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Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT2024)

from Tuesday, 1 October 2024 (07:30) to Friday, 4 October 2024 (19:00)
Kraków, Poland (PAU)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024
3 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024
AM
07:30 --- Check-in ---
08:30 Welcome - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University)   (PAU)
08:40
History Talks - Carlos Peña Garay (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc) (until 09:45) (PAU)
08:40 Pioneering experiments in dark matter and neutrinos - Frank Avignone (University of South Carolina)   (PAU)
09:20 The BOREXINO low-background techniques - Hardy Simgen (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   (PAU)
09:45
Underground Laboratories - Carlos Peña Garay (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc) (until 11:00) (PAU)
09:45 Underground laboratories in Asia - Atsushi Takeda (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)   (PAU)
10:10 Underground laboratories in North America - Jeter Hall (SNOLAB)   (PAU)
10:35 Underground laboratories in Europe - Sean Paling   (PAU)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Underground Laboratories - Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS) (until 12:10) (PAU)
11:20 Underground laboratories in in the southern hemisphere - Gregory Lane (Australian National University)   (PAU)
11:45 Status and future prospect of the Kamioka ultra-low BG facility - Koichi Ichimura (Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University)   (PAU)
08:00 --- Check-in ---
08:30
Noble Element Based Detectors - Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama) (until 11:05) (PAU)
08:30 Rare event searches with Xenon detectors - Ryan MacLellan (University of Kentucky)   (PAU)
08:55 Rare event searches with argon detectors - Michela Lai (University of California Riverside)   (PAU)
09:20 Performance of radiopure large-area SiPM arrays for DarkSide-20k - Andrea Marasciulli (INFN-LNGS)   (PAU)
09:45 The Underground Argon program of the GADMC - Vicente Pesudo Fortes (CIEMAT - LSC)   (PAU)
10:05 Measurement of the Kr-85 Activity in the GERDA Liquid Argon - Luigi Pertoldi (Technical University of Munich)   (PAU)
10:25 Mitigation studies of K-42 in liquid argon for LEGEND - Mario Schwarz (TUM)   (PAU)
10:45 Self-supervised Pretraining and $^{42}$K Surface Beta Events Tagging for LEGEND - Niko Lay (Physics Department, School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)   (PAU)
11:05 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Noble Element Based Detectors - Jeter Hall (SNOLAB) (until 11:50) (PAU)
11:30 $^{212}$Pb and $^{214}$Pb Beta Decay Branching Ratios Measurement with XENONnT - Cecilia Ferrari (GSSI)   (PAU)
11:50
Liquid Scintillators and Cherenkov Detectors - Jeter Hall (SNOLAB) (until 13:25) (PAU)
11:50 Liquid scintillator purification for SNO+ - Aleksandra Bialek (SNOLAB)   (PAU)
12:15 Te purification for SNO+ - Szymon Manecki (SNOLAB)   (PAU)
12:40 Purification strategy of the JUNO liquid scintillator - Cecilia Landini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – sezione di Milano)   (PAU)
13:05 A Cherenkov muon veto detector - Donatella Tozzi (Roma1 Sapienza and INFN)   (PAU)
08:00 --- Check-in ---
08:30
Rn Detection and Mitigation - Hardy Simgen (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik) (until 10:40) (PAU)
08:30 High sensitivity Rn studies: review - Florian Jörg (Universität Zürich)   (PAU)
08:55 Reduction of radon in xenon-based experiments to search for rare events - Christian Weinheimer (University of Muenster, Institute for Nuclear Physics)   (PAU)
09:20 Ultra Low Background Radon Measurement System and Radon Removal Techniques for Rare Event Experiments - Yuan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)   (PAU)
09:40 State-of-the-art surface coating for radon background mitigation - Giovanni Volta (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   (PAU)
10:00 Study and development of new radon adsorbents - the IRENE project - Jose Busto (CPPM / Univ Aix-Marseille)   (PAU)
10:20 Radon daughter deposition modelling and measument - Ali Dastgheibi Fard (CNRS/LPSC_LMS (FR))   (PAU)
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Production of Radiopure Materials - Yuri Efremenko (University of Tennessee) (until 12:30) (PAU)
11:00 Copper electroforming at Canfranc - Silvia Borjabad Sánchez (Canfranc Underground Laboratory)   (PAU)
11:25 Radiopure PEN for Rare-Event Searches - Andreas Leonhardt (TUM)   (PAU)
11:50 On the manufacturing process of novel ultra-radiopure, high-strength, electroformed Cu-based alloys for rare event searches - Dimitra Spathara (University of Birmingham)   (PAU)
12:10 Archaeological Lead purification for RES-NOVA - Giovanni Benato (Gran Sasso Science Institute)   (PAU)
08:30
Neutron Background Mitigation - Sean Paling (until 10:20) (PAU)
