Summer School 2018

July 12-18, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

• Weather
• Registration (Closed)
• Schedule
• Lecturers
• Topics
• Posters
• Visa
• Food
• Lodging
• Excursion
• Financial Assistance
• Transportation
• Culture & Activities
• Organizing committee
• Contact us
• LinkedIn Alumni List
• Code of Conduct

Underground Lab

Lodging

Dark matter

Taste of Sichuan

HPGe detectors

Mask changing in Sichuan Opera

Neutrinos

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Schedule

• July 12 (Thu.), classes
• July 13 (Fri.), Excursion
• July 14-16, classes
• July 17 (Tue.), Excursion
• July 18, class

Lecturers

• Iris Abt, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich
• Thomas Caldwell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Zhi Deng, Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Yizhong Fan, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
• H. Rusty Harris, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
• Jing Liu, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
• Xiang Liu, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich
• Bela Majorovits, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich
• Dongming Mei, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
• Oliver Schulz, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich
• Venktesh Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
• Henry Tsz-King Wang, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei
• John Wilkerson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Meng-Ru Wu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei
• Shun Zhou, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• Yufeng Zhou, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• Anna Zsigmond, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich

Topics

Welcome

• Introduction of PIRE-GEMADARC (Dongming Mei)
• Introduction of Sichuan University (Hong Zhang)
• Logistics (Shin-Ted Lin)

Neutrino overview

• Historical development of the field (Iris Abt)
  • Evidence from beta decays, first observation by Cowan–Reines
  • Lepton number, Parity violation, helicity, etc.
  • Neutrino beams, solar neutrino problem, atmospheric neutrinos
• Ideas for future neutrino applications (Iris Abt)
  • Oil exploration, nuclear proliferation, mantle scans, etc.

Neutrino oscillations

• Theory (Meng-Ru Wu)
  • general formalism
  • flavor oscillations in vacuum
  • matter effect, and collective oscillations
• Experiment (Anna Zsigmond)
  • solar, accelerator, reactor, atmospheric neutrino experiments

Neutrino masses and properties

• Experiments (John Wilkerson)
  • neutrinoless double beta decay
  • single beta decay
  • cosmological observations
• Theory (Shun Zhou)
  • Majorana & Dirac mass terms, seesaw mechanism, Leptogenesis

Neutrino astronomy

(Meng-Ru Wu)

• solar neutrinos
• supernova neutrinos
• ultra-high energy neutrinos

Neutrino interactions

(Henry Wang)

• high energy (above CC threshold)
• NC and CC deep inelastic, coherent
• Neutrino-electromagnetic interactions, etc.

Neutrino applications

(Iris Abt)

• study the universe
• study the earth
• study physics beyond the SM
• search for oil and other deposits
• destroy nuclear weapons remotely

Dark matter

• Introduction (Bela Majorovits)
  • CMB, large-scale structure, rotation curves, bullet cluster, etc.
• Direct detection (Bela Majorovits)
  • experimental methods and experiments survey
• Indirect detection (Yizhong Fan)
  • experimental methods and experiments survey
• Theory survey (Yufeng Zhou)

Radiation detection

(Tomas Caldwell)

• radioactive sources
• interactions with matter
• creation of charge carriers by radiation

Semiconductor

(Iris Abt)

• band-structure
• some comparison to silicon
• diodes
• detector configurations
• some example applications

HPGe system

(Xiang Liu)

• components (detector, cryostat, electronics, software)
• operation (trigger, threshold, coincidence, etc.)
• Pulse-shape simulation

RPC & INO

(Venktesh Singh)

• Basic of gaseous detectors
• RPC fabrication and its characterization
• RPC for INO experiment

Underground laboratories

(Dongming Mei)

• Laboratory survey
• Cosmic ray, natural radiation, Rn, etc.

Computational tools and Geant4 simulation

(Oliver Schulz, Xiang Liu, Anna Zsigmond)

• programming languages, version control and collaborating tools
• setup for hand-on tutorial
• Geant4 MC simulation basics
• Geant4 hands-on tutorial

Data analysis

(Oliver Schulz, Xiang Liu, Anna Zsigmond)

• ROOT hands-on tutorial
• counting
• fitting, plotting
• energy calibration

Spectroscopy

(Elena Sala)

• counting statistics (basic distributions)
• basic spectroscopy concepts (resolution, Fano, dead time, etc.)

