Final Symposium of the Sino-German GDT Cooperation

18 Oct 2015, 05:30 → 24 Oct 2015, 12:00 Europe/Berlin

Ringberg Castle

Iris Abt (MPI)

Ringberg Castle

Sunday, 18 October

05:30 → 21:00 Arrival at Munich and transfer to Ringberg Castle

• Arrival in Munich
• Transfer to MPI for Physics
• Welcome by the Director General of MPI and some words from the CJPL International Advisory Committee
• Dinner
• Transfer to Ringberg Castle

05:30 First Arrivals

06:30 Bus leaves for transfer to MPI

07:15 Continental Breakfast

Some beds provided
Visit of Munich possible

07:15 Individual visits of Munich

07:15 Some beds provided

12:30 Lunch Buffet

14:00 MPI Tours

15:00 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Iris Abt (MPI)

15:15 Welcome and Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

15:45 Discussion - Closed Meeting

Closed Meeting Prof. Kang, Prof. Li, Prof. Caldwell, Dr. Abt; (with Interpreter)

17:00 Departure of Bus from MPI

17:15 Transfer to Tegernsee

18:30 Dinner

19:50 Departure of Bus to Ringberg Castle and Hotel zur Post Kreuth

Monday, 19 October

08:00 → 08:50 Breakfast

09:00 → 12:20 Physics Prospects

09:00 Welcome 1

Speaker: Dr Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp15_intro.pdf

09:15 Welcome 2

Speaker: Prof. KeJun Kang (Tsinghua University)

09:30 Neutrinos, the Known Unknowns

Speaker: Dr Alexander Merle (MPI for Physics)

Slides Merle_Ringberg_2015-s.pdf

09:55 Neutrino sources from black hole to earth core

Speaker: Dr Georg Raffelt (MPI for Physics)

Slides GeDet-Raffelt-s.pdf

10:20 Coffee

10:40 Dark Matter: Limits from direct WIMP searches - overview

Speaker: Dr Xiang Liu (MPI for Physics)

Slides Xiang_DM_direct_search_Ringberg-s.pdf

11:10 Dark Matter: Limits on WIMPs from colliders - ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Dr Sandra Kortner (MPI for Physics)

Slides SKortner_Ringberg2015-s.pdf

11:45 Dark Matter: Axions as dark matter candidates

Speaker: Dr Frank Daniel Steffen (MPI for Physics)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:30 Physics with Germanium

14:00 Ge detectors and neutrinoless double beta decay: Majorana Demonstrator

Speaker: Dr Ryan Martin (University of South Dakota)

Slides GeDectors_MJD_RMartin_Ringberg_Oct15-s.pdf

14:30 Ge detectors and neutrinoless double beta decay: GERDA

Speaker: Dr Bela Majorovits (MPI for Physics)

Slides 151020_gerda_majorovits-s.pdf

15:00 Ge and dark matter searches: CDEX, present and future, Ge detectors at LN temperature

Speaker: Dr Shin-Ted Lin (Sichuan University)

Slides CDEX_Ge_2015_ted-s.pdf

15:30 Ge detectors at ultra-low temperature

Speaker: Dr Klaus Eitel (KIT)

Slides GDT2015-Ringberg-Eitel-s.pdf

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Ge and physics in spectroscopy: AGATA and overview

Speaker: Prof. Peter Reiter (University of Cologne)

Slides Ringberg_Reiter_02.pdf

17:00 Ge and neutrino scattering: Texono and overview

Speaker: Prof. Henry Wong (Academia Sinica)

Slides MPI-Ge2015-Wong-s.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Tour of Castle

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 20 October

08:00 → 08:50 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:20 Projects of the Sino German Cooperation

Speaker: Dr Iris Abt (MPI)

Slides Symp15_projects-s.pdf

09:20 → 12:20 Detector Development - 1

09:20 Crystal pulling in SD

Speaker: Prof. Dongming Mei (University of South Dakota)

Slides CrystalPulling2015.pdf

09:40 News from Canberra

Speaker: Dr Vlad Marian (Canberra)

