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8th SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE TPCs FOR LOW-ENERGY RARE EVENT DETECTION

from Monday, December 5, 2016 (7:55 AM) to Wednesday, December 7, 2016 (11:30 PM)
Paris Diderot University (Amphi Buffon)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 5, 2016
Dec 6, 2016
Dec 7, 2016
AM
7:55 AM
Registration (until 8:55 AM)
9:00 AM
Welcome (until 9:05 AM)
9:05 AM
Introduction -Dr Ioannis Giomataris (CEA-Saclay) (until 9:15 AM)
9:15 AM Review on neutrino physics - Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
9:50 AM 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 AM Micromegas based muon telescopes for the ScanPyramids mission: performance and first results - David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)  
10:50 AM --- Coffe break ---
11:09 AM --- Session leader: E.Mazzucato ---
11:10 AM Review of neutrinoless double beta decay - Ruben Saakyan (UCL)  
11:40 AM Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $^{136}Xe$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging - Dr Austin McDonald  
9:00 AM Dark Matter at the crossroads: many constraints and some new ideas - Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)  
9:30 AM Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC - Daniel Eduardo Santos (LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP)  
9:55 AM Cygnus project - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)  
10:20 AM The Quad: a general purpose modular readout system for TPCs - Harry Van Der Graaf (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:59 AM --- Session leader: X.F. Navick ---
11:00 AM LUX results and future prospects - Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)  
11:30 AM Status of the XENON1T experiment - Dr Hardy Simgen (MPIK)  
8:59 AM --- Session leader: L. Ropelewski ---
9:00 AM Caliste-MM : A New Concept of Gaseous Spectro-Polarimeter for Soft X-Ray astrophysics - Mr Paul Serrano  
9:20 AM GEM-based TPC optically read out for R&D purposes - Mr Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN)  
9:40 AM 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 AM A picosecond Micromegas EUV photodetector - Thomas Papaevangelou (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
10:30 AM Workshop on Supernova  
10:35 AM --- Session leader: W. Fulgione ---
10:40 AM Presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis of the progenitors of core collapse supernovae - Marco Limongi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)  
11:10 AM Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from CCSNe - Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN)  
11:40 AM Determining Neutrino Properties from Supernova Neutrinos - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)  
PM
12:00 PM Searches for Dark Matter at Colliders - Gabriella Sciolla (Brandeis University (US))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:59 PM --- Session leader: Th. Patzak ---
2:00 PM The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator - Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
2:30 PM Prototyping the single phase LArTPC DUNE far detector design - Michael Wallbank  
2:50 PM MicroBooNE - Michael Mooney  
3:10 PM The LArIAT experiment: first measurement of the inclusive total pion cross-section in Argon - Dr Flor de Maria Blaszcyk (BU, USA)  
3:30 PM ProtoDUNE Dual-Phase - Vyacheslav Galymov (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM --- Session leader: A. Delbart ---
4:21 PM Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment - Francesc Monrabal (University of Texas at Arlington)  
4:45 PM R&D towards spherical LXe TPC - Dr Sekiya Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo)  
5:05 PM Secondary scintillation of xenon with sub-percent concentrations of molecular additive (CO2, CH4 and CF4) for HPXe optical TPCs - Dr Carlos Henriques  
5:25 PM Microscopic simulation of Xenon-based Optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives - Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Uludag University (TR))  
5:45 PM On the possibility of positive-ion detection in high-pressure TPCs - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
12:00 PM Panda-X experiment and new results - Dr Karl Giboni  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:59 PM --- Session leader: Th. Dafni ---
2:00 PM NEWS experiment: search of ultra- light WIMPs - Gilles Gerbier (Queen's Univesrity)  
2:30 PM Light Dark Matter search with NEWS-LSM detector - Dr Ali Dastgheibi Fard  
2:45 PM New developments of the spherical detector sensor - Prof. Ilias savvidis  
3:00 PM Cubic sphere for rare event search - Xavier Francois Navick (CEA)  
3:15 PM TREX-DM: a Low background Micromegas-TPC for low-mass WIMP searches - Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
3:35 PM --- coffee break ---
4:04 PM --- Session leader: E. Ferrer ---
4:05 PM Latest solar axion results and prospects - Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
4:35 PM 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))  
4:55 PM XEMIS: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC for 3gamma medical imaging - Lucia Gallego Manzano (Subatech)  
8:00 PM --- conference dinner ---
12:10 PM Status and neutrino probes of failed explosions - Shunsaku Horiuchi (Virginia Tech)  
12:40 PM --- Lunch ---
1:59 PM --- Session leader: Ch. Volpe ---
2:00 PM Neutrinos as a probe of supernova explosion dynamics - Prof. Bernhard Mueller  
2:30 PM Neutrinos and heavy element synthesis - Rebecca Surman (Union College)  
3:00 PM A Status Report on Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Successes to Date and What Lies Ahead - Dr Tony Mezzacappa  
3:30 PM Supernova Neutrino Detection Overview - Dr Masayuki Nakahata  
4:00 PM Summary talk - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)