08:30 Measuring underground neutrons with the high-efficiency neutron spectrometry array (HENSA): current status and future prospects - Ariel Tarifeno-Saldivia (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (CSIC-UV))   (PAU)
08:55 Calculation and Mitigation of Neutron-Induced Backgrounds in Rare Event Search Experiments - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Madrid)   (PAU)
09:20 Optimised neutron yield calculations from (α,n) reactions with the modified SOURCES4 code - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)   (PAU)
09:40 Development of a GAGG-based low-background neutron detector - Giovanni Benato (Gran Sasso Science Institute)   (PAU)
10:00 Gd-PMMA: a novel neutron tagging technology for low background detectors - Yi Wang (IHEP, CAS)   (PAU)
10:20
Bolometers - Sean Paling (until 11:05) (PAU)
10:20 Rare event search with cryogenic calorimeters - Lorenzo Pagnanini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)   (PAU)
10:45 Development of a Silicon Bolometer for Rare Event Detection with LED Self-Calibration - Anastasiia Shaikina (GSSI)   (PAU)
11:05 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Experiments Background, Models & Simulations - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Madrid) (until 13:10) (PAU)
11:30 Radioassays for the LEGEND 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Louis Varriano (University of Washington)   (PAU)
11:50 Analysis of the backgrounds in the LEGEND-200 experiment - Toby Dixon (UCL)   (PAU)
12:10 Latest results from the CUORE experiment - Stefano Dell'Oro (Università di Milano-Bicocca)   (PAU)
12:30 Exploring the keV scale energy spectrum of CUORE - Alberto Ressa (INFN Roma1)   (PAU)
12:50 Backgrounds of the CUPID experiment - Pia Loaiza (IJCLab CNRS/Université Paris Saclay)   (PAU)
PM
12:10
Low Background Assay Techniques - Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS) (until 13:45) (PAU)
12:10 Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry: An Ultrasensitive Tool for Ultralow Background Physics - Isaac Arnquist (PNNL)   (PAU)
12:35 Low radioactivity measurements based on ICP-MS at Canfranc Underground laboratory. - Laura Cid-Barrio (Canfranc Underground Laboratory)   (PAU)
13:00 Measurement of trace radioactivity with Neutron Activation Analysis - Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama)   (PAU)
13:25 GeMPI-Neo - A next generation material screening station - Nicola Ackermann (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   (PAU)
13:45 --- Lunch ---
15:00
Low Background Assay Techniques - Isaac Arnquist (PNNL) (until 16:40) (PAU)
15:00 Secular disequilibrium in radiopure materials - Tyler Schlieder (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   (PAU)
15:20 Performing matrix extraction and characterization of copper samples by High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry - Francesco Ferella (INFN - LNGS)   (PAU)
15:40 Ultra-sensitive analysis with neutron activation of U, Th and K in the liquid scintillator of the JUNO experiment - Andrea Barresi (Università Milano-Bicocca)   (PAU)
16:00 The CAGe germanium array at the Center for Underground Physics. - Douglas Leonard (IBS Center for Underground Physics)   (PAU)
16:20 A gaseous time projection chamber with Micromegas readout for low-radioactive material screening - Wenming Zhang (School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)   (PAU)
16:40 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Mitigation of Surface Contamination - Pia Loaiza (IJCLab CNRS/Université Paris Saclay) (until 18:10) (PAU)
17:00 Informing dust backgrounds on low-background detector materials using ICP-MS - Maria Laura di Vacri (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   (PAU)
17:25 Surface cleaning techniques - Oscar Azzolini (INFN Legnaro)   (PAU)
17:50 Performance and Applications of the XIA UltraLo-1800 and ICP-MS at Boulby Underground Laboratory - Sid Ahmed Maouloud (Boulby Underground Laboratory)   (PAU)
18:10
Radiation Impact on Quantum Systems - Pia Loaiza (IJCLab CNRS/Université Paris Saclay) (until 18:55) (PAU)
18:10 Impact of Radioactivity on Quantum Circuits: European Laboratories - Laura Cardani (INFN - Roma)   (PAU)
18:35 Abatement of Ionizing Radiation for Superconducting Quantum Devices - Ben Loer (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   (PAU)
19:00 --- Welcome reception ---
13:25 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Crystals Scintillators - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield) (until 15:45) (PAU)
14:30 Developments, features and perspectives of radiopure crystal scintillators of the Cs2MCl6 family (M = Hf or Zr) to search for rare processes - Alice Leoncini (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)   (PAU)
14:55 Production of highly radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals applied to dark matter search - Claudia Tomei (INFN Sezione di Roma)   (PAU)
15:20 Ultra-purification and mass-production of NaI powder for COSINE-200 - Olga Gileva (Center for Underground Physics, IBS, Korea)   (PAU)
15:45
Cosmogenic Backgrounds & Material Activation - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield) (until 16:35) (PAU)