Slides Presentation_Canberra_Ringberg-s.pdf

10:00 Nuclear and atomic physics topics in Direct Dark Matter Detection and Aion Search at CDEX

Speaker: Prof. Shin-Ted Lin (Sichuan University)

Slides CDEX_Ge_2015_ted2.pdf

10:20 CDEX-1 dead layer measurement

Speaker: JingLu Ma (Tsinghua University)

Slides 20151020_Majl.pdf

10:40 Coffee

11:00 Germanium at the MPI

Speaker: Dr Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics)

Slides gedet-research-mpp-oschulz.pdf

11:20 Surface alpha events on segmented coaxial detectors

Speaker: Lucia Garbini (MPI for Physics)

Slides SinoGermanSymposium_Ringber2015_presentation-s.pdf

11:40 Segmented coaxial detectors: effect of metalisation

Speaker: Matteo Palermo (MPI for Physics)

Slides Palermo_Matteo_GDT_symposium_2015-galatea-s.pdf

12:00 A test cryostat for detector development

Speaker: Mitchell Wagner (University of South Dakota)

Slides Test_Cryostats.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

14:15 → 14:30 Bus leaves from Ringberg

14:30 → 21:40 Excursion - 1 -

Boat trip on Lake Tegernsee (weather permitting)
- Tour of Brewery Aying with beer tasting
- Dinner

21:45 → 22:00 Bus leaves for Ringberg/Hotel

22:00 → 23:00 Transfer to Ringberg

Wednesday, 21 October

08:00 → 08:50 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:45 Detector Development - 2 -

09:00 Segmented point contact detectors

Speaker: Prof. David Radford (Oakridge National Laboratory)

Slides radford_Ge_workshop_Oct2015_A-s.pdf

09:20 A 4-fold segmented BeGe detector: characterisation

Speaker: Mr Heng-Ye Liao (MPI for Physics)

Slides 151021_SinoGerman_GDT_p1_HY-s.pdf

09:40 A 4-fold segmented BeGe detector: spacial capabilities

Speaker: Dr Xiang Liu (MPI for Physics)

Slides segbege_psa.pdf

10:00 A p-type point-contact HPGe detector with amorphous Ge surface

Speaker: Prof. Dongming Mei (USD)

Slides DongMing-Mei_aGe-p.pdf

10:20 Full 3D scan of an AGATA crystal using the PSCS technique

Speaker: Dr Gilbert Duchene (Strassbourg Universitee)

Slides PSCS_full_3D_scan_Duchene_Ringberg_symposium-s.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 12:25 Neutrons

11:15 Minidex, an experiment to measure muon induced neutrons

Speaker: Matteo Palermo (MPI for Physics)

Slides Palermo_MINIDEX_Ringberg-2015-s.pdf

11:45 Gd-doped liquid scintillator fast neutron detector calibration

Speaker: Li Wang (Tsinghua University)

Slides rodi

12:05 Fast neutron background measurement in CJPL

Speaker: Qiang Du (Sichuan University)

Slides 20151021_neutron_flux_measruement_in_CJPL_Dqiang-s.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Software

14:00 MaGe and what next

Speaker: Prof. Jason Detwiler (University of Washington)

Slides 20151021_Ringberg_MaGe_Detwiler-s.pdf

14:20 Discussion

14:40 Pulse Shapes by David Radford

Speaker: Prof. David Radford (Oakridge National Laboratory)

Slides radford_Ge_workshop_Oct2015_Bb.pdf

15:00 Pulse Shapes by MPI

Speaker: Mr Heng-Ye Liao (MPI for Physics)

Slides 151021_SinoGerman_GDT_p2_HY-s.pdf

15:20 Data Brics

Speaker: Dr Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics)

Slides oschulz-databricxx.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee

16:10 → 17:30 Analysis

16:10 CDEX-1a data analysis

Speaker: Wei Zhao (Tsinghua University)

Slides CDEX-1_Data_Analysis_WeiZhao.pdf

16:30 CDEX-1b data analysis

Speaker: LiTao Yang (Tsinghua University)

Slides CDEX-1B_YangLT-s.pdf

16:50 Gerda background model

Speaker: Dr Dimitrios Palioselitis (MPI for Physics)

