==== Draft Agenda for Workshop Organizers ==== Some of the details are in flux === MARCH 19 (Wednesday) === * ** Introduction and Status Reports** * 1:30 Welcome - //Prisca Cushman// * 1:50 Working Group Status and Breakout Topics * Simulation - //Anthony Villano // * Radiogenics - //Chao Zhang// * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker// * 2:30 Community Assay Database - //James Loach// * 2:50 Discussion About Implementing Database, Legacy Data, New Data - //Jodi Cooley-Sekula// === 3:00 Coffee Break === * ** Reducing Backgrounds – Experience from Specific Experiments** * 3:30 LZ screening program - //Karen Gibson// * 3:50 EXO screening program - //David Auty// * 4:10 The Majorana Demonstrator Assay Program and capabilities necessary to support a future 1-tonne scale germanium experiment - //Eric Hoppe// * 4:40 XENON 1T Screening Program - //Francesco Piastra// * 5:00 SuperCDMS screening program - //Jeter Hall// * 5:20 Darkside Background Reduction - //John Orrell (Remote)// * 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - //Eric Vazquez-Jauregui// === Dinner at local restaurants === ==== MARCH 20 (Thursday) ==== * ** Low Background Facilities and Techniques** * 8:30 Recent Advances in NAA - //Mani Tripathi// * 8:50 The Beta Cage: ultra-sensitive screener for surface contamination - //Richard Schnee// * 9:10 An in-situ Assay of the DRIFT TPC using alpha spectroscopy - //Eric Miller// * 9:30 Low Background Counting at SNOLAB - //Ian Lawson// * 9:50 CUBED counting capacity and a well-shaped germanium counting station for PMT counting - //Dongming Mei// * 10:05 LBL counting capacity and large area Si detector for measuring surface contamination - //Kevin Lesko (Remote)// === 10:25 Coffee Break=== * ** Facilities continued** * 10:50 Kimballton Low Background facility - //Reyco Henning// * 11:00 Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Ray Bunker// * ** Neutron Detection and Benchmarking ** (20 min each) * 11:10 Muon topology and coincident neutrons at the Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Anthony Villano// * 11:30 Measuring Fast Neutrons with the Liquid Scintillation Detector at the Soudan Mine - //Chao Zhang// * 11:50 Recent Results Using the FaNS Technique - //Thomas Langford// * 12:10 Multiplicity and Recoil Spectrometer Measurements of the Fast Neutron Background at Depth - //Mark Gerling// * 12:30 LVD - //Marco Selvi (not confirmed)// === 1:00 Lunch=== ** Facilities + Consortium Discussion as a Group** * 2:00 Brief slides - //Mani Tripathi// * 2:05 Brief slides for new ideas - //Dongming Mei// * 2:10 Assay Requirements - //John Orrell (Remote)// === 3:00 Coffee Break=== * ** Working Group Breakout Session ** * 3:30 - 6:00 Identify topics and tasks === Banquet at Chez Leon === ==== MARCH 21 (Friday) ==== * ** Simulation (Advances in Geant4 and FLUKA)** * 8:30 Geant4: Muon production of neutrons in multiple targets - //Allison Kennedy// * 8:50 FLUKA: Muon production of neutrons in multiple targets - //Sarah Lindsay// * 9:10 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors Using RAT - //Tom Caldwell// * 9:30 Advances in NEST - //Matthew Szydagis// === 10:00 Coffee Break=== * ** Simulation ** * 10:30 Comparison of cosmogenic backgrounds at different depths - //Angie Reisetter// * 10:50 New libraries for simulating neutron scattering in dark matter detector calibrations - //Alan Robinson (not confirmed)// * 11:10 GEANT4 Updates - //Julia Yarba// * 11:30 Fluka Updates and Borexino cosmogenic results - //Anton Empl// ===12:00 Lunch=== * ** Radiogenic Bkgd, Nuclear Physics, Better Cross Sections** * 1:30 Comparisons between SOURCES and USD Website - //Silvia Scorza// * 1:50 Radiogenic Backgrounds in CDMS - //Mark Pepin// * 2:10 CoGeNT backgrounds - //John Orrell (Remote)// * 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in LUX - //TBD// === 3:30 Wine and Cheese Break=== * **Working Group Breakout Session ** * 4:00 - 6:00 Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work === Dinner at local restaurants === ==== MARCH 22 (Saturday) ==== * ** 8:30 Progress Reports from Working Groups ** * Simulation - //Anthony Villano// * Radiogenics - //Jodi Cooley// * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker// ===10:00 Coffee Break=== * 10:30 – 12:00 Integration of Working Group plans into Proposals, Consortium planning, and new integrative initiatives ===12:00 Catered Pizza Lunch === ===1:00 Adjourn===