Name: LIDINE 2021: LIght Detection In Noble Elements
Start: 2021-09-14T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-09-17T23:59:00-07:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 13 September 2021
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
07:00
07:00 - 09:15
Contributions

07:00 Introduction - Kaixuan Ni (UCSD)

07:05 LArTPC for Neutrino Detection (Keynote) - Elena Gramellini (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

07:45 Noble Element Detectors for Rare Event Searches (Keynote) - Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

08:25 Status of the LZ Dark Matter Experiment - Sally Shaw (UCSB)

08:45 Sensitivity of the nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Brian Lenardo (Stanford University)

09:00 GammaTPC: a LAr TPC for MeV Gamma Rays - Tom Shutt (SLAC)
09:15

09:15 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 Scintillation and ionisation response of the ReD double-phase argon TPC - Marco Rescigno (INFN/Roma)

10:15 Study of Charge and Light Correlation in Electron Beam Energy Response in DUNE's prototype ProtoDUNE-SP LArTPC - Zelimir Djurcic (Argonne National Lab)

10:30 LArQL: A phenomenological model for treating light and charge generation in liquid argon - Franciole Marinho (UFSCar)

10:45 Primary Scintillation in Ar-based Mixtures Aimed at Providing a To-signal in DUNE ND-GAr - Diego González-Díaz (University of Santiago de Compostela)

11:00 Predicting transport effects of scintillation light signals in large-scale liquid argon detectors - Patrick Green (The University of Manchester)

11:15 Measuring the Rayleigh Scattering Length of Liquid Argon in ProtoDUNE-SP - Kyle Spurgeon (Syracuse University)

11:30 Preliminary studies towards spectroscopic-based particle discrimination in Ar - Vicente Pesudo Fortes (CIEMAT)

11:45 Xenon doping of Liquid Argon in ProtoDUNE Single Phase - Niccolo' Gallice (Università degli Studi di Milano - INFN Milano)

12:00 Delayed electron emission in DarkSide-50 double phase liquid argon TPC - Masayuki Wada (AstroCeNT)

12:15 Long afterglow: physical and chemical effects of impurities in bulk media and on surfaces in Ar and Xe detectors. - Sergey Pereverzev (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
12:30

12:30 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:30
Contributions

13:00 Charge and Light Sensing in Noble Liquid TPCs (Keynote) - Veljko Radeka (Brookhaven National Laboratory )

13:40 The DUNE Vertical Drift Photon Detection System - Laura Paulucci, for the DUNE Collaboration

13:55 Wavelength-Shifting Performance of Polyethylene Naphthalate Films in a Liquid Argon Environment - Ryan Dorrill (Illinois Institute of Technology)

14:10 Amorphous Selenium based VUV Photodetector for use in Liquid Noble Detectors - Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)

14:25 Assembly and characterization of a large area VUV sensitive SiPM array for the nEXO TPC teststand at Stanford - Jacopo Dalmasson (Stanford University)

14:40 Direct detection of argon scintillation light using VUV-sensitive silicon photomultipliers - Teal Pershing (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

14:55 Overview and Current Status of the X-ARAPUCA Light Collection System in SBND - Polina Abratenko
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
07:00
07:00 - 08:45
Contributions

07:00 Absolute experimental primary scintillation yield in Xe for electrons and alpha particles - C. M. B. Monteiro (Departament of Physics, University of Coimbra)

07:15 Band and Time - Resolved Scintillation for Alpha and Beta Particles in Xenon, as a Function of Pressure and Electric Field - Sara Leardini (IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

07:30 Characterization of alpha and beta interactions in liquid xenon - Florian Jörg (Max-Planck-Insitut für Kernphysik)

07:45 Scintillation and optical properties of xenon-doped liquid argon - Christoph Vogl (Technical University of Munich)

08:00 Electronic versus nuclear recoil discrimination in liquid xenon with PIXeY - Vetri Velan (University of California, Berkeley)

08:15 Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid helium-4 - Ryan Smith (UC Berkeley)

08:30 Preliminary Tests of Dual-Phase Xenon-Doped Argon Mixtures in the CHILLAX Detector - Ethan Bernard (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
08:45 Conference Photo on Zoom
Conference Photo on Zoom
08:45 - 08:55
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Scintillation light yield of solid Xenon - Marco Guarise (University of Ferrara)

09:00 Scintillation-based background rejection methods in large scale LArTPCs - Anyssa Navrer-Agasson (The University of Manchester)

