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

Overview

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

2 Canfranc Laboratory infrastructure - Igor Liubarsky

Slides Infrastructure.pdf

3 Budget, schedule cost – instant overview - Igor Liubarsky

Slides Money.pdf

Mechanics

4 Mechanical Engineering aspects of NEXT100 - Derek Shuman

Slides NEXT100_Mechanical.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

Electronics

5 Tracking plane electronics – José F. Toledo Alarcón, Azriel Goldschmidt

Slides SRS_SiPM_presentation_for_Fermilab.pdf

6 FNAL SiPM electronic concept – Paul Rubinov

Slides SiPMs_for_NEXT.pptx

7 Energy plane electronics – José F. Toledo Alarcón, Azriel Goldschmidt

Slides SRS_DAQ_presentation_for_Fermilab.pdf

8 Monitoring/slow control – Dave Nygren

12:30 Lunch

Other Subsystems

9 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

10 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

11 Radiopurity campaign & backgrounds – JJ Gomez-Cadenas

15:00 Coffee break

Integration,Environmental and safety issues

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

13 Environmental and safety issues

Discussion

14 Capture of unresolved issues

15 Cost issues - Igor Liubarsky

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

Slides Money.pdf

16 Schedule - JJ Gomez-Cadenas

17 FWP proposal – Dave Nygren

18 Can NEXT-100 run with molecular additives?

19 Priorities