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

1 Bus transfer

8:45 AM Coffee Break & Registration

Plenary Session I

Welcome & Plenary talks on STS components

Convener: Kathrin Valerius

2 Welcome

Speakers: Christian Weinheimer, Guido Drexlin

3 Status of the WGTS

Speaker: Florian Fränkle

4 Status of the DPS

Speaker: Lutz Bornschein

5 Status of the CPS

Speaker: Woosik Gil

10:40 AM Coffee Break

Plenary Session II

Convener: Markus Steidl

6 Status of the Rear Section

Speaker: Florian Priester

7 Status Loop

Speaker: Michael Sturm

8 Towards a turnkey LARA system for KATRIN

Speaker: Sebastian Fischer

9 Commissioning of STS

Speaker: Beate Bornschein

12:20 PM Lunch

Parallel session A1: SDS analysis on backgrounds and systematics

Convener: Johannes Schwarz

10 Optimization of the Measuring time distribution

Speaker: Marco Kleesiek

11 Status of keV sterile neutrino TOF-mode simulations

Speaker: Nikolas Steinbrink

12 Radon suppression by cold baffles

Speaker: Florian Müller

13 Results of long-term muon measurements

Speaker: Johanna Linek

14 Background due to secondary electron emission in SDS-1

Speaker: Benjamin Leiber

15 Demagnetization of steel

Speaker: Birgit Adams

Parallel session A2: STS Subsystem

Convener: Magnus Schlösser

16 Status of the Forward Beam Monitor

Speaker: Stephanie Hickford

17 Electromagnetic Design Simulations for the Rear Section

Speaker: Florian Heizmann

18 Status of the Rear Section e-gun

Speaker: Martin Babutzka

19 UHV Kelvinprobe for Rearwall characterisation

Speakers: Kerstin Schönung, Martin Babutzka

20 Field simulations for DPS and CPS

Speaker: Rodolphe Combe

21 Magnetic field measurements DPS

Speaker: Moritz Hackenjos

22 An electron for testing the Forward Beam Monitor

Speaker: Enrico Ellinger

4:10 PM Coffee Break

Parallel session B1: SDS-2 Preparations

Convener: Joachim Wolf

23 KEMField updates and simulations

Speaker: Daniel Hilk

24 Numerical integration in BEM

Speaker: Ferenc Glück

25 Alignment of the SDS-II Apparatus

Speaker: Fabian Harms

26 Magnetic field and potential optimization for SDS-II

Speaker: Moritz Erhard

27 Analysis Tools for SDS-II

Speaker: Sanshiro Enomoto

28 RunControl and RunScripting with ORCA for SDS-II

Speaker: Johannes Schwarz

29 Planned measurements with pulsed UV laser system for SDS-2

Speaker: Johannes Weis

Parallel session B2: Tritium properties & processing

Convener: Sebastian Fischer

30 Gas dynamic simulations in the WGTS

Speaker: Laura Kuckert

31 Tritium equilibration loop for improved calibration of all tritium analytical tools

Speaker: Simon Niemes

32 TRACE - Tritium accountancy for KATRIN

Speaker: Sylvia Ebenhöch

33 Tritium compatibility tests for the Rearsecion

Speaker: Kerstin Schönung

34 Possible test of T2-molecule initial states spectrum

Speaker: Aleksei Lokhov

35 Tritium adsorption on sputter coated gold

Speaker: Manuel Klein

36 Transfer back to hotels

Thu, October 16

37 Bus transfer

8:30 AM Coffee Break

Plenary Session III

Convener: Nikita Titov

38 SDS Data Analysis Status Update

Speaker: Florian Fränkle

39 SDS Commissioning Progress

Speaker: Thomas Thümmler

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

Speaker: Stephan Dyba

41 Detector Status

Speaker: Fabian Harms

42 Commissioning of the electrified NEG pump and R&D on LN2-HV break

Speaker: Klaus Schlösser

10:45 AM Coffee Break

Plenary Session IV

Convener: Christian Weinheimer

43 Radon suppression

Speaker: Guido Drexlin

44 Test measurements of the e-gun at the monitor spectrometer

Speaker: Jan Behrens

45 KASSIOPEIA - Golden Master

Speaker: Noah Oblath

46 Measurements and analysis at the monitor spectrometer

Speaker: Martin Slezak

12:30 PM Lunch Break

Parallel Session C1: SDS Analysis, Calibration and Monitoring

Convener: Sascha Wüstling

47 Slow Control system: news and upgrades

Speaker: Armen Beglarian

48 Equipment Calibration for HV Monitoring and long-term runs

Speaker: Christoph Renner

49 Low energy ion implantion for calibration sources

Speaker: Marius Arenz

50 Post regulation at the main spectrometer - setup and simulations

Speaker: Marcel Kraus

51 KASSIOPEIA 3.0 in action

Speaker: Niko Trost

Parallel Session C2: Calibration & Systematics

Convener: Florian Priester

52 Improved Relative Intensity Correction of KATRIN LARA systems

Speaker: Magnus Schlösser

53 Thermodynamical equilibrium of mixed hydrogen Isotopologues

Speaker: Robin Groessle

54 Line positions of hydrogen isotopes in Raman spectroscopy

Speaker: Bennet Krasch

55 Ar-37 production for the test purposes

Speaker: Dzhonrid Abdurashitov

56 Progress in development of the 83mKr source.

Speaker: Jana Sentkerestiova

4:00 PM Coffee Break

Parallel session D1

57 Collaboration Board (for Board members)

Parallel session D2: Bachelor Sessions

Convener: Ferenc Glück

58 Study of laser-induced contamination on LARA laser optics

Speaker: Matthias Wecker

59 Construction and characterisation of a laser wavelength monitor for the KATRIN LARA system

Speaker: Clemens Herkommer

60 Cavity Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (CERS) – Investigating potential LARA sensitivity improvements

Speaker: Moritz Rabe

61 Monte Carlo simulation of the response function with Kassiopeia

Speaker: Christian Pommranz

Parallel session D3

Convener: Ferenc Glück

62 ECHO

Speaker: Philipp Ranitzsch

63 Free discussion time

Speaker: All

64 Transport to Collaboration Dinner

Fri, October 17

65 Bus transfer

8:30 AM Coffee break & Registration

Plenary Session V

Convener: A. Poon

66 Safety issues

Speaker: Martin Mark

67 Blind analysis methods

Speaker: Stephanie Hickford

68 De-Magnetization of the Spectrometer Building

Speaker: Joachim Wolf

69 Installation and Performance of 2 mobile sensor units MobSU - Field homogeneity in spectrometer hall

Speaker: Alexander Osipowicz

10:20 AM Coffee Break

Plenary Session VI

Convener: Guido Drexlin

70 Estimation of the radon activity during SDS-1

Speaker: Jan Oertlin

71 Adsorption of Radon

Speaker: Robert Eichler

12:00 PM Lunch Break

Plenary VII

Convener: Thomas Thümmler

72 Report from the CB

Speaker: Marc Weber

73 Report from the Publication Committee

Speaker: Alan Poon

74 Report from the Conference Committee

Speaker: Guido Drexlin

75 Close up

Speakers: Christian Weinheimer, Guido Drexlin

76 Transfer back to hotels