09:00 Measurement of the Light-Yield in MicroBooNE with Isolated Protons - Jiaoyang Li (the University of Edinburgh)

09:00 A Monte Carlo detector response model for solar neutrino absorption on 40Ar in DEAP-3600 - Andrew Erlandson (Carleton University)

09:00 Simulating and Validating the X-ARAPUCA light sensors - Gustavo Valdiviesso (Universidade Federal de Alfenas Unifal-MG)

09:00 Measurements of the X-Arapuca single-cell light detection efficiency. - Henrique Souza (University of Campinas) Ettore Segreto (Unicamp)

09:00 Role of a-Se device configuration in UV detection efficiency characterized by Time of Flight - Kaitlin Hellier (University of California, Santa Cruz)
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 The liquid argon scintillation detection system for LEGEND-200 - Stefan Schönert (TUM)

10:15 Status and prospects of the NEXT experiment - Lior Arazi (Unit of Nuclear Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel)

10:30 Status and perspectives of the PETALO project - Paola Ferrario (Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC))

10:45 First Results from the Light only Liquid Xenon experiment - Austin de St. Croix (Queens University/TRIUMF)

11:00 Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon Scintillation for Positron Emission Tomography - Alejandro Ramirez (University of Houston)

11:15 HeRALD: A Superfluid Helium Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detector - Roger Romani (UC Berkeley)

11:30 A 10-kg LAr bubble chamber for sub-keV nuclear recoil detection -- Update and Calibration Strategies - Eric Dahl (Northwestern University)

11:45 Precision CEvNS measurements with liquid argon scintillators for COHERENT - Daniel Joseph Salvat (Indiana University)

12:00 Low Energy Physics Sensitivity in a Radiopure DUNE-like Detector - Eric Church (PNNL)

12:15 Searches for new physics with a stopped-pion source at the Fermilab accelerator complex - Jacob Zettlemoyer (Fermilab)
12:30

12:30 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Physics Modeling of Xenon and Argon detectors with the Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) - Kirsten McMichael (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

13:15 A first-principles approach to electron-ion recombination in liquid xenon - Olivia Piazza

13:30 Characterizing electroluminescence region of the NEXT high pressure gaseous xenon TPC with Kr gas - Jonathan Haefner (Harvard University)

13:45 Salting as a bias mitigation technique in LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) - Tyler Anderson (SLAC)

14:00 Lightmap reconstruction in nEXO with an internal xenon 127 source - Clarke Hardy (Stanford University)

14:15 Optical Modeling and Position Reconstruction for DarkSide-20k - Michael Poehlmann (University of California, Davis)

14:30 Measurement of the Scintillation Light Triggering Efficiency in MicroBooNE - Vincent Basque (Fermilab)

14:45 Measurement of the total neutron cross section on argon in the 30 to 70 keV energy range - Tyler Erjavec (University of California Davis)
Thursday, 16 September 2021
07:00
07:00 - 09:30
Contributions

07:00 Mind the (gas) gap: a single-phase liquid xenon TPC - Adam Brown (University of Freiburg)

07:15 Prospects of S2 analysis in single-phase liquid xenon TPCs - Fabian Kuger (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg)

07:30 Proposal of a Geiger-geometry Single Phase Time Projection Chamber as Potential Detector Technique for next-generation large-scale dark matter search detector - Qing Lin (University of Science and Technology of China)

07:45 Detection of Electroluminescence in Liquid Xenon with a Radial Time Projection Chamber - Jianyang Qi (UCSD)

08:00 Understanding the impact of high voltage electrodes on low-energy dark matter searches with the LZ dual phase xenon TPC - Ryan Linehan

08:15 Latest Results from the Xenon Breakdown Apparatus - Reed Watson (University of California, Berkeley)

08:30 Dielectric Strength of Noble and Quenched Gases for High Pressure Time Projection Chambers - Logan Norman

08:45 A new high voltage cable feedthrough concept for future dark matter and neutrino experiments - Luca Pagani (University of California at Davis)

09:00 Low Threshold Operation of the Scintillating Xenon Bubble Chamber - Matthew Bressler (Drexel University)

09:15 A proposal to use neutron captures as a source of ultra-low energy nuclear-recoils in liquid xenon - Chami Amarasinghe (University of Michigan)
09:30

