Name: LIDINE 2017: LIght Detection In Noble Elements
Start: 2017-09-22T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2017-09-24T17:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Monday, 18 September 2017
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Friday, 22 September 2017

08:00 Light refreshments
Light refreshments
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
09:00 Light/Charge Detection
Light/Charge Detection
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Study of the Low-Energy ER/NR Discrimination and its Electric-Field Dependence with Liquid Argon - Tatsuki Washimi (Waseda university)

09:15 New Results on the Near-Infrared Scintillation of Liquid Argon - Carlos Ourivio Escobar (FERMILAB)

09:30 The Argon Response to Ionization and Scintillation (ARIS) experiment - Tessa Johnson (UC Davis)

09:45 First underground run of ArDM and measurement of the attenuation lenght of the argon scintillation light - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT Madrid)

10:00 Investigation of Two-Phase Xenon Detectors with PIXeY - Elizabeth Boulton (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

10:15 Liquid xenon scintillation measurements and pulse shape discrimination in the LUX dark matter detector - Brian Lenardo (LLNL / UC Davis)

10:30 Measurement of Electronic Recoil Response and Electronic/Nuclear Recoils Discrimination of low energy in XENON100 - Jingqiang Ye (UC San Diego)

10:45 Logistics, Announcements - Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:15
Room: Kavli Auditorium
11:15 Detector Techniques
Detector Techniques
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Search for CEvNS with a liquid argon scintillation detector - Rex Tayloe (Indiana University, Dept. of Physics)

11:30 Updated Results from the LZ System Test Platform At SLAC - Tomasz Biesiadzinski (SLAC)

11:45 XeBrA: Characterizing Dependence of Electric Field Breakdown on Electrode Area in Noble Liquids - Lucie Tvrznikova

12:00 Metallic wire grid behavior and testing in low pressure gaseous noble elements detector. - Wei Ji

12:15 Krypton-85 Removal for LZ Using Gas Charcoal Chromatography - Christina Ignarra (SLAC)

12:30 Calibrating Inner-Shell Electron Recoils in a Xenon Time Projection Chamber - Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University)

12:45 PTFE Reflectance for Xenon Scintillation Light - Wolfgang Lorenzon (University of Michigan)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: SLAC Cafe - Building 53
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Noble Liquid detectors for Dark Matter - Tom Shutt (SLAC)

14:40 Neutrino detection with Noble Elements - Ben Jones (UTA)

15:20 Liquid xenon in nuclear medicine: state-of-the art and the PETALO approach - Paola Ferrario (IFIC)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium

16:30 Large future detectors: Backgrounds
Large future detectors: Backgrounds
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Berryessa, B 53

Large future detectors: Complex event topology reconstruction
Large future detectors: Complex event topology reconstruction
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 2nd floor Kavli

Large future detectors: Maximizing light collection
Large future detectors: Maximizing light collection
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 3rd floor Kavli

18:00 Tour of IR2 Test Platform
Tour of IR2 Test Platform
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium

19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: ROB Patio (B48)
Saturday, 23 September 2017

08:00 Light refreshments
Light refreshments
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
09:00 Photodetectors
Photodetectors
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Cryogenic readout for multiple VUV4 Multi-Pixel Photon Counters in liquid xenon - Adriano Di Giovanni (NYUAD)

09:15 light detection with SiPM in nEXO experiment - Gaosong Li (Stanford University)

09:30 Status of the SiGHT hybrid photodetector development - Luca Pagani (UC Davis)

09:45 Development of SensL SiPM Arrays - Benjamin Godfrey (UC Davis)

10:00 A Pixelated Charge Readout for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers - Damian Goeldi (University of Bern)

10:15 Overview of the CAPTAIN detector and preliminary results from neutron run. - Jorge Chaves (University of Pennsylvania)