Detector fabrication

• crystal purification and growth (Guojian Wang)
• surface treatment for contact making (H. Rusty Harris)

Electronics

• pre-amp (Zhi Deng)
  • basics of charge sensitive amplifier
  • noise
  • bandwidth
• analog pulse shaping (Zhi Deng)
  • integration & differentiation circuits
  • shaping time
  • pole zero
• digital pulse shaping (Zhi Deng)
  • ADC basics (bits, etc.)
  • filters

Summary

(Jing Liu)

• summary
• survey
• exam

Organizing committee

• Local committee
  • Hong Zhang, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Shin-Ted Lin, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Shukui Liu, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Qian Yue, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• International committee
  • Jing Liu, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
  • Iris Abt, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich, Germany
  • Dongming Mei, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA

Excursion

Two days of guided excursions will interleave five days of lectures. The expense is included in the registration fee. We may visit the following sites:

Sanxingdui

Leshan Giant Buddha

Dujiang Weir (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Posters

Students are encouraged to present their own research in the form of posters. There will be a “Best poster award” announced at the end of the school. Posters will be hang around the lecture room and/or the dinner place to give us chances to discuss about them.

Visa

Participants should apply for L visa (tourist visa) via their local Chinese embassy or consulate by providing their ordinary passport, visa application form, and other required documents. General information can be found on the Chinese embassy website. For US citizen, please follow instructions on this page.

Updates on Apr. 30, 2018: we cannot issue invitation letters anymore. People who registered late have to apply their visa without the letter. This is possible. Please read the links provided above carefully and find out how to do that.

Outdated:

If your institute representative is not assisting you with your visa application process, please fill this form and send it to the organizer together with a photo copy of the name page of your passport so that we can draft the invitation letter for you accordingly. If you have been taken care of, there is no need to submit the materials twice. Please note that these materials have to be submitted before March 31. Otherwise, you may not get an invitation letter in time. In that case, you can use your hotel and flight booking information instead of the invitation letter in your visa application. But in general, you are advised to avoid any last-minute action if possible.

Some instructions on filling the form:

• one can find the right Chinese Embassy to submit your visa application on this page: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zmzlljs/t84229.htm
• select “single entry” in the form

Food

Breakfast will be provided by hotel. We highly encourage you to book lunch box and dinner provided by the local organizing committee to have safe, convenient and delicious food. Tickets can be purchased on site one day before the school. Please indicate your food preference in our registration form so that we can prepare accordingly. We can provide information for your own food adventures on excursion days. It would be wise to have some local students in your adventure team.

Lodging

We will be staying in the KeHuaYuan Hotel right on SCU campus from July 11 to 18. Its address is

No. 141,
Ke-Hua North Road,
Wuhou District,
Chengdu, China

There is no need to make your own reservation as long as you register online. Students are highly encouraged to share rooms. Foreign students will be mixed with Chinese students to increase culture exchange opportunities.

Lecturers will stay in the same hotel to maximize the chance for students to discuss with them.

Transportation

Some local students may meet you in Chengdu airport if you need help to find your way to the hotel. If that is the case, please email the organizer your flight information as soon as you have it.

Financial assistance

PIRE GEMADARC provides some limited amount of awards for students and lecturers who perform well in the school. The awards will be announced at the end of the school. The school does not have budget to cover individual travel costs. Participants are responsible to finance their own travels.

Culture and activities

In addition to two days of excursions, we offer you

• Culture show in banquet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bian_lian
• Morning Tai chi or Qigong
• Afternoon exercises: Basketball, soccer, swimming, jogging, tennis, and Kong fu in the beautiful SCU campus
• Early evening parties: Karaoke, Mahjong, Tea ceremony, Chinese movies, etc.
• Culture 101 for most of countries where our participants are from.

Registration

The registration is closed. The registration fee is $160 US dollars for students outside of China, and 1,000 RMB for Chinese students. It is used to cover the following cost:

• coffee, tea, and snacks in between lectures
• a banquet and a culture show during the banquet
• two-days of excursion
• a T-shirt and some stationaries with PIRE-GEMADARC logos

Please refer to this page for the payment of the registration fee. If you cannot stay for the whole school, you can pay for a daily fee on the spot.

Please note that the registration process and fee are NOT waived for lecturers. They need to fill the form and pay the registration fee as well. However, lecturers from outside the PIRE-GEMADARC collaboration may receive lecturing fees as compensation.

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pire-gemadarc/ is a webpage about our school in LinkedIn, which can be referred to in your LinkedIn profile.

Code of Conduct

We adopt the Code of Conduct for APS Meetings for our summer school. Please make sure that you are familiar with it before you join the school.