This is the 2009 - 2014 working wiki of AARM. For the longer term community assay website, please go to The Integration Website

Download Proposal Also useful LRT2013 AARM Description
Welcome to the wiki page for Low Radiation Techniques, Low Background Counting, Material Purity, Shielding, etc! The old S4 Task was to design the Facility for AARM (or FAARM) for DUSEL, to serve the needs of the Physics, Bio, Geo, and Engineering Groups and define the infrastructure required. Currently there are complete engineering drawings completed under the S4, but work is paused on the FAARM until such time as a site and scope is defined. Integrative Tools concentrates on infrastructure such as databases, sharing of expertise, workshops, and simulation tools. AARM members are free to edit these pages and create new ones as situations warrant. Just click on the login bar at the bottom of the page. Click “register” when it pops up and you will be given a password automatically. Now an “edit” prompt is visible at the side of each section and at the bottom of the entire page. When you click “edit” you will have a window which needs to be edited using the wiki syntax. The handy toolbar which appears at the top of the window will do most of what you want. If you are not familiar with wiki syntax, please see link to syntax at the bottom of this page for help. You probably should NOT edit this start page (unless you want to add a link). Instead, you can click on your working group and edit that page. For an introduction to the implementation and usage of this site, see the introduction.

• Teleconference Page Teleconference information, agendas and minutes
• AARM Collaboration Names and contact info (please keep your own details up to date)
• support letters People listed on Integrative Proposal

• Updated Depth Paper Draft10
• Task Force Wiki DM Depth Task Force is located here
• Click HERE for the Prioritized Goals and Action Items identified during the March 2014 FNAL Meeting
• Assay "Centers of Excellence" Consortium Planning Page
• Community Assay Materials Database Wiki
• Cosmogenic Simulation Group
• Radiogenic Cross Section Working Group
• FLUKA-Geant4 Comparative Study Group
• Neutron Benchmarking Data Group
  • Broad-interest mtgs Fri 11am eastern (ESNET); NMM/veto-shield analysis mtgs Tue 2:30pm eastern (ESNET)
• Radon Abatement Studies Working Group

• ILIAS Website
• ILIAS Group for Low Level Counting: JRA-1
• Neutron fluxes at Soudan Ruddick note on shotcrete & muonsOlder Ruddick note
• Eichblatt Geant3 Cavern Sim
• Summary of muon spectra at Soudan Cushman note
• Seasonal Variation of Muon Fluxes at SoudanMINOS publication
• AARM icons aarm-icon.pdf, aarm-icon.jpg, aarm-icon.gif

• AARM Meeting at SDSM&T Rapid City SD, March 20-21 (2015)
• AARM Meeting at Fermilab, March 19-22 (2014)
• AARM Collaboration: Special SLAC Workshop, March 4 (2013)
• AARM Collaboration Meeting and Workshop, June 22-23 (2012)
• AARM Sim Meeting, Nov 11-12 (2011)
• AARM Meeting at U of M, Feb 25-26 (2011)
• AARM Meeting at Sanford Lab - Nov 12-13 (2010)
• AARM Meeting at LBL - March 19-20 (2010) Posted Talks

• The best summary of our original FAARM design for DUSEL Lab Module 2 is the LRT 2010 paper.
• NewFAARM The newest detailed engineering plans for a site-independent FAARM that could fit into either Homestake or Soudan
• FAARM Engineering Drawings, WBS, older DUSEL docs

• A page designed to be the precursor to a larger knowledgebase undertaking as discussed at LRT 2010 (minutes of database discussion)

• A page created to detail the FAARM simulation effort including the creation of an organizational structure which allows many contributers to the simulation without duplication of effort.
• A page created to detail the efforts for a detailed comparison of Geant4 and FLUKA simulation packages for cosmogenic events

• The Summary Slides of our Working Group, presented to the April '08 DUSEL Workshop
• FINAL Draftof the S4 Proposal that we finally Submitted
• AARM S4 Review S4 Review (Final Version with Backup slides) presented at the August 2011 Review
• S4 Review - July 2010 Posted files for review board
• A brief set of slides showing how the LBC S4/S5 vision might be organized around the ILIAS model
• AARM Slides shown at the Oct 1-3, 2009 DUSEL Workshop

• DUSEL Review (April 2010) Agenda Agenda
• DUSEL Infrastructure and Important Planning Documents
  • DUSEL Science Infrastructure Interface -
  • DUSEL S1 Deep Science Technical Report on Low Radiation Infrastructure
  • Low Background White Paper from the November 2007 DUSEL Town Meeting
  • Talks and White Papers from the November 2007 DUSEL Town Meeting
  • Plenary Talks at the April 2008 Workshop in Lead

• Proposals Submitted to April 2008 Workshop
  • Homestake Ultra-low Background Facility
  • Algal Biomass
  • Radiation Biology
  • Underground Agriculture
  • screening plans ISE Representatives generated screening plans
• Information on the S4 process
  • Kotcher's P5 Talk (excerpted) at Stanford, Feb 2008
  • The NSF Large Facilities Manual
  • The NSF 2008 Facility Plan
  • DOE Online Management Guidance
  • Cooperative Agreement This is signed with the U Minn and we must follow the goals listed here.
  • WBS The WBS as listed in our S4 Proposal
  • S4 Schedule and meeting page Old Teleconference Details, as well as historical documents.

• SUSEL Low Background Counting Facility
  
• Dark Matter
  
• Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
  
• Nuclear Astrophysics
  
• Solar Neutrinos
  
• Energetic Particles
  
• Petrogenesis, Ore Deposits, Structure, Sedimentation
  
• Reactor, NNbar
  
• Education and Outreach
  
• CO2 Sequestration
  
• Induced Flow, Transport and Activity
  

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• |Names for AARM May meeting

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