Name: DRD2 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2025-02-11T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-13T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

DRD2 Collaboration Meeting

from Tuesday 11 February 2025 (09:00) to Thursday 13 February 2025 (18:00)

Monday 10 February 2025
Tuesday 11 February 2025
09:00 Opening
Opening
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

09:00 Introduction: Status of DRD2 - Giuliana Fiorillo (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT)) Roxanne Guenette

09:20 Updates from ECFA/DRDC - Ines Gil Botella (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecno)

09:40 Updates from CPAD - Jonathan Asaadi Jonathan Asaadi (Texas A & M University-Unknown-Unknown)

10:00 The CERN Neutrino Platform Status and Perspectives - Filippo Resnati (CERN)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
11:00 Task 1.2 Charge-to-Light, electroluminescence and amplification
Task 1.2 Charge-to-Light, electroluminescence and amplification
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

11:00 Introduction & Discussion - Alexander Deisting (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))

11:20 New member introduction: Tel Aviv University - Emilie Bertholet (Tel Aviv University (IL))

11:40 Developments on micropattern structures for liquid xenon detectors - Vitali Tchepel (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))

12:05 The dense SiPM plane under development at University of Manchester - Brais Palmeiro (University of Manchester)

12:30 Glass GEMs manufacturing procedure & Garfield simulations of glass GEMs - Adam Lowe (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:55 Close out - Alexander Deisting (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
14:00 T1.1 Pixels and Charge+Light readout
T1.1 Pixels and Charge+Light readout
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

14:00 Intro - Elena Gramellini (University of Manchester) Jonathan Asaadi

14:10 GRAIN - Nicolo Tosi (INFN Bologna, Bologna (IT))

14:20 QPix - Mitchell Franck Newcomer (University of Pennsylvania (US))

14:40 Multiple Modality Pixels - Jonathan Asaadi

15:00 LArPix - Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:20 SOLAr - Daniele Guffanti (University & INFN Milano-Bicocca)

15:30 GamPix - Bahrudin Trbalic
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
16:20 T2.1 Light sensors
T2.1 Light sensors
16:20 - 18:35
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

16:20 Introduction - Miguel Angel Garcia Peris (University of Manchester) Paolo Agnes (GSSI)

16:25 Update on the adquisition and test of organic photosensors in ASTROCENT - Marcin Kuzniak (AstroCeNT / NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences)

16:35 Plans for graphene coatings on SPADs

16:40 VUV optimized coating technologies for CMOS detectors in the Open University - Jesper Skottfelt (Open University)

16:50 Status CMOS SPADs and plans for BSI SPADs at IMS - Michael Keller (Heidelberg University)

17:05 Update on 3D PDCs development and characterization at Sheerbroke - Gabriel Lessard (Université de Sherbrooke)

17:20 Update on FBK NUV-BSI technologies - Alberto Gola Alberto Gola (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

17:35 Characterization of charge collection in SPADs at TRIUMF - Fabrice Retiere Seraphim Koulosousas Seraphim Koulosousas

17:45 PDE measurements for different wavelengths and cryogenic temperatures at CIEMAT - Antonio Verdugo De Osa (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Antonio Verdugo de Osa (CIEMAT)

17:50 Introduction to NOA - Andrea Marasciulli Lucia Consiglio (INFN)

18:00 Setup and ongoing measurements in Ferrara

18:10 Development of digital cryogenic SiPMs in 55 nm CMOS at Fermilab - Alexander Kish (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
18:30 CB meeting
CB meeting
18:30 - 20:15
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

18:30 Organisation: WG conveners nominations

18:35 status of Resource Board formation, members

18:50 round table on MOU signature discussions in the various countries and comments on the latest version of it

19:10 round table on funding situation in the various countries

19:30 Further discussion on the hypothetical common fund

19:45 The next steps for the collaboration, next workshops meetings, and grant applications.
Wednesday 12 February 2025
08:30 T2.2 Higher efficiency WLS and light collection
T2.2 Higher efficiency WLS and light collection
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

08:30 Introduction - Justo Martín-Albo (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) – CSIC & Universitat de València)

08:35 Polymeric WLS and cryogenic VUV characterization - Marcin Kuzniak (AstroCeNT / NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences)

08:50 R&D on large-area photon collectors for future liquid argon detectors - Carla Maria Cattadori (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

09:10 R&D on metasurfaces for VUV photon detection - Augusto Martins (University of York)

09:25 Measurement of the PDE of X-ARAPUCAS for DUNE FD-VD - Sergio Manthey Corchado (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

09:40 R&D on large-area photon collectors at IFIC - Jose Alfonso Soto Oton (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

09:55 Muon tracking with an opaque liquid scintillator prototype - Nicolò Tuccori (University of Sussex)

10:10 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
11:00 T3.1 Target properties and isotope loading of Water and Liquid Scintillator
T3.1 Target properties and isotope loading of Water and Liquid Scintillator
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:00 Te-loaded LS (SNO+) - Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)

11:15 Slow Te-loaded LS at TUM/MZ - Manuel Böhles (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

