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
    • Registration
    • 1
      Welcome : A. Lucotte - LPSC director
      Transparents
    • 2
      Introduction : G. Gerbier
      Transparents
    • 3
      NEWS-G implementation at LSM : M. Zampaolo, M. Gros
      Transparents
    • 4
      What has been learnt from first installation at LSM : P. Gros
      Transparents
    • 5
      Sphere cleaning : P. Knights
      Transparents
    • 6
      Pb210 measurements with XMASS : D. Durnford
      Transparents
    • 15:50
      Coffee break
    • 7
      Preliminary results and Run Plans : I. Katsioulas
      Transparents
    • 8
      Status of SEDINE : A. Dastgheibi Fard
      Transparents
    • 9
      Discussion
    • 10
      LSM decommissioning, packing and transport : M. Zampaolo, K. Dering
      Transparents
    • 11
      NEWS-G Implementation at SNOLAB : K. Dering, S. Crawford
      Transparents
    • 12
      Schedule : P. Gros
      Transparents
    • 13
      Outcomes of TDR and EAC : G. Gerbier
      Transparents
    • 14
      Quenching factor at TUNL : M. Vidal
      Transparents
    • 15
      Quenching factor at Grenoble : D. Santos
      Transparents
    • 10:40
      Coffee break
    • 16
      Quenching factor at Queen's : J-F. Caron
      Transparents
    • 17
      Pure CH4 run : performances and safety : G. Gerbier, M. Zampaolo
      Transparents
    • 18
      Gas purification requirements/status/prospects : MC. Piro / P. Gros
      Transparents
    • 19
      Slow control : P. Gros/P. Gorel
      Transparents
    • 20
      Calibration sources : P. Gorel
      Transparents
    • 21
      Discussion
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 22
      Overview of on going analysis, publications : G. Giroux
      Transparents
    • 23
      Background simulations status : A. Brossard
      Transparents
    • 24
      SEDINE low energy backgrounds : D. Durnford
      Transparents
    • 25
      Machine Learning use for event identification : A. Rolland
      Transparents
    • 26
      Single electron challenge - P. Lautridou
      Transparents
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 27
      KK axion search results : F. Vasquez de Sola
      Transparents
    • 28
      Sensitivity projections : D. Durnford
      Transparents
    • 29
      Sensor development and testing : I. Savvidis and I Giomataris
      Transparents
    • 30
      Acquisition achinos 2 channels : P. Gros
      Transparents
    • 31
      Discussion
    • NEWS-G board meeting : NEWS-G Team leaders
    • 20:00
      Collaboration Dinner
    • 32
      Intro on bb with spheres and status of R2D2 : F Piquemal / A Meregaglia
      Transparents
    • 33
      Gas purification : goals and status : J Busto / MC Piro
      Transparents
    • 34
      Data treatment, noise : issues : P Lautridou
      Transparents
    • 35
      Low background requirements : A Meregaglia
      Transparents
    • 10:00
      Coffee break
    • 36
      Future of NEWS-G at LSM and SNOLAB : G Giroux, I Giomataris
      Transparents
    • 37
      Developement of Fe55 low intensity internal source : D. Kelly
      Transparents
    • 38
      Summary of Board meeting : G Gerbier
    • 39
      Discussion
    • 40
      Closing - G Gerbier
    • 12:30
      Meal tray Lunch
    • Travel to LSM LPSC

      LPSC

    • LSM Visit
    • Travel to LPSC