Engineering review of the NEXT-100 experiment

Name: Engineering review of the NEXT-100 experiment
Start: 2012-12-03T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2012-12-06T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Fermilab

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

Black Hole (Fermilab)

Black Hole

Fermilab

Monday, 3 December
- Sun, 2 Dec
- Mon, 3 Dec
- 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
- Sun, 2 Dec
- Mon, 3 Dec
- Overview