Slides gerda_bg-s.pdf

17:10 CDEX-1t LN tank simulation

Speaker: QuingDong Hu (Tsinghua University)

Slides LNThickMCSimulationByHu-s.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

20:30 → 22:00 Discussion on Cooperation concerning Detector Scans and Mobility of Charge Carriers in Germanium

Thursday, 22 October

07:30 → 08:00 Breakfast

08:00 → 08:15 Bus leaves Ringberg Castle

08:15 → 13:30 Excursion -2-

Excursion to Wendelstein Mountain
- possibility to walk to summit (take good shoes)
- possiblity to visit cave
- lunch

13:30 → 13:45 Bus leaves for Ringberg

13:45 → 14:55 Transfer to Ringberg

15:20 → 17:50 Technical Considerations

15:20 ASIC pre-amplifiers for PCGe detectors

Speaker: Prof. Zhi Deng (Tsinghua University)

Slides hpge_cmospreamp_zdeng-s.pdf

15:40 Tests of a switched capacitor array ASIC at 77K

Speaker: Feng Liu (Tsinghua University)

Slides 20151022_-Liu_Feng_-_SCA.pdf

16:00 Readout electronics and cables

Speaker: Prof. Alan Poon (LNBL)

Slides SinoGermanGeSymposium2015.10-Poon-s.pdf

16:20 Coffee

16:50 PEN, the material of choice?

Speaker: Dr Bela Majorovits (MPI for Physics)

Slides 151022_PEN.pdf

17:10 CDEX LAr system

Speaker: Prof. Ming Zeng (Tsinghua Universtiy)

Slides 20151022_Ming_ZENG_Sino-German_GDT_symposium_ringberg-s.pdf

17:30 CDEX-10 test results

Speaker: Hao Jiang (Tsinghua University)

Slides CDEX10_test_results_HaoJiang.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner -- Bavarian Buffet

Friday, 23 October

08:00 → 08:50 Breakfast

09:00 → 15:40 Future Perspectives

09:00 Status of CJPL-2

Speaker: Prof. Zhi Zeng (Tsinghua University)

Slides 20151023_Status_of_CJPL2-zhi_Zeng-s.pdf

09:30 Low background facilities in CJPL and preparation for electroformed copper production

Speaker: Prof. Hao Ma (Tsinghua University)

Slides Hao_Ma_Sino-German_GDT_symposium_Ringberg-s.pdf

09:50 PCGe detector fabrication in China

Speaker: Prof. YuLan Li (Tsinghua University)

Slides 2015_10_Sino-Gemran_GDT_Cooperation_final-s.pdf

10:10 Plans on Ge-76 double beta decay in China

Speaker: Prof. Zeng Zhi (Tsinghua University)

Slides 20151023-China_Ge_0vbb-zhi_zeng-p-s.pdf

10:40 Coffee

11:10 PIRE a network for detector R&D

Speaker: Prof. Dongming Mei (University of South Dakota)

Slides PIRE-s.pdf

11:30 Possible Eol for a large scale Ge detector

Speaker: Dr Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp15_EoI.pdf

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Future Physics with Germanium: Where are we now and what do we need for for 0nubb, dark matter, neutrinos (from 1t to 100t)

Speaker: Prof. John F. Wilkerson (University of North Carolina)

Slides next_gen_ge_sino_german_symp_Wilkerson-s.pdf

14:50 How far are we away from being able to design/build a 1t/100t Ge detector?

Compile and discuss a list of questions to be answered

Speaker: Podium and General Discussion

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee

16:10 → 17:55 Summary

16:10 Nobel prize 2015 -- SNO

16:40 Infamous Last Words

Speaker: Dr Iris Abt (MPI for Physics)

Slides Symp15_summary-s.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 24 October

07:45 → 08:50 Breakfast

08:50 → 09:10 Check Out And Pay Your Bill for Wine and Beer

09:15 → 09:30 Departure and Transfer to Munich and / or Airport

09:30 → 09:31 Conference Photo

Slides conf-foto.JPG