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, May 23, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, May 27, 2017 (7:00 PM)

Monday, May 22, 2017
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

5:00 PM Welcome reception & Registration
Welcome reception & Registration
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

8:00 AM Registration (08:00~18:00)
Registration (08:00~18:00)
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
9:10 AM Global radioactivity screening facilities
Global radioactivity screening facilities
9:10 AM - 10:50 AM
Contributions

9:10 AM Overview of World Underground Facilities - Qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

9:30 AM Copper Electroforming Service at Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc - Silvia Borjabad Sánchez (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), Spain)

9:50 AM China Jinping underground Laboratory (CJPL): Status and prospect - Hao Ma (Tsinghua University)

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

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

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

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

11:50 AM Development and implementation of an ultra low background Array of HPGe detectors - Elena Sala (CUP - Institute for Basic Science)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Low background counting techniques
Low background counting techniques
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Application of AMS for the analysis of primordial nuclides in high purity copper. - Gunther Korschinek (Physik-Department, TU München)

1:50 PM Measuring radioactive contamination using ICP-MS - Shintaro Ito (Okayama University)

2:10 PM Low Radioactivity Techniques based on ICP-MS at Peking University - Ying Yuan (Peking University)

2:30 PM New and Improved Tools for More Sensitive ICP-MS Assays - Isaac Arnquist (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
2:50 PM Break
Break
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
3:10 PM Low background counting techniques
Low background counting techniques
3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

3:10 PM Development of CANDLES Low Background HPGe Detector and Half-life Measurement of Ta-180m - Wei Min Chan (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University)

3:30 PM Searching for very small amounts of radioactivity by NAA - Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama)

3:50 PM Ultra-trace element determination by neutron activation analysis in acrylic material - Massimiliano Nastasi (INFN Sec. of Milano-Bicocca)
4:10 PM Break
Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Materials databases
Materials databases
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM The Radiopurity.org Material Database - Alan Poon (Berkeley Lab)

4:50 PM Radiopurity Databases for Detector Development - Douglas Leonard (IBS Center for Underground Physics)

5:10 PM Development of the database for low-background studies in Kamioka - Yuuki Nakano (Kamioka Observatory)
7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: KOREA HOUSE
Thursday, May 25, 2017

8:00 AM Registration (08:00~18:00)
Registration (08:00~18:00)
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Liquid and gas purification, including Rn control
Liquid and gas purification, including Rn control
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The purification study on the Liquid Scintillator for JUNO - Tao Hu (IHEP,CAS)

9:20 AM Experience of gas purification and radon control in Borexino - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University)

9:40 AM On-line $^{222}$Rn purification for liquid xenon detectors by means of cryogenic distillation - Stefan Bruenner (Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik)

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM Cosmogenic Induced Backgrounds for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Experiment - Brandon White (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Status of the SABRE experiment and background characterization - Nuti Francesco (The University of Melbourne)

1:50 PM Simulation and measurement of the suppression of radon induced background in the KATRIN experiment - Joachim Wolf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

2:10 PM A model for Rydberg-atom induced backgrounds resulting from deposition of Rn progeny in the KATRIN Main Spectrometer - Fabian Harms (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Low radioactivity and Multi- disciplinarily Underground Laboratory of Modane (LSM) - Ali Dastgheibi Fard (CNRS/LSM)

2:30 PM MoO3 purification for searching on neutrinoless double beta decay for AMoRE - Olga Gileva (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)

2:30 PM An Ar-gas ionization chamber for alpha particle detection at the Yangyang underground laboratory. - Chang Hyon Ha (Institute for Basic Science)

2:30 PM Mobility and lifetime of 220-Rn daughters - Krzysztof Pelczar (Jagiellonian University/Institute of Physics)

2:30 PM PEN: A new optically active low background structural material - Bela Majorovits (MPI für Physik)

2:30 PM Background reduction and status of the SuperNemo experiment - Pia Loaiza (LAL)