11:25 Slow LS measurements with Lavatrice setup at LNL - Alberto Garfagnini (Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

11:35 Cold LS in TAO - Guofu Cao Yichen Li (IHEP Beijing)

11:50 LS Characterization at INFN Milano - Davide Basilico (University of Milan / INFN Milano)

12:00 ANNIE: WbLS measurements in SANDI (plus DISCO) - Noah Goehlke (JGU Mainz)

12:15 WbLS in EOS - Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)

12:30 WbLS in BNL Prototypes - Guang Yang (Brookhaven National Lab)

12:45 WbLS with Quantum Dots - Teppei Katori (King's College London)

12:50 Gadolinium-loaded water (XENONnT) - Marco Selvi (INFN)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 T3.2 Target properties of liquid nobles
T3.2 Target properties of liquid nobles
14:00 - 16:10
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Introduction to WP3.2 - Davide Franco (APC) Dmitrii Rudik (UNINA)

14:10 Characterization of the Ar ionization yield for sub-keV nuclear recoils - Luciano Pandola (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)

14:25 Spectroscopy of the Ar scintillation light for rare event searches - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

14:35 Xe doping of LAr for 0νββ searches - Alessandro Minotti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

14:45 Studies on liquid surface phenomena - Vitali Tchepel (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))

15:00 Plans for Xe-doping LAr studies in Naples - Dmitrii Rudik (UNINA)

15:15 Impact of EUV on pure and Xe-doped LAr scintillation - Davide Franco (APC)

15:30 Experimental investigation of the phase equilibria of the xenon+argon system - Salem Hoceini (CTP Mines ParisTech)

15:45 Stored energy releases in detectors and charged liquid surface effects - sergey pereverzev (LLNL)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
16:30 T4.1 Radiopurity and background mitigation
T4.1 Radiopurity and background mitigation
16:30 - 18:37
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

16:30 T4.1 Status update - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

16:37 Sources 4A Update - Mihaela Parvu

16:54 Study of (alpha,n) reactions in Spain - Ariel Tarifeno-Saldivia

17:06 Boulby Facilities - Paul Scovell (STFC)

17:18 Cold Radon Emanation - Emily Perry

17:35 Status of boron doping of PMMA - Riccardo Brugnera

17:47 Radon capture in micro-pourous adsorbants - Jose Busto

17:59 Status update - Alex Lindote

18:06 Aspects on neutron shielding and simulations - Denis Barbu

18:18 Upgrade of the Jagiellonian Advanced Screening at Canfranc - Grzegorz Zuzel

18:30 ANAIS+ R&D - Maria Martinez María Luisa Sarsa (University of Zaragoza) Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)
19:00 Dinner at R1
Dinner at R1
19:00 - 21:00
Thursday 13 February 2025
08:30 T4.2 Detector & Target Procurement/Production and Purification
T4.2 Detector & Target Procurement/Production and Purification
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

08:30 Introduction - Mauro Caravati (GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute) Minfang Yeh

08:35 BNL Scintillator Facility - Richard Rosero (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:45 Spurious electron characterization and mitigation in LArTPCs, solubility of TPB in LAr, and relation to spurious elect - Shawn Scott Westerdale (University of California Riverside (US))

09:00 LS development and scaling-up challenges for the SHiP LS-SBT at CERN - Annika Hollnagel

09:15 Isotope/tellurium scaling challenges and purification - Szymon Manecki

09:30 Aria, Dart, and Urania activities - Walter Marcello Bonivento (INFN Cagliari)

09:45 Development of novel Xenon Direct Air Capture technology based on adsorption - Samuele Sangiorgio

10:00 LowRad (low radon and low internal radioactivity) - distillation & purification for next generation liquid xenon experiments - Lutz Althüser (University of Münster)

10:15 JUNO-II - Liangjian Wen
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
11:00 T4.3: Large-area Readouts
T4.3: Large-area Readouts
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to WP4-T4.3 - Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) José I. Crespo-Anadón (CIEMAT (Spain))

11:15 CIEMAT photodetector facility - José I. Crespo-Anadón (CIEMAT (Spain))

11:30 INFN Naples photodetector and TPC-testing facilites - Dmitrii Rudik (UNINA)

11:45 LArPix scale-up and TPC kits - Brooke Russell (MIT)

12:00 LightPix ASIC - Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

12:15 APEX: a light trap for the field cage - Flavio Cavanna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:30 Status of the facilities in Zurich and related R&D - Jose Javier Cuenca Garcia
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Closing
Closing
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 T1.1 Recap & Overview

14:10 T1.2 Recap & Overview

14:20 T2.1 Recap & Overview

14:30 T2.2 Recap & Overview

14:40 T3.1 Recap & Overview

14:50 T3.2 Recap & Overview

15:00 T4.1 Recap & Overview

15:10 T4.2 Recap & Overview

15:20 T4.3 Recap & Overview

15:30 WG1: Common Infrastructures & Facilities

15:45 WG2: Industry Connections & Technology Transfer

15:50 WG3: Training and Outreach

15:55 Close Out - Giuliana Fiorillo (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT)) Roxanne Guenette