Symposium of the Sino-German GDT Cooperation

8 Apr 2013, 09:15 → 12 Apr 2013, 23:30 Europe/Berlin

University of Tübingen

Iris Abt (MPI for Physics), Peter Grabmayr (University of Tübingen)

Monday 8 April

09:15 → 10:35 Welcome

09:15 Welcome to the Symposium

Speaker: Peter Grabmayr (University of Tübingen)

Slides 01_Symp13_intro_grabmayr.pdf

09:25 Welcome to Universität Tübingen

Speaker: Herbert Muether (Prorector of the Universitaet Tuebingen)

09:35 Physics at Universitaet Tuebingen

Speaker: Josef Jochum (Universitaet Tuebingen)

Slides 03_Symp13_Vorstellung_Tue_Physik-Jochum.pdf

09:50 Introduction to the Cooperation Program

Speaker: Iris Abt (MPI for Physics Munich)

Slides Symp13_intro.pdf

10:00 Opening Ceremony and Revealing of Cooperation Plate

Speaker: Peter Grabmayr (University of Tübingen)

Slides 05_Symp13_Schild_Kooperation.pdf

10:15 Symposium-Group-Picture

pictures WS_group_picture-DSC_8608.jpg

10:20 Pictures form the time in Tuebingen -- tar ball -- 380MB

pictures ws-china.tar

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Germanium Detectors in Basic Research

11:00 Technical Specifications and Requirements on Detectors for Reactor Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Henry Wong (Academia Sinica)

Slides Tuebingen-GeWorkshop-Wong.pdf

11:25 Overview of Germanium Detectors in Fundamental Research

An overview is given over the experiments and their demands of detectors used in fundamental research (search for dark matter / neutrinoless double beta decay / spectroscopy / ...)

Speaker: Klaus Eitel (KIT)

Slides 06_Overview_Ge_FundRes-Eitel.pdf

12:10 Technical Specifications and Requirements on Detectors for Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Jin Li (Tsinghua University)

Slides 07_Symp13_detectors_DM-LiJin.pdf

12:35 Technical Specifications and Requirements on Detectors for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches

Speaker: Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp13_detectors.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Special Guest

14:00 Germanium Detectors in Space

The integral mission and the results obtained with germanium detectors

Speaker: Roland Diehl (MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics)

Slides Symp13_GeDet_INTEGRAL_Diehl_pres.pdf

14:45 → 15:55 Detector Production

Convener: Peter Grabmayr (Universitaet Tuebingen)

14:45 Recent Progress in Ultralow Noise, Ultralow Background Detectors

Speaker: Vlad Marian (Canberra)

Slides 11_Symp13_new_detector-Canberra_Vlad.ppt

15:15 Detector Production at Tsinghua

Speaker: Lan Zhang (Nuctech Company Ltd.)

Slides 12_Sym13_detectors_tsinghua_Lan-Zhang.ppt

15:35 Coffee

15:55 → 19:00 Guided Tour through Tübingen Ending at the Restaurant Forelle

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday 9 April

09:00 → 11:00 Test Facilities

Convener: Jin Li (Tsinghua University)

09:00 Demands on Test Facilities for Production and Research

Speaker: Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp13_test_facilities.pdf

09:10 GALATEA at MPI

Speaker: Sabine Irlbeck (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp13_GALATEA-Irlbeck.pdf

09:30 Tsinghua Test Facility

Speaker: Qinghao Chen (Tsinghua University)

Slides 15_Symp13_Tsinghua-Argon_Qinghao-Chen.pptx

09:50 Conventional Teststands at MPI

Speaker: Lucia Garbini (MPI for Physics)

Slides 16_Symp13_Conv_Teststands_Garbini.pdf

10:10 Test of 1kg Point Contact Detectors and CDEX String Assemblies

Speaker: Yucheng Wu (Tsinghua University)

Slides 17_Symp13_test_1kg_CDEX_WuYC.ppt

10:30 Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 Germanium Detector Design and Pulse Shape Simulation

11:00 What you need to design a detector: Principles of Field Calculations and Pulse Shape Simulations

Speaker: Jing Liu (University of Tokyo)

Slides 18_Symp13_PSS-Jing-Liu.pptx

11:40 Field Calculation - Evaluation of Different Programs

Speaker: Burcin Dönmez (MPI for Physics)

Slides 19_Symp13_field_calc_doenmez.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 21:00 Excursion

Bus trip to:
- Haigerloch and its 'nuclear cellar', where German scientists tried to build a nuclear reactor between 1944 and 1945
- Castle Hohenzollern, the ancestral seat of the Prussian Royal House and of the Hohenzollern Princes
- Dinner at tHofgut Domaene at he foot of the castle

Wednesday 10 April

09:00 → 11:00 Pulse Shape Simulation and Evaluation

09:00 PSS: Evaluation and Verification for a Novel Inverted Coaxial PC-Detector

Speaker: David Radford (Oakridge National Laboratory)

Slides 20_Symp13_novel_detector-Radford.pdf

10:05 PSS: Results Obtained for a Segmented Point Contact Detector

Speaker: Burcin Dönmez (MPI for Physics)

Slides 21_Symp13_pss_segm_bege_doenmez.pdf

10:25 Input Parameters to Detector Simulation

How well do we know impurity densities and mobilities?

