Northern-Auger Workshop at FNAL

Updated on 9/30/03

October 3rd (Friday) at Main Auditorium

9:00 - 10:20am Science [Chair: Sommers]

[10] Goal/Agenda of the meeting (Arisaka)

[10] All sky coverage with Northern Auger (Cronin)

[10] Science Case (Olinto)

[10] Science Case (Ralph Engel)

[10] Science Case (Sommers)

[20] Open Discussion on Science Case

10:40 - 12:10pm Site [Chair: Nitz]

[10] Concept of Extended Auger Observatory (Arisaka)

[15] Aperture of Extended array (Chou)

[45] Update on sites

- [10] Utah site (Fick/Martens)

- [10] Colorado site (Harton)

- [10] Atmosphere Condition at Utah (Lawrence Wiencke)

- [10] Atmosphere Condition at Colorado (Miguel Mostafa)

- [5] Extension of Malargue site (Ingo Allekotte)

[20] Open Discussion on site

1:30 - 3:30pm Detector [Chair: Mantsch]

[40] Presentation on Possible Detector Options

- [20] Radio Detection (Andreas Haungs)

- [10] Water Tank (Michael DuVernois)

- [10] Water Tank (Arun Tripathi)

[50] Open Discussion of Detector Option

- [20] With or Without FD? (Watson/Sommers)

- [10] Outrigger

- [10] Infill/Dense Array

- [10] Radio Option

[30] Discussion and Formation of Working Groups

- [10] Tasks/Plan on four working groups (Arisaka)

- [5] Science Case (Olinto/Parizot/…)

- [5] Detector R&D (Bluemer/Mantsch/…)

- [5] Detector Simulation & Optimization (Sommers/Knapp/…)

- [5] Site/Coordination (Nitz/Harton/…)

4:00 - 5:00pm

Wine & Cheese talk (SNO/Mark Chen)

5:00 - 7:00pm

Reception/informal discussion at Users Center

- Working group discussion

Oct 4th (Saturday) at Main Auditorium

9:00 - 11:00am Discussion with TA/HiRes [Chair: Bluemer]

[10] Brief Summary of Friday Discussion (Watson)

[30] Status and Plan on Southern Auger

- Construction schedule/ expected sensitivity (Mantsch)

- Strategic Plan on early physics release (Watson)

[20] Status and Science case of TA (Fukushima)

[20] Future Plan & Low energy extension of HiRes (Thomson/Sokolsky)

[30] Question & Discussion on TA/HiRes

11:00 - 12:30pm Working group activities

1:30 - 3:30pm Open Discussion [Chair: Watson]

[80] Report/Discussion on working groups (led by group leaders)

- [20] Science case

- [20] Detector R&D

- High priority items,

- Schedule, Budget

- [20] Detector simulation & optimization

- [20] Site/Coordination: Utah vs. Colorado

- Selection criteria

- Action items, schedule, Budget

[30] Short presentation by new/potential collaborators

- [5] Utah/HiRes (Sokolsky)

- [5] MPI (Teshima)

- [5] Canada (Chen)

-…

4:00 - 5:30pm Discussion for Future [Chair: Bluemer]

[30] Collaboration with TA

[20] Preparation of EOI/Funding Request

[20] Long term schedule/ Plan for full proposal

7:00 - 9:00pm

Collaboration buffet dinner at Prairie Landing Golf Course