Nagoya Workshop on Technology and Instrumentation in Future Liquid Noble Gas Detectors

Scientific program

Topics

  •  Physics program of future direct dark matter searches
  •  New detector design and novel TPCs: single-phase TPC, solid-Xe TPC, hermetic TPC, electrodes, and etc
  •  New photosensors and charge readout: PMT, SiPM and etc
  •  Novel purification for radioactive and non-radioactive impurities
  •  Accidental coincidence and single-electron  backgrounds

Preliminary Speaker List

Physics program of future direct dark matter searches:

Marc Schumann (Freiburg): Overview of future LXe-based DM searches 
Masayuki Wada (Warsaw): Overview of future LAr-based DM searches

New detector design and novel TPCs:

Kaixuan Ni (UCSD): Single-phase LXe TPC
Hiroyuki Sekiya (Tokyo): Single-phase LXe TPC
Amos Breskin (Weizmann): Single-phase LXe TPC
Julia Mueller (Freiburg): Single-phase LXe TPC
Peter Sorensen (LBNL): Solid Xe TPC
Marc Schumann (Freiburg): Hermetic LXe TPC
Masatoshi Kobayashi (Nagoya): Hermetic LXe TPC
Francesco Toschi (KIT): Design and Performance of XENONnT TPC
Tom Shut (SLAC): The LZ grid program, and electrodes for XLZD
Yanina Biondi (KIT): R&Ds on DARWIN electrode and high-voltage feed through
Yi Wang (IHEP): Dual-phase Argon TPC from Darkside-50 to Darkside-20k and Darkside-LowMass
Kiseki Nakamura (Tohoku): Design and Performance of AXEL TPC
Krishan Mistry (UT Arlington): Design and Performance of NEXT-100 TPC
Jose Cuenca (Zurich): DARWIN demonstrator

Accidental coincidence and single-electron/S2-only BGs: 

Fei Gao (Tsinghua): AC and single-e/S2-only BG at XENON1T/nT
Jingke Xu (LLNL): AC and single-e/S2-only BG at LUX/LZ
Qing Lin (USTC): AC and single-e/S2-only BG at PandaX
Masato Kimura (Warsaw):  single-e/S2-only BG at Darkside

New Photosensors and Charge readout:

Toshiyuki Iwamoto (Tokyo): SiPMs for MEG
Giacomo Gallina (Princeton): SiPMs for nEXO
Giacomo Gallina (Princeton): SiPMs for Darkside-20k
Shingo Kazama (Nagoya) SiPMs for DARWIN
Ko Abe (Tokyo): PMTs for XMASS and DARWIN
Lingyin Luo (Peking): PMTs for PandaX-4T and 40T
Evan Angelico (Stanford): Analog charge readout at nEXO & Cold ASIC electronics in LXe

Novel purification for radioactive and non-radioactive impurities 

Masaki Yamashita (Tokyo): LXe Purification for XENON and DARWIN
Zhou Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong): LXe Purification for PandaX-4T and 40T
Carter Hall (Maryland): Purification results from the LZ WIMP search
Federico Gabriele (LNGS):  UAr Production for Darkside-20k (Urania, Aria, and DArT)
Lutz Althüser (Munster): Radon distillation for future LXe experiments
Giovanni Volta (MPIK): Surface coating for radon reduction