8th SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE TPCs FOR LOW-ENERGY RARE EVENT DETECTION
from
Monday 5 December 2016 (07:55)
to
Wednesday 7 December 2016 (23:30)
Monday 5 December 2016
07:55
07:55 - 08:55
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:00
09:00 - 09:05
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:05
09:05 - 09:15
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:15
Review on neutrino physics
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Alexei Smirnov
(
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics
)
Review on neutrino physics
Alexei Smirnov
(
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics
)
09:15 - 09:50
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:50
New TPCs for the upgrade of the T2K Near detector
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Marco Zito
(
CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
)
New TPCs for the upgrade of the T2K Near detector
Marco Zito
(
CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
)
09:50 - 10:20
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:20
Micromegas based muon telescopes for the ScanPyramids mission: performance and first results
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David ATTIE
(
CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP
)
Micromegas based muon telescopes for the ScanPyramids mission: performance and first results
David ATTIE
(
CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP
)
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:50
Coffe break
Coffe break
10:50 - 11:09
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:09
Session leader: E.Mazzucato
Session leader: E.Mazzucato
11:09 - 11:10
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:10
Review of neutrinoless double beta decay
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Ruben Saakyan
(
UCL
)
Review of neutrinoless double beta decay
Ruben Saakyan
(
UCL
)
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:40
Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $^{136}Xe$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging
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Austin McDonald
Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $^{136}Xe$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging
Austin McDonald
11:40 - 12:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
12:00
Searches for Dark Matter at Colliders
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Gabriella Sciolla
(
Brandeis University (US)
)
Searches for Dark Matter at Colliders
Gabriella Sciolla
(
Brandeis University (US)
)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:59
Room: Amphi Buffon
13:59
Session leader: Th. Patzak
Session leader: Th. Patzak
13:59 - 14:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:00
The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator
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Sebastien Murphy
(
Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)
)
The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator
Sebastien Murphy
(
Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)
)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:30
Prototyping the single phase LArTPC DUNE far detector design
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Michael Wallbank
Prototyping the single phase LArTPC DUNE far detector design
Michael Wallbank
14:30 - 14:50
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:50
MicroBooNE
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Michael Mooney
MicroBooNE
Michael Mooney
14:50 - 15:10
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:10
The LArIAT experiment: first measurement of the inclusive total pion cross-section in Argon
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Flor de Maria Blaszcyk
(
BU, USA
)
The LArIAT experiment: first measurement of the inclusive total pion cross-section in Argon
Flor de Maria Blaszcyk
(
BU, USA
)
15:10 - 15:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:30
ProtoDUNE Dual-Phase
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Vyacheslav Galymov
(
Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)
)
ProtoDUNE Dual-Phase
Vyacheslav Galymov
(
Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)
)
15:30 - 15:50
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:50
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:20
Session leader: A. Delbart
Session leader: A. Delbart
16:20 - 16:21
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:21
Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment
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Francesc Monrabal
(
University of Texas at Arlington
)
Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment
Francesc Monrabal
(
University of Texas at Arlington
)
16:21 - 16:41
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:45
R&D towards spherical LXe TPC
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Sekiya Hiroyuki
(
University of Tokyo
)
R&D towards spherical LXe TPC
Sekiya Hiroyuki
(
University of Tokyo
)
16:45 - 17:05
Room: Amphi Buffon
17:05
Secondary scintillation of xenon with sub-percent concentrations of molecular additive (CO2, CH4 and CF4) for HPXe optical TPCs
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Carlos Henriques
Secondary scintillation of xenon with sub-percent concentrations of molecular additive (CO2, CH4 and CF4) for HPXe optical TPCs
Carlos Henriques
17:05 - 17:25
Room: Amphi Buffon
17:25
Microscopic simulation of Xenon-based Optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives
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Diego Gonzalez Diaz
(
Uludag University (TR)
)
Microscopic simulation of Xenon-based Optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives
Diego Gonzalez Diaz
(
Uludag University (TR)
)
17:25 - 17:45
Room: Amphi Buffon
17:45
On the possibility of positive-ion detection in high-pressure TPCs
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Lior Arazi
(
Weizmann Institute of Science
)
On the possibility of positive-ion detection in high-pressure TPCs
Lior Arazi
(
Weizmann Institute of Science
)
17:45 - 18:05
Room: Amphi Buffon
Tuesday 6 December 2016
09:00
Dark Matter at the crossroads: many constraints and some new ideas
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Marco Cirelli
(
CNRS LPTHE Jussieu
)
Dark Matter at the crossroads: many constraints and some new ideas
Marco Cirelli
(
CNRS LPTHE Jussieu
)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:30
Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC
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Daniel Eduardo Santos
(
LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP
)
Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC
Daniel Eduardo Santos
(
LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP
)
09:30 - 09:55
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:55
Cygnus project
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Neil Spooner
(
University of Sheffield
)
Cygnus project
Neil Spooner
(
University of Sheffield
)
09:55 - 10:20
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:20
The Quad: a general purpose modular readout system for TPCs
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Harry Van Der Graaf
(
Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)
)
The Quad: a general purpose modular readout system for TPCs
Harry Van Der Graaf
(
Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)
)
10:20 - 10:40
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:40
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 10:59
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:59
Session leader: X.F. Navick
Session leader: X.F. Navick
10:59 - 11:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:00
LUX results and future prospects
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Richard Gaitskell
(
Brown University
)
LUX results and future prospects
Richard Gaitskell
(
Brown University
)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:30
Status of the XENON1T experiment
