Name: Low Radioactivity Techniques 2017
Start: 2017-05-23T08:00:00+09:00
End: 2017-05-27T19:00:00+09:00
Location: Seoul

Low Radioactivity Techniques 2017

from Tuesday, 23 May 2017 (08:00) to Saturday, 27 May 2017 (19:00)

Monday, 22 May 2017
Tuesday, 23 May 2017

17:00 Welcome reception & Registration
Welcome reception & Registration
17:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 24 May 2017

08:00 Registration (08:00~18:00)
Registration (08:00~18:00)
08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 Global radioactivity screening facilities
Global radioactivity screening facilities
09:10 - 10:50
Contributions

09:10 Overview of World Underground Facilities - Qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

09:30 Copper Electroforming Service at Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc - Silvia Borjabad Sánchez (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), Spain)

09:50 China Jinping underground Laboratory (CJPL): Status and prospect - Hao Ma (Tsinghua University)

10:10 Recent Updates at the BHUC - Brianna Mount (BHSU)

10:30 A development of an ultra-low radioactivity measurement facility at the Center for Underground Physics in Korea - Moo Hyun Lee (IBS)
10:50 Break
Break
10:50 - 11:10
11:10 Low background counting techniques
Low background counting techniques
11:10 - 12:10
Contributions

11:10 Improving the limits of detection of low background alpha emission measurements - Brendan McNally (XIA LLC)

11:30 Precise measurement of Pb210 and Po210 contamination in bulk copper - Kazuyoshi Kobayashi (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

11:50 Development and implementation of an ultra low background Array of HPGe detectors - Elena Sala (CUP - Institute for Basic Science)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:30
13:30 Low background counting techniques
Low background counting techniques
13:30 - 14:50
Contributions

13:30 Application of AMS for the analysis of primordial nuclides in high purity copper. - Gunther Korschinek (Physik-Department, TU München)

13:50 Measuring radioactive contamination using ICP-MS - Shintaro Ito (Okayama University)

14:10 Low Radioactivity Techniques based on ICP-MS at Peking University - Ying Yuan (Peking University)

14:30 New and Improved Tools for More Sensitive ICP-MS Assays - Isaac Arnquist (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
14:50 Break
Break
14:50 - 15:10
15:10 Low background counting techniques
Low background counting techniques
15:10 - 16:10
Contributions

15:10 Development of CANDLES Low Background HPGe Detector and Half-life Measurement of Ta-180m - Wei Min Chan (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University)

15:30 Searching for very small amounts of radioactivity by NAA - Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama)

15:50 Ultra-trace element determination by neutron activation analysis in acrylic material - Massimiliano Nastasi (INFN Sec. of Milano-Bicocca)
16:10 Break
Break
16:10 - 16:30
16:30 Materials databases
Materials databases
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 The Radiopurity.org Material Database - Alan Poon (Berkeley Lab)

16:50 Radiopurity Databases for Detector Development - Douglas Leonard (IBS Center for Underground Physics)

17:10 Development of the database for low-background studies in Kamioka - Yuuki Nakano (Kamioka Observatory)
19:00 Banquet
Banquet
19:00 - 21:30
Room: KOREA HOUSE
Thursday, 25 May 2017

08:00 Registration (08:00~18:00)
Registration (08:00~18:00)
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Liquid and gas purification, including Rn control
Liquid and gas purification, including Rn control
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 The purification study on the Liquid Scintillator for JUNO - Tao Hu (IHEP,CAS)

09:20 Experience of gas purification and radon control in Borexino - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University)

09:40 On-line $^{222}$Rn purification for liquid xenon detectors by means of cryogenic distillation - Stefan Bruenner (Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik)

10:00 Constraining Radon backgrounds in LZ - Eric Miller (South Dakota School of Mines)
10:20 Break
Break
10:20 - 10:40
10:40 Liquid and gas purification, including Rn control
Liquid and gas purification, including Rn control
10:40 - 11:20
Contributions

10:40 Low radioactivity underground argon for low-level radiation detectors - Henning Back (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

11:00 Radon Mitigation for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Dark Matter Experiment - Joseph Street (SD Mines)
11:20 Cosmogenic activation of materials used in rare event search expriments
Cosmogenic activation of materials used in rare event search expriments
11:20 - 12:00
Contributions

11:20 Cosmogenic activation: recent results - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)

11:40 Cosmogenic Induced Backgrounds for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Experiment - Brandon White (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Status of the SABRE experiment and background characterization - Nuti Francesco (The University of Melbourne)

13:50 Simulation and measurement of the suppression of radon induced background in the KATRIN experiment - Joachim Wolf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

14:10 A model for Rydberg-atom induced backgrounds resulting from deposition of Rn progeny in the KATRIN Main Spectrometer - Fabian Harms (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 Low radioactivity and Multi- disciplinarily Underground Laboratory of Modane (LSM) - Ali Dastgheibi Fard (CNRS/LSM)

