SNO Collaboration Meeting, MIT
February 21 - February 25, 2007

Schedule and Agenda

SNO Collaboration Meeting and Workshop Agenda (Feb. 21-25)

Workshops: February 21-22

Note: information/directions will be available
in room 26-505
At MIT, buildings are numbered instead of named,
so 26-504 is room 504, on the 5th floor of
building 26
See the campus map to find building 26
And this map of the 5th floor

Wednesday (February 21st)


Session I: 9:00am - 12:30pm
a. Low Energy Backgrounds (Farine) : Conference Room (26-502) (Talks)
b. NCD Sig-Ex (Tolich) : Kolker Room (26-414)(Talks)

Lunch: 12:30 - 13:30

Session II: 14:00--17:30
c. E&O (Krauss) : Conference Room (26-502) (Talks)
d. NCD Pulse Shape Analysis (McGee) : Kolker Room (26-414) (Talks)
*Note: will start at 14:30

Thursday (February 22nd)


Session I: 9am - 12:30pm
a. Neutron Calibration (Guillian) : Conference Room (26-502) (Talks)
b. LETA (Klein) : Kolker Room (26-414)

Lunch: 12:30-13:30

Session II: 14:00--16:00
c. Day-Night (Oser) : Building 26 Conference Room (26-502) (Talks)
d. Exotics (Klein/Zuber) : Building 24 Conference Room (24-515)
e. Decommisioning (Heise) : Kolker Room (26-414)

Session III: 16:00-18:00
f. NCD Miscellanea (Rielage) : Kolker Room (26-414) (Talks)
g. Muons and Cosmogenics (Formaggio) : Building 24 Conference Room (24-515)
h. Phase III PMT Reconstruction : Building 26 Conference Room (26-502)

SNO Collaboration Meeting Agenda: February 23-25

Friday (February 23rd)

In Room 1-190

8:30 - 8:55 Registration

9:00 -- Welcome to MIT (Formaggio)
9:05 -- 9:25 Director's Introduction (Art)

Detector, Decommissioning, and Data Set (Convenor: Heise)
9:25 - 10:00 End-of-Run, Decommissioning, and Undeployment (Heise)
10:00 - 10:20 Water Operations (Ford)
10:20 - 10:30 Final Phase III Run List and Livetime (H. Deng)

10:30--10:50 Coffee & Registration

Analysis Overviews (Convenor : Reilage)
10:50 - 11:20 Analysis Overview (Poon)
11:20 - 11:40 MCPROD Status (Zhang/Reitzner)

Phase III Overviews
11:20 - 11:50 NCD Analysis Overview (Rielage)
11:50 - 12:20 NCD Pulse Shape Analysis Overview (McGee)

12:30-13:30 Lunch (not provided)

Phase III Monte Carlo and Data Processing
13:30 - 14:00 NCD MC Validation (Oblath)
14:00 - 14:10 FTP to FTA (Seacrest)
14:10 - 14:20 FTU to FTN (Drouin)

Phase III E&O (Convenor: Hallin)
14:20 - 14:40 Overview (Carsten Krauss)
14:40 - 15:00 NCD Optics (Olivier Simard)

15:00-15:20 Coffee

15:20 - 15:40 nRSP Status and Uncertainties (MacLellan)
15:40 - 16:00 nFTK Status and Uncertainties (Secrest)

Phase III Neutrons
16:00 - 16:30 NCD neutron capture(Guillian/Loach)

Phase III Low energy backgrounds (Convenor: Poon)
16:30 - 16:50 Overview (Farine)
16:50 - 17:05 Assay Results (Farine)
17:05 - 17:25 Cherenkov analysis results (O'Keeffe)
17:25 - 17:45 Ex-situ NCD Measurements (VanDevender)

Saturday (February 24th)

In the Stata Center, room 32-155

Phase III Additional Backgrounds (Convenor: Poon)
9:00 - 9:15 External neutrons (Huang)
9:15 - 9:35 Other Backgrounds (Formaggio)

Phase III Uncertainties
9:35--10:05 Systematics Summary (Kraus)

Phase III Signal Extraction (Convenor: McGee)
10:05 - 10:30 NCD Sig-ex (Tolich)
10:30 - 10:50 Day-Night (Oser)

10:50--11:10 Coffee

Phase III Summary
11:10-12:00 Schedule for Box Opening (Rielage)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (Stata Center)

LETA (Convenor: Oser)
13:00 - 13:10 Overview (Klein)
13:10 - 13:25 D2O+salt reconstruction uncertainties (Orebi Gann)
13:25 - 13:40 FTK Uncertainties and z-bias correction (Seibert)
13:40 - 13:55 RSP Uncertainties and 16N source uncertainties (MacLellan)
13:55 - 14:05 Gain/Threshold Uncertainties (Klein)
14:05 - 14:20 High beta14 Cherenkov Tail Fits (Kos)
14:20 - 14:35 R^3-UdotR Cherenkov Tail Fits (Tunnell)
14:35 - 14:50 Leslie Background (Heintzelman)
14:50 - 15:00 Neutron Capture for LETA (Kos)
15:00 - 15:15 Kernel Estimation and Floating Systematics (Seibert)
15:15 - 15:20 Schedule and Publication Plans (Klein)

15:20--15:40 Coffee

15:40--16:30 Guest Lecture: Peter Fisher (MIT)

17:30-18:45 SNOBoard

19:30 -- Dinner at Fiore's Restaurant in the North End

Sunday (February 25th)

In the Stata Center, room 32-155

Other Ongoing Analyses (Convenor: Maniera)

9:00 - 9:15 Sterile and 3nu neutrino analyses (G. Tesic)
9:15 - 9:30 SigEx in Phys Int (G. Tesic for A. Bellerive)
Muons and Atmospherics
9:30 - 9:50 Analysis Overview (Formaggio)
9:50 - 10:10 EMU results (Walker)

10:30 - 10:40 Exotics (Klein)
10:40 - 10:50 Frequency (Aubra)

10:50 - 11:20 Report from SNO Board (Klein)
11:20 - 11:50 Discussion of Priorities for 2007 (Poon)
11:50 - 12:00 Public Relations (Hallman)


12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Stata Center)


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