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Hardy Simgen
(
MPIK
)
Status of the XENON1T experiment
Hardy Simgen
(
MPIK
)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
12:00
Panda-X experiment and new results
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Karl Giboni
Panda-X experiment and new results
Karl Giboni
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:59
Room: Amphi Buffon
13:59
Session leader: Th. Dafni
Session leader: Th. Dafni
13:59 - 14:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:00
NEWS experiment: search of ultra- light WIMPs
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Gilles Gerbier
(
Queen's Univesrity
)
NEWS experiment: search of ultra- light WIMPs
Gilles Gerbier
(
Queen's Univesrity
)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:30
Light Dark Matter search with NEWS-LSM detector
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Ali Dastgheibi Fard
Light Dark Matter search with NEWS-LSM detector
Ali Dastgheibi Fard
14:30 - 14:45
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:45
New developments of the spherical detector sensor
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Ilias savvidis
New developments of the spherical detector sensor
Ilias savvidis
14:45 - 15:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:00
Cubic sphere for rare event search
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Xavier Francois Navick
(
CEA
)
Cubic sphere for rare event search
Xavier Francois Navick
(
CEA
)
15:00 - 15:15
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:15
TREX-DM: a Low background Micromegas-TPC for low-mass WIMP searches
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Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(
Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
)
TREX-DM: a Low background Micromegas-TPC for low-mass WIMP searches
Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(
Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
)
15:15 - 15:35
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:35
coffee break
coffee break
15:35 - 16:04
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:04
Session leader: E. Ferrer
Session leader: E. Ferrer
16:04 - 16:05
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:05
Latest solar axion results and prospects
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Igor Garcia Irastorza
(
Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
)
Latest solar axion results and prospects
Igor Garcia Irastorza
(
Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
)
16:05 - 16:35
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:35
REST v2.0 : A data analysis and simulation framework for micro-patterned readout detectors.
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Javier Galan Lacarra
(
CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
)
REST v2.0 : A data analysis and simulation framework for micro-patterned readout detectors.
Javier Galan Lacarra
(
CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
)
16:35 - 16:55
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:55
XEMIS: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC for 3gamma medical imaging
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Lucia Gallego Manzano
(
Subatech
)
XEMIS: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC for 3gamma medical imaging
Lucia Gallego Manzano
(
Subatech
)
16:55 - 17:15
Room: Amphi Buffon
20:00
conference dinner
conference dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 7 December 2016
08:59
Session leader: L. Ropelewski
Session leader: L. Ropelewski
08:59 - 09:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:00
Caliste-MM : A New Concept of Gaseous Spectro-Polarimeter for Soft X-Ray astrophysics
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Paul Serrano
Caliste-MM : A New Concept of Gaseous Spectro-Polarimeter for Soft X-Ray astrophysics
Paul Serrano
09:00 - 09:20
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:20
GEM-based TPC optically read out for R&D purposes
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Florian Maximilian Brunbauer
(
CERN
)
GEM-based TPC optically read out for R&D purposes
Florian Maximilian Brunbauer
(
CERN
)
09:20 - 09:40
Room: Amphi Buffon
09:40
A TPC as high performance gamma-ray telescope and polarimeter: polarisation measurement in a beam between 1.7 and 74MeV with HARPO
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Philippe Gros
A TPC as high performance gamma-ray telescope and polarimeter: polarisation measurement in a beam between 1.7 and 74MeV with HARPO
Philippe Gros
09:40 - 10:10
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:10
A picosecond Micromegas EUV photodetector
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Thomas Papaevangelou
(
CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
)
A picosecond Micromegas EUV photodetector
Thomas Papaevangelou
(
CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
)
10:10 - 10:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:30
Workshop on Supernova
Workshop on Supernova
10:30 - 10:35
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:35
Session leader: W. Fulgione
Session leader: W. Fulgione
10:35 - 10:37
Room: Amphi Buffon
10:40
Presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis of the progenitors of core collapse supernovae
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Marco Limongi
(
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
)
Presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis of the progenitors of core collapse supernovae
Marco Limongi
(
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
)
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:10
Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from CCSNe
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Giulia Pagliaroli
(
INFN
)
Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from CCSNe
Giulia Pagliaroli
(
INFN
)
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Amphi Buffon
11:40
Determining Neutrino Properties from Supernova Neutrinos
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Kate Scholberg
(
Duke University
)
Determining Neutrino Properties from Supernova Neutrinos
Kate Scholberg
(
Duke University
)
11:40 - 12:10
Room: Amphi Buffon
12:10
Status and neutrino probes of failed explosions
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Shunsaku Horiuchi
(
Virginia Tech
)
Status and neutrino probes of failed explosions
Shunsaku Horiuchi
(
Virginia Tech
)
12:10 - 12:40
Room: Amphi Buffon
12:40
Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:59
Room: Amphi Buffon
13:59
Session leader: Ch. Volpe
Session leader: Ch. Volpe
13:59 - 14:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:00
Neutrinos as a probe of supernova explosion dynamics
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Bernhard Mueller
Neutrinos as a probe of supernova explosion dynamics
Bernhard Mueller
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
14:30
Neutrinos and heavy element synthesis
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Rebecca Surman
(
Union College
)
Neutrinos and heavy element synthesis
Rebecca Surman
(
Union College
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:00
A Status Report on Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Successes to Date and What Lies Ahead
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Tony Mezzacappa
A Status Report on Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Successes to Date and What Lies Ahead
Tony Mezzacappa
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Amphi Buffon
15:30
Supernova Neutrino Detection Overview
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Masayuki Nakahata
Supernova Neutrino Detection Overview
Masayuki Nakahata
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Amphi Buffon
16:00
Summary talk
-
Francis Halzen
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Summary talk
Francis Halzen
(
University of Wisconsin
)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Amphi Buffon