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
    • 1
      Registration
    • 2
      Introductary Remarks
      Speakers: David Nygren, Jim Siegrist (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))
      Slides
    • Liquid Phase
      • 3
        Xenon100
        Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
        Slides
      • 4
        LUX
        Speaker: Rick Gaitskell
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Informal Discussion
      • 5
        ZEPLIN TPCs for dark matter
        Speaker: Tim Sumner
        Slides
      • 6
        Calibration of LXe WIMP Detectors
        Speaker: Dan McKinsey
        Slides
      • 7
        DEAP/CLEAN
        Speaker: Dan McKinsey
        Slides
      • 12:50
        LUNCH
      • 8
        EXO
        Speaker: Jesse Wodin
        Slides
      • 9
        Can DBD and DM experiments be combined?
        Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
        Slides
      • 10
        Fundamental processes governing charge light discirimination
        Speaker: Tom Shutt
        Slides
    • 15:50
      Informal Discussion
    • 17:30
      RECEPTION and Comments By Jim Siegrist, LBNL Associate Lab Director
    • 08:30
      Pre-session Discussion
    • Scintillation & Photon Detection
      • 13
        QUPID: a radio-pure VUV PMT
        Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
        Slides
      • 14
        Photodetectors: APDs & MPPC, ...
        Speaker: Joaquim Dos Santos
        Slides
      • 15
        Pulse shape discrimination in GXe
        Speaker: Jeff Martoff
        Slides
      • 16
        Infrared signals
        Speaker: Kirill Pushkin
        Slides
      • 17
        Scintillation Properties of Liquid Neon and Liquid Argon
        Speaker: James Nikkel
        Slides
    • 11:15
      Informal Discussion
    • Emerging Activities
      • 18
        A walk on the Dark Side
        Speaker: Andrea Pocar
        Slides
      • 19
        China Deep Underground Laboratory and Experimental Programme
        Speaker: Hesheng Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))
        Slides
    • 12:50
      LUNCH
    • Gas Phase
      • 20
        NEXT: A new HPXe DBD detector for LSC
        Speaker: JJ Gomex-Cadenas
        Slides
      • 21
        EXO Gas: Barium tagging + tracking
        Speaker: David Sinclair
        Slides
      • 22
        TAMU: SIGN + 7 PMT HPXe TPC
        Speaker: James White
        Slides
      • 23
        LBNL/TAMU/LLNL: 19 PMT HPXe TPC
        Speaker: Azriel Goldschmidt
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Informal Discussion
      • 24
        LLNL: NITPC for high energy resolution
        Speaker: Mike Heffner
        Slides
      • 25
        Electron lifetime and gas purification
        Speaker: Al Odian
        Slides
    • 08:30
      Pre-session Discussion
    • Solid Phase and Other Activities
      • 26
        Solid xenon crystal detector for DBD
        Speaker: Kirill Pushkin
        Slides
      • 27
        Solid xenon crystal production at FNAL
        Speaker: Jonhee Yoo
        Slides
      • 28
        Xenon detector development at Coimbra
        Speakers: F. Borges, F. Dos Santos
        Slides
      • 29
        Development of LXe Detectors for PET
        Speaker: Doug Bryman
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Informal Discussion
      • 30
        LAr at FNAL
        Speaker: Terry Tope
        Slides
      • 31
        The future project of KAMLAND
        Speaker: Masyuki Koga
        Slides
    • 12:20
      LUNCH
    • Discussions
      • 32
        Simulations at the detector level
        Speaker: Moderator
        Slides
      • 33
        Fundamental properties - discussion
        Speaker: Moderator
      • 34
        Wild Ideas
        Speaker: Anybody
      • 15:00
        Informal Discussion
    • 35
      Wrap-up and adjourn