Engineering review of the NEXT-100 experiment

Name: Engineering review of the NEXT-100 experiment
Start: 2012-12-04T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2012-12-06T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Fermilab

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

Black Hole (Fermilab)

Black Hole

Fermilab

Tuesday, 4 December
- Mon, 3 Dec
- 09:00 → 09:30
  Overview
  - 09:00
    
    NEXT-100 general design and performance goals – JJ Gomez-Cadenas 15m
  - 09:15
    
    Canfranc Laboratory infrastructure - Igor Liubarsky 5m
    
    Slides
  - 09:20
    
    Budget, schedule cost – instant overview - Igor Liubarsky 10m
    
    Slides
- 09:30 → 11:00
  Mechanics
  - 09:30
    
    Mechanical Engineering aspects of NEXT100 - Derek Shuman 1h 30m
    
    Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  Electronics
  - 11:30
    
    Tracking plane electronics – José F. Toledo Alarcón, Azriel Goldschmidt 15m
    
    Slides
  - 11:45
    
    FNAL SiPM electronic concept – Paul Rubinov 15m
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    Energy plane electronics – José F. Toledo Alarcón, Azriel Goldschmidt 15m
    
    Slides
  - 12:15
    
    Monitoring/slow control – Dave Nygren 15m
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:00
  Other Subsystems
  - 13:30
    
    Calibrations - John Hauptman 30m
    
    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 30m
    
    a. Regular operation b. Flow pattern in detector c. Normal and emergency recovery d. Leak sensing and mitigation
    
    Slides
  - 14:30
    
    Radiopurity campaign & backgrounds – JJ Gomez-Cadenas 30m
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 15:30 → 16:00
  Integration,Environmental and safety issues
  - 15:30
    
    Sub-system and system electro-mechanical assembly in Canfranc – Igor Liubarsky, Derek Shuman 20m
  - 15:50
    
    Environmental and safety issues 10m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  Discussion
  - 16:00
    
    Capture of unresolved issues 20m
  - 16:20
    
    Cost issues - Igor Liubarsky 20m
    
    a. Estimates of missing resources b. Contingency plans c. European and US contexts
    
    Slides
  - 16:40
    
    Schedule - JJ Gomez-Cadenas 20m
  - 17:00
    
    FWP proposal – Dave Nygren 20m
  - 17:20
    
    Can NEXT-100 run with molecular additives? 20m
  - 17:40
    
    Priorities 20m