Workshop on Xenon-Based Detectors

US/Pacific
130 (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

130

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Perseverance Hall Building 54
Description
The Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories will host a workshop on Xenon-based detectors on 16 -18 November 2009 at LBNL, Berkeley, California. The goal of the workshop is to explore the status, prospects, and issues for xenon-based detectors, primarily for direct detection of WIMPs and neutrino-less double beta decay. The workshop will bring together researchers engaged in current and possible next-generation detectors based on xenon, in liquid or gas phase, as well as experts in argon- and neon-based detectors. The workshop scope includes fundamental energy transfer processes, signal formation, technical advances, and detector performance. An overall aim is to provide a true workshop setting to encourage full and frank discussion, not only of technical progress and emerging ideas, but also of enduring challenges for which adequate solutions are needed.
Support
    • 08:00 08:30
      30m
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m
    • 09:00 09:10
      Introductary Remarks 10m
      Speakers: David Nygren, Jim Siegrist (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))
      Slides
    • 09:10 15:50
      Liquid Phase
      • 09:10
        Xenon100 40m
        Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
        Slides
      • 09:50
        LUX 40m
        Speaker: Rick Gaitskell
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Informal Discussion 30m
      • 11:00
        ZEPLIN TPCs for dark matter 40m
        Speaker: Tim Sumner
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Calibration of LXe WIMP Detectors 35m
        Speaker: Dan McKinsey
        Slides
      • 12:15
        DEAP/CLEAN 35m
        Speaker: Dan McKinsey
        Slides
      • 12:50
        LUNCH 1h 10m
      • 14:00
        EXO 40m
        Speaker: Jesse Wodin
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Can DBD and DM experiments be combined? 35m
        Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Fundamental processes governing charge light discirimination 35m
        Speaker: Tom Shutt
        Slides
    • 15:50 16:10
      Informal Discussion 20m
    • 17:30 19:00
      RECEPTION and Comments By Jim Siegrist, LBNL Associate Lab Director 1h 30m
    • 08:30 09:00
      Pre-session Discussion 30m
    • 09:00 11:15
      Scintillation & Photon Detection
      • 09:00
        QUPID: a radio-pure VUV PMT 30m
        Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Photodetectors: APDs & MPPC, ... 30m
        Speaker: Joaquim Dos Santos
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Pulse shape discrimination in GXe 25m
        Speaker: Jeff Martoff
        Slides
      • 10:25
        Infrared signals 25m
        Speaker: Kirill Pushkin
        Slides
      • 10:50
        Scintillation Properties of Liquid Neon and Liquid Argon 25m
        Speaker: James Nikkel
        Slides
    • 11:15 11:30
      Informal Discussion 15m
    • 11:30 12:50
      Emerging Activities
      • 11:30
        A walk on the Dark Side 40m
        Speaker: Andrea Pocar
        Slides
      • 12:10
        China Deep Underground Laboratory and Experimental Programme 40m
        Speaker: Hesheng Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))
        Slides
    • 12:50 14:00
      LUNCH 1h 10m
    • 14:00 18:05
      Gas Phase
      • 14:00
        NEXT: A new HPXe DBD detector for LSC 45m
        Speaker: JJ Gomex-Cadenas
        Slides
      • 14:45
        EXO Gas: Barium tagging + tracking 45m
        Speaker: David Sinclair
        Slides
      • 15:30
        TAMU: SIGN + 7 PMT HPXe TPC 35m
        Speaker: James White
        Slides
      • 16:05
        LBNL/TAMU/LLNL: 19 PMT HPXe TPC 35m
        Speaker: Azriel Goldschmidt
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Informal Discussion 15m
      • 16:55
        LLNL: NITPC for high energy resolution 35m
        Speaker: Mike Heffner
        Slides
      • 17:30
        Electron lifetime and gas purification 35m
        Speaker: Al Odian
        Slides
    • 08:30 09:00
      Pre-session Discussion 30m
    • 09:00 12:20
      Solid Phase and Other Activities
      • 09:00
        Solid xenon crystal detector for DBD 25m
        Speaker: Kirill Pushkin
        Slides
      • 09:25
        Solid xenon crystal production at FNAL 25m
        Speaker: Jonhee Yoo
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Xenon detector development at Coimbra 40m
        Speakers: F. Borges, F. Dos Santos
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Development of LXe Detectors for PET 30m
        Speaker: Doug Bryman
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Informal Discussion 20m
      • 11:20
        LAr at FNAL 30m
        Speaker: Terry Tope
        Slides
      • 11:50
        The future project of KAMLAND 30m
        Speaker: Masyuki Koga
        Slides
    • 12:20 13:30
      LUNCH 1h 10m
    • 13:30 16:00
      Discussions
      • 13:30
        Simulations at the detector level 30m
        Speaker: Moderator
        Slides
      • 14:00
        Fundamental properties - discussion 30m
        Speaker: Moderator
      • 14:30
        Wild Ideas 30m
        Speaker: Anybody
      • 15:00
        Informal Discussion 1h
    • 16:00 16:30
      Wrap-up and adjourn 30m