Gran Sasso Summer Institute 2014 - Hands-On Experimental Underground Physics at LNGS

Europe/Rome
LNGS

LNGS

Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi (L'Aquila)
Description

The aim of the Institute is to get PhD students directly involved into the research projects of LNGS, the world-leading laboratory for underground astroparticle physics and nuclear astrophysics.
Hands-on activities will focus on the following topics:
- Dark matter (DAMA, XENON, DARK SIDE, CRESST)
- Neutrinoless double beta decay (GERDA, CUORE, LUCIFER)
- Neutrino oscillations (BOREXINO, OPERA, ICARUS)
- Nuclear astrophysics (LUNA)
- Low radioactivity measurements (STELLA)
- Geodesy and general relativity (GINGER)

A series of lectures will provide the background needed for the proposed activities. Students will report their results at the end of the Institute in a proceedings paper on a peer-reviewed journal.

The school is limited to 30 participants. The selection of participants is now finished and results of the selection were individually notified by email.

FEE
Summer Institute fee is 400 euros.
Unfortunately it was not possible to accept all fee waiver applications due to budget constraints.
Applicants can can send bank transfer to the following bank account:
Bank name: UNICREDIT BANCA, FRASCATI, I.N.F.N.
Bank account holder: CONTO CONGRESSI E FORESTERIE LNGS
IBAN: IT 13 V 02008 39105 000102577667
BIC / SWIFT: UNCRITM1385
Reason for payment (very important!): SUMMER INSTITUTE FEE
Deadline for payment is September 1st, 2014.
You can also use your debit / credit card by using the point of sale payment machine (POS) at LNGS Administration Office in the first 2 days of school.

LODGING
Students will be lodged at a nearby hotel. B&B cost and meals will be covered by the Organizing Committee.


TRAVEL INFO
Unfortunately no airfare support is possible due to bodget constraints.
The Organizing Committee will provide shuttle bus from Rome airports on September 21 and from LNGS to airports on October 3 at no cost for the students. Timetable will be finalized soon.
Furthermore daily shuttle buses will pickup people from hotel and will bring them back at the end of each school day.
Furthermore also buses to excursions in the weekend are included in the transportation plan of the Summer Institute which is completely covered by the organizing committee.
Check Venue and travel info section for more detailed information.

 