Speaker: Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp13_parameters.pdf

10:40 Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Electronics

Convener: Peter Reiter (Universitaet Koeln)

11:00 Readout: the Path to a 1-ton System

Speaker: Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics)

Slides 23_Symp13_ton_scale_hpge_frontend-Schulz.pdf

11:20 ASICS for Germanium

Speaker: Zhi Deng (Tsinghua University)

Slides 24_Symp13_asic_for_hpge-deng.ppt

11:40 Options for Digitisation and Data Compression

Speaker: Tao Xue (Tsinghua University)

Slides 25_Symp13_Options_for_Digitization_and_Data_Compression_CDEX-10-Tao-Xue.pdf

12:00 The DAQ System for CDEX

Speaker: Shukui Liu (SichuanUniversity)

Slides 26_Symp13_DAQ_CDEX-Shukui-Liu.pdf

12:20 Digital Pulse Processing of Semiconductor Detector Signals

Speaker: Andreas Hennig (University of Cologne)

Slides hennig_tuebingen.pdf

12:40 Set up Working Groups

Electronics: Demands on electronics, placement of FET for low background experiments, possibilities for ASICs. Neutrons: Calculation of flux from muons, from radioactivity, measurement of muon/neutron flux. PSS/PSA: calculation of electric field and weighting potentials, simulation of trajectories and input parameters, determination of pulse parameters

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Software - including Pulse Shape Analysis

14:00 MaGe, a GEANT Based Simulation Tool

Speaker: Xiang Liu (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Slides 28_Symp13_MaGe_XiangLiu.pdf

14:30 Pulse Shape Analysis for CDEX

Speaker: Wei Zhao (Tsinghua University)

Slides 29_Symp13_PSA_CDEX_ZhaoW.pdf

14:50 Pulse Shape Analysis for AGATA

Speaker: Peter Reiter (University of Cologne)

Slides 30_Symp13_PSA_AGATA_PReiter.pptx

15:10 Pulse Shape Analysis E/A for GERDA

Speaker: HengYe Liao (MPI for Physics)

Slides 31_Symp13_psa_ea_gerda-HengYe-Liao.pdf

15:30 Bulk vs Surface Events in Texono

Speaker: Henry Wong (Academia Sinica)

Slides 32_surface_bulk_TEXONO-Wong.pdf

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Working Groups

Description as before

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner at the Wurstkuechl

Thursday 11 April

09:00 → 13:00 Neutrons

09:00 Neutron Background Simulation for 76 Germanium in Deep Underground Laboratories

Speaker: Matteo Palermo (MPI for Physics)

Slides 33_Symp13_neutrons-palermo.pdf

09:30 Muon Flux Measurements and Simulation at Jinping

Speaker: Zhi Zeng (Tsinghua University)

Slides 34_Symp13_muon_flux_measurement_CJPL-ZengZhi.ppt

10:00 Neutron Flux Measurements at Jinping

Speaker: Haoyang Xing (Sichuan University)

Slides 35_Symp13_neutrons_CJPL-Xing.pptx

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Measurement of Neutron Interactions With an 18-Fold Segmented True Coax Detector

Speaker: Jing Liu (University of Tokyo)

Slides 36_Symp13_neutrons-Jing-Liu.pptx

11:30 Working groups

Description as before

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:15 Future Projects

14:00 Reports on Plans of Working Groups

14:30 CDEX and Other Germanium / Xenon Based Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

Slides 37_Symp13_DM_CDEX1-QianYue.pdf

15:10 Coffee

15:40 Neutrinoless Double Beta Experiments

Majorana / GERDA and the Xenon Challenge

Speaker: Bela Majorovits (MPI for Physics)

Slides 130411_tuebingen_majorovits.pdf

16:40 The 1 Ton Challenge

Speaker: Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp13_1t-Abt.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner at Neckarmueller

Friday 12 April

08:30 → 12:00 Transfer to Munich - Visit of MPI for Physics Munich

12:05 → 12:50 Welcome to MPI

Overview of the Research at MPI

Speaker: Iris Abt (MPI for Physics Munich)

Slides public2012.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Plate Ceremony at MPI

pictures PicturesMunich-cs.pdf

Slides http://www.mpp.mpg.de/~zolling/exchange_external/GeDet/

14:30 → 15:30 Tour of MPI in small groups

15:35 → 15:45 Transfer to Hotel

19:30 → 23:00 Evening at the Hofbräuhaus