| Saturday 11th December |
|
| 12:00 noon |
SNO underground afternoon tour
(wait in hotel lobby for 12:00 noon pickup) |
| 6:00-6:30pm |
Return from afternoon SNO tour |
| Sunday 12th December |
|
| 7:30am |
First minibus pickup from hotel
to the workshop. Wait in hotel lobby, there will be a second
bus run as required. |
| 8:00am |
Registration desk opens for
payment processing. Coffee, juice and muffins/croissants are
available. |
| 8:45am |
Workshop welcome |
| 9:00-10:30am |
Session 1 - Overview
of low radioactivity measurement facilities European underground facilities (L. Miramonti) Japanese and eastern facilities (M. Nakahata) North American facilities - existing and DUSEL (P. Cushman) North American facilities - SNOLAB (A. Hime) |
| 10:30-11:00am |
Coffee break |
| 11:00am-1:00pm |
Session 2 -
Low background counting techniques Introduction for workshop guest of honour Gerd Heusser (S. Schoenert) Low level counting from meteorites to neutrinos: Ge spectroscopy, proportional counting, multi-coincidence NaI, rare gas mass spectroscopy (G. Heusser) AMS and low level 14C measurement (A. Litherland) Trace analysis of K, U, and Th by NAA (I. Pillalamarri) |
| 1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch (Breakout lunch session
on laboratories' coordination) |
| 2:00-3:40pm |
Session 3 - Screening
facilities and low background detectors KAMLAND screening and measurement facilities (K. Inoue) Background reduction in cryogenic detectors (D. Bauer) SOLO: Soudan low background screening facility (R. Gaitskell) Surface beta activity screening (T. Shutt) |
| 3:40-4:10pm |
Coffee break |
| 4:10-6:00pm |
Session 4 - Low radioactivity
detector components Double-beta decay crystals (F. Danevich) Production of low activity CsI crystals for WIMP searches (Y. Kim) Low radioactivity at the Modane Underground Laboratory (P. Loaiza) Low radioactivity in CANDLES (T. Kishimoto) Low radioactivity TPC for low energy neutrinos (I. Irastorza) |
| 6:00-6:30pm |
Minibus runs to hotels |
| 7:30pm |
First minibus run to dinner
banquet (Landings restaurant at Science North) |
| 7:30-8:00pm |
Cocktails |
| 8:00-10:00pm |
Dinner (Landings restaurant at
Science North) |
| 10:00-10:30pm |
Minibus runs to hotels |
| Monday 13th December |
|
| 7:30am |
First minibus pickup from hotel
to the workshop (wait in hotel lobby) |
| 8:00am |
Registration desk opens for
payment processing. Coffee, juice and muffins/croissants available. |
| 9:00-10:45am |
Session 5 - reduced background
air and purified noble gases Absorption techniques for gas purification (H. Simgen) Distillation purification of liquid Xenon (Y. Takeuchi) Atom trap trace analysis (C. Orzel) Rn diffusion and emanation (G. Zuzel) Rn-reduced air at KAMLAND (M. Koga) |
| 10:45-11:15am |
Coffee break |
| 11:15am-1:00pm |
Session 6 - Cleanliness studies
and clean fabrication techniques Clean fabrication and Rn-free air for Borexino nylon vessels (A. Pocar) Clean fabrication and monitoring in SNO (D. Hallman) Ultra-low-background copper production and clean fabrication (C. Aalseth) Comments on low background copper (G. Heusser) Cleanliness, backgrounds and surface contamination in Cuore (S. Pirro) Surface contamination and washing studies (M. Leung) |
| 1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30pm |
Session 7 - Liquid
scintillators and water properties and purification Liquid scintillator purification (Y. Kishimoto) Water purification and Ra/Rn assay techniques (J. Farine) Gd loaded scintillators (M. Yeh) |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 4:00-5:30pm |
Session 8 - Background studies
and simulations Simulation of backgrounds, cosmic rays and neutron fluxes (J. Formaggio) Neutron backgrounds (T. Mitsui) Backrounds and simulations for dark matter experiments (V. Kudryavtsev) Self-shielding effect for liquid xenon (S. Moriyama) Production channels and tags for 11C (A. Pocar) |
| 5:30-6:00pm |
Workshop summary and
general discussion on future direction and international
cooperation on facilities. Plans for a future workshop. |
| Posters |
LVD detector at LNGS (H. Menghetti, M. Selvi) Screening facilities at LNGS (A. Ianni) XMASS detector (S. Moriyama) Cosmogenic activation of materials (I. Irastorza, S. Cebrian) |
| 6:00-6:30pm |
Minibus runs to hotels |
| Tuesday 14th December |
|
| 6:30am |
SNO underground morning tour
(wait in hotel lobby for 6:30am pickup). Tour will return to hotels
at about 1:30-2:00pm. |
| 12:00 noon |
SNO underground afternoon tour
(wait in hotel lobby for 12 noon pickup). Tour will return to hotels
at about 7:00-7:30pm. |