10:30 Photon detection system for ProtoDUNE dual phase - Clara Cuesta (Ciemat)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Kavli Auditorium
11:15 Signal Identification
Signal Identification
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Supernova Neutrino Detection in LZ - Dev Ashish Khaitan (University of Rochester)

11:30 Signal Reconstruction for DEAP-3600 - Thomas McElroy (University of Alberta)

11:45 The Noble Element Simulation Technique v2 - Jason Brodsky (LLNL)

12:00 Global Quantum Efficiency Simulations - Thomas Wester (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:15 Radon Background in Liquid Xenon Detectors - Natascha Rupp (MPIK Heidelberg)

12:30 Characterization of Pb-206 Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon - Jacob Cutter (UC Davis)

12:45 Impact of the positive ion current on large size neutrino detectors and delayed photon emission - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT Madrid)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
14:00 Light Collection, WLS
Light Collection, WLS
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 The LArIAT light detection system - Ernesto Kemp (University of Campinas (BR) and Fermilab)

14:15 Measurements of Wavelength Shifters’ conversion efficiency in the Vacuum Ultraviolet region using Synchrotron Light - Bruno Gelli (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP)

14:30 Improved measurements of the absolute wavelength shifting efficiency of Tetraphenyl Butadiene - Christopher Benson

14:45 Liquid argon scintillation detection utilizing wavelength-shifting plates and light guides - Bruce Howard (Indiana University)

15:00 The SBND High Efficiency Light Collection System - Diego Garcia-Gamez (The University of Manchester)

15:15 Production and Characterization of Full Scale Light Guides for Future Large LArTPCs - Jarrett Moon (MIT)

15:30 Increasing the efficiency of photon collection in LArTPCs: the ARAPUCA light trap - Ernesto Kemp (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)

15:45 X-ARAPUCA a new development of the ARAPUCA device - Ana Amelia Machado (UFABC)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium

16:30 New and emerging technologies: Bubble chambers, directionality
New and emerging technologies: Bubble chambers, directionality
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 3rd floor Kavli

New and emerging technologies: New targets, mixtures
New and emerging technologies: New targets, mixtures
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium

New and emerging technologies: Novel photodetectors
New and emerging technologies: Novel photodetectors
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 2nd floor Kavli

18:00 Tour of IR2 Test Platform
Tour of IR2 Test Platform
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Sunday, 24 September 2017

08:00 Light refreshments
Light refreshments
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
09:00 Emerging Technologies
Emerging Technologies
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Liquid-Noble Bubble Chambers for WIMP and CENNS Detection - C Eric Dahl (Northwestern University)

09:20 Increasing the sensitivity of LXe TPCs to dark matter by doping with helium or neon - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)

09:40 Scintillation from Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon - Denver Whittington (Syracuse University)

10:00 Optical Spectroscopy of Pure Liquid Argon and Liquid Argon-Xenon Mixtures - Andreas Ulrich (TU-Muenchen, Physik-Department)

10:20 A Path to the Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Calorimetric Readout of a Superfluid He-4 Target - Junsong Lin

10:40 Round Table Summary: Large future detectors
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Kavli Auditorium
11:10 Applications/Facilities
Applications/Facilities
11:10 - 13:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

11:10 Developing LAr Scintillation Light Applications at Neutrino Energies with LArIAT - Andrzej Szelc (University of Manchester)

11:25 NEXT experiment: 0νββ search with High pressure Xe gas TPC - Neus López March (IFIC)

11:40 Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $Xe^{136}$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging - Austin McDonald (UTA)

11:55 Secondary scintillation yield and energy resolution of Xe-CO2/CH4/CF4 mixtures for the NEXT electroluminescence TPC - Carlos Henriques (LIBPhys, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal)

12:10 Informing the next generation of dark matter and neutrino detectors with MiniCLEAN - Christopher Benson

12:25 Prospects of the Carleton Cryogenic Facility - Robert Stainforth (Carleton University)

12:40 Round Table Summary: New Technologies

12:50 Conclusions, Proceedings, Announcements
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium