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

Sep 22, 2014, 9:00 AM → Oct 3, 2014, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

LNGS

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 Summer_Institute_2014_hq.pdf

Monday, September 22

Registration

1 Introduction to LNGS underground laboratory

Speaker: Aldo Ianni (INFN - LNGS)

2 Neutrino theory and global fit

Speaker: Francesco Vissani (INFN - LNGS & GSSI)

11:30 AM Coffee break

3 Theory and phenomenology of neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas (IFIC Valencia)

Slides DBD.pdf

1:30 PM Lunch

4 Brief course on safety at LNGS

The course is performed by the LNGS Prevention and Protection Service

Speaker: Marco Tobia (INFN - LNGS)

3:30 PM Coffee break

5 Discussion on working groups and tutoring

6 Visit to underground laboratory

8:00 PM Dinner

7 prova prova

Speaker: Mattia Paris (LNGS)

Tuesday, September 23

8 Review of theory and phenomenology on dark matter

Speaker: Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

Slides Paolo_Gondolo_LNGS.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

9 Neutrinos in cosmology

Speaker: Carlos Peña Garay (IFIC Valencia)

10 Experiments and detection methods for double beta decay searches

Speaker: John F. Wilkerson (University of North Carolina)

Slides bbdecay_Wilkerson_LNGS_Summer_Inst.pdf

1:30 PM Lunch

Experimental hands-on activities

8:00 PM Dinner

Wednesday, September 24

11 Neutrino experiments and detection methods

Speaker: Mark Chen (Queens University)

Slides NeutrinoDetection_Chen.pptx

10:30 AM Coffee break

12 Dark Matter time modulations and directional signatures

Speaker: Jocelyn MONROE (Royal Holloway University of London)

Slides jmonroe_gs_2014.pdf

1:30 PM Lunch

Experimental hands-on activities

13 Special seminar - The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR ⁷⁶Ge Experiment

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)

8:00 PM Dinner

Thursday, September 25

14 Testing general relativity

Speaker: Angelo Tartaglia (Politecnico Torino)

Slides TestingGR.pdf TestingGR.pptx

15 Review and experiments on nuclear astrophysics - pt. 1

Speaker: Christian Iliadis (University of North Carolina)

Slides iliadis_I.pdf

11:30 AM Coffee break

16 Review and experiments on nuclear astrophysics - pt. 2

Speaker: Christian Iliadis (University of North Carolina)

Slides iliadis_II.pdf

1:30 PM Lunch

Experimental hands-on activities

17 Special seminar - Variations of earth rotation from ring laser gyroscopes: one hundred years of rotation sensing with optical interferometry

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 Schreiber.pdf

8:00 PM Dinner

Friday, September 26

18 Non-directional Dark Matter direct detection experimental techniques

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SMU Dallas)

Slides cooley_gran_sasso_lectures.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

Experimental hands-on activities

1:30 PM Lunch

3:00 PM Bus shuttle to the hotel

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

19 European Researchers' Night

Slides notteric.pdf

Saturday, September 27

Excursion

20 Visit of L'Aquila city

Slides excursions.pdf

Sunday, September 28

Excursion

21 Gran Sasso Mountains: Corno Grande and Historical Villages

Slides excursion_sunday.pdf

Monday, September 29

Experimental hands-on activities

1:30 PM Lunch

Experimental hands-on activities

8:00 PM Dinner

Tuesday, September 30

Experimental hands-on activities

1:30 PM Lunch

Experimental hands-on activities

8:00 PM Dinner

Wednesday, October 1

Experimental hands-on activities

1:30 PM Lunch

Group picture

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Experimental hands-on activities

8:00 PM Dinner

Thursday, October 2

Experimental hands-on activities

1:30 PM Lunch

Experimental hands-on activities

Final banquet at "Casale Signorini"

slides banquet.pdf

Friday, October 3

Students’ presentations

22 DARK-SIDE50

Speakers: Benjamin Shanks, Kyungwon Kim

Slides gssi2014-darkside.pdf

23 OPERA

Speaker: Linyan Wan

Slides Opera.pdf

24 LUCIFER

Speakers: Mateusz Kaczmarski, Miquel Nebot-Guinot

Slides M.Nebot_GSSI_Lucifer.pdf

25 CRESST

Speakers: Julieta Gruszko, Wei Zhao

Slides Gruszko_Presentation.pdf

26 LUNA/DARK-SIDE

Speaker: Simone Copello

Slides Plastic_scintillator.pdf

27 BOREXINO

Speakers: Osamu Takachio, Rickard Stroem

Slides No6_BOREXINO.pdf

28 XENON100

Speakers: Barbara Rosario Montes Nunez, Brett Cornell

Slides XENON100_likelihood_v1.pptx

Coffee break

Students' presentations

29 XENON1T

Speakers: Ander Simon Estevez, Susnata Seth

Slides presentation_xenon1t.pdf

30 ICARUS T600

Speakers: Gonzalo Martinez, Lakshmi S Mohan

Slides Reconstruction_of_a_nu_mu_event_in_ICARUS.pdf

31 GERDA

Speaker: Dana Byram

Slides Byram_Gran_Sasso_Final_Presentation_PDF.pdf

32 LUNA/STELLA

Speaker: Stefano Dell'Oro

Slides pres_delloro.pdf

33 LUNA400 GEANT4

Speaker: Axel Boeltzig

Slides Boeltzig_G4-LUNA.pdf

34 CUORE

Speakers: Francesco Piastra, Simone Marcocci

Slides slides_marcocci_piastra.pdf

35 CUORE ABSURD

Speakers: Johannes Rothe, Ritoban Basu Thakur

Slides Rothe_GSSI_2014_CUORE_ABSuRD.pdf

36 GINGER

Speaker: Federico Ferraro

Slides Ferraro.pdf

37 Mass spectroscopy

Speaker: Mikola Stepaniuk

Slides Stepaniuk_ICPMS.pdf

38 Preamps for SiPMs

Speaker: Susan Walker

Slides GSSI_presentationSW.pdf

1:00 PM Lunch

Bus departure to the Airport