27th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting

Oct 15, 2014, 8:00 AM → Oct 17, 2014, 2:40 PM Europe/Berlin

FTU, Aula (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

October 15 to 17, 2014
27th KATRIN Collaboration Meeting

October 20 and 21, 2014
KATRIN Satellite Meeting

Wed, October 15

8:00 AM → 8:45 AM Bus transfer

8:45 AM → 9:30 AM Coffee Break & Registration

9:30 AM → 10:40 AM Plenary Session I

Welcome & Plenary talks on STS components

Convener: Kathrin Valerius

9:30 AM Welcome

Speakers: Christian Weinheimer, Guido Drexlin

9:40 AM Status of the WGTS

Speaker: Florian Fränkle

10:00 AM Status of the DPS

Speaker: Lutz Bornschein

10:20 AM Status of the CPS

Speaker: Woosik Gil

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:20 PM Plenary Session II

Convener: Markus Steidl

11:00 AM Status of the Rear Section

Speaker: Florian Priester

11:20 AM Status Loop

Speaker: Michael Sturm

11:40 AM Towards a turnkey LARA system for KATRIN

Speaker: Sebastian Fischer

12:00 PM Commissioning of STS

Speaker: Beate Bornschein

12:20 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch

1:50 PM → 4:10 PM Parallel session A1: SDS analysis on backgrounds and systematics

Convener: Johannes Schwarz

1:50 PM Optimization of the Measuring time distribution

Speaker: Marco Kleesiek

2:10 PM Status of keV sterile neutrino TOF-mode simulations

Speaker: Nikolas Steinbrink

2:30 PM Radon suppression by cold baffles

Speaker: Florian Müller

2:50 PM Results of long-term muon measurements

Speaker: Johanna Linek

3:10 PM Background due to secondary electron emission in SDS-1

Speaker: Benjamin Leiber

3:30 PM Demagnetization of steel

Speaker: Birgit Adams

1:50 PM → 4:10 PM Parallel session A2: STS Subsystem

Convener: Magnus Schlösser

1:50 PM Status of the Forward Beam Monitor

Speaker: Stephanie Hickford

2:10 PM Electromagnetic Design Simulations for the Rear Section

Speaker: Florian Heizmann

2:30 PM Status of the Rear Section e-gun

Speaker: Martin Babutzka

2:50 PM UHV Kelvinprobe for Rearwall characterisation

Speakers: Kerstin Schönung, Martin Babutzka

3:10 PM Field simulations for DPS and CPS

Speaker: Rodolphe Combe

3:30 PM Magnetic field measurements DPS

Speaker: Moritz Hackenjos

3:50 PM An electron for testing the Forward Beam Monitor

Speaker: Enrico Ellinger

4:10 PM → 4:40 PM Coffee Break

4:40 PM → 7:00 PM Parallel session B1: SDS-2 Preparations

Convener: Joachim Wolf

4:40 PM KEMField updates and simulations

Speaker: Daniel Hilk

5:00 PM Numerical integration in BEM

Speaker: Ferenc Glück

5:20 PM Alignment of the SDS-II Apparatus

Speaker: Fabian Harms

5:40 PM Magnetic field and potential optimization for SDS-II

Speaker: Moritz Erhard

6:00 PM Analysis Tools for SDS-II

Speaker: Sanshiro Enomoto

6:20 PM RunControl and RunScripting with ORCA for SDS-II

Speaker: Johannes Schwarz

6:40 PM Planned measurements with pulsed UV laser system for SDS-2

Speaker: Johannes Weis

4:40 PM → 6:40 PM Parallel session B2: Tritium properties & processing

Convener: Sebastian Fischer

4:40 PM Gas dynamic simulations in the WGTS

Speaker: Laura Kuckert

5:00 PM Tritium equilibration loop for improved calibration of all tritium analytical tools

