Conveners
Liquid Nobles Parallels: Liquid Nobles Parallels
- Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)
- Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)
Liquid Nobles Parallels: Liquid Nobles Parallels
- Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)
Liquid Nobles Parallels: Session 1
- Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)
- Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)
Liquid Nobles Parallels: Liquid Nobles Parallels
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)
- Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)
Prof.
Jelena Maricic
(University of Hawaii)
12/8/19, 3:30โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC) will pursue a sequence of future LAr dual phase TPC detectors to search for WIMPs with sensitivity that surpasses current level by several orders of magnitude, due to LAr technology excellent potential. The first detector in the sequence is the DarkSide-20k two-phase detector, that is getting ready for construction at LNGS. DarkSide-20k...
Dr
Michael Clark
(Purdue University)
12/8/19, 3:55โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
This talk will discuss some of the challenges that face the next generation of dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers, and the R&D directions that should be taken to enable such a detector.
A generation-3 liquid xenon TPC will follow the current generation of experiments such as LZ and XENONnT, scaling up the mass of the detector to achieve a diverse scientific reach including dark...
Prof.
Eric Dahl
(Northwestern University)
12/8/19, 4:20โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is currently constructing a pair of 10-kg argon bubble chambers for the detection of low-mass (1-10 GeV) WIMPs and coherent scattering of reactor neutrinos (CEvNS). These chambers will be the first physics-scale devices to use superheated noble liquids for the detection of low-energy nuclear recoils. I will review the scintillating bubble...
Alden Fan
(SLAC)
12/8/19, 4:35โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Large mass liquid xenon detectors, such as the imminent LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) and XENONnT experiments, are leading the search for dark matter particles with masses above ~5 GeV/c^2. HydroX is a new effort to dissolve hydrogen into liquid xenon to allow experiments such as LZ to probe sub-GeV/c^2 dark matter with both spin-dependent and spin-independent couplings. The use of hydrogen-doped xenon...
Dr
Lorenzon Wolfgang
(University of Michigan)
12/8/19, 4:50โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Radon is one of the most significant terrestrial radioactive backgrounds in multi-ton rare event searches that is continuously emanating from detector components. In order to achieve high detection efficiency for weakly interacting particles such as neutrinos or dark matter, radon contamination must be carefully suppressed. Since radon is a noble atom, it cannot be removed using conventional...
Dr
Scott Kravitz
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
12/8/19, 5:05โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Radon and its daughter decays continue to limit the sensitivity of WIMP direct dark matter searches, despite extensive screening programs, careful material selection and specialized Rn-
reduction systems. While these techniques form a basis for rare-event search experiments, we seek an event-level tag of radon daughter backgrounds. For liquid xenon TPCs, a means to
obtaining this lofty goal...
Rachel Mannino
(UW Madison)
12/8/19, 5:20โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The central component of the LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) dark matter search experiment is a two-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) with a 7 tonne active volume currently undergoing construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Four woven wire mesh grids establish the drift and electron extraction fields in the LZ detector. This talk will describe the production of these 1.5-m diameter...
Dr
Yuan Mei
(LBNL)
12/8/19, 5:35โฏPM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
By leveraging industrial standard CMOS integrated circuit process, we create sensors that directly collect charge in the form of electrons and ions and that work at extremely low temperatures. I'll first introduce a series of sensors called Topmetal that are geared towards measuring charge in gas and liquid media. $80\mu$m pixel pitch and 15$e^{-}$ electronic noise have been demonstrated. ...
Adam Roberts
(Liverpool)
12/9/19, 1:30โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
ARIADNE: A 1-ton two phase liquid argon TPC with Novel Optical Readout
Mr
Vincent Basque
(University of Manchester)
12/9/19, 1:55โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) will be a 112 ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), and will form a part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab. The SBN will be composed of three LArTPCs (SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS) and aims to resolve the eV-scale sterile neutrino short-baseline anomaly. SBND, as the near detector, will observe an unprecedented number...
Mitch Soderberg
(Syracuse University)
12/9/19, 2:10โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Noble liquid detectors are now ubiquitous in dark matter and neutrino physics experiments. The ability to purify the liquid of electronegative contaminants to the extent that electrons liberated by ionizing particles can be drifted over several meters with minimal attenuation, while maintaining the initial spatial orientation of the charge distribution, is now considered routine. With such...
Prof.
Andrew Furmanski
(University of Minnesota)
12/9/19, 2:25โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The DUNE near detector complex will consist of several detectors, one of which is the high-pressure gaseous argon TPC (HPgTPC). As a promising neutrino detection technology, it is well-suited to improve the neutrino-nucleus systematic uncertainties for the neutrino oscillation measurements, as well as to perform a key role as a muon spectrometer for a liquid-argon detector. In this talk, an...
