September 23, 2015 - Wednesday
| Breakfast | |
| Session IChairs: Alvaro Chavarria, Richard Saldanha | |
| Welcome | |
| Dongming Mei, The University of South Dakota Detector Response to Low-Energy Recoils [PDF, 1.43 MB] | |
| Lu Wang, The University of South Dakota Xenon detectors response to low energy recoils for dark matter searches [PDF, 0.74 MB] | |
| Coffee | |
| Session IIChair: Ben Loer | |
| Qing Lin, Columbia University Response and Discrimination of Low-Energy Electronic and Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon [PDF, 5.56 MB] | |
| Tarek Saab, University of Florida Precision Measurement Of Nuclear Recoil Ionization Yields For Low Mass Wimp Searches [PDF, 7.71 MB] | |
| Wenzhao Wei, The University of South Dakota Germanium Detector Response to Low Energy Recoils for Dark Matter Searches [PDF, 0.84 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| Session IIIChair: Luca Grandi | |
| Seonho Choi, Seoul National University Measurement of the Quenching and Channeling Effects in a CsI Crystal | |
| Luke Goetzke, Columbia University Light and Charge Yield of Low-Energy Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon [PDF, 16.63 MB] | |
| James 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] | |
| Coffee | |
| Session IVChair: Richard Saldanha | |
| Gaosong Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Neutron Calibration Sources in the Daya Bay Experiment [PDF, 1.72 MB] | |
| Discussion | |
| Refreshments |
September 24, 2015 - Thursday
| Breakfast | |
| Session IChair: Guillaume Plante | |
| Kaixuan Ni, University of California, San Diego Modelling Xenon Scintillation and Ionization Mechanisms in NEST [PDF, 31.69 MB] | |
| Richard Saldanha, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Scintillation and Ionization Yield of Liquid Argon Nuclear Recoils [PDF, 7.81 MB] | |
| Javier Tiffenberg, Fermilab Results from the Antonella experiment [PDF, 7.75 MB] | |
| Coffee | |
| Session IIChair: Yann Guardincerri | |
| Jingke Xu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Scintillation efficiency measurement of Na recoils in NaI(Tl) below the DAMA/LIBRA energy threshold [PDF, 3.63 MB] | |
| Samuele Sangiorgio, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Calibration and Modeling of Nuclear and Electron Recoils in Liquid Argon [PDF, 4.06 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| Session IIIChair: Mariangela Settimo | |
| Alan E Robinson, Fermilab / University of Chicago Photoneutron Source Carachterization and Neutron Simulations [PDF, 1.62 MB] | |
| Alvaro 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] | |
| Lauren Hsu, Fermilab Calibration of SuperCDMS detectors with a photoneutron source [PDF, 17.28 MB] | |
| Coffee | |
| Session IVChair: Alvaro Chavarria | |
| Phillip S Barbeau, Duke University Recoils from Neutrinos: past, present, future [PDF, 12.84 MB] | |
| Discussion | |
| Reception |
September 25, 2015 - Friday
| Breakfast | |
| Session IChair: Masayuki Wada | |
| Peter Sorensen, LBL The limitations of Lindhard theory to predict the ionization produced by nuclear recoils at the lowest energies [PDF, 5.72 MB] | |
| Darryl Masson, Purdue University A Rn-220 source for internal calibration of low-background detectors [PDF, 1.22 MB] | |
| Eric Dahl, Northwesern University Bubble Chamber Physics -- electron and nuclear recoil response in the PICO dark matter detectors [PDF, 9.2 MB] | |
| Coffee | |
| Session IIChair: Paolo Privitera | |
| Juan Collar, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics You are doing it wrong: the intricacies of low-energy nuclear recoil calibrations [PDF, 1.46 MB] | |
| Bjorn J Scholz, University of Chicago Measuring the quenching factor of germanium at low energies using an 88Y/Be photoneutron source [PDF, 1.85 MB] | |
| Ritoban Basu Thakur, KICP For when we get there, detectors @ 5-50 eV [PDF, 7.11 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| Session IIIChair: Ritoban Basu | |
| Discussion |
