7th SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE TPCs FOR LOW-ENERGY RARE EVENT DETECTION

15 Dec 2014, 08:00 → 17 Dec 2014, 18:10 Europe/Paris

David Attié (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)), Ioannis Giomataris (CEA-Saclay), Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Thomas Patzak (APC-CNRS)

The seventh international symposium on “large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” will be held in Paris on the 15th-17th of December 2014. The purpose of the meeting is an extensive discussion of present and future projects using a large TPC for low energy, low background detection of rare events (low-energy neutrinos, double beta decay, dark matter, solar axions). There is an increasing number of experiments using or planning to use very large gaseous or liquid TPCs.… A common feature of the detection scheme will be the measurement of the energy and direction of low energy recoils. The use of a new generation of gaseous micropattern detectors seems to be a promising way to reach this goal. A two and a half day symposium will be held in Paris, at the amphi Buffon near the National Library, on December 15, 16, 17. The physics and the present status of dark matter search, axion search and neutrino studies will be reviewed, in the light of recent LHC results, together with discussions on evolving technologies relevant to these searches.

Access map APC_BuffonAmphi_Map.pdf

Dinner adresserestau.pdf adresserestau.pptx

Group Photo DSC_8309.JPG

map of restaurants APC12plan_restos.pdf

Poster LERE_2014_Poster.pdf

Monday 15 December

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome by the deputy director of APC

Speaker: Sotirios Loucatos (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

09:05 → 09:15 Introduction

Speaker: Ioanis Giomataris (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

09:15 → 09:45 Dark Matter-Baryogenesis connection: status after LHC run 1 and future tests

Speaker: Geraldine Servant (ICREA - Institucio catalana de recerca estudis avancats (ES))

Transparents PARIS_TPC_2014.pdf

09:45 → 10:05 AMS 2 results

Speaker: Nicola Tomassetti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Slides NT_15Dec2014_LTPC.pdf

10:05 → 10:30 Effective theories

Speaker: Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Transparents EFT-Buchmueller.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Overview of TPC’s and Active Targets for Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Structure Experiments

Speaker: Wolfgang Mittig

Transparents TPCsrareventsParis2014aWM.pdf TPCsrareventsParis2014aWM.ppt

11:30 → 11:50 The Biochemistry of Xenon 136

Speaker: David R. Nygren (UT Arlington)

Slides Nygren_-_Biochemistry_of_Xe136.pdf Nygren_-_Biochemistry_of_Xe136.pptx

11:50 → 12:10 Micro-physics simulations of columnar recombination along nuclear recoil tracks in high-pressure Xe gas for directional dark matter searches

Speaker: Yasuhiro Nakajima (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Transparents nakajima_2014-12-15_simulation.pdf

12:10 → 12:30 ICARUS T600

Speaker: Jan Emil Kisiel (University of Silesia (PL))

Slides TPC2014_kisiel.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 There's something about light WIMPs

Speaker: David Garcia Cerdeno

Transparents cerdeno-webpage.pdf cerdeno-webpage.pptx

14:30 → 14:50 Light WIMP search with the spherical detector

Speakers: Ali DASTGHEIBI FARD, Ioanis Giomataris (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Transparents PARIS-TPC14.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 TREX-DM: a low background Micromegas-based TPC for low mass WIMP detection

Speaker: Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

Slides FJIguaz_LTPC2014.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 Search for light WIMPS with SuperCDMS and the impact of neutrino background

Speaker: Julien Billard (MIT)

Transparents TPC_Paris_Billard_V2.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Review on dark matter experiments

Speaker: Philippe Di Stefano (Queen's University)

Transparents TPC_DiStefano_short.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 16:50 XENON Project results and future

Speaker: Dr Luca Scotto Lavina (CNRS/IN2P3, Subatech)

Transparents SymposiumTPCs_7th_20141214_LucaScottoLavina.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 Darkside

Speaker: Mr Paolo AGNES (Univ. Paris VII, APC)

Slides PA_darkside_TPC.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 PANDA results and prospects

Speaker: Karl Giboni

Transparents TPC_Paris14_Giboni.pdf TPC_Paris14_Giboni.pptx

17:30 → 17:50 MicrobooNE

Speaker: Dr Leonidas Kalousis (Virginia Tech)

Transparents kalousis_tpc_paris_final.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 The LAr1-ND experiment

Speaker: Nicola McConkey (urn:Google)

Transparents LAr1ND_NM.pdf

Tuesday 16 December

09:00 → 09:30 Searches for WISPs and the necessity of very low flux detectors

Speaker: Axel Lindner (DESY)

Transparents Lindner.pdf Lindner.pptx

09:30 → 09:50 CAST and Micromegas detectors

Speaker: Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

Slides mmcast_ltpc2014.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 Ingrid detector in CAST

