Conveners
Sunday Morning 2: Applications/Facilities
- Scott Kravitz (LBL)
Dr
Andrzej Szelc
(University of Manchester)
24/09/2017, 11:10
Detector techniques (HV, cryogenics, purification, calibration, etc.)
Presentation
LArIAT (Liquid Argon in a Testbeam) is a small liquid argon time
projection chamber set to calibrate and develop the LArTPC technology.
LArIAT has completed 3 Runs on a charged particle beamline at the
Fermilab Test Beam Facility and has acquired a large dataset of
particle interactions on liquid argon which is currently being
analyzed. An important feature of LArIAT, is the light...
Dr
Neus López March
(IFIC)
24/09/2017, 11:25
Applications (dark matter, neutrino, precision frontier, medicine, etc.)
Presentation
The NEXT experiment seeks to discover the neutrinoless double beta decay (NLDBD) of Xe-136 using a high-pressure gas time projection chamber (TPC), filled with 100kg of enriched xenon, with electroluminesence (EL) gain and optical readout. This technology offers two features of great value in NLDBD decay searches: excellent energy resolution (<1% FWHM at the Q value of Xe-136) and event...
Austin McDonald
(UTA)
24/09/2017, 11:40
Detector techniques (HV, cryogenics, purification, calibration, etc.)
Presentation
The existence of Majorana fermions is of great interest as it may be related to the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter particles in the universe. However, the search for them has proven to be a difficult one. Neutrino-less Double Beta decay (NLDB) offers a possible opportunity for direct observation of a Majorana Fermion. The rate for NLDB decay may be as low as $\approx 1 $...
Mr
Carlos Henriques
(LIBPhys, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal)
24/09/2017, 11:55
Light/charge response in Noble Elements (gas, liquid, dual phase)
Presentation
The NEXT experiment aims at searching for the hypothetical neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) of the 136Xe isotope using a High-Pressure Xenon (HPXe) Time Projection Chamber (TPC). Efficient discrimination of background events through pattern recognition of the topology of primary ionisation tracks is a major requirement for the experiment. However, the spatial resolution of the NEXT TPC is...
Christopher Benson
24/09/2017, 12:10
Applications (dark matter, neutrino, precision frontier, medicine, etc.)
Presentation
Single phase, zero field, liquid noble gas scintillator detectors are a simple, scalable and cost effective approach for dark matter and neutrino detection. The operation of MiniCLEAN, a dark matter detector currently commissioning with a liquid argon target at SNOLAB in Canada, will help inform the design of a future multi-ton experiment. The status and technical objectives of MiniCLEAN’s...
Dr
Robert Stainforth
(Carleton University)
24/09/2017, 12:25
Detector techniques (HV, cryogenics, purification, calibration, etc.)
Presentation
In recent years, the interest in large liquid noble detectors, up to hundreds of tonnes in scale, has gained momentum. Such detectors would facilitate the required sensitivity for future low-background physics searches of interest such as dark-matter detection and the observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay. In order to achieve such sensitivity, R&D is essential. A new cryogenics...
