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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
10:15 Coffee
10:45 Radiogenics, alpha-n
11:25 Simulations
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)
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)
    • 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

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

7:00

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