8th CYGNUS Workshop on Directional Recoil Detection

from Monday, December 11, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Friday, December 15, 2023 (7:00 PM)
School of Physics (Slade Lecture Theatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 11, 2023
Dec 12, 2023
Dec 13, 2023
Dec 14, 2023
Dec 15, 2023
AM
9:00 AM --- Arrival ---
11:30 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM Neutrinos - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
9:45 AM The COHERENT Experiment - Charles Prior (Duke University)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM NR Tracking in Argon/Noble gases - Prof. David Caratelli (UC Santa Barbara)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
11:45 AM Ion transport in liquid argon - Xiao Luo (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
9:00 AM CYGNO-LIME - Stefano Piacentini   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
9:30 AM Towards CYGNO04 - Giovanni Mazzitelli   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
10:00 AM Optical negative ion drift operation at atmospheric pressure - Prof. Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Detector R&D with Negative Ion Mixtures - Thomas Nathan Thorpe (Los Alamos National Laboratory)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
11:30 AM CYGNUS Hawaii: Recent Detector R&D and machine learning results - Majd Ghrear   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
9:00 AM A progress report on development of Multi-layer THGEM readout structures - Dr Marco Cortesi (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
9:45 AM Progress Towards Directional Detection of Dark Matter using Spectroscopy of Quantum Defects in Diamond - Dr Daniel Ang (University of Maryland)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Development of directional dark matter detector with anisotropic ZnWO4 scintillator - Hiroyuki Sekiya   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
11:30 AM Status of the NEWSdm experiment - Takashi Asada (Universita Federico II e INFN Sezione di Napoli (IT))   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
9:00 AM Directional DM detection and Neutron Spectrometry in the keV range with MIMAC - Eduardo Daniel SANTOS   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
10:00 AM Solar neutrinos and electron recoils - Samuele Torelli   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Extracting Dark-Matter Mass from Directional Observables - Prof. Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University (KR))   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
11:30 AM R&D for a Gaseous Argon-Based Near Detector for DUNE - Tanaz Mohayai (Indiana University)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM Introduction - Ciaran O'Hare (Sydney)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
1:15 PM Overview of dark matter - Prof. Nicole Bell (The University of Melbourne)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
2:00 PM Direct detection experiments - Theresa Fruth (University of Sydney)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
2:45 PM Overview of directional recoil detection - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM NEWAGE / CYGNUS-KM - Prof. Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
5:00 PM --- Discussion ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM The Migdal effect - Jayden Newstead (University of Melbourne)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
2:30 PM MIGDAL - Dinesh Loomba   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory or The Hunt for Dark Matter in a Gold Mine - Zuzana Slavkovska (Australian National University)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
4:15 PM CYGNUS-Oz - Gregory John Lane (Australian National University (AU)) Ferdos Dastgiri Lachlan McKie (Australian National University) Dr Lindsey Bignell (Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, The Australian National University)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
5:00 PM --- Discussion ---
12:10 PM CYGNUS Hawaii: Recent simulations and measurements of MPGD avalanche gain - Michael Litke (University of Hawaii)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM --- Optional excursion ---
12:00 PM Environmental neutron measurement at the Gran Sasso laboratory in the NEWSdm experiment - Takuya Shiraishi (Kanagawa University)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Characterization of low-energy Argon recoils with the ReD experiment - Paul Zakhary (AstroCeNT, CAMK, PAN)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
2:30 PM Directional dark matter searches using levitated optomechanics - Robert James (The University of Melbourne)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
3:00 PM Anomaly aware machine learning for dark matter direct detection at DARWIN - Andre Joshua Scaffidi   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Development of a versatile TPC for neutron-induced reactions studies at the SARAF TOF facility. - Dr Maryna Borysova (Weizmann Institute of Science & KINR, NAS of Ukraine)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
4:30 PM Gas Gains Over 10⁴ in Low Pressure SF₆ with a Novel Multi-Mesh ThGEM for Directional Dark Matter Searches - Alasdair McLean (University of Sheffield)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
4:50 PM Molecular sieve vacuum swing adsorption purification and radon reduction system for gaseous dark matter and rare-event detectors - Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
5:10 PM Charge Amplification in Sub-atmospheric CF4, SF6, Helium Mixtures - Alasdair McLean (University of Sheffield)   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
7:00 PM --- Pub dinner at Nag's Head Hotel, Glebe ---
12:15 PM Discussion on the future plans of the directional detection community - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))   (Slade Lecture Theatre)
1:00 PM --- Closing remarks ---