09:30 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 Development of analog signal transmission in LAr for DUNE - Sabrina Sacerdoti (APC-Paris,France)

10:15 Organic photosensors for detection of VUV scintillation light - Michael Febbraro (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:30 Track imaging in noble liquid detectors - Valerio Pia

10:45 Increasing photodetector light collection with metalenses - Chris Stanford (Harvard University)

11:00 Assembly and test of a prototype nEXO charge-readout module with built-in, cryogenic ASIC readout - Evan Angelico (Stanford University)

11:15 The SBND Photon Detection System - Vincent Basque (Fermilab)

11:30 Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC - Inés Gil-Botella (CIEMAT Madrid)

11:45 Characterization of the DUNE photodetectors and study of the event burst phenomenon - Tommaso Giammaria

12:00 Pyrene-polystyrene wavelength shifters for liquid argon experiments - Hicham Benmansour (Queen's University)

12:15 Optical Light Collection Amount Studies for Dedicated Measurements - A. Carolina Garcia B.
12:30

12:30 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Simulations of Geometric Aspects for ARAPUCA Designs - Marcio Rostirolla Adames (UTFPR)

13:15 Demonstration of ~ns timing resolution in MicroBooNE Photon Detection System - Dante Totani (University of California, Santa Barbra)

13:30 Photon detection probability predictionusing one-dimensional generative neural network - Wei Mu (Fermilab)

13:45 Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution - Ander Simón Estévez (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

14:00 Neutrino Backgrounds in Future Liquid Noble Element Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Pietro Giampa (SNOLAB)

14:15 Neutral bremsstrahlung calculations for TPCs - Pablo Amedo (Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE, USC))

14:30 Study of the luminescence of He/CF4 mixture for the CYGNO detector - Andrea Messina (Sapienza Università di Roma & INFN)

14:45 Nucleation efficiency of nuclear recoils in bubble chambers - Daniel Durnford (University of Alberta)
Friday, 17 September 2021
07:00
07:00 - 09:30
Contributions

07:00 XENONnT light sensors: performance and reliability - Giovanni Volta (University of Zurich)

07:15 Improved quality tests of R11410-21 photomultiplier tubes - Luisa Hoetzsch (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

07:30 The ABALONE Photosensor - Valerio D'Andrea (UnivAQ & LNGS)

07:45 Very-thick transparent GEMs with wavelength-shifting capability for noble element TPCs - Marcin Kuźniak (AstroCeNT / CAMK PAN)

08:00 The Bubble-Free Liquid Hole-Multiplier: a New Concept for Primary and Secondary Scintillation Detection in Noble-Liquid Detectors - Arindam Roy (Unit of Nuclear Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel)

08:15 Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material with wavelength shifting capabilities in the LEGEND experiment - Luis Manzanillas (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

08:30 Polyethylene naphthalate wavelength shifter development and comparison with TPB using 2PAC - Cenk Turkoglu (AstroCeNT)

08:45 R&D and characterization of wavelength-shifting reflectors for LEGEND-200 and for future LAr-based detectors - Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo (University of Zurich)

09:00 CMOS based SPAD Arrays for light detection in rare event search experiments - Michael Keller (Heidelberg University)
09:30

09:30 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 Results from the Xeclipse Liquid Purification Test System for XENONnT - Joseph Howlett

10:15 Purification of large volume of liquid argon for the LEGEND-200 experiment - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University)

10:30 Modeling the Effect of Impurities on the Electron Lifetime in Liquid Xenon for nEXO - Ako Jamil (Yale University)

10:45 Measurement of the underground argon radiopurity for Dark Matter direct searches - Pablo Garcia Abia (CIEMAT)

11:00 The LZ Krypton Removal Chromatography System - Andrew Ames (SLAC, Stanford University)

11:15 CrystaLiZe: A Solid Future for LZ - Scott Kravitz (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

11:30 Development of a Pulsed VUV Light Source With Adjustable Intensity - Austin McDonald (University of Texas at Arlington)

11:45 Fluorescence light yield and time constants of acrylic (PMMA) excited with UV light - Emma Ellingwood (Queen's University)

12:00 Development and characterization of a slow wavelength shifting coating for background rejection in liquid argon detectors - David Gallacher (Carleton University)

12:15 Barium Tagging for the NEXT Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Program - Karen Navarro (University of Texas at Arlington)
12:30
12:30 - 12:45
Contributions

12:30 Closing Remarks, Poster Awards, Next Conference, etc.