Table of Contents
Draft Agenda for Workshop Organizers
MARCH 20 (Thursday)
MARCH 21 (Friday)
MARCH 22 (Saturday)
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