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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

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