Engineering review of the NEXT-100 experiment

3 Dec 2012, 08:00 → 6 Dec 2012, 18:00 US/Central

Black Hole (Fermilab)

Monday, 3 December

Overview

1 NEXT-100 general design and performance goals – JJ Gomez-Cadenas

2 Canfranc Laboratory infrastructure - Igor Liubarsky

3 Budget, schedule cost – instant overview - Igor Liubarsky

Mechanics

4 Pressure vessel - Derek Shuman

5 Copper liner - Derek Shuman

6 Energy plane mechanics - Derek Shuman

7 Energy plane, cables, and feed-through design - Derek Shuman

8 Field cage & insulator - Derek Shuman

9 HV feed-through - Derek Shuman

10 EL planes - Derek Shuman

11 Tracking plane mechanics - Derek Shuman

12 Tracking plane, cables, and feed-through design - Derek Shuman

10:00 Coffee break

Electronics

13 Tracking plane electronics – Curro, Azriel Goldschmidt

14 FNAL SiPM electronic concept – Paul Rubinov

15 Energy plane electronics – Curro, Azriel Goldschmidt

16 Monitoring/slow control – Dave Nygren

11:30 Lunch

Other Subsystems

17 Calibrations - John Hauptman

a. Calibration of tracking plane i. SiPM gain stability ii. SiPM sensitivity b. Calibration of energy plane i. Electronic stability/gain ii. Electroluminescent conversion stability iii. Conversion from ADC units to energy c. Discussion

18 Gas system - Igor Liubarsky

a. Regular operation b. Flow pattern in detector c. Normal and emergency recovery d. Leak sensing and mitigation

19 Radiopurity campaign & backgrounds – JJ Gomez-Cadenas

14:00 Coffee break

Integration,Environmental and safety issues

20 Sub-system and system electro-mechanical assembly in Canfranc – Igor Liubarsky, Derek Shuman

21 Environmental and safety issues

Discussion

22 1. Capture of unresolved issues

23 Cost issues - Igor Liubarsky

a. Estimates of missing resources b. Contingency plans c. European and US contexts

24 Schedule - JJ Gomez-Cadenas

25 FWP proposal – Dave Nygren

26 Can NEXT-100 run with molecular additives?

27 Priorities

Tuesday, 4 December

Overview