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

5 Dec 2016, 07:55 → 7 Dec 2016, 23:30 Europe/Zurich

Amphi Buffon (Paris Diderot University)

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 (Universite de Paris VII (FR))

The eighth international symposium on “large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” will be held in Paris on the 5th-7th of December 2016. 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. 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.

In addition to the symposium, a half day workshop on neutrino from Supernova will complete this three-day symposium and will be the closing session just before the summary talk.

Monday 5 December

07:55 → 08:55 Registration

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

09:05 → 09:15 Introduction

Convener: Dr Ioannis Giomataris (CEA-Saclay)

09:15 → 09:50 Review on neutrino physics

Speaker: Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)

Smirnov_paris16.pdf

Smirnov_paris16.pptx

09:50 → 10:20 New TPCs for the upgrade of the T2K Near detector

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

zito_MZ-TPC-neutrino.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Micromegas based muon telescopes for the ScanPyramids mission: performance and first results

Speaker: David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)

Attie_161205_8th-LERE_Paris_Public.pdf

Attie_161205_8th-LERE_Paris_Public.pptx

10:50 → 11:09 Coffe break

11:09 → 11:10 Session leader: E.Mazzucato

11:10 → 11:40 Review of neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Ruben Saakyan (UCL)

NDBD_Paris2016.pdf

11:40 → 12:00 Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $^{136}Xe$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging

Speaker: Dr Austin McDonald

SMFI-0vbb-TPC8th.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Searches for Dark Matter at Colliders

Speaker: Gabriella Sciolla (Brandeis University (US))

DMLHC-Paris-Sciolla.pdf

12:30 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session leader: Th. Patzak

14:00 → 14:30 The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator

Speaker: Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

TPC-Dec16.pdf

14:30 → 14:50 Prototyping the single phase LArTPC DUNE far detector design

Speaker: Michael Wallbank

PrototypingDUNESinglePhase.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 MicroBooNE

Speaker: Michael Mooney

MicroBooNE_TPCtalk_16_12_05.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 The LArIAT experiment: first measurement of the inclusive total pion cross-section in Argon

Speaker: Dr Flor de Maria Blaszcyk (BU, USA)

8thTPC_LArIAT_FBlaszczyk.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 ProtoDUNE Dual-Phase

Speaker: Vyacheslav Galymov (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

wa105_tpc2016_galymov.pdf

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 16:21 Session leader: A. Delbart

16:21 → 16:41 Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment

Speaker: Francesc Monrabal (University of Texas at Arlington)

Paris_TPC_2016_2.key

Paris_TPC_2016_2.pdf

Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment

16:45 → 17:05 R&D towards spherical LXe TPC

Speaker: Dr Sekiya Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo)

Paris2016-Sekiya.pdf

17:05 → 17:25 Secondary scintillation of xenon with sub-percent concentrations of molecular additive (CO2, CH4 and CF4) for HPXe optical TPCs

Speaker: Dr Carlos Henriques

Paris2016_CarlosHenriques_v5.pdf

Paris2016_CarlosHenriques_v6.pdf

Paris2016_CarlosHenriques_v6.pdf

Paris2016_CarlosHenriques_v6.pptx

17:25 → 17:45 Microscopic simulation of Xenon-based Optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives

Speaker: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Uludag University (TR))

TPC_Conference2016_DGD.pdf

TPC_Conference2016_DGD.pptx

17:45 → 18:05 On the possibility of positive-ion detection in high-pressure TPCs

Speaker: Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Arazi Paris TPC 2016 positive ion detection.pdf

Tuesday 6 December

09:00 → 09:30 Dark Matter at the crossroads: many constraints and some new ideas

Speaker: Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)

2.DMthDD.APC.pdf

09:30 → 09:55 Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC

Speaker: Daniel Eduardo Santos (LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP)

MIMAC_LTPC_5Dec2016.pdf

09:55 → 10:20 Cygnus project

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

CYGNUS-PARIS-TPC2016v2.pdf

10:20 → 10:40 The Quad: a general purpose modular readout system for TPCs

Speaker: Harry Van Der Graaf (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

Paris2016Quad.pdf

Paris2016Quad.pptx

10:40 → 10:59 Coffee break

10:59 → 11:00 Session leader: X.F. Navick

11:00 → 11:30 LUX results and future prospects

Speaker: Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)

