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| ==== Draft Agenda for Workshop Organizers ==== | ==== Draft Agenda for Workshop Organizers ==== | ||
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| === MARCH 19 (Wednesday) === | === MARCH 19 (Wednesday) === | ||
| * ** Introduction and Status Reports** | * ** Introduction and Status Reports** | ||
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| * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker// | * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker// | ||
| * 2:30 Community Assay Database - //James Loach// | * 2:30 Community Assay Database - //James Loach// | ||
| - | * 2:50 Discussion | + | * 2:50 Discussion |
| === 3:00 Coffee Break === | === 3:00 Coffee Break === | ||
| - | ** Reducing Backgrounds – Experience from Specific Experiments** | + | * ** Reducing Backgrounds – Experience from Specific Experiments** |
| - | * 3:30 LZ screening program - //Karen Gibson// | + | * 3:30 LZ screening program - //Karen Gibson// |
| - | * 3:50 EXO screening program - //David Auty// | + | * 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// | + | * 4:10 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// | + | * 4:40 XENON 1T Screening Program - //Francesco Piastra// |
| - | * 5:00 SuperCDMS screening program - //Jeter Hall// | + | * 5:00 SuperCDMS screening program - //Jeter Hall// |
| - | * 5:20 Darkside Background Reduction -// | + | * 5:20 Darkside Background Reduction - // |
| - | * 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - // ?? Jeter looking// | + | * 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - //Eric Vazquez-Jauregui// |
| === Dinner at local restaurants === | === Dinner at local restaurants === | ||
| ==== MARCH 20 (Thursday) ==== | ==== MARCH 20 (Thursday) ==== | ||
| - | ** Low Background Facilities and Techniques** | + | * ** Low Background Facilities and Techniques** |
| - | * 8:30 Recent Advances in NAA - //Mani Tripathi// | + | * 8:30 Recent Advances in NAA - //Mani Tripathi// |
| - | * 8:50 The Beta Cage: ultra-sensitive screener for surface contamination - //Richard Schnee// | + | * 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// | + | * 9:10 An in-situ Assay of the DRIFT TPC using alpha spectroscopy - //Eric Miller// |
| - | * 9:30 Low Background Counting at SNOLAB - //Ian Lawson// | + | * 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// | + | * 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)// | + | * 10:05 LBL counting capacity and large area Si detector for measuring surface contamination - //Kevin Lesko (Remote)// |
| === 10:25 Coffee Break=== | === 10:25 Coffee Break=== | ||
| - | ** Facilities continued** | + | * ** Facilities continued** |
| - | * 10:50 Kimballton Low Background facility | + | * 10:50 Kimballton Low Background facility |
| - | * 11:00 Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Ray Bunker// | + | * 11:00 Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Ray Bunker// |
| - | ** Neutron Detection and Benchmarking ** | + | |
| - | * 11:10 Muon topology and coincident neutrons at the Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Anthony Villano// | + | * 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// | + | * 11:30 Measuring Fast Neutrons with the Liquid Scintillation Detector at the Soudan Mine - //Chao Zhang// |
| - | * 11:50 Recent Results Using the FaNS Technique - //Thomas Langford// | + | * 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// | + | * 12:10 Multiplicity and Recoil Spectrometer Measurements of the Fast Neutron Background at Depth - //Mark Gerling// |
| - | === 12:30 Lunch=== | + | * 12:30 LVD - //Marco Selvi (not confirmed)// |
| + | === 1:00 Lunch=== | ||
| ** Facilities + Consortium Discussion as a Group** | ** Facilities + Consortium Discussion as a Group** | ||
| - | * 2:00 Brief (5 min), slides - //Mani Tripathi// | + | * 2:00 Brief slides - //Mani Tripathi// |
| - | * 2:05 Brief (5 min), slides for new ideas - //Dongming Mei// | + | * 2:05 Brief slides for new ideas - //Dongming Mei// |
| - | * G2 Assay Requirements - //John Orrell (Remote)// | + | * 2:10 Assay Requirements - //John Orrell (Remote)// |
| === 3:00 Coffee Break=== | === 3:00 Coffee Break=== | ||
| - | === 3:30 – 6:00 Working Groups Breakout Sessions === | + | * ** Working Group Breakout Session ** |
| - | * Identify topics and tasks | + | * 3:30 - 6:00 Identify topics and tasks |
| === Banquet at Chez Leon === | === Banquet at Chez Leon === | ||
| ==== MARCH 21 (Friday) ==== | ==== MARCH 21 (Friday) ==== | ||
| - | ** Simulation (General Updates on Geant4, Fluka, Tools, etc.)** | + | * ** Simulation (Advances in Geant4 |
| - | * GEANT4 Updates | + | * 8:30 Geant4: Muon production of neutrons in multiple targets |
| - | * Fluka Updates | + | * 8:50 FLUKA: |
| - | * Talk - //slot available// | + | |
| + | * 9:30 Advances in NEST - //Matthew Szydagis// | ||
| === 10:00 Coffee Break=== | === 10:00 Coffee Break=== | ||
| - | ** Simulation | + | * ** Simulation ** |
| - | * 10:30 Geant4 | + | * 10:30 Comparison of cosmogenic |
| - | * 10:50 FLUKA cosmogenic simulations | + | * 10:50 New libraries for simulating neutron scattering in dark matter detector calibrations |
| - | * 11:10 Comparison of cosmogenic backgrounds at different depths | + | * 11:10 GEANT4 Updates |
| - | * 11:30 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors Using RAT - //Tom Caldwell// | + | * 11:30 Fluka Updates and Borexino cosmogenic results |
| ===12:00 Lunch=== | ===12:00 Lunch=== | ||
| - | ** Radiogenic Bkgd, Nuclear Physics, Better Cross Sections** | + | * ** Radiogenic Bkgd, Nuclear Physics, Better Cross Sections** |
| - | * 1:30 Comparisons between SOURCES and USD Website - //Silvia Scorza// | + | * 1:30 Comparisons between SOURCES and USD Website - //Silvia Scorza// |
| - | * 1:50 Radiogenic Backgrounds in CDMS - //Mark Pepin// | + | * 1:50 Radiogenic Backgrounds in CDMS - //Mark Pepin// |
| - | * 2:10 CoGeNT backgrounds - //John Orrell// | + | * 2:10 CoGeNT backgrounds - //John Orrell |
| - | * 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in EXO or LZ ?? | + | * 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in LUX - //TBD// |
| === 3:30 Wine and Cheese Break=== | === 3:30 Wine and Cheese Break=== | ||
| - | * **4: | + | * **Working Group Breakout Session ** |
| - | * Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work | + | * 4:00 - 6:00 Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work |
| + | === Dinner at local restaurants === | ||
| ==== MARCH 22 (Saturday) ==== | ==== MARCH 22 (Saturday) ==== | ||
| - | === 8:30 Progress Reports from Working Groups | + | * ** 8:30 Progress Reports from Working Groups |
| * Simulation - //Anthony Villano// | * Simulation - //Anthony Villano// | ||
| * Radiogenics - //Jodi Cooley// | * Radiogenics - //Jodi Cooley// | ||