15:45 Cosmogenic activation in materials used in low background experiments - Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)   (PAU)
16:10 Cosmogenic activation backgrounds - Richard Saldanha (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   (PAU)
16:35 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Cosmogenic Backgrounds & Material Activation - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield) (until 18:40) (PAU)
17:00 Tritium Production in SuperCDMS - Sagar Sharma Poudel (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)   (PAU)
17:20 Neutron Activation Background in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Tom Rushton (University of Sheffield)   (PAU)
17:40 A 14C Screening Setup for Liquid Scintillator at JUNO - Mingxia Sun (IHEP)   (PAU)
18:00 Online Low Background Tools - Ben Loer (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   (PAU)
18:40
Poster Session (until 20:00) (PAU)
19:00 High sensitivity Rn emanation studies applying cryogenic detector - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University)   (PAU)
19:20 Mitigating radon backgrounds in dark matter searches - Sophie Carroll (STFC)   (PAU)
19:40 Acrylic and liquid scintillator radiopurity screening by ICP-MS for the JUNO experiment - Jie Zhao (Institute Of High Energy Physics)   (PAU)
19:40 Background analysis of the large-surface, low-background alpha spectrometer - Milena Czubak (Jagiellonian University)   (PAU)
19:40 Background mitigation techniques with the NEWS-G dark matter detector - Pierre Gorel (SNOLAB//Laurentian University)   (PAU)
19:40 DarkSide-20k Veto photon-detector units: construction and characterisation - Iftikhar Ahmad (AstroCeNT and Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK PAN))   (PAU)
19:40 Data-driven background model for the CUORE experiment and measurement of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Te-130 - Stefano Ghislandi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)   (PAU)
19:40 Developing a cryogenic heat pump for liquid xenon radon removal systems - Philipp Schulte (Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Münster)   (PAU)
19:40 Developing the low radon ultra-pure water for the JUNO experiment - Cong Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)   (PAU)
19:40 Development and Modeling of a Thin, Radiopure Germanium Detector Entrance Window - Benjamin Foust (Pacific Northwest National Laborator)   (PAU)
19:40 Low background Ge gamma spectrometry of thick samples - Ivan Kontul (Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)   (PAU)
19:40 New low-background underground facility in Poland - Książ Castle - Krzysztof Szczepaniec (Jagiellonian University)   (PAU)
19:40 Production and characterization of ultra-pure copper for a low background HPGe spectrometer - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University)   (PAU)
19:40 Production of GEM-like structures using laser-cutting techniques - M. Kuźniak (Astrocent, CAMK PAN)   (PAU)
19:40 Radiation screening using Germanium detectors - Beth Green (STFC, Boulby Underground Laboratory)   (PAU)
19:40 Radioassay of lead samples using an array of HPGe detectors - Su-yeon Park (Institute for Basic Science)   (PAU)
19:40 Radiopurity procurement for AMoRE-II - Olga Gileva (Center for Underground Physics, IBS, Korea)   (PAU)
19:40 Rapid ICP-MS Analysis of Ra-226 Concentration in Ultrapure Gadolinium Sulfate Octahydrate - Keishi Hosokawa (ICRR, The University of Tokyo)   (PAU)
19:40 Status of the liquid scintillator for JUNO - Xin Ling (IHEP)   (PAU)
19:40 The Hardware Upgrades and Third Fill of DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB - Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB / Laurentian University)   (PAU)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:20 --- Excursion ---
14:00 --- Excursion ---
20:00 --- Conference dinner ---
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Experiments Background, Models & Simulations - Małgorzata Harańczyk (Jagiellonian University) (until 16:30) (PAU)
14:30 Updated background studies for the ANAIS dark matter experiment - Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)   (PAU)
14:50 BINGO: Investigation of the Majorana nature of neutrinos at the few meV level of the neutrino mass scale - Denys Poda (IJCLab, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris-Saclay University)   (PAU)
15:10 The Background Control of PandaX-4T and A Low-background PMT for PandaX-xT - Youhui Yun (ShangHai JiaoTong University)   (PAU)
15:30 Environmental radioactivity background control at JUNO - Chenyang Cui (中国科学院高能物理研究所)   (PAU)
15:50 Studies of radioactive background from environment for a potential LXe dark matter experiment at Boulby - Jemima Tranter (University of Sheffield)   (PAU)
16:10 Environment background at HADES - Krzysztof Pelczar (European Commission JRC Geel)   (PAU)
16:30 Close out   (PAU)
16:35 --- Coffee break ---
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