Jonathan Asaadi
(University of Texas Arlington)
12/9/19, 2:40โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Future long baseline neutrino experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) call for the deployment of multiple multi-kiloton scale liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). To date, two detector readout technologies are being studied in large-scale prototype detectors: the single phase (SP) and dual phase (DP) detectors using projective charge readout wire based...
Elena Gramellini
(Fermilab)
12/9/19, 2:55โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Projective readout technologies currently used in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers come with a set of challenges from the construction of the wire planes themselves to the continuous readout of the system required to accomplish the physics goals of proton decay searches and supernova neutrino sensitivity. Additionally, the reconstruction techniques required for these projective readouts...
Peter Madigan
(UC Berkeley)
12/9/19, 3:10โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Liquid argon time-projection chambers are the primary neutrino detector technology for DUNE. However due to the O(100us) readout time of large LArTPCs, a LArTPC at the DUNE near detector will encounter substantial neutrino interaction pile-up. To overcome pile-up, we have developed a novel 3D pixelated LArTPC based around a custom cryogenic-compatible ASIC called LArPix. The LArPix-v1 ASIC...
Dr
Sergey pereverzev
(LLNL)
12/9/19, 3:25โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Abstract.
In experiments aiming to measure interactions at low energies โexemplified by neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering experiments and the quest for light-mass dark matter particlesโresearchers must understand the underlying noise mechanisms in their detectors. A review of literature and measurements in detectors at LLNL reveal patterns among low-energy detector backgrounds which invite...
Aiwu Zhang
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12/9/19, 3:40โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
For neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE that utilize very large volume of liquid argon (LAr) as the detection medium, it is critical to remove and control impurities (such as oxygen, water, etc.) to extremely low levels (<1 ppb) in order to achieve unprecedented energy scale precision. It is thus desired to have a verified mathematical model describing the dynamics of impurity...
Zelimir Djurcic
(Argonne)
12/10/19, 9:00โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Development of the Light Detector for DUNE
Matt Worcester
(BNL)
12/10/19, 9:25โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Performance of the protoDUNE-Single Phase LArTPC
Richie Diurba
(University of Minnesota)
12/10/19, 9:50โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
The ProtoDUNE Single Phase detector is a full-scale engineering prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment that sits under a test beam at CERN. This 770 ton liquid argon time projection chamber has its front and back faces covered by scintillator strips to tag cosmics and calibrate the detector's reconstruction. The talk will discuss the details of tagging cosmics using the strips...
Dr
ALEENA RAFIQUE
(Argonne National Laboratory)
12/10/19, 10:05โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge experiment for neutrino science, search for supernova neutrinos, and proton decay studies. The single-phase liquid argon prototype detector at CERN is a crucial milestone for the DUNE that will inform the construction and operation of the first and possibly subsequent 10-kt fiducial mass DUNE far detector modules. In this talk,...
Dr
Jones Ben
(UTA)
12/10/19, 11:00โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The NEXT collaboration is pursuing a program of high pressure xenon gas experiments with the goal of mounting sensitive, ultra-low background, ton-scale searches for neutrino less double beta decay. This talk will present recent results from the presently running NEXT-White demonstrator, a status update on construction of NEXT-100, and a discussion of the future ton-scale phases. We will...
Andrea Pocar
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
12/10/19, 11:25โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
Neutrinoless double beta (0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ) decay is a process in which a nucleus (A,Z) decays to (A,Z+2) with the emission of two electrons (but no neutrinos). Experimental searches for such a decay are the most sensitive test of lepton-number conservation and its discovery would unambiguously prove the Majorana nature of neutrinos, with profound implications for cosmology in addition to particle and...
Dr
Jason Newby
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12/10/19, 11:50โฏAM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The first observation of coherent elastic neutrino nuclear scattering (CEvNS) was recently made by the COHERENT experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This basic interaction now lays the foundation for a new era of compact neutrino detectors while providing a new probe of physics topics including electromagnetic properties, searches for physics beyond...
Dr
Jon Balajthy
(UC Davis)
12/10/19, 12:05โฏPM
Noble Element Detectors
Talk
The Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) is a comprehensive mostly-empirical standalone package for complete and accurate simulation of both the scintillation and ionization response of noble element detectors. For liquid xenon detectors, NEST includes models of recombination fluctuations and mean yields for nuclear recoils, electron recoils, Krypton-83m events, alphas, and heavy ions....
