Darwin General Meeting

9 Dec 2013, 08:55 → 11 Dec 2013, 15:30 Europe/Rome

Sala A (UNINA Centro Congressi)

Monday 9 December

14:00 → 14:15 Welcome, logistics

Convener: Giuliana Fiorillo (NA)

14:20 → 15:40 Presentations of new groups, with focus on intended contributions to DARWIN

14:20 Purdue

Slides 20131209_naples_darwin_purdue.pdf

14:40 Imperial College

Slides TROTTA_DarwinMeetingNaplesDec13.pdf

15:00 Stockholm

Slides DARWIN_conrad_Naples_2013.pdf

15:20 Zürich

Slides Darwin-uzh-kilminster.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Strategy discussion

16:00 Status of project, past structure, future directions

Speaker: Laura Baudis

Slides baudis_darwin_dec2013.pdf

16:30 Discussions

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Tuesday 10 December

09:00 → 09:25 New detector ideas

09:00 Towards a single-phase noble-liquid TPC with S1 & S2 recording in cascaded liquid hole-multipliers

Speaker: Amos Breskin (WIS)

Slides Breskin_LHM_DARWIN_10_12_2013.pdf

09:25 → 10:15 New photosensors

09:25 Sight

Speaker: Hanguo Wang (UCLA)

Slides SIGHT-Naples-Dec-2013.pdf

09:50 VSiPMT

Speaker: Daniele Vivolo (INFN Napoli)

Slides dv_darwin2013.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 11:10 Physics reach

10:45 Scientific Reach of Darwin

Speaker: Thomas Jacques (ASU/Geneve)

Slides TJacques-Darwin-2013.pdf

11:10 → 12:00 Progress reports on various topics

11:10 Neutrino physics with DARWIN

Speaker: Alex Kish (UZH)

Slides kish-Darwin_Naples_Dec2013_v2.pdf

11:35 Electrostatic Field Calculations for DARWIN

Speaker: Julien Wulf (KIT/UZH)

Slides DARWIN_Dec2013_Julien.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Plans of publication of ASPERA final report (white paper)

12:00 Target journal

12:20 Writing committee

12:40 Timeline for a paper

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

15:00 → 18:30 Naples Walking Tour

Wednesday 11 December

09:00 → 10:15 Progress reports on various topics

09:00 Radon assays in the XENON1T experiment

Speaker: Stefan Bruenner (MPIK)

Slides darwin_bruenner.pdf

09:25 Tests of XENON1T PMTs

Speaker: Meike Danisch (MPIK)

Slides Danish.pdf

09:50 Testing new PMTs R10551 for Dark Matter Search

Speaker: Luca Scotto Lavina (Subatech)

Slides LucaScottoLavina_PMTTestSubatech.pdf

10:15 → 10:35 Coffee

10:35 → 10:50 Group picture

10:50 → 11:40 Progress reports on various topics

10:50 ArDM and the NR experiment

Speaker: Christian Regenfus (ETH)

Slides LArETH.pdf

11:15 The Mainz TPC: a two-phase Xenon TPC for R&D towards future Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Cyril Grignon (Mainz)

Slides Grignon-2013Dec11_Darwin.pdf

11:40 → 13:00 Concrete plans for Horizon2020 proposal writing

document Possible_structure_for_Horizon2020_proposal.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch, departure