Poster
Participants
  • Aashaq Shah
  • ABHISHEK KUMAR
  • Alina Vishneva
  • AMINA KHATUN
  • Ander Simón Estévez
  • Animesh Chatterjee
  • ANKIT GAUR
  • Anthony Ezeribe
  • Axel Boeltzig
  • Beata Fabianczyk
  • Benjamin Broerman
  • Benjamin Shanks
  • Brett Cornell
  • Bárbara-Rosario Montes Núñez
  • Cecilia Bruhn
  • Dana Byram
  • Deepak Tiwari
  • EKTA SHAH
  • Federico Ferraro
  • Francesco Piastra
  • gennadii volkov
  • Geon-Bo Kim
  • Gonzalo Martínez
  • Ian Guinn
  • Igor Shandrov
  • Ildikó Stark
  • JAFAR SADIQ E EDATHODI
  • Joakim Sandroos
  • Johannes Rothe
  • Julieta Gruszko
  • Junhui Liao
  • Kanishka Rawat
  • Karim Salehi
  • KAZEEM AKINLOYE OYELAKIN
  • Keishi Hosokawa
  • Konrad Altenmüller
  • Krzysztof Panas
  • Kyungwon Kim
  • Lakshmi S Mohan
  • Linyan Wan
  • Luca Pagani
  • Manoj Kumar Singh
  • Manungu Kiveni
  • Marcell Péter Takács
  • Margherita Spalla
  • Maria Paola Panetta
  • Mateusz Kaczmarski
  • Matthias Sammer
  • MEGHNA K K
  • Micah Buuck
  • Miquel Nebot-Guinot
  • Mykola Stepaniuk
  • N.Mari Muthu
  • Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini
  • Neus Lopez March
  • Oksana Polishchuk
  • Olga Petrova
  • Osamu Takachio
  • Oscar Trippella
  • Paolo Agnes
  • Pushparaj Adhikari
  • RAJESH GANAI
  • Ram Lal Awasthi
  • Ram Lal Awasthi
  • Rickard Stroem
  • Ritoban Basu Thakur
  • Sandro D'Amato
  • satendra kumar chauhan
  • Seung-Yoon Oh
  • Shengchao Li
  • SHIVANGI SHREE NA
  • Simone Copello
  • Simone Marcocci
  • stefan weinz
  • Stefano Dell'Oro
  • Susan Walker
  • Susnata Seth
  • Valentyna Mokina
  • Valerio D'Andrea
  • Viktor Könye
  • Wei Zhao
  • Xiang Xiao
    • 09:00 09:30
      Registration
    • 09:30 10:00
      Introduction to LNGS underground laboratory 30m
      Speaker: Aldo Ianni (INFN - LNGS)
    • 10:00 11:30
      Neutrino theory and global fit 1h 30m
      Speaker: Francesco Vissani (INFN - LNGS & GSSI)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 12:00 13:30
      Theory and phenomenology of neutrinoless double beta decay 1h 30m
      Speaker: Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas (IFIC Valencia)
      Slides
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:30 15:30
      Brief course on safety at LNGS 1h
      The course is performed by the LNGS Prevention and Protection Service
      Speaker: Marco Tobia (INFN - LNGS)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Discussion on working groups and tutoring 30m
    • 16:30 18:30
      Visit to underground laboratory 2h
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 23:00 23:20
      prova prova 20m
      Speaker: Mattia Paris (LNGS)
    • 09:00 10:30
      Review of theory and phenomenology on dark matter 1h 30m
      Speaker: Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 12:00
      Neutrinos in cosmology 1h
      Speaker: Carlos Peña Garay (IFIC Valencia)
    • 12:00 13:30
      Experiments and detection methods for double beta decay searches 1h 30m
      Speaker: John F. Wilkerson (University of North Carolina)
      Slides
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:30 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 09:00 10:30
      Neutrino experiments and detection methods 1h 30m
      Speaker: Mark Chen (Queens University)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Dark Matter time modulations and directional signatures 1h 30m
      Speaker: Jocelyn MONROE (Royal Holloway University of London)
      Slides
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:30 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 14:30 15:30
      Special seminar - The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR <sup>76</sup>Ge Experiment 1h
      The MAJORANA collaboration is constructing the DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background array consisting of 40 kg of germanium detectors, of which ~30 kg will be enriched to 87% in 76Ge. The primary goal is to demonstrate backgrounds low enough to justify proceeding with building a large (tonne) scale 76Ge based neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment. The DEMONSTRATOR utilizes p-type point contact detectors, which offer attractive features including low-energy (sub keV) thresholds and superior pulse shape discrimination of multisite events. With its anticipated low energy threshold, the array should also be able to search for physics beyond the standard model, including light mass WIMP dark matter. The Ge detectors are mounted in cryostats that are constructed out of ultra-low activity electroformed copper which are situated in a conventional compact shield that includes an inner layer of electroformed copper shielding. The experiment is located in a clean room at the 4850' level (4300 mwe) of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota. This talk will report on the current status of the DEMONSTRATOR and discuss future prospects for a large scale Ge experiment that combines the best features of GERDA and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR.
      Speaker: John F. Wilkerson (University of North Carolina)
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 09:00 10:00
      Testing general relativity 1h
      Speaker: Angelo Tartaglia (Politecnico Torino)
      Slides
    • 10:00 11:30
      Review and experiments on nuclear astrophysics - pt. 1 1h 30m
      Speaker: Christian Iliadis (University of North Carolina)
      Slides
    • 11:30 12:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 12:00 13:30
      Review and experiments on nuclear astrophysics - pt. 2 1h 30m
      Speaker: Christian Iliadis (University of North Carolina)
      Slides
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:30 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 14:30 15:30
      Special seminar - Variations of earth rotation from ring laser gyroscopes: one hundred years of rotation sensing with optical interferometry 1h
      Earth Rotation and Orientation are providing the link between the terrestrial (ITRF) and celestial reference frames (ICRF). Traditionally the Earth orientation parameters (EOPs) are observed by radio interferometry. The fixed positions of the quasars, along with measurement redundancy of a sufficiently large network, provide the long-term stability of the observations. For the short-term and the access to the instantaneous rotation axis of the Earth, VLBI is depending on suitable models, which still have some deficiencies. Optical interferometric rotation sensing with ring lasers in contrast provide direct access to the Earth rotation axis, a high resolution in the short-term, but are suffering from tiny non-reciprocal laser behavior causing drift in the long-term. Now, one hundred years after George Sagnac’s important paper published in Comptes Rendus in 1913 the tools of modern quantum optics have matured to a point where they make ring lasers more than 12 orders of magnitude more sensitive than the early instrumentation in this field. The single component prototype ring laser G in Wettzell now resolves rotation rates of 10e-12 rad/s after one hour of integration and has demonstrated an impressive sensor stability over several month. The combination of VLBI and ring laser measurements offers an improved sensitivity for the EOPs in the short-term and the direct access to the Earth rotation axis. At the same time the progress in controlling the backscatter coupling in ring lasers has succeeded to reach the domain of 3 parts per billion for the relative uncertainty of the measured Earth rotation. This paper explores the prospects of optical Sagnac Interferometry in Geodesy at the Centennial of the Sagnac effect.
      Speaker: Karl Ulrich Schreiber (TU Munich)
      Slides
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 09:00 10:30
      Non-directional Dark Matter direct detection experimental techniques 1h 30m
      Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SMU Dallas)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 13:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 13:30 15:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 15:00 16:30
      Bus shuttle to the hotel 1h 30m
    • 16:30 23:59
      European Researchers' Night

