DRD2 Collaboration Meeting

from Wednesday, 21 January 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 23 January 2026 (23:30)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026
23 Jan 2026
AM
09:30
DRD2 General - Roxanne Guenette Giuliana Fiorillo (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT)) (until 10:00)
09:30 Collaboration News - Roxanne Guenette (The University of Manchester (GB))  
10:00
WP 1 (until 10:30)
10:00 Introduction - k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB)) Alexander Deisting (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
10:10 Update on glass THGEMs simulations and manufacturing process - Adam Lowe (University of Liverpool (GB))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
WG session (until 11:30)
11:00 News from WG 3 - Dr Patricia Sanchez-Lucas (University of Granada) Dr Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)  
11:10 Discussion  
11:30
WG session - Clara Cuesta Soria (CIEMAT) Serhan Tufanli (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:30 News from WG1 - Serhan Tufanli (CERN)  
11:40 Update and status of the Neutrino Platform - Filippo Resnati  
12:05 Discussion  
09:00
WP 2 -Dr Justo Martín-Albo (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Marcin Kuzniak (AstroCeNT / NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences) Justo Martín-Albo (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) – CSIC & Universitat de València) (until 10:30) (222/R-001)
09:00 Introduction and news from Astrocent - Marcin Kuzniak (AstroCeNT / NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences)  
09:15 R&D on wavelength-shifting reflectors for LEGEND-1000 - Gloria Senatore (University of Zurich) Marta Ewelina Babicz  
09:35 VUV Reflectance Measurements at IFIC - Mr Hamza Amar Es-Sghir (IFIC (CSIC-UV))  
09:50 X-ARAPUCA PDE measurements - Clara Cuesta Soria (CIEMAT)  
10:10 LiquidO R&D - Max de Carlos Generowicz (University of Sussex)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
WP 2 - Miguel Angel Garcia Peris (University of Manchester) Paolo Agnes (GSSI) (until 12:00)
11:00 Discussion recap - Paolo Agnes (GSSI) Miguel Angel Garcia Peris (University of Manchester)  
11:10 Updates from Manchester - Brais Palmeiro Pazos Brais Palmeiro (University of Manchester)  
11:25 CARP: CAEN Acquisition and Readout Programme - John Waiton (University of Manchester)  
09:00
Management Board discussion (MB members only) (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
WP 4 - Paul Scovell (STFC) Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 11:30)
10:30 B-doped PMMA sheets: an update - Riccardo Brugnera (Padova University and INFN Padova)  
10:45 Radon capture in porous adsorbents - Hichem Tedjiditi  
11:00 R&D activity on surface cleaning protocols at LNL - Oscar Azzolini  
11:15 Discussion Time  
11:30
WP 3 - Dmitrii Rudik (University Federico II & INFN, Napoli) Davide Franco (APC) (until 12:00)
11:30 Ionization yields in LAr and LXe at low energies: a tension? - Davide Franco (APC)  
11:45 developments of electrodes and dielectric properties for large scale LXe TPCs - Keyu Ding (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
DRD2 General - Jonathan Asaadi Prof. Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington) (until 14:00)
13:30 Update from RDC in the US - Prof. Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington) Jonathan Asaadi  
14:00
WP 2 - Miguel Angel Garcia Peris (University of Manchester) Paolo Agnes (GSSI) (until 15:00)
14:00 WP2.T1 introduction - Paolo Agnes (GSSI) Miguel Angel Garcia Peris (University of Manchester)  
14:10 Updates from Open University - Anabel Romero  
14:25 Updates from FBK - Andrea Ficorella Andrea Ficorella (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Alberto Giacomo Gola (Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)) Alberto Giacomo Gola (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)  
14:40 Updates from Sherbrooke - Gabriel Lessard (Université de Sherbrooke)  
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel Session Discussions (until 17:00)
15:30 Discussion for 1.1 (charge and charge+light) - Jonathan Asaadi Prof. Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington) Elena Gramellini (University of Manchester)   (4/S-020)
15:30 SiPM in liquid Xenon within the LoLX experiment - David Gallacher (TRIUMF National Lab) David Gallacher  
15:45 Discussion from 2.1 (quantum efficiency of sensors) - Paolo Agnes (GSSI) Miguel Angel Garcia Peris (University of Manchester)  
17:00
Collaboration Institutional Board - Walter Marcello Bonivento (INFN Cagliari) (until 18:00)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
WP 3 -Dr Hans Theodor Josef Steiger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+) Prof. Michael Wurm (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+) Minfang Yeh (until 14:30) (222/R-001)
13:00 SNO+ R&D and production - Mr Gulliver Milton (University Of Oxford)  
13:15 Te-loaded scintillator R&D for JUNO - Yayun Ding (中国科学院高能物理研究所)  
13:30 Slow liquid scintillators for double-beta decay searches - Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)  
13:45 LS in Eos - Dr Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)  
14:00 WbLS in ANNIE - Philipp Kern  
14:15 Status of BNL-30T+(Wb)LS production - Guang Yang (Brookhaven National Lab)  
14:30
WP 4 - José I. Crespo-Anadón (CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain)) Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 15:30)
14:30 Naples' TPC-testing Facility - Giuseppe Matteucci Giuseppe Matteucci (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)  
14:45 LArPix+LightPix - Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:00 Xenoscope and photosensor testing - Jose Javier Cuenca Garcia  
15:15 APEX - Wei Shi (Stony Brook University (US))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
WP 4 - José I. Crespo-Anadón (CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain)) Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 16:30)
16:00 T4.3 Large-Area Readouts News and Discussion - José I. Crespo-Anadón (CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain))  
16:10 Discussion: medium-scale facilities & integration/overlaps with other DRD2 tasks  
16:30
WP 4 (until 17:50)
16:30 Measurement of argon radioactivity with high sensitivity with DARTinARDM - Sara Tullio  
16:50 Recent results on liquid xenon purification - Ying-Ting Lin (University of Münster, Institute for Nuclear physics)  
17:10 Results from single electron studies in liquid argon by DarkSide-50 - Dr Masayuki Wada (AstroCent: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, PAN, Poland)  
17:30 Staus of the industrial-scale plants for underground argon production and purification - Federico Gabriele (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))  
17:50
WP 3 - Davide Franco (APC) Dmitrii Rudik (UNINA) (until 19:00)
17:50 Introduction - Davide Franco (APC)  
17:55 CHILLAX – Xenon-doped argon studies @LLNL - Dr Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)  
18:10 The ReD / ReD+ programme - Luciano Pandola (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)  
18:25 Energy releases in materials, dark matter searches and qubit decoherence - sergey pereverzev (LLNL)  
19:00 --- Dinner at R1 (Glassbox) ---
12:00 Summary of the WP1.1 (pixel) discussion - Elena Gramellini (University of Manchester)  
12:10
DRD2 General (until 12:30) (222/R-001)
12:45 --- Lunch ---