Program
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September 23, 2015 - Wednesday
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 10:15 AMSession IChairs: Alvaro Chavarria, Richard Saldanha
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMWelcome
9:15 AM - 9:45 AMDongming Mei, The University of South Dakota
Detector Response to Low-Energy Recoils [PDF, 1.43 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMLu Wang, The University of South Dakota
Xenon detectors response to low energy recoils for dark matter searches [PDF, 0.74 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee
10:30 AM - 12:05 PMSession IIChair: Ben Loer
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMQing Lin, Columbia University
Response and Discrimination of Low-Energy Electronic and Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon [PDF, 5.56 MB]
11:05 AM - 11:35 AMTarek Saab, University of Florida
Precision Measurement Of Nuclear Recoil Ionization Yields For Low Mass Wimp Searches [PDF, 7.71 MB]
11:40 AM - 12:00 PMWenzhao Wei, The University of South Dakota
Germanium Detector Response to Low Energy Recoils for Dark Matter Searches [PDF, 0.84 MB]
12:05 PM - 1:25 PMLunch
1:25 PM - 3:10 PMSession IIIChair: Luca Grandi
1:25 PM - 1:55 PMSeonho Choi, Seoul National University
Measurement of the Quenching and Channeling Effects in a CsI Crystal
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMLuke Goetzke, Columbia University
Light and Charge Yield of Low-Energy Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon [PDF, 16.63 MB]
2:35 PM - 3:05 PMJames R Verbus, Brown University
Measurement of Ultra-low Energy Nuclear Recoils in the LUX Detector Using a D-D Neutron Generator [PDF, 36.32 MB]
3:10 PM - 3:25 PMCoffee
3:25 PM - 5:00 PMSession IVChair: Richard Saldanha
3:25 PM - 3:55 PMGaosong Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Neutron Calibration Sources in the Daya Bay Experiment [PDF, 1.72 MB]
4:00 PM - 5:00 PMDiscussion
5:00 PMRefreshments

September 24, 2015 - Thursday
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AMSession IChair: Guillaume Plante
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMKaixuan Ni, University of California, San Diego
Modelling Xenon Scintillation and Ionization Mechanisms in NEST [PDF, 31.69 MB]
9:35 AM - 10:05 AMRichard Saldanha, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Scintillation and Ionization Yield of Liquid Argon Nuclear Recoils [PDF, 7.81 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:40 AMJavier Tiffenberg, Fermilab
Results from the Antonella experiment [PDF, 7.75 MB]
10:45 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee
11:00 AM - 12:10 PMSession IIChair: Yann Guardincerri
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMJingke Xu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Scintillation efficiency measurement of Na recoils in NaI(Tl) below the DAMA/LIBRA energy threshold [PDF, 3.63 MB]
11:35 AM - 12:05 PMSamuele Sangiorgio, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Calibration and Modeling of Nuclear and Electron Recoils in Liquid Argon [PDF, 4.06 MB]
12:10 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
1:30 PM - 3:05 PMSession IIIChair: Mariangela Settimo
1:30 PM - 1:50 PMAlan E Robinson, Fermilab / University of Chicago
Photoneutron Source Carachterization and Neutron Simulations [PDF, 1.62 MB]
1:55 PM - 2:25 PMAlvaro Chavarria, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Response of a CCD to low energy nuclear recoils from a 124Sb-9Be photo-neutron source [PDF, 4.39 MB]
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMLauren Hsu, Fermilab
Calibration of SuperCDMS detectors with a photoneutron source [PDF, 17.28 MB]
3:05 PM - 3:20 PMCoffee
3:20 PM - 5:45 PMSession IVChair: Alvaro Chavarria
3:20 PM - 3:50 PMPhillip S Barbeau, Duke University
Recoils from Neutrinos: past, present, future [PDF, 12.84 MB]
3:55 PM - 5:45 PMDiscussion
5:45 PMReception

September 25, 2015 - Friday
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 10:35 AMSession IChair: Masayuki Wada
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMPeter Sorensen, LBL
The limitations of Lindhard theory to predict the ionization produced by nuclear recoils at the lowest energies [PDF, 5.72 MB]
9:35 AM - 9:55 AMDarryl Masson, Purdue University
A Rn-220 source for internal calibration of low-background detectors [PDF, 1.22 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:35 AMEric Dahl, Northwesern University
Bubble Chamber Physics -- electron and nuclear recoil response in the PICO dark matter detectors [PDF, 9.2 MB]
10:35 AM - 10:50 AMCoffee
10:50 AM - 12:20 PMSession IIChair: Paolo Privitera
10:50 AM - 11:20 AMJuan Collar, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
You are doing it wrong: the intricacies of low-energy nuclear recoil calibrations [PDF, 1.46 MB]
11:25 AM - 11:55 AMBjorn J Scholz, University of Chicago
Measuring the quenching factor of germanium at low energies using an 88Y/Be photoneutron source [PDF, 1.85 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:20 PMRitoban Basu Thakur, KICP
For when we get there, detectors @ 5-50 eV [PDF, 7.11 MB]
12:25 PM - 1:45 PMLunch
1:45 PM - 3:00 PMSession IIIChair: Ritoban Basu
1:45 PM - 3:00 PMDiscussion