      Researchers' Night is a mega event taking place every year on a single September night in about 300 cities all over Europe.
      http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/doc/call/h2020/h2020-msca-night-2014/1590100-presentation_note_en.pdf

      • 16:30
        European Researchers' Night 4h
        Slides
    • 09:00 19:30
      Excursion
      • 15:30
        Visit of L'Aquila city 4h
        Slides
    • 08:30 20:30
      Excursion
      • 08:30
        Gran Sasso Mountains: Corno Grande and Historical Villages 12h
        Slides
    • 09:30 13:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 13:30 14:45
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:45 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 09:30 13:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 13:30 14:45
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:45 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 09:30 13:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:30 14:45
      Group picture
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    • 14:45 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 20:00 22:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 09:30 13:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 13:30 14:45
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:45 18:30
      Experimental hands-on activities
    • 20:00 23:30
      Final banquet at "Casale Signorini" L'Aquila

      L'Aquila

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi (L'Aquila)
      slides
    • 09:30 10:30
      Students’ presentations
      • 09:30
        DARK-SIDE50 8m
        Speakers: Benjamin Shanks, Kyungwon Kim
        Slides
      • 09:38
        OPERA 8m
        Speaker: Linyan Wan
        Slides
      • 09:46
        LUCIFER 8m
        Speakers: Mateusz Kaczmarski, Miquel Nebot-Guinot
        Slides
      • 09:54
        CRESST 8m
        Speakers: Julieta Gruszko, Wei Zhao
        Slides
      • 10:02
        LUNA/DARK-SIDE 8m
        Speaker: Simone Copello
        Slides
      • 10:10
        BOREXINO 8m
        Speakers: Osamu Takachio, Rickard Stroem
        Slides
      • 10:18
        XENON100 8m
        Speakers: Barbara Rosario Montes Nunez, Brett Cornell
        Slides
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee break
    • 10:50 12:30
      Students' presentations
      • 10:50
        XENON1T 8m
        Speakers: Ander Simon Estevez, Susnata Seth
        Slides
      • 10:58
        ICARUS T600 8m
        Speakers: Gonzalo Martinez, Lakshmi S Mohan
        Slides
      • 11:06
        GERDA 8m
        Speaker: Dana Byram
        Slides
      • 11:14
        LUNA/STELLA 8m
        Speaker: Stefano Dell'Oro
        Slides
      • 11:22
        LUNA400 GEANT4 8m
        Speaker: Axel Boeltzig
        Slides
      • 11:30
        CUORE 8m
        Speakers: Francesco Piastra, Simone Marcocci
        Slides
      • 11:38
        CUORE ABSURD 8m
        Speakers: Johannes Rothe, Ritoban Basu Thakur
        Slides
      • 11:46
        GINGER 8m
        Speaker: Federico Ferraro
        Slides
      • 11:54
        Mass spectroscopy 8m
        Speaker: Mikola Stepaniuk
        Slides
      • 12:02
        Preamps for SiPMs 8m
        Speaker: Susan Walker
        Slides
    • 13:00 14:15
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:25 14:30
      Bus departure to the Airport