6th edition of the NEWS-G collaboration meeting

Europe/Paris
Description

NEWS-G
New Experiment With Sphere-Gas



    The NEWS-G collaboration gathers physicists interested in developing spherical gaseous detectors or SPCs (Spherical Proportional Counters) for various particle physics applications. The novel concept of SPCs was originally proposed by Ioannis Giomataris (IRFU CEA-Saclay), and developed by the Saclay, Thessaloniki, and Zaragoza teams. Specific features of these detectors include their low capacitance, low energy threshold, excellent energy resolution, single readout channel (in its simplest version), low cost, robustness, and flexibility in gas choice and operating pressure. The main goal of NEWS-G Collaboration is Light WIMPs Dark Matter search. These appealing attributes make many other including coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CeνNS) studies, double beta decay searches, gamma-ray spectroscopy, neutron spectroscopy and dark matter detection.

    The 6 th NEWS-G Collaboration meeting will be held in Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Grenoble, from June 11 th to June 13th. Collaborators, coming from all over the world (Canada, USA, UK, Greece), will present the status and the progress of the project workpackages in order to focus on the upcoming experiment at SNOLAB.

Participants
  • Alex Rolland
  • Alexis Brossard
  • Ali Dastgheibi Fard
  • Daniel Durnford
  • Daniel Santos
  • David Kelly
  • Eric Hoppe
  • Francisco Andres Vazquez de Sola
  • George Savvidis
  • Gilles Gerbier
  • Guillaume Giroux
  • Ilias Savvidis
  • Ioannis Giomataris
  • Ioannis Katsioulas
  • Jean-Francois Muraz
  • Jean-François Caron
  • Julie McDonald
  • Koby Dering
  • Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
  • Marie Vidal
  • Marie-Cécile Piro
  • Maurice Chapellier
  • Michel Gros
  • Michel ZAMPAOLO
  • Olivier Guillaudin
  • Pascal LAUTRIDOU
  • Patrick Knights
  • Philippe Gros
  • Quentin ARNAUD
  • Robert Ward
  • Ryan Martin
  • Sean Crawford
    • 13:00 14:00
      Registration
    • 14:00 14:10
      Welcome : A. Lucotte - LPSC director 10m
      Transparents
    • 14:10 14:25
      Introduction : G. Gerbier 15m
      Transparents
    • 14:25 15:00
      NEWS-G implementation at LSM : M. Zampaolo, M. Gros 35m
      Transparents
    • 15:00 15:20
      What has been learnt from first installation at LSM : P. Gros 20m
      Transparents
    • 15:20 15:35
      Sphere cleaning : P. Knights 15m
      Transparents
    • 15:35 15:50
      Pb210 measurements with XMASS : D. Durnford 15m
      Transparents
    • 15:50 16:20
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:20 16:50
      Preliminary results and Run Plans : I. Katsioulas 30m
      Transparents
    • 16:50 17:10
      Status of SEDINE : A. Dastgheibi Fard 20m
      Transparents
    • 17:10 17:30
      Discussion 20m
    • 08:30 09:00
      LSM decommissioning, packing and transport : M. Zampaolo, K. Dering 30m
      Transparents
    • 09:00 09:30
      NEWS-G Implementation at SNOLAB : K. Dering, S. Crawford 30m
      Transparents
    • 09:30 09:40
      Schedule : P. Gros 10m
      Transparents
    • 09:40 09:55
      Outcomes of TDR and EAC : G. Gerbier 15m
      Transparents
    • 09:55 10:20
      Quenching factor at TUNL : M. Vidal 25m
      Transparents
    • 10:20 10:40
      Quenching factor at Grenoble : D. Santos 20m
      Transparents
    • 10:40 11:10
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:10 11:30
      Quenching factor at Queen's : J-F. Caron 20m
      Transparents
    • 11:30 11:45
      Pure CH4 run : performances and safety : G. Gerbier, M. Zampaolo 15m
      Transparents
    • 11:45 12:05
      Gas purification requirements/status/prospects : MC. Piro / P. Gros 20m
      Transparents
    • 12:05 12:20
      Slow control : P. Gros/P. Gorel 15m
      Transparents
    • 12:20 12:35
      Calibration sources : P. Gorel 15m
      Transparents
    • 12:35 13:00
      Discussion 25m
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 14:20
      Overview of on going analysis, publications : G. Giroux 20m
      Transparents
    • 14:20 14:40
      Background simulations status : A. Brossard 20m
      Transparents
    • 14:40 14:55
      SEDINE low energy backgrounds : D. Durnford 15m
      Transparents
    • 14:55 15:10
      Machine Learning use for event identification : A. Rolland 15m
      Transparents
    • 15:10 15:30
      Single electron challenge - P. Lautridou 20m
      Transparents
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:00 16:15
      KK axion search results : F. Vasquez de Sola 15m
      Transparents
    • 16:15 16:30
      Sensitivity projections : D. Durnford 15m
      Transparents
    • 16:30 16:50
      Sensor development and testing : I. Savvidis and I Giomataris 20m
      Transparents
    • 16:50 17:05
      Acquisition achinos 2 channels : P. Gros 15m
      Transparents
    • 17:05 17:25
      Discussion 20m
    • 17:30 18:30
      NEWS-G board meeting : NEWS-G Team leaders
    • 20:00 22:00
      Collaboration Dinner 2h
    • 08:30 09:00
      Intro on bb with spheres and status of R2D2 : F Piquemal / A Meregaglia 30m
      Transparents
    • 09:00 09:20
      Gas purification : goals and status : J Busto / MC Piro 20m
      Transparents
    • 09:20 09:40
      Data treatment, noise : issues : P Lautridou 20m
      Transparents
    • 09:40 10:00
      Low background requirements : A Meregaglia 20m
      Transparents
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:30 10:50
      Future of NEWS-G at LSM and SNOLAB : G Giroux, I Giomataris 20m
      Transparents
    • 10:50 11:05
      Developement of Fe55 low intensity internal source : D. Kelly 15m
      Transparents
    • 11:05 11:20
      Summary of Board meeting : G Gerbier 15m
    • 11:20 12:20
      Discussion 1h
    • 12:20 12:30
      Closing - G Gerbier 10m
    • 12:30 13:30
      Meal tray Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      Travel to LSM LPSC

      LPSC

    • 15:00 17:30
      LSM Visit
    • 17:30 19:00
      Travel to LPSC