• Introduction and Status Reports
  • 1:30 Welcome - Prisca Cushman Welcome Slides
  • 1:50 Working Group Status and Breakout Topics. Click **HERE** for overall breakout information
    • Simulation - Anthony Villano (pptx,pdf)
      • Simulation Breakout Topics
    • Radiogenics - Chao Zhang (pdf)
      • Radiogenic Breakout Topics
    • Benchmarking - Ray Bunker (pptx, pdf)
      • Benchmarking Breakout Topics
  • 2:30 Community Assay Database - James Loach (pdf)
  • 2:50 Discussion About Implementing Database, Legacy Data, New Data - Jodi Cooley (pdf)

• Reducing Backgrounds – Experience from Specific Experiments
  • 3:30 LZ screening program - Karen Gibson (pdf)
  • 3:50 EXO screening program - David Auty (aarm_david_auty.pdf)
  • 4:10 The Majorana Demonstrator Assay Program and capabilities necessary to support a future 1-tonne scale germanium experiment - Eric Hoppe pdf
  • 4:40 XENON 1T Screening Program - Francesco Piastra xenon1t_screening_program
  • 5:00 SuperCDMS screening program - Jeter Hall pdf
  • 5:20 Darkside Background Reduction - John Orrell (Remote) darkside_g2_materials_assay_sm.pdf
  • 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - Eric Vazquez-Jauregui eric_vazquez_jauregui_pico_aarm.pdf

• Low Background Facilities and Techniques
  • 8:30 Recent Advances in NAA - Mani Tripathi
  • 8:50 An in-situ Assay of the DRIFT TPC using alpha spectroscopy - Eric Miller
  • 9:10 Low Background Counting Facilities at SNOLAB - Ian Lawson
  • 9:30 CUBED counting capacity and a well-shaped germanium counting station for PMT counting - Dongming Mei
  • 9:45 LBL counting capacity and large area Si detector for measuring surface contamination - Dongming Mei

• Facilities continued
  • 10:30 Kimballton Low Background facility - Reyco Henning 03.17: REMOTE
  • 10:50 Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - Ray Bunker
• Neutron Detection and Benchmarking
  • 11:10 Muon topology and coincident neutrons at the Soudan Veto-Shield - 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 pdf - Mark Gerling
  • 12:30 Muon-induced Neutrons in the LVD Experiment - Marco Selvi

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)
• 2:20 Discussion
• Document for discussion: Draft Consortium Strategy

• Working Group Breakout Session
  • 3:30 - 6:00 Identify topics and tasks

Simulation

• Microscopic low-energy ER/NR measurements

• Simulation (Advances in Geant4 and FLUKA)
  • 8:30 Geant4: Muon production of neutrons in multiple targets - Allison Kennedy
  • 8:50 FLUKA: Muon induced isotopes in multiple targets - Sarah Lindsay
  • 9:10 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors Using RAT - Tom Caldwell
  • 9:30 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors using NEST - Matthew Szydagis

• Simulation Continued
  • 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
  • 11:10 recent_geant4_developments.pdf - Julia Yarba
  • 11:30 cosmogenics.borexino.fluka.pdf - Anton Empl

• Radiogenic Backgrounds, Nuclear Physics, Better Cross Sections
  • 1:30 Comparisons between SOURCES and USD Website - Silvia Scorza pdf
  • 1:50 Radiogenic Neutron Backgrounds in CDMS - Mark Pepin
  • 2:10 CoGeNT backgrounds - John Orrell (Remote) (Talk by Mark S. Kos for Moriond EW 2014)
  • 2:30 Radiogenic and Muon-Induced Backgrounds in LUX - Matthew Szydagis

• Working Group Breakout Session
  • 4:00 - 6:00 Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work

Radiogenics

• starting paper on (alpha,n) measurements

• 15 minute Progress Reports from Working Groups
  • (docx,pdf)Simulation - Anthony Villano
  • Radiogenics Summary Slides - Jodi Cooley
  • Benchmarking - Ray Bunker
• Group Discussion: Prioritize jobs across working groups. Identify integration goals and new initiatives. Summary Slides
• Prioritized Goals and Action Items

• 10:30 – 12:00 Group goals into a set of proposals going forward. How do we self-organize? Consortium planning.