Engineering review of the NEXT-100 experiment

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

Black Hole (Fermilab)

Tuesday, 4 December

09:00 → 09:30 Overview

09:00 NEXT-100 general design and performance goals – JJ Gomez-Cadenas

09:15 Canfranc Laboratory infrastructure - Igor Liubarsky

Slides Infrastructure.pdf

09:20 Budget, schedule cost – instant overview - Igor Liubarsky

Slides Money.pdf

09:30 → 11:00 Mechanics

09:30 Mechanical Engineering aspects of NEXT100 - Derek Shuman

Slides NEXT100_Mechanical.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Electronics

11:30 Tracking plane electronics – José F. Toledo Alarcón, Azriel Goldschmidt

Slides SRS_SiPM_presentation_for_Fermilab.pdf

11:45 FNAL SiPM electronic concept – Paul Rubinov

Slides SiPMs_for_NEXT.pptx

12:00 Energy plane electronics – José F. Toledo Alarcón, Azriel Goldschmidt

Slides SRS_DAQ_presentation_for_Fermilab.pdf

12:15 Monitoring/slow control – Dave Nygren

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Other Subsystems

13:30 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

14:00 Gas system - Igor Liubarsky

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

Slides GasSystemChicago.pdf

14:30 Radiopurity campaign & backgrounds – JJ Gomez-Cadenas

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:00 Integration,Environmental and safety issues

15:30 Sub-system and system electro-mechanical assembly in Canfranc – Igor Liubarsky, Derek Shuman

15:50 Environmental and safety issues

16:00 → 18:00 Discussion

16:00 Capture of unresolved issues

16:20 Cost issues - Igor Liubarsky

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

Slides Money.pdf

16:40 Schedule - JJ Gomez-Cadenas

17:00 FWP proposal – Dave Nygren

17:20 Can NEXT-100 run with molecular additives?

17:40 Priorities