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

Europe/Zurich
Amphi Buffon (Paris Diderot University)

Amphi Buffon

Paris Diderot University

15 rue Hélène Brion - Paris 13
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))
Description

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.

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Participants
  • Alain Delbart
  • Alexei Smirnov
  • Alexis Brossard
  • Ali Dastgheibi Fard
  • Amir Noori Shirazi
  • Amélie Chatelain
  • Andre Cortez
  • Andrea Gallo Rosso
  • Andrea Molinario
  • Andrea Scarpelli
  • Andreina Chietera
  • Anthony Mezzacappa
  • austin mcdonald
  • Bernhard Mueller
  • Camille Couturier
  • Carlo Francesco Vigorito
  • Carlos Henriques
  • Christiane Folens
  • Christos Lampoudis
  • Claudio Casentini
  • Cristina Volpe
  • Damien Neyret
  • Daniel Santos
  • David Attié
  • David Nygren
  • Denis Bernard
  • Diego Gonzalez-Diaz
  • Dominique Thers
  • Edoardo Mazzucato
  • Elisa Ruiz-Chóliz
  • Eric Baussan
  • Eric Berthoumieux
  • Esther Ferrer Ribas
  • Fabien Jeanneau
  • Fabienne Kunne
  • Filippo Resnati
  • Flor de Maria Blaszczyk
  • Florian Maximilian Brunbauer
  • Francesc Monrabal Capilla
  • Francesca Belloni
  • Francesca Belloni
  • Francis Halzen
  • Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
  • Francois Vannucci
  • Gabriella Sciolla
  • Georgios Tsiledakis
  • Gian Carlo Trinchero
  • Gianmarco Bruno
  • Gilles GERBIER
  • Giovanni Bencivenni
  • Giulia Pagliaroli
  • Gloria Luzon
  • Hardy Simgen
  • Harry van der Graaf
  • Hector Gomez
  • Hiroyuki Sekiya
  • Igor Irastorza
  • Ilias Savvidis
  • Ioannis Giomataris
  • Ioannis Katsioulas
  • Jacques derre
  • Jaime Dawsom
  • Javier Galan
  • Karl Ludwig Giboni
  • Kate Scholberg
  • Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
  • Laura Segui
  • Leszek Ropelewski
  • Lior Arazi
  • Lucia Gallego Manzano
  • Marco Cirelli
  • Marco Limongi
  • Marco Zito
  • Masayuki Nakahata
  • Matteo Biassoni
  • Maurice Chapellier
  • Michael Leyton
  • Michael Mooney
  • Michael Wallbank
  • Michel GROS
  • Miranda Natalia
  • Murphy Sebastien
  • Natascha Rupp
  • Neil Spooner
  • Nicole D'Hose
  • Paolo Agnes
  • Paul Colas
  • Paul Serrano
  • Philippe Di Stefano
  • Philippe Gorodetzky
  • Philippe Gros
  • Quentin Riffard
  • Rebecca Surman
  • Richard Gaitskell
  • Ruben Saakyan
  • SAMI KHALAF
  • Sandrine Emery-Schrenk
  • Sara Diglio
  • Shunsaku Horiuchi
  • Sébastien Procureur
  • Tamer Tolba
  • Theodoros Vafeiadis
  • Theopisti DAFNI
  • Thomas Papaevangelou
  • Thomas Patzak
  • Viviana Fafone
  • Vyacheslav Galymov
  • Walter Fulgione
  • Xavier-François Navick
  • Zhihong Sun
    • Registration Amphi Buffon

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    • Welcome Amphi Buffon

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    • Introduction Amphi Buffon

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      Convener: Dr Ioannis Giomataris (CEA-Saclay)
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      Review on neutrino physics Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)
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      New TPCs for the upgrade of the T2K Near detector Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Marco Zito (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
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      Micromegas based muon telescopes for the ScanPyramids mission: performance and first results Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)
    • 10:50
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    • 11:09
      Session leader: E.Mazzucato Amphi Buffon

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      Review of neutrinoless double beta decay Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Ruben Saakyan (UCL)
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      Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $^{136}Xe$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Austin McDonald
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      Searches for Dark Matter at Colliders Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Gabriella Sciolla (Brandeis University (US))
    • 12:30
      Lunch Amphi Buffon

