Focus on:  Hide Contributions
Back to Conference View
Login
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)
Paris Diderot University (Amphi Buffon)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Dec 2016
6 Dec 2016
7 Dec 2016
AM
07:55
Registration (until 08:55)
09:00
Welcome (until 09:05)
09:05
Introduction -Dr Ioannis Giomataris (CEA-Saclay) (until 09:15)
09:15 Review on neutrino physics - Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
09:50 New TPCs for the upgrade of the T2K Near detector - Marco Zito (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
10:20 Micromegas based muon telescopes for the ScanPyramids mission: performance and first results - David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)  
10:50 --- Coffe break ---
11:09 --- Session leader: E.Mazzucato ---
11:10 Review of neutrinoless double beta decay - Ruben Saakyan (UCL)  
11:40 Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $^{136}Xe$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging - Dr Austin McDonald  
09:00 Dark Matter at the crossroads: many constraints and some new ideas - Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)  
09:30 Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC - Daniel Eduardo Santos (LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP)  
09:55 Cygnus project - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)  
10:20 The Quad: a general purpose modular readout system for TPCs - Harry Van Der Graaf (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
10:59 --- Session leader: X.F. Navick ---
11:00 LUX results and future prospects - Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)  
11:30 Status of the XENON1T experiment - Dr Hardy Simgen (MPIK)  
08:59 --- Session leader: L. Ropelewski ---
09:00 Caliste-MM : A New Concept of Gaseous Spectro-Polarimeter for Soft X-Ray astrophysics - Mr Paul Serrano  
09:20 GEM-based TPC optically read out for R&D purposes - Mr Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN)  
09:40 A TPC as high performance gamma-ray telescope and polarimeter: polarisation measurement in a beam between 1.7 and 74MeV with HARPO - Mr Philippe Gros  
10:10 A picosecond Micromegas EUV photodetector - Thomas Papaevangelou (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
10:30 Workshop on Supernova  
10:35 --- Session leader: W. Fulgione ---
10:40 Presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis of the progenitors of core collapse supernovae - Marco Limongi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)  
11:10 Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from CCSNe - Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN)  
11:40 Determining Neutrino Properties from Supernova Neutrinos - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)  
PM
12:00 Searches for Dark Matter at Colliders - Gabriella Sciolla (Brandeis University (US))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:59 --- Session leader: Th. Patzak ---
14:00 The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator - Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
14:30 Prototyping the single phase LArTPC DUNE far detector design - Michael Wallbank  
14:50 MicroBooNE - Michael Mooney  
15:10 The LArIAT experiment: first measurement of the inclusive total pion cross-section in Argon - Dr Flor de Maria Blaszcyk (BU, USA)  
15:30 ProtoDUNE Dual-Phase - Vyacheslav Galymov (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 --- Session leader: A. Delbart ---
16:21 Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment - Francesc Monrabal (University of Texas at Arlington)  
16:45 R&D towards spherical LXe TPC - Dr Sekiya Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo)  
17:05 Secondary scintillation of xenon with sub-percent concentrations of molecular additive (CO2, CH4 and CF4) for HPXe optical TPCs - Dr Carlos Henriques  
17:25 Microscopic simulation of Xenon-based Optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives - Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Uludag University (TR))  
17:45 On the possibility of positive-ion detection in high-pressure TPCs - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
12:00 Panda-X experiment and new results - Dr Karl Giboni  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:59 --- Session leader: Th. Dafni ---
14:00 NEWS experiment: search of ultra- light WIMPs - Gilles Gerbier (Queen's Univesrity)  
14:30 Light Dark Matter search with NEWS-LSM detector - Dr Ali Dastgheibi Fard  
14:45 New developments of the spherical detector sensor - Prof. Ilias savvidis  
15:00 Cubic sphere for rare event search - Xavier Francois Navick (CEA)  
15:15 TREX-DM: a Low background Micromegas-TPC for low-mass WIMP searches - Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
15:35 --- coffee break ---
16:04 --- Session leader: E. Ferrer ---
16:05 Latest solar axion results and prospects - Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
16:35 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))  
16:55 XEMIS: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC for 3gamma medical imaging - Lucia Gallego Manzano (Subatech)  
20:00 --- conference dinner ---
12:10 Status and neutrino probes of failed explosions - Shunsaku Horiuchi (Virginia Tech)  
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:59 --- Session leader: Ch. Volpe ---
14:00 Neutrinos as a probe of supernova explosion dynamics - Prof. Bernhard Mueller  
14:30 Neutrinos and heavy element synthesis - Rebecca Surman (Union College)  
15:00 A Status Report on Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Successes to Date and What Lies Ahead - Dr Tony Mezzacappa  
15:30 Supernova Neutrino Detection Overview - Dr Masayuki Nakahata  
16:00 Summary talk - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)  
Powered by Indico v3.3.7-pre