14:30 MoO3 purification for searching on neutrinoless double beta decay for AMoRE - Olga Gileva (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)

14:30 An Ar-gas ionization chamber for alpha particle detection at the Yangyang underground laboratory. - Chang Hyon Ha (Institute for Basic Science)

14:30 Mobility and lifetime of 220-Rn daughters - Krzysztof Pelczar (Jagiellonian University/Institute of Physics)

14:30 PEN: A new optically active low background structural material - Bela Majorovits (MPI für Physik)

14:30 Background reduction and status of the SuperNemo experiment - Pia Loaiza (LAL)

14:30 Sodium Iodide (NaI) Purification for Searching on Dark matter for the COSINE - KeonAh SHIN (center for underground physics, IBS)

14:30 Performance of a silicon PIN photodiode based radon detector for low radioactivity environment - Kyungmin Seo (CUP)

14:30 DAQ optimization, signal processing and simulations for an ultra low background HPGe detectors Array - Gowoon Kim (Center for Underground Physic, IBS / Ewha Womans University)

14:30 Radon Daughter Plateout - Joseph Street (South Dakota School of Mines)

14:30 The BetaCage: An Ultra-sensitive Screener for Surface Contamination - Eric Miller (South Dakota School of Mines)

14:30 Status of the Y2L HPGe laboratory for low background measurements - Elena Sala (CUP - Institute for Basic Science)
15:30 Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 A New Tool for ($\alpha$,n) Yield Calculations and Radiogenic Neutron Backgrounds in DEAP-3600 - Shawn Westerdale (Carleton University)

15:50 The Background Model and radio-assays for the LZ experiment - Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)

16:10 Performance of upgraded shielding system in CANDLES - Kyohei Nakajima (University of Fukui)
16:30 Break
Break
16:30 - 16:50
16:50 Session 6
Session 6
16:50 - 18:10
Contributions

16:50 Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA Phase II - Bela Majorovits (MPI für Physik)

17:10 Contamination Control and Assay Results for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Ultra Clean Components - Cabot-Ann Christofferson (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

17:30 Background mitigation techniques and projections for the CUORE experiment - Giovanni Benato (University of California Berkeley)

17:50 Background free double-beta decay investigation with CUPID-0 - Luca Pattavina (INFN - LNGS)
Friday, 26 May 2017

08:00 Registration (08:00~12:00)
Registration (08:00~12:00)
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Status of NEWS-G Experiment - Ali Dastgheibi Fard (CNRS/LSM)

09:20 CALDER: cryogenic light detectors for background-free searches - Sergio Di Domizio (University of Genova and INFN)

09:40 The R&D progress of the Jinping Neutrino Experiment - Zhe Wang (Tsinghua University)
10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:20
10:20 Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
10:20 - 11:40
Contributions

10:20 Development of a low alpha emitting μ-PIC for NEWAGE direction-sensitive dark matter search - takashi Hashimoto (Kobe Univ.)

10:40 Low background materials and fabrication techniques for Cables and connectors of the Majorana Demonstrator - Matthew Busch (Duke University / TUNL)

11:00 Radon Plate-out Measurements for Polyethylene and Copper at SNOLAB - Matthew Stein (Southern Methodist University)

11:20 Measurements of surface radioactivity by Alpha/Beta detection - Pia Loaiza (LAL)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 A review and outlook for the removal of radon-generated Po-210 surface contamination - Vincente Guiseppe (Univ. of South Carolina)

13:50 Removal of Rn-222 daughters from metal surfaces - Krzysztof Pelczar (Jagiellonian University)

14:10 On the DEAP-3600 in-situ resurfacing. - Pietro Giampa (Queen's University)
14:30 Break
Break
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 Purification techniques for solids
Purification techniques for solids
14:50 - 15:50
Contributions

14:50 Improving background levels of CaWO$_4$ detectors for the CRESST dark matter search - Raimund Strauss (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)

15:10 Impact and Mitigation of Naturally Occurring $^{32}$Si - Mary Bliss (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

15:30 Progress in Ultra-Low-Radioactive titanium production - Alexander Chepurnov (SINP MSU)
15:50 Break
Break
15:50 - 16:10
16:10 Purification techniques for solids
Purification techniques for solids
16:10 - 17:30
Contributions

16:10 MoO3 and NaI powder purification for AMoRE and COSINE to make ultra-low background crystals - Olga Gileva (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)

16:30 Organic Scintillator and Tellurium Purification Techniques of the SNO+ Double Beta Decay Experiment - Szymon Manecki (Queen's University)

16:50 Developing Radiopure Copper Alloys for High Strength Low Background Applications - E. W. Hoppe (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

17:10 Precursors preparation for growth of low-background scintillation crystals - Vladimir Shlegel (Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry(NIIC))
17:30 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
17:30 - 17:40
Saturday, 27 May 2017

08:00

08:00 - 19:00