Speaker: Klaus Desch (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

Slides desch_paris_161214_v2.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Search of KK axions at LSM

Speaker: Javier Galan Lacarra (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Transparents Search_of_KK-axions_at_LSM_(TPC2014-Galan).pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 11:20 The IAXO helioscope

Speaker: Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)

Transparents FERRER_2014-12-16-IAXO-LTPC.pdf FERRER_2014-12-16-IAXO-LTPC.pptx

11:20 → 11:40 Minority Carriers: A revolution for low background TPC work

Speaker: Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)

Transparents Paris_TPC_2014_Talk_SnowdenIfft_Final.pdf Paris_TPC_2014_Talk_SnowdenIfft_Final.pptx

11:40 → 12:00 NITEC: a Negative Ion Time Expansion Chamber for very rare event searches

Speaker: Elisabetta Baracchini (urn:Google)

Transparents Bracchini_Paris_large_TPC_2014.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 MIMAC TPC and First detection of 3D tracks of Radon Progeny

Speaker: Quentin Riffard (LPSC Grenoble)

Transparents QRiffard-TPCConference2014.pdf

12:20 → 12:40 NEWAGE

Speaker: Kentaro Miuchi (urn:Google)

Transparents miuchi_20141216_ParisTPC.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:20 LXe TPC breaking news: dual-phase TPC with Gas-Photomultiplier readout and Liquid Hole Multiplier operation in single-phase mode

Speaker: Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Transparents ARAZI_Paris_TPC_2014_GPM_LHM.pdf ARAZI_Paris_TPC_2014_GPM_LHM.pptx

14:20 → 14:40 Latest Results and plans on double phase LAr LEM-TPC

Speaker: Shuoxing Wu (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides TPC_swu.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 Liquid Ar TPC R&D effort at FNAL

Speaker: Flavio Cavanna (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Transparents CAVANNA_Paris-Dec14-LArTPC-R&DatFNAL.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Measurement of scintillation and ionization yield with high-pressure gaseous mixtures of Xe and TMA for improved 0nu double beta decay and dark matter searches

Speaker: Yasuhiro Nakajima (Kyoto University)

Transparents nakajima_2014-12-16_TeaPot.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 Operation of a 10bar/1kg Penning-Fluorescent Xe-TPC: x- and gamma-ray reconstruction in charge mode

Speaker: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

Slides TPCNEXTMM.pdf TPCNEXTMM.pptx

15:40 → 16:00 The Search for Hidden Particles at the SPS

Speaker: Oleg Ruchayskiy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Slides TPC_Paris_Ruchayskiy.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Review on neutrino-less double-beta decay

Speaker: FABRICE PIQUEMAL (CNRS/IN2P3)

Transparents Piquemal-2014.pdf Piquemal-2014.pptx

17:00 → 17:20 Results from EXO200, and plans for NEXO and Barium tagging

Speaker: David Sinclair (Carlton U.)

Transparents TPC_Conf_EXO_SINCLAIR.pdf

17:20 → 17:40 NEXT-generation HP Xe-TPCs for the NEXT-bb0nu experiment

Speaker: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

Slides TPCNEXTGeneral.pdf TPCNEXTGeneral.pptx

17:40 → 18:00 Selenium Hexafluoride as a Candidate Material for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay Search

Speaker: David R Nygren (UT Arlington)

Transparents Nygren_-_SeF6.pdf Nygren_-_SeF6.pptx

19:30 → 22:30 Conference Dinner

L'Escarmouche, 40 rue de la Montagne Ste Geneviève,

Wednesday 17 December

09:00 → 09:30 Highlights of the Antineutrino Applied Physics conference

Speaker: david lhuillier (CEA Saclay)

Transparents Highlights_AAP2014_Lhuillier.pdf Highlights_AAP2014_Lhuillier.pptx

09:30 → 09:50 T2K: Recent results and TPC operation

Speakers: Anthony Hillairet (University of VIctoria, Canada), Anthony Hillairet (Unknown)

Slides Hillairet_T2K_TPCSymposium.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 WA104

Speaker: Maurizio Bonesini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Slides LarTPC_2014.pdf LarTPC_2014.ppt

10:10 → 10:30 WA105/LBNO-DEMO

Speaker: Dr Luca Agostino (IN2P3)

Transparents AGOSTINO_TPC2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:20 HARPO results and prospects

Speaker: Shaobo Wang (LLR)

Slides SymposiumTPC_WANG.odp SymposiumTPC_WANG.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 LBNE TPC

Speaker: Konstantinos Mavrokoridis (University of Sheffield)

Transparents LBNE_TPC_kostas_paris.pdf

11:40 → 13:00 Bouquet final

Speaker: Alvaro De Rujula (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))

Transparents DE_RUJULA_ParisTPCconference.key DE_RUJULA_ParisTPCconference.pdf