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

from Monday, December 15, 2014 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 17, 2014 (6:10 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 15, 2014
Dec 16, 2014
Dec 17, 2014
AM
8:00 AM Registration  
9:00 AM Welcome by the deputy director of APC - Sotirios Loucatos (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
9:05 AM Introduction - Ioanis Giomataris (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
9:15 AM Dark Matter-Baryogenesis connection: status after LHC run 1 and future tests - Geraldine Servant (ICREA - Institucio catalana de recerca estudis avancats (ES))  
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9:45 AM AMS 2 results - Nicola Tomassetti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
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10:05 AM Effective theories - Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))  
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10:30 AM --- coffee break ---
11:00 AM Overview of TPC’s and Active Targets for Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Structure Experiments - Wolfgang Mittig  
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11:30 AM The Biochemistry of Xenon 136 - David R. Nygren (UT Arlington)  
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11:50 AM Micro-physics simulations of columnar recombination along nuclear recoil tracks in high-pressure Xe gas for directional dark matter searches - Yasuhiro Nakajima (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
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9:00 AM Searches for WISPs and the necessity of very low flux detectors - Axel Lindner (DESY)  
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9:30 AM CAST and Micromegas detectors - Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
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9:50 AM Ingrid detector in CAST - Klaus Desch (Universitaet Bonn (DE))  
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10:10 AM Search of KK axions at LSM - Javier Galan Lacarra (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM The IAXO helioscope - Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)  
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11:20 AM Minority Carriers: A revolution for low background TPC work - Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)  
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11:40 AM NITEC: a Negative Ion Time Expansion Chamber for very rare event searches - Elisabetta Baracchini (urn:Google)  
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9:00 AM Highlights of the Antineutrino Applied Physics conference - david lhuillier (CEA Saclay)  
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9:30 AM T2K: Recent results and TPC operation - Anthony Hillairet (University of VIctoria, Canada) Anthony Hillairet (Unknown)  
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9:50 AM WA104 - Maurizio Bonesini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
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10:10 AM WA105/LBNO-DEMO - Dr Luca Agostino (IN2P3)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM HARPO results and prospects - Shaobo Wang (LLR)  
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11:20 AM LBNE TPC - Konstantinos Mavrokoridis (University of Sheffield)  
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11:40 AM Bouquet final - Alvaro De Rujula (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))  
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PM
12:10 PM ICARUS T600 - Jan Emil Kisiel (University of Silesia (PL))  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM There's something about light WIMPs - David Garcia Cerdeno  
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2:30 PM Light WIMP search with the spherical detector - Ali DASTGHEIBI FARD Ioanis Giomataris (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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2:50 PM TREX-DM: a low background Micromegas-based TPC for low mass WIMP detection - Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
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3:10 PM Search for light WIMPS with SuperCDMS and the impact of neutrino background - Julien Billard (MIT)  
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3:30 PM Review on dark matter experiments - Philippe Di Stefano (Queen's University)  
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4:00 PM --- coffee break ---
4:30 PM XENON Project results and future - Dr Luca Scotto Lavina (CNRS/IN2P3, Subatech)  
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4:50 PM Darkside - Mr Paolo AGNES (Univ. Paris VII, APC)  
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5:10 PM PANDA results and prospects - Karl Giboni  
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5:30 PM MicrobooNE - Dr Leonidas Kalousis (Virginia Tech)  
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5:50 PM The LAr1-ND experiment - Nicola McConkey (urn:Google)  
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12:00 PM MIMAC TPC and First detection of 3D tracks of Radon Progeny - Quentin Riffard (LPSC Grenoble)  
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12:20 PM NEWAGE - Kentaro Miuchi (urn:Google)  
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12:40 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM LXe TPC breaking news: dual-phase TPC with Gas-Photomultiplier readout and Liquid Hole Multiplier operation in single-phase mode - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
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2:20 PM Latest Results and plans on double phase LAr LEM-TPC - Shuoxing Wu (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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2:40 PM Liquid Ar TPC R&D effort at FNAL - Flavio Cavanna (Dipartimento di Fisica)  
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3:00 PM 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 - Yasuhiro Nakajima (Kyoto University)  
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3:20 PM Operation of a 10bar/1kg Penning-Fluorescent Xe-TPC: x- and gamma-ray reconstruction in charge mode - Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
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3:40 PM The Search for Hidden Particles at the SPS - Oleg Ruchayskiy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Review on neutrino-less double-beta decay - FABRICE PIQUEMAL (CNRS/IN2P3)  
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5:00 PM Results from EXO200, and plans for NEXO and Barium tagging - David Sinclair (Carlton U.)  
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5:20 PM NEXT-generation HP Xe-TPCs for the NEXT-bb0nu experiment - Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
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5:40 PM Selenium Hexafluoride as a Candidate Material for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay Search - David R Nygren (UT Arlington)  
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7:30 PM --- Conference Dinner ---