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Friday Aloft Hotel, Conference facilities

8:30 Welcome pdf slides (Prisca Cushman)

Updates from the Main Simulation Packages

8:45 Current Status and Plans for GEANT4 (PDF) (Michael Kelsey, SLAC)
9:15 Current Status and Plans for FLUKA (PDF) (Tony Empl)

Status Reports from the AARM Working Groups

9:45 Comparing Geant4 and FLUKA (PDF) (Anthony Villano)
10:15 Universal Materials Database (PDF) (Jodi Cooley)

Break (10:35)

10:50 Tools for comparing Cosmogenic Simulations (PDF) (Angie Reisetter)
newvold comparisons for Vitaly
11:15 Modular backgrounds and geometry for Homestake Sims (PDF) (Chao Zhang)

Talks from Participants

11:40 LUXSim: A Component-Centric Approach to Low Background Sims (PDF) (Kareem Kazkaz)
12:05 NEST: A Comprehensive Model for Scintillation and Ionization Yields in Noble Elements (PDF) (Matthew Szydagis) V2

LUNCH (12:30 – 1:40) walk to neighborhood restaurants

1:45 Shielding Rare Event Detectors (PDF) (Andrew Hime)
2:10 Muon-induced neutron measurements at Modane (PDF) (Vitaly Kudryavtsev)
2:35 Detector Response to Low Energy n-recoils (PDF) (D’Ann Barker)
3:00 Simulations for Tracking Cosmogenic Activation in Germanium and Copper (PDF) (Estanislao Aguayo)
3:25 NAA for radioassay (PDF) (Mani Tripathi)

Break (3:50 - 4:10)

Working Group Meetings (breakout sessions 4:30 - 6:30)

Cosmogenics (group leader: Vitaly Kudryavtsev) Muon-induced processes, underground benchmarking, etc
Radiogenics (group leader: Jodi Cooley) Material screening, simulating radioactive decay, alpha-n, SF
Framework (group leader: Mike Kelsey) Modular Sim structures, Validating, Collaboration models Q: Can we have ONE for everyone? Can the GEANT collaboration help?

DINNER (7:30) Spoon River

Saturday Room 435, Tate Lab (Physics Bldg) Free Shuttle from ALOFT

9:00-10:00 Reports from the Working Groups – Action Items
- Frameworks (PDF) (Michael Kelsey)
- Report from the working group: Cosmogenics (PDF) (Vitaly Kudryavtsev)
- Radiogenics (PDF) (Jodi Cooley)

Experimental Neutron Background Benchmarking

10:00 Simulation Results from the Neutron Multiplicity Meter (PDF) (Melinda Sweany)
10:25 Large Liquid Scintillator Detector for neutrons (PDF) (Chao Zhang)

Break (10:45 – 11:00)

11:00 Update on SURF screening plans (PDF) (DongMing Mei)
11:20 A Common Gen-3 Low Background Facility: FAARM (Lee Petersen)
11:40 Discussion: Plans for upgrading US screening capability

LUNCH – walk to neighborhood restaurants

Optional Afternoon Meetings

1:30-2:30 in two breakout rooms
- Depth Working Group Meeting (DM Task Force Wiki)
- Materials Database improvements and collaboration building

2:30-4:00 Plans for Improving near term screening in the US, incl following topics:
- GeMPI devices in the US (Kara Keeter, Prisca Cushman)
- Electroforming at Soudan (Eric Hoppe)
- Coordination with FAARM
- New Proposals for Material Assay