:
Diana Parno
(
University of Washington
)
23
Update from Analysis Task
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Diana Parno
(
University of Washington
)
,
Kathrin Valerius
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
,
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP/TUM
)
24
Status updates from analysis WGs 1-5
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
WG conveners
25
Data Blinding
Speakers
:
Joachim Wolf
(
KIT - ETP
)
,
Valerian Sibille
(
MIT
)
Coffee Break
Plenary 6: KATRIN and a Guest contribution
Convener
:
Volker Hannen
(
University of Münster
)
26
HV measurements with collinear laser spectroscopy
Speaker
:
Wilfried Nörtershäuser
(
Uni Darmstadt
)
27
New KATRIN Movie
Speaker
:
Joachim Wolf
(
KIT - ETP
)
28
Collaboration photo
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
All
Lunch break
Parallel A1: Preparation for Tritium
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Convener
:
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
29
Tritium re-emission from the spectrometer walls
Speaker
:
Manuel Klein
(
KIT
)
30
Data challenge and Tritium analysis with SAMAK
Speaker
:
Pablo Morales
(
MPP/TUM
)
31
A minimal SSC-model for the first light of KATRIN
Speaker
:
Dominik Fuchs
(
MPP/TUM
)
32
Data generation and fitting strategies
Speakers
:
Christian Karl
(
MPP/TUM
)
,
Mr
Frank Edzards
(
MPP/TUM
)
33
Prospects of Time-Focusing Time-of-Flight (TFTOF)
Speaker
:
Nicholas Steinbrink
(
Uni Münster
)
34
Pre-spectrometer background investigations
Speaker
:
Johannes Heizmann
(
KIT
)
Parallel A2: Krypton analysis
R 206 (B 425)
R 206
B 425
Convener
:
Martin Slezák
(
MPP Munich
)
35
Calibration of high voltage at the ppm level by the difference of Kr-83m conversion electron lines
Speaker
:
Oliver Rest
(
Uni Münster
)
36
Krypton data analysis with SAMAK
Speaker
:
Lisa Schlüter
(
MPP/TUM
)
37
Krypton data analysis with a Bayesian approach
Speaker
:
Martin Ha Minh
(
MPP/TUM
)
38
Alignment estimation via Krypton Line Position Deviation
Speaker
:
Wonqook Choi
(
KIT
)
39
Updates on the 41keV line analysis
Speaker
:
Larisa Thorne
(
Carnegie Mellon University
)
40
Update on CKrS ellipsometry analysis
Speaker
:
Mariia Fedkevych
(
PhD student at WWU Muenster
)
41
Results of event by event simulation of the WGTS on GPUs
Speaker
:
Norman Haussmann
(
Uni Wuppertal
)
Coffee Break
Parallel B1: Paper Working Groups
Convener
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
Parallel B2: Collaboration Board
R 224 (B 402)
R 224
B 402
Convener
:
Marc Weber
(
KIT
)
Conference Dinner
CARLS Wirtshaus (Karlsruhe, Alter Schlachthof 51)
CARLS Wirtshaus
Karlsruhe, Alter Schlachthof 51
Wednesday, February 21
Mon, Feb 19
Tue, Feb 20
Wed, Feb 21
Thu, Feb 22
Fri, Feb 23
Sat, Feb 24
Parallel C1: Backgrounds & sterile neutrinos
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Convener
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
42
keV-scale sterile neutrino search at Troitsk with the TRISTAN detector: phase-1 and phase-2
Speakers
:
Konrad Altenmüller
(
MPP/TUM
)
,
Tim Brunst
(
Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
43
A model for a keV-scale sterile neutrino search with KATRIN: SSC-sterile
Speakers
:
Alexey Lokhov
(
Troitsk
)
,
Federico Roccatti
(
MPP/TUM
)
,
Madlen Steven
(
MPP/TUM
)
44
KIT TRISTAN lab: characterising the IPE4 DAQ system
Speaker
:
Till Bergmann
(
MPP/TUM
)
Slides
45
Rydberg background modelling
Speaker
:
Dominic Hinz
(
KIT
)
46
Background Dependence on Retarding Potential near the Endpoint of Tritium
Speaker
:
Fabian Block
(
KIT
)
47
Ion scattering simulations in the KATRIN spectrometers
Speaker
:
Woo-Jeong Baek
(
KIT
)
48
Performance of the new detector veto and SDS3-Xmas muon analysis
Speaker
:
Sanshiro Enomoto
(
University of Washington
)
Parallel C2: Hardware
R 206 (B 425)
R 206
B 425
Convener
:
Klaus Schlösser
(
KIT
)
49
Optical system for the RS e-gun
Speaker
:
Lutz Schimpf
(
KIT
)
50
Setup and comissioning of the rear section e-gun
Speaker
:
Rudolf Sack
(
Westfaehlische Wilhelms Universitaet
)
51
WGTS: Cooling in the 5 m long capillary pipe
Speaker
:
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
52
Motion control for a detector system in safety critical applications in physics experiments
Speaker
:
Armen Beglarian
(
IPE, KIT
)
53
Repair and calibration of the K65 HV divider
Speaker
:
Oliver Rest
(
Uni Münster
)
54
Screening of UV-PIN-Diodes to be used as Electron Detectors
Speaker
:
Sven Triebskorn
(
KIT
)
55
Work function measurement of Rear Wall gold pads
Speaker
:
Fabian Friedel
(
KIT
)
Coffee Break
Plenary 7: KATRIN and end of meeting
Convener
:
Thomas Thümmler
(
KIT
)
56
Report from the Publication Committee
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Alan Poon
(
Berkeley Lab
)
57
Status and results from TRIMS
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speakers
:
Diana Parno
(
University of Washington
)
,
Hamish Robertson
(
University of Washington
)
58
Report form the board meeting
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Marc Weber
(
KIT
)
59
Report from the Executive Board
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
John Wilkerson
(
UNC
)
60
Report from the Conference Committee
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Speaker
:
Guido Drexlin
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
Lunch break
KIT CN Canteen
KIT CN Canteen
Analysis Workshop: SDS3/Background meas.
