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AARM Collaboration Meeting Agenda

May 20 (Wednesday)

12:30 - 1:45 over box lunch. Room: EEP 252 via gotomeeting

Welcome and Future of AARM Slides (pdf) (P. Cushman)
- Discussion of what the community needs on website. Task assignment and prioritization
G2 collaboration radiopurity priorities (R. Schnee)
- Discussion: Resource-sharing to/from broader community informed by these priorities.
0νββ background infrastructure priorities Slides (J. Detwiler)

2-5:30 SURF Tours or LZ-SuperCDMS meeting

LZ-SuperCDMS Meeting in Hisega Room, Surbeck Center. Readytalk code by email or request

May 21 (Thursday) Room:Bump Lounge, Surbeck Center. Gotomeeting

All talks provide bullet points for discussion. Unless otherwise designated, assume 15 min for the talk and 5 minutes for discussion. Discussion topics that require more time should be noted by the working group leaders and revisited during the parallel sessions.

8:30 Screening

Surface Screening with XIA (J. Cooley)
Large volume screening detector (J. Reichenbacher)
Beta Cage (R. Schnee)
Ultratrace polymer analysis via ICP-MS (I. Arnquist)
Low radon clean rooms (R. Bunker)
Update on the BHUC (?) (on behalf of B. Mount)

10:15 Coffee

10:45 Radiogenics, alpha-n

Code comparisons and cross sections (S. Scorza)
neutron-channel reaction codes (C. Zhang)

11:25 Simulations

GEANT4 Status and Prospects (D. Wright)
FLUKA vs Geant (pdf) (A. Kennedy)
Depth Requirements for G3 LAr (pdf) (A. Hime)
Cosmogenic Activation codes cosmogenicactivation.pdf(D.M. Mei)

12:45 Lunch provided

2:00 Neutrons

Neutral particle simulations for PICO-2L (20 min) (pdf) (A. Robinson)
Veto shield and neutron correlations. Data access invitation (pdf) (A. Villano)
Gadolinium neutron-capture gammas in Geant4 (pdf) (Y. Chen)
Soudan Liquid Scintillator detector (10 min) (C. Zhang)

3:20 Coffee

3:50 - 5:30 Working Groups in parallel

Cleanliness protocol, Surface Contamination & Radon Plateout - notes
- Leaders: R. Bunker, J. Cooley (Bump Lounge: gotomeeting)
- Details of last meeting
- E-shield Studies - Sekula, Cooley
- LZ-SuperCDMS Priorities from Richard Schnee Talk
  - Plate-out of airborne radon-progeny onto surfaces
  - Diffusion of radon through barriers and into surfaces
  - Local emanation of radon as a limitation to radon control and mitigation
  - Dust as a particle-borne source of U/Th/K and radon-progeny

Priorities in simulation and neutron background estimation minutes updated minutes
- Leaders: A. Villano, D. Wright (Hisega Room: access code 1626019#)
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/qIQRBjPQYb

5:30 - 6 Report from working groups – integration discussion (Bump Lounge)

7:00