Some of the details are in flux

• 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 - Eric Jaregui

• 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 - 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

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)

• Working Group Breakout Session
  • 3:30 - 6:00 Identify topics and tasks

• 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 (Cosmogenics, Noble Liquids, Backgrounds) * 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 * 11:10 GEANT4 Updates - Julia Yarba * 11:30 Fluka Updates - 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 * 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in EXO or LZ ?? === 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

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