161206_Gaitskell_LUX_Paris_TPC.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Status of the XENON1T experiment

Speaker: Dr Hardy Simgen (MPIK)

simgen_X1T_TPC2016.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Panda-X experiment and new results

Speaker: Dr Karl Giboni

Paris2.pdf

Paris2.ppt

12:30 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session leader: Th. Dafni

14:00 → 14:30 NEWS experiment: search of ultra- light WIMPs

Speaker: Gilles Gerbier (Queen's Univesrity)

NEWS_TPCParis_Gerbier_dec16_f.pdf

14:30 → 14:45 Light Dark Matter search with NEWS-LSM detector

Speaker: Dr Ali Dastgheibi Fard

14:45 → 15:00 New developments of the spherical detector sensor

Speaker: Prof. Ilias savvidis

2016 Paris Con.1.pdf

15:00 → 15:15 Cubic sphere for rare event search

Speaker: Xavier Francois Navick (CEA)

15:15 → 15:35 TREX-DM: a Low background Micromegas-TPC for low-mass WIMP searches

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

FJIguaz_TREXDMForLSC.pdf

15:35 → 16:04 coffee break

16:04 → 16:05 Session leader: E. Ferrer

16:05 → 16:35 Latest solar axion results and prospects

Speaker: Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

SolarAxions_Irastorza.pdf

16:35 → 16:55 REST v2.0 : A data analysis and simulation framework for micro-patterned readout detectors.

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

REST_TPC_Galan.pdf

16:55 → 17:15 XEMIS: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC for 3gamma medical imaging

Speaker: Lucia Gallego Manzano (Subatech)

gallego_XEMIS_6Dec2016.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 conference dinner

Wednesday 7 December

08:59 → 09:00 Session leader: L. Ropelewski

09:00 → 09:20 Caliste-MM : A New Concept of Gaseous Spectro-Polarimeter for Soft X-Ray astrophysics

Speaker: Mr Paul Serrano

TPC Rare Events.pdf

TPC Rare Events.pptx

09:20 → 09:40 GEM-based TPC optically read out for R&D purposes

Speaker: Mr Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN)

Brunbauer-OpticallyReadGEMTPC.pdf

09:40 → 10:10 A TPC as high performance gamma-ray telescope and polarimeter: polarisation measurement in a beam between 1.7 and 74MeV with HARPO

Speaker: Mr Philippe Gros

2016-12-07_TPCconference_PGros_HARPO.odp

2016-12-07_TPCconference_PGros_HARPO.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 A picosecond Micromegas EUV photodetector

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

TPapaevangelou_MM_PicosecondPhotodetector.pdf

TPapaevangelou_MM_PicosecondPhotodetector.pptx

10:30 → 10:35 Workshop on Supernova

10:35 → 10:37 Session leader: W. Fulgione

10:40 → 11:10 Presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis of the progenitors of core collapse supernovae

Speaker: Marco Limongi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

1_limongi.pdf

11:10 → 11:40 Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from CCSNe

Speaker: Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN)

2_2016_PagliaroliParis.pdf

11:40 → 12:10 Determining Neutrino Properties from Supernova Neutrinos

Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

paris_tpc16.pdf

12:10 → 12:40 Status and neutrino probes of failed explosions

Speaker: Shunsaku Horiuchi (Virginia Tech)

horiuchi_TPC2016.pdf

12:40 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session leader: Ch. Volpe

14:00 → 14:30 Neutrinos as a probe of supernova explosion dynamics

Speaker: Prof. Bernhard Mueller

paris_mueller.odp

paris_mueller.pdf

paris_mueller.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Neutrinos and heavy element synthesis

Speaker: Rebecca Surman (Union College)

RSurman_ParisTPC16.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 A Status Report on Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Successes to Date and What Lies Ahead

Speaker: Dr Tony Mezzacappa

EighthTPCSymposium_Mezzacappa_final.pdf

EighthTPCSymposium_Mezzacappa_final.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Supernova Neutrino Detection Overview

Speaker: Dr Masayuki Nakahata

Nakahata-SNdetection-overview-161207_v2.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Summary talk

Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

TPC2016_halzen.pdf

TPC2016_halzen.pptx