Radio Detector Meeting

15 Mar 2010, 09:00 → 17 Mar 2010, 18:00 US/Central

Supernova (222 W. Washington Ave Suite 500)

Printable amendable agenda Meeting_agenda_v2-4.doc

Monday 15 March

09:00 → 09:30 Meeting Goals

• Review current status and lesson learned
• Review Scope of Work and set a time line and milestones
• Specs Requirements list (must have, nice to have)
• Define responsibilities

09:30 → 10:00 Proposal Review

Kara will cover science and the detector, Adi will cover resources and awards

slides ARA_MRI_scope_ak.ppt.ppt

slides Peles_ARA_slides.ppt

10:00 → 12:00 Review of Radio Instrumentation

Status and lessons learned.

10:00 ANITA

Speaker: Peter Gorham

Slides Gorham-ANITA-Madison.pdf

10:25 RICE

Speaker: David Besson (University of Kansas)

Slides 100314-wisconsin_2.Besson.pdf

10:50 AURA / in-ice NARC

Speaker: Dr Hagar Landsman (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides Lesson_Learned_AURA.ARA.pdf

11:15 Surface

Speakers: Klaus Helbing (BU Wuppertal), Sebastian Böser (Universität Bonn)

Slides AirShowerRadio_forARAmeeting.pdf

11:40 Transmitters

Speaker: Prof. Kara Hoffman (University of Maryland)

Slides ACU-2010.pdf pulser_hoffman.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 16:00 Hardware Review

13:00 ARA testbed plan

Speakers: Mr Chih-Ching Chen (National Taiwan University), Peter Gorham

Slides ARA-testbed_gorham.pdf Progress_Report_before_Madison_20100315.ppt

13:30 Antennas req and development

Speakers: Andrew Laundrie (UW), David Besson (University of Kansas)

Slides 100314-wisconsin_2.Besson.pdf Laundrie_radio_talk.pdf

14:30 RF electronic, digitization and triggering, trigger rates, rough data structure

Speaker: Prof. Gary Varner (University of Hawaii)

Slides ARA_Madison_feb10.varner.ppt

16:00 → 17:30 DAQ Review

16:00 DAQ and timing calibration

Speakers: Dr Kael Hanson (University of Wisconsin), Shigeru Yoshida

Slides Madison_Radio_Meeting_March_2010.daq.hanson.ppt

Tuesday 16 March

08:30 → 10:00 PI meeting

10:00 → 11:00 Drilling

• Determine hole specs - depth and diameter needed
• Review drill options

slides ARA_Drilling_100316_03.ppt

11:00 → 13:00 Infrastructure

11:00 Power, communication and cables

Speakers: Bob Morse (IceCube 222), David Besson (University of Kansas), Ken Ratzlaff

Slides ARA_PowerSystems.Ken_Ratzlaff.pdf Radio-MSN_031510.Bob_Morse.ppt

12:00 Surface detector activities

Speakers: Klaus Helbing (BU Wuppertal), Sebastian Böser (Universität Bonn)

Slides 20100310RadioWorkshopMadisonSmall.Sebastian_Boser.pdf

12:30 Synchronization

Speaker: Shigeru Yoshida

Slides SyncBrainstorming.Shigeru_Yoshida.ppt

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Calibration sources

13:30 Calibration Sources

Speakers: Bob Morse (IceCube 222), Prof. Kara Hoffman (University of Maryland)

Slides ACU-2010.pdf ARA_Radio_Beacon.morse.ppt

15:00 → 16:30 Simulation status

15:00 Simulation Status

Speakers: Dr Dave Seckel (University of Delaware), Dr MELIN HUANG (Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University), Pisin Chen

Slides ara_sim_discussion.Dave_Seckel.ppt ARA_talk_2010_0316.sim.Melin_Huang.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Summary

Detailed time line, milestones and responsibilities for coming year

Wednesday 17 March

08:30 → 10:30 Review responsibilities, requirements, timeline, scope of work

10:30 → 11:30 Collaboration organizational matters

11:30 → 12:30 Coming season pole planning

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:00 NARC/AURA data review and workshop

13:30 Introduction

Speaker: Hagar Landsman

Slides analysis_hagar_landsman.ppt

13:40 SATRA Review

Speaker: Perry Sandstrom

Slides SATRA_Overview.ppt

13:55 Satra monitoring

Speaker: Eric Kulcyk

Slides SATRA_Rate_Observ.ppt

14:05 More Satra results

Speaker: Hagar Landsman

Slides satra_status_hagar_landsman.ppt

14:20 AURA status

Speaker: Hagar / Dave

Slides AURA_ongoing.ppt

14:30 AURA L2 Data Processing

Speaker: Chris Weaver

Slides AURA_L2.Chris_Weaver.pdf

14:45 Attenuation

Speaker: Carsten Rott

Slides AURA_attenuation.pdf

text http://wiki.icecube.wisc.edu/index.php/Aura_atten_progress

15:00 The path to a Neutrino Limit

Speaker: Dave Besson

15:15 Progress on Ray Tracing and event reconstruction

Speaker: Chris Weaver

Slides data_analysis_idea.Chris_Weaver.pdf

15:30 WF analysis

Speaker: Mike Richman

Slides 2010-03-17_madison_ang-dists.Mike_Richman.pdf

15:40 Plans: Detector and analysis

Speaker: Hagar/Dave