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    • 13:59
      Session leader: Th. Patzak Amphi Buffon

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      The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
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      Prototyping the single phase LArTPC DUNE far detector design Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Michael Wallbank
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      MicroBooNE Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Michael Mooney
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      The LArIAT experiment: first measurement of the inclusive total pion cross-section in Argon Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Flor de Maria Blaszcyk (BU, USA)
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      ProtoDUNE Dual-Phase Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Vyacheslav Galymov (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
    • 15:50
      Coffee break Amphi Buffon

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    • 16:20
      Session leader: A. Delbart Amphi Buffon

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

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      Speaker: Francesc Monrabal (University of Texas at Arlington)
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      R&D towards spherical LXe TPC Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Sekiya Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo)
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      Secondary scintillation of xenon with sub-percent concentrations of molecular additive (CO2, CH4 and CF4) for HPXe optical TPCs Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Carlos Henriques
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      Microscopic simulation of Xenon-based Optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Uludag University (TR))
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      On the possibility of positive-ion detection in high-pressure TPCs Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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      Dark Matter at the crossroads: many constraints and some new ideas Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)
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      Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Daniel Eduardo Santos (LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP)
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      Cygnus project Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)
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      The Quad: a general purpose modular readout system for TPCs Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Harry Van Der Graaf (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
    • 10:40
      Coffee break Amphi Buffon

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    • 10:59
      Session leader: X.F. Navick Amphi Buffon

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      LUX results and future prospects Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)
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      Status of the XENON1T experiment Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Hardy Simgen (MPIK)
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      Panda-X experiment and new results Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Karl Giboni
    • 12:30
      Lunch Amphi Buffon

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    • 13:59
      Session leader: Th. Dafni Amphi Buffon

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      NEWS experiment: search of ultra- light WIMPs Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Gilles Gerbier (Queen's Univesrity)
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      Light Dark Matter search with NEWS-LSM detector Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Ali Dastgheibi Fard
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      New developments of the spherical detector sensor Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Prof. Ilias savvidis
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      Cubic sphere for rare event search Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Xavier Francois Navick (CEA)
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      TREX-DM: a Low background Micromegas-TPC for low-mass WIMP searches Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
    • 15:35
      coffee break Amphi Buffon

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    • 16:04
      Session leader: E. Ferrer Amphi Buffon

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      Latest solar axion results and prospects Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
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      REST v2.0 : A data analysis and simulation framework for micro-patterned readout detectors. Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Javier Galan Lacarra (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
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      XEMIS: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC for 3gamma medical imaging Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Lucia Gallego Manzano (Subatech)
    • 20:00
      conference dinner Restaurant 'Les Noces de Jeannette' 14 rue Favart, 75002 Paris

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    • 08:59
      Session leader: L. Ropelewski Amphi Buffon

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      Caliste-MM : A New Concept of Gaseous Spectro-Polarimeter for Soft X-Ray astrophysics Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Mr Paul Serrano
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      GEM-based TPC optically read out for R&D purposes Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Mr Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN)
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      A TPC as high performance gamma-ray telescope and polarimeter: polarisation measurement in a beam between 1.7 and 74MeV with HARPO Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Mr Philippe Gros
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      A picosecond Micromegas EUV photodetector Amphi Buffon

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

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    • 10:35
      Session leader: W. Fulgione Amphi Buffon

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      Presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis of the progenitors of core collapse supernovae Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Marco Limongi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
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      Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from CCSNe Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN)
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      Determining Neutrino Properties from Supernova Neutrinos Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
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      Status and neutrino probes of failed explosions Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Shunsaku Horiuchi (Virginia Tech)
    • 12:40
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    • 13:59
      Session leader: Ch. Volpe Amphi Buffon

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      Neutrinos as a probe of supernova explosion dynamics Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Prof. Bernhard Mueller
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      Neutrinos and heavy element synthesis Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Rebecca Surman (Union College)
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      A Status Report on Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Successes to Date and What Lies Ahead Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Tony Mezzacappa
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      Supernova Neutrino Detection Overview Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Dr Masayuki Nakahata
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      Summary talk Amphi Buffon

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      Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)