2:30 PM Sodium Iodide (NaI) Purification for Searching on Dark matter for the COSINE - KeonAh SHIN (center for underground physics, IBS)

2:30 PM Performance of a silicon PIN photodiode based radon detector for low radioactivity environment - Kyungmin Seo (CUP)

2:30 PM DAQ optimization, signal processing and simulations for an ultra low background HPGe detectors Array - Gowoon Kim (Center for Underground Physic, IBS / Ewha Womans University)

2:30 PM Radon Daughter Plateout - Joseph Street (South Dakota School of Mines)

2:30 PM The BetaCage: An Ultra-sensitive Screener for Surface Contamination - Eric Miller (South Dakota School of Mines)

2:30 PM Status of the Y2L HPGe laboratory for low background measurements - Elena Sala (CUP - Institute for Basic Science)
3:30 PM Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM A New Tool for ($\alpha$,n) Yield Calculations and Radiogenic Neutron Backgrounds in DEAP-3600 - Shawn Westerdale (Carleton University)

3:50 PM The Background Model and radio-assays for the LZ experiment - Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)

4:10 PM Performance of upgraded shielding system in CANDLES - Kyohei Nakajima (University of Fukui)
4:30 PM Break
Break
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
4:50 PM Session 6
Session 6
4:50 PM - 6:10 PM
Contributions

4:50 PM Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA Phase II - Bela Majorovits (MPI für Physik)

5:10 PM Contamination Control and Assay Results for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Ultra Clean Components - Cabot-Ann Christofferson (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

5:30 PM Background mitigation techniques and projections for the CUORE experiment - Giovanni Benato (University of California Berkeley)

5:50 PM Background free double-beta decay investigation with CUPID-0 - Luca Pattavina (INFN - LNGS)
Friday, May 26, 2017

8:00 AM Registration (08:00~12:00)
Registration (08:00~12:00)
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
Experiment backgrounds, models, and simulations
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of NEWS-G Experiment - Ali Dastgheibi Fard (CNRS/LSM)

9:20 AM CALDER: cryogenic light detectors for background-free searches - Sergio Di Domizio (University of Genova and INFN)

9:40 AM The R&D progress of the Jinping Neutrino Experiment - Zhe Wang (Tsinghua University)
10:00 AM Break
Break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Contributions

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

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

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

11:20 AM Measurements of surface radioactivity by Alpha/Beta detection - Pia Loaiza (LAL)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
Fabrication methods and surface contamination control
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM A review and outlook for the removal of radon-generated Po-210 surface contamination - Vincente Guiseppe (Univ. of South Carolina)

1:50 PM Removal of Rn-222 daughters from metal surfaces - Krzysztof Pelczar (Jagiellonian University)

2:10 PM On the DEAP-3600 in-situ resurfacing. - Pietro Giampa (Queen's University)
2:30 PM Break
Break
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM Purification techniques for solids
Purification techniques for solids
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:50 PM Improving background levels of CaWO$_4$ detectors for the CRESST dark matter search - Raimund Strauss (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)

3:10 PM Impact and Mitigation of Naturally Occurring $^{32}$Si - Mary Bliss (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

3:30 PM Progress in Ultra-Low-Radioactive titanium production - Alexander Chepurnov (SINP MSU)
3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Purification techniques for solids
Purification techniques for solids
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM MoO3 and NaI powder purification for AMoRE and COSINE to make ultra-low background crystals - Olga Gileva (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)

4:30 PM Organic Scintillator and Tellurium Purification Techniques of the SNO+ Double Beta Decay Experiment - Szymon Manecki (Queen's University)

4:50 PM Developing Radiopure Copper Alloys for High Strength Low Background Applications - E. W. Hoppe (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

5:10 PM Precursors preparation for growth of low-background scintillation crystals - Vladimir Shlegel (Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry(NIIC))
5:30 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
5:30 PM - 5:40 PM
Saturday, May 27, 2017

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 7:00 PM