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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.

Please sign-up for our email list: SNOWMASS-IF-08-NOBLE-ELEMENTS[at]FNAL.GOV

Please join our slack channel at snowmass2021.slack.com, #if08-noble-elements

• November 15, 2021 at 15:00 CST – IF08 Workshop 1 (TOPIC 3: Challenges in scaling technologies)
  • Subgroups
    • High voltage
    • Sourcing/purifying noble gases
    • TPCs with magnetic fields
    • Next-generation large-scale detectors
  • Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/51762/

• December 13, 2021 at 15:00 CST – IF08 Workshop 1 (TOPIC 4: Improve the understanding of detector microphysics and characterization)
  • Subgroups
    • Calibration
  • Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/51766/

• 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)

• January 24, 2022 at 15:00 CST – IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 2: Develop new modalities for signal detection)

• February 7, 2022 at 15:00 CST – IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 3: Challenges in scaling technologies)

• February 21, 2022 at 15:00 CST – IF08 Workshop 2 (TOPIC 4: Improve the understanding of detector microphysics and characterization)

Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/51522/

Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/51464/

Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/46781/

Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/44683/

Indico page: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/44502/

Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topical group. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.