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IF8: Noble Elements
Co-Conveners:
| Name | Institution | |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Dahl | Northwestern University/FNAL | cdahl[at]northwestern.edu |
| Roxanne Guenette | Harvard University | guenette[at]g.harvard.edu |
| Jen Raaf | FNAL | jlraaf[at]fnal.gov |
Early Career Liaisons:
| Name | Institution | |
|---|---|---|
| Jacob Zettlemoyer | FNAL | jzettle[at]fnal.gov |
| Scott Kravitz | LBNL | swkravitz[at]lbl.gov |
Description
The subgroup covers the use of noble elements for particle detection, in gas, liquid, or solid phase, as well as other similar techniques. Included technologies include TPCs are large and small scales, that include the measurement of scintillation, ionization, and other interaction signatures. Example applications include collider experiments, searches for neutrinos and their properties, Dark Matter direct detection.
We invite Letters Of Interest (LOIs) to outline developments in the area of Noble Elements across the science frontiers of high-energy particle physics. In particular, we welcome contributions that touch on the following technologies/instrumentation areas:
- Detectors technologies making use of liquid, gaseous, or solid argon, xenon, helium or other noble elements
- Single- and dual-phase time projection chambers
- Scintillating bubble chambers
- Calorimeters
- Non-noble phase change detectors (e.g., superheated or supercooled detectors)
This topical group focuses on the advancement of technology and instrumentation of these detectors. We will coordinate with the appropriate science frontier topical groups to ensure that all LOIs are addressed, recognizing that these detectors can be used to study a wide range of scientific topics, including but not limited to neutrino oscillation and interactions, neutrinoless double beta decay searches, dark matter searches, and collider physics.
Communication
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Upcoming Noble Elements Events
* Parallel session at the CPM in Seattle on the morning of 22 July
IF08 Draft Report
IF08 Submitted Executive Summaries
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Low-Threshold Noble Element Detectors | G. Giovanetti, A. Kopec, K. Ni, C. Savarese, S. Westerdale, J. Xu |
| Charge Gain | David Caratelli, Diego Gonzalez Diaz, Guillaume Giroux, Ben Jones |
| Recoil Directional Sensitivity and Micron-Precision Spatial Reconstruction | David Caratelli, G. K. Giovanetti, Elena Gramellini, C. J. Martoff, L. Pandola |
| New Modalities in Existing Infrastructure | H. Lippincott, P. Sorensen, et al. |
| Metastable Fluids | Eric Dahl, Matthew Szydagis |
| Next-generation large scale detectors | Eric Church, Marco Del Tutto, Angela Fava, Rick Gaitskell, Roxanne Guenette, Claudio Silverio Montanari, Luca Pagani, Ornella Palamara, Ryan Patterson, Xin Qian, Shawn Westerdale |
| Detector Microphysics/Characterization | Richard Gaitskell, Michael Mooney, Sergey Pereverzev, Matthew Szydagis, Jingke Xu, and Chao Zhang |
| Increasing Light Collection | R. Guenette, J. Liu, A. Mastbaum, C. Stanford, A. Szelc, J. Zennamo |
| Pixels | ? |
Past Noble Elements Events
| Date, Time (US Central) | Topic |
|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | REMINDER: IF08 Executive Summaries (and associated whitepaper, if you have prepared one) are due |
| March 7, 2022 at 15:00 CST | IF08 Makeup Workshop (Subgroups: Pixels, Barium tagging, Charge gain, Directionality/Micron-Precision spatial reconstruction) |
| February 21, 2022 at 15:00 CST | IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 4: Improve the understanding of detector microphysics and characterization) |
| February 7, 2022 at 15:00 CST | IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 3: Challenges in scaling technologies) |
| January 10, 2022 at 15:00 CST | IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 2: Develop new modalities for signal detection) |
| January 10, 2022 at 15:00 CST | IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 1: Enhance and combine existing modalities to increase signal-to-noise and reconstruction fidelity) |
| December 13, 2021 at 15:00 CST | IF08 Workshop 1 (TOPIC 4: Improve the understanding of detector microphysics and characterization) |
| November 15, 2021 at 15:00 CDT | IF08 Workshop 1 (TOPIC 3: Challenges in scaling technologies) |
| November 1, 2021 at 15:00 CDT | IF08 Workshop 1 (TOPIC 2: Develop new modalities for signal detection) |
| October 18, 2021 at 15:00 CDT | IF08 Workshop 1 (Topic 1: Enhance and combine existing modalities to increase signal-to-noise and reconstruction fidelity) |
| December 14, 2020 at 15:00 CDT | Noble Elements topical group virtual meeting |
| August 31, 2020 at 15:00 CDT | Noble Elements topical group virtual meeting |
| July 27, 2020 at 15:00 CDT | First Noble Elements topical group virtual meeting |
Submitted LOIs
Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topical group. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.