R 410 (B 401)
R 410
B 401
Convener
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
61
SDS3 measurements: overview
Speaker
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
62
Rate, Pixel Distribution and Energy Spectrum in the SDS3 Christmas Long-term Measurement
Speaker
:
Fabian Block
(
KIT
)
63
Non poissonian behaviour of the background rate during recent SDS3 measurements
Speaker
:
Woo-Jeong Baek
(
KIT
)
64
Background studies: discussion
Speaker
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
4:00 PM
Coffee break
Analysis Workshop: Hands-on tutorial - Git(Lab), Slack, TeamSpeak, KATRIN Wiki
Conveners
:
Alexander Fulst
(
WWU Münster
)
,
Jan Behrens
(
KIT-ETP
)
,
Valérian Sibille
(
MIT
)
65
Introduction
Speaker
:
Dr
Jan Behrens
(
KIT-ETP
)
Slides
66
Git & GitLab tutorial
Speaker
:
Alexander Fulst
(
WWU Münster
)
Slides
67
Preparations for Git workshop
5:30 PM
Coffee break
68
Good coding practices
Speaker
:
Dr
Valérian Sibille
(
MIT
)
Slides
69
Git workshop + dinner
Thursday, February 22
Mon, Feb 19
Tue, Feb 20
Wed, Feb 21
Thu, Feb 22
Fri, Feb 23
Sat, Feb 24
Analysis Workshop: First Tritium Task Group
410 (B 401)
410
B 401
Convener
:
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
70
Introduction
Speaker
:
Dr
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
71
Loop hardware operation for first tritium
Speaker
:
Dr
Florian Priester
(
KIT
)
72
Spectrometer hardware operation for first tritium
Speaker
:
Florian Fraenkle
(
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
)
73
Lessons learned from krypton run and implications for first tritium
Speaker
:
Alexander Jansen
(
KIT
)
74
Proposals for measurements
Speaker
:
Dr
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
75
Prioritization of proposals
Speaker
:
Dr
Magnus Schlösser
(
Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Technical Physics
)
76
Conclusions & action items
12:10 PM
Lunch Break
Analysis Workshop: Blinding strategy
Conveners
:
Florian Heizmann
(
KIT
)
,
Joachim Wolf
(
KIT - ETP
)
,
Valerian Sibille
(
MIT
)
Analysis Workshop: Data Quality and Run Table
Convener
:
Sanshiro Enomoto
(
University of Washington
)
First Tritium "Boot Camp": Near-online analysis
Convener
:
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP Munich
)
77
Introduction
Speaker
:
Susanne Mertens
78
Objective of near-online analysis
Speakers
:
Dr
Philipp Ranitzsch
(
IKP, Muenster University
)
,
Dr
Stephanie Hickford
(
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
)
79
Group work on near-online analysis
80
Wrap-up
Friday, February 23
Mon, Feb 19
Tue, Feb 20
Wed, Feb 21
Thu, Feb 22
Fri, Feb 23
Sat, Feb 24
First Tritium "Boot Camp": RunSummary
Conveners
:
Sanshiro Enomoto
(
University of Washington
)
,
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP Munich
)
81
Introduction
Speaker
:
Susanne Mertens
82
Demonstration of Run Summary production
Speaker
:
Sanshiro Enomoto
(
University of Washington
)
83
Discussion on Run Summary
12:00 PM
Lunch break
First Tritium "Boot Camp": Fitting
Conveners
:
Martin Slezák
(
MPP Munich
)
,
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP Munich
)
,
Thierry Lasserre
(
CEA
)
84
Introduction
Speaker
:
Susanne Mertens
85
Overview on fitting options
Speakers
:
Martin Slezák
(
MPP Munich
)
,
Dr
Thierry Lasserre
(
CEA
)
86
Group work on fitting
87
Wrap-up
Saturday, February 24
Mon, Feb 19
Tue, Feb 20
Wed, Feb 21
Thu, Feb 22
Fri, Feb 23
Sat, Feb 24
First Tritium "Boot Camp": Results & Unblinding
Convener
:
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP Munich
)
88
Presentation of results
Speaker
:
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP Munich
)
89
Unblinding
Speaker
:
Dr
Thierry Lasserre
(
CEA
)
90
Wrap-up
Speaker
:
Susanne Mertens
(
MPP Munich
)