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Friday

0. AARM Goals and Future Plans (Prisca Cushman)welcome2012.pdf
I. Establishing Radiopurity and Understanding Backgrounds
- USD Low Background Counting at the Davis Cavern[pdf] (DongMing Mei)
- LBL-LBF Update (Keenan Thomas)
- Low Background Counting at SNOLAB (Ian Lawson)
- Progress in Neutron Activation Analysis (Mani Tripathi)
- The Xenon1t Screening Campaign (Alfredo Davide Ferella)
- Cosmogenic activation in the ν0ββ CUORE experiment (Barbara Wang)
- What can we learn about signal when studying the background? [pdf] (Vitaly Kudryavtsev)

II. Collaboration on a Universal Materials Database
- Introduction and AARM Progress[pdf] (Jodi Cooley)
- Database structure and Majorana Experience (James Loach)
- EDELWEISS Requirements and Experience (Adam Cox)

III. Updates from the Simulation Packages
- Recent Developments in Geant4[pdf] (Dennis Wright)
- Low Energy Neutron Verification in Geant4 4.9.3 to 4.9.5[pdf] (Kimberly Palladino)
- Progress on the NEST Simulation (Matthew Szydagis) pdf
- Incorporating Additional Geometries in LUXSim[pdf] (Kareem Kazkaz)
- FLUKA and Cosmogenic Backgrounds (Alberto Fasso: pptx,pdf)

IV. Establishing Standardized Benchmarks for Geant4 Implementation
- Depth Working Group Goals (Prisca Cushman)depth task force
- LZ20 Status and Update (Monica Pangilian)
- GEODM Status and Update (Angie Reisetter)
- Comparing Geant4 and FLUKA (Anthony Villano: pptx, pdf)

Saturday

V. Benchmarking Cosmogenic Simulations & Physics to Data
- Muon-induced Neutrons in LVD (Rino Persiani)
- Proposal to Measure Neutron Production at CERN (Cheng-Ju Lin)
- Muon Shield at Soudan (Anthony Villano)
- Neutron Multiplicity Meter (Ray Bunker: ppt, pdf)
- USD Neutron Measurement at Soudan (Chao Zhang)

VI. Reports from the Working Groups and Action Items
- Cosmogenic Report
- Radiogenic Report

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