Name: Low Radioactivity Techniques 2015
Start: 2015-03-18T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2015-03-20T18:20:00-07:00
Location: No location set

Monday 16 March 2015
Tuesday 17 March 2015
Wednesday 18 March 2015
08:30 Underground Laboratories and Screening Facilities
Underground Laboratories and Screening Facilities
08:30 - 10:20
Contributions

08:30 Welcome

08:40 Underground Laboratories in North America - Kevin Lesko (LBNL)

09:00 Status and prospects of the underground Laboratories in Asia - Shin-Ted LIN (Sichuan University)

09:20 Underground Laboratories in Europe - Stefano Ragazzi (LNGS)

09:40 Low Background Screening Capability in the UK - Chamkaur Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)

10:00 The Berkeley Low Background Facility - Keenan Thomas (LBNL / UC Berkeley)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 Assay and Screening Techniques
Assay and Screening Techniques
10:50 - 12:10
Contributions

10:50 Trace Assay of Metals Used in the Construction of Low Background Detector Systems for Thorium and Uranium - Eric Hoppe (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

11:10 The Ultratrace Determination of Thorium and Uranium in a Variety of Detector Materials and Components for Use in Ultralow Background Applications - Isaac Arnquist (PNNL)

11:30 The BetaCage, an Ultra-sensitive Screener for Surface Contamination - Richard Schnee (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)

11:50 The BiPo-3 detector for the measurement of ultra high radiopurities in Tl-208 and Bi-214 of thin materials - Xavier Sarazin (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3-CNRS / Université Paris-Sud)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 14:30
14:30 Community Coordination and Clean Electronics
Community Coordination and Clean Electronics
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Measurement of radioactive contamination with charge-coupled devices (CCDs) - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Chicago)

14:50 Progress toward Cooperative Low Background Infrastructure - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

15:10 “radiopurity.org”: A Community Assays Database - Jodi Cooley (SMU)

15:30 Topics on low activity electronics of the GERDA project - Carla Maria Cattadori (INFN Milano Bicocca)

15:50 Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Ian Guinn (University of Washington)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40

16:40

16:40 - 18:00

18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 19:00
Thursday 19 March 2015
08:30 Pure Materials
Pure Materials
08:30 - 10:10
Contributions

08:30 SABRE -- a test of DAMA/LIBRA with ultra-high purity NaI(Tl) crystals - Jingke Xu (Princeton University)

08:50 Development of low background CsI(Tl) and NaI(Tl) crystals for dark matter search - Hyun Su Lee (Ewha Womans University)

09:10 Radiopure ZnMoO4 scintillating bolometers for the LUMINEU double-beta experiment - Denys Poda (Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, CSNSM, 91405 Orsay, France and Institute for Nuclear Research, MSP 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine)

09:30 Development of low radioactivity 40Ca100MoO4 crystal scintillators for the AMORE double beta decay search - HongJoo Kim (Kyungpook National University)

09:50 Polymer Materials and Assay for Low Background Detectors - Jay W. Grate (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 Pure Materials (continued)
Pure Materials (continued)
10:40 - 12:20
Contributions

10:40 Electroforming Copper for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Experiment - Cabot-Ann Christofferson (South Dakota School of Mines of Technology)

11:00 Study of the Kroll-Process to Produce Ultra-Pure Ti for the Low Background Experiments - Alexander Chepurnov (s: Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics Lomonosov Moscow State University (SINP MSU))

11:20 Radon emanation based material measurement and selection for the SuperNEMO double beta experiment - Cédric Cerna (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan)

11:40 Low-Background Acrylic in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment - Aksel Hallin (University of Alberta)

12:00 Surface purity control during XMASS detector refurbishment - Kazuyoshi Kobayashi (ICRR, University of Tokyo)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:30
14:30 Liquid and Gas Purity
Liquid and Gas Purity
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Radon and its Progeny: A pervasive problem for low-background counting - Frank Calaprice (Princeton)

14:50 Liquid Xenon Purification and De-Radonation - Andrea Pocar (UMass Amherst)

15:10 Radon and material radiopurity assessment for the NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Susana Cebrian (University of Zaragoza)

15:30 The NEST simulation framework for low energy response in liquid xenon - Brian Lenardo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:50 Expected background in the LZ experiment - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40 Liquid and Gas Purity (continued)
Liquid and Gas Purity (continued)
16:40 - 18:00
Contributions

16:40 Measurements and understanding of radon adsorption in nanoporous materials - Raymond NOEL (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))

17:00 Ultra-low Level Radon Assays in Gases - XinRan Liu (University College London)

17:20 Background reduction of a spherical gaseous detector - Ali DASTGHEIBI FARD (CNRS/IN2P3/LSM)

17:40 Selective precipitation of potassium in seawater samples for improving the sensitivity of plain γ-ray spectrometry - Marco Ferrante (Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso - INFN) Matthias Laubenstein (Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso - INFN) Stefano Nisi (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso - INFN)
18:00 Workshop Banquet
Workshop Banquet
18:00 - 20:00
Friday 20 March 2015
08:30 Liquid Purity
Liquid Purity
08:30 - 09:50
Contributions

08:30 Quest for Lowest Energy Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande - Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

08:50 Assay and identification of particulate contaminants from the PICO dark matter search experiment - Pitam Mitra (University of Alberta)

09:10 Radiopure Metal-doped Liquid Scintillator - Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 A Scintillator Purification Plant and Fluid Handling System for SNO+ - Richard Ford (SNOLAB)
09:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:20
10:20 Cosmogenics
Cosmogenics
10:20 - 12:00
Contributions

10:20 FLUKA, Predictive Power for Cosmogenic Backgrounds - Anton Empl (University of Houston)

10:40 Study of Muon-Induced Neutron Production Using Test Beam Facility at CERN - Yasuhiro Nakajima (LBNL)

11:00 Monte Carlo Study and Data Analysis of the Neutron Multiplicity Meter - Yu Chen (Syracuse University)

11:20 Comparison of Radiogenic Neutron Background Calculations - Kimberly Palladino (SLAC)

11:40 Fast Neutron Backgrounds As A Function Of Depth Underground - Caleb Roecker (University California Berkeley)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:40
13:40 Background Modeling and Measurements
Background Modeling and Measurements
13:40 - 15:20
Contributions

13:40 Background analysis techniques in the CUORE experiment - Barbara Wang (University of California, Berkeley)

14:00 Radiation Background of PandaX Experiment at China Jingping Uderground Lab - Changbo Fu (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

14:20 Background analysis and status of the ANAIS dark matter project. - Clara Cuesta (University of Washington)

14:40 Background investigation in EDELWEISS-III - Silvia Scorza (KIT)

15:00 Reduction of Backgrounds for SuperCDMS - Raymond Bunker (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
15:20 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
15:20 - 15:40
15:40 Background Modeling and Measurements (continued)
Background Modeling and Measurements (continued)
15:40 - 17:15
Contributions

15:40 Low-background techniques applied in the Borexino experiment - Grzegorz Zuzel (Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)

16:00 Background reduction in the SNO+ Experiment - Laura Segui (University of Oxford)

16:20 Results and perspectives of the GERDA experiment - Bela Majorovits (MPI für Physik)

16:40 Low background techniques in CANDLES - Kyohei Nakajima (Osaka University)

17:00 Closing Remarks
17:15 Adjourn
Adjourn
17:15 - 18:15