Speaker: Simon Niemes

5:20 PM TRACE - Tritium accountancy for KATRIN

Speaker: Sylvia Ebenhöch

5:40 PM Tritium compatibility tests for the Rearsecion

Speaker: Kerstin Schönung

6:00 PM Possible test of T2-molecule initial states spectrum

Speaker: Aleksei Lokhov

6:20 PM Tritium adsorption on sputter coated gold

Speaker: Manuel Klein

7:00 PM → 7:45 PM Transfer back to hotels

Thu, October 16

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Bus transfer

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Coffee Break

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary Session III

Convener: Nikita Titov

9:00 AM SDS Data Analysis Status Update

Speaker: Florian Fränkle

9:20 AM SDS Commissioning Progress

Speaker: Thomas Thümmler

9:40 AM Inspection and repair of short circuits in the inner wire electrode

Speaker: Stephan Dyba

10:05 AM Detector Status

Speaker: Fabian Harms

10:25 AM Commissioning of the electrified NEG pump and R&D on LN2-HV break

Speaker: Klaus Schlösser

10:45 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary Session IV

Convener: Christian Weinheimer

11:10 AM Radon suppression

Speaker: Guido Drexlin

11:30 AM Test measurements of the e-gun at the monitor spectrometer

Speaker: Jan Behrens

11:50 AM KASSIOPEIA - Golden Master

Speaker: Noah Oblath

12:10 PM Measurements and analysis at the monitor spectrometer

Speaker: Martin Slezak

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Parallel Session C1: SDS Analysis, Calibration and Monitoring

Convener: Sascha Wüstling

2:00 PM Slow Control system: news and upgrades

Speaker: Armen Beglarian

2:20 PM Equipment Calibration for HV Monitoring and long-term runs

Speaker: Christoph Renner

2:40 PM Low energy ion implantion for calibration sources

Speaker: Marius Arenz

3:00 PM Post regulation at the main spectrometer - setup and simulations

Speaker: Marcel Kraus

3:20 PM KASSIOPEIA 3.0 in action

Speaker: Niko Trost

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Parallel Session C2: Calibration & Systematics

Convener: Florian Priester

2:00 PM Improved Relative Intensity Correction of KATRIN LARA systems

Speaker: Magnus Schlösser

2:20 PM Thermodynamical equilibrium of mixed hydrogen Isotopologues

Speaker: Robin Groessle

2:40 PM Line positions of hydrogen isotopes in Raman spectroscopy

Speaker: Bennet Krasch

3:00 PM Ar-37 production for the test purposes

Speaker: Dzhonrid Abdurashitov

3:20 PM Progress in development of the 83mKr source.

Speaker: Jana Sentkerestiova

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM Parallel session D1

4:30 PM Collaboration Board (for Board members)

4:30 PM → 5:45 PM Parallel session D2: Bachelor Sessions

Convener: Ferenc Glück

4:30 PM Study of laser-induced contamination on LARA laser optics

Speaker: Matthias Wecker

4:50 PM Construction and characterisation of a laser wavelength monitor for the KATRIN LARA system

Speaker: Clemens Herkommer

5:10 PM Cavity Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (CERS) – Investigating potential LARA sensitivity improvements

Speaker: Moritz Rabe

5:30 PM Monte Carlo simulation of the response function with Kassiopeia

Speaker: Christian Pommranz

5:45 PM → 7:00 PM Parallel session D3

Convener: Ferenc Glück

5:45 PM ECHO

Speaker: Philipp Ranitzsch

6:15 PM Free discussion time

Speaker: All

7:00 PM → 7:20 PM Transport to Collaboration Dinner

Fri, October 17

8:00 AM → 8:30 AM Bus transfer

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Coffee break & Registration

9:00 AM → 10:20 AM Plenary Session V

Convener: A. Poon

9:00 AM Safety issues

Speaker: Martin Mark

9:20 AM Blind analysis methods

Speaker: Stephanie Hickford

9:40 AM De-Magnetization of the Spectrometer Building

Speaker: Joachim Wolf

10:00 AM Installation and Performance of 2 mobile sensor units MobSU - Field homogeneity in spectrometer hall

Speaker: Alexander Osipowicz

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:40 AM → 12:00 PM Plenary Session VI

Convener: Guido Drexlin

10:40 AM Estimation of the radon activity during SDS-1

Speaker: Jan Oertlin

11:00 AM Adsorption of Radon

Speaker: Robert Eichler

12:00 PM → 1:20 PM Lunch Break

1:20 PM → 2:10 PM Plenary VII

Convener: Thomas Thümmler

1:20 PM Report from the CB

Speaker: Marc Weber

1:35 PM Report from the Publication Committee

Speaker: Alan Poon

1:50 PM Report from the Conference Committee

Speaker: Guido Drexlin

2:05 PM Close up

Speakers: Christian Weinheimer, Guido Drexlin

2:10 PM → 2:30 PM Transfer back to hotels