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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

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 Orrel
• 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - ?? Jeter looking

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)

Facilities continued

• 10:50 Kimballton Low Background facility
• 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
• 11:30 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

Facilities + Consortium Discussion as a Group

• 2:00 Brief (5 min), slides - Mani Tripathi
• 2:05 Brief (5 min), slides for new ideas - Dongming Mei
• G2 Assay Requirements - John Orrell (Remote)

• Identify topics and tasks

Simulation (General Updates on Geant4, Fluka, Tools, etc.)

• GEANT4 Updates - Mike Kelsey
• Fluka Updates - Anton Empl
• Talk - slot available
• 10:00 Coffee Break

Simulation (Cosmogenics, Noble Liquids, Backgrounds)

• 10:30 Geant4 cosmogenic simulations - Allison Kennedy
• 10:50 FLUKA cosmogenic simulations - Sarah Lindsay
• 11:10 Comparison of cosmogenic backgrounds at different depths - Angie Reisetter
• 11:30 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors Using RAT - Tom Caldwell

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
• 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in EXO or LZ ??
• 3:30 Wine and Cheese Break

• Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work

• Simulation - Anthony Villano
• Radiogenics - Jodi Cooley
• Benchmarking - Ray Bunker

• 10:30 – 12:00 Integration of Working Group plans into Proposals, Consortium planning, and new integrative initiatives