Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors and Cosmology: Scientific Motivation, Recent Achievements and Planned Experiments

26 Aug 2013, 08:00 → 27 Aug 2013, 18:00 US/Central

Theory Conference Room WH3NW (Fermilab)

Brian Nord (Fermilab), Donna Kubik (Fermilab), Juan Estrada (Fermilab), Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

The goal of this 2-day workshop is to advance the science case for the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for application in future experiments at the Cosmic Frontier. The event will bring together detector experts, theorists and experimentalists to discuss all the relevant aspects of the development of a robust program leading to a series of future experiments. These include spectrophotometric surveys for Dark Energy, low background experiments for direct detection of Dark Matter and Cosmic Microwave Background experiments for Cosmology.

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Monday, 26 August

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1 - Overview about MKIDs: motivation, challenges, potential

Convener: Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

09:00 Welcome / Motivation

Speaker: Gaston Gutierrez (Fermilab)

Slides Gaston-FNAL-2013.pdf Gaston-FNAL-2013.pptx

09:30 Intro to MKIDs

Speaker: Seth Meeker (UCSB)

Slides 130826MeekerFermilabNumbered.pptx 130826MeekerFermilab.pptx

10:00 Data analysis experience

Speaker: Chris Stoughton (Fermilab)

0 ARCONS_PAL2012_Crab_Movie.m4v

Slides

• arcons-software-stoughton.pdf
• m-PAL2012-20121211-20121212-133303-0138595580-0138595650-a.gif
• m-PAL2012-20121211-20121212-133303-0138595580-0138595650-i.gif

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Session 2 - MKIDs and galaxy surveys

Convener: Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

11:00 Synergy with DES/LSST

Speaker: James Annis (Fermilab)

Slides mkids-and-des.pdf

11:20 Improving photoz's with MKIDs

Speaker: Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)

Slides 20130826_MKID_ImprovedRedshifts.key 20130826_MKID_ImprovedRedshifts.pdf

11:40 MKIDs camera for the SOAR 4m telescope

Speaker: Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

Slides soarmkids_Aug2013.pdf

12:00 Simulations for MKIDs Surveys

Speaker: Brian Nord (Fermilab)

Slides simulations_of_surveys_mkids_workshop_20130825.pdf

12:20 Discussion

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

13:15 → 14:15 MKIDs analysis tutorial

Conveners: Chris Stoughton (Fermilab), Seth Meeker (UCSB)

14:30 → 15:30 Session 2 - cont.

14:30 MKIDs for UVOIR Astrophysics

Speaker: Ben Mazin (UCSB)

Slides FermilabWorkshop-Mazin.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Session 3 - Status of R&D efforts

Convener: Donna Kubik Kubik (Fermilab)

16:00 X-ray MKIDs at Argonne

Speaker: Orlando Quaranta (ANL)

Slides TKID_Fermilab_8-26-13.pptx

16:30 A two-side-buttable design concept

Speaker: Greg Derylo (Fermilab)

Slides Slides_-_Derylo_-_13Aug26.pdf

16:45 Readout system for large MKID arrays

Speaker: Gustavo Cancelo (Fermilab)

Slides Readout_system_for_large_MKID_arrays.pdf

17:00 Status of R&D effort at UCSB

Speaker: Paul Szypryt (UCSB)

Slides UCSB_RD.pptx

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 27 August

09:00 → 10:30 Session 4 - Visit to SiDet

Conveners: Donna Kubik Kubik (Fermilab), Dr gustavo cancelo (fermilab)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 5 - MKIDs and time domain surveys

Convener: Brian Nord

11:00 Observing SNe with MKIDs

Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

Slides Soares-Santos_MKIDSandSNe.pdf

11:20 MKIDs co-observing Fast Radio Bursts

Speaker: Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)

Slides 20130827_MKID_FRBs.cdf

11:40 MKIDs in the UK: status and plans for time resolved studies on Black-hole X-ray binaries

Speaker: Kieran O'Brien (Oxford)

Slides MKIDS_Oxford.pptx

12:00 Discussion

Speaker: Dr Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)

Slides mkids.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Sesssion 6 - Other applications of MKIDs

13:30 Dark Matter searches with MKIDs

Speaker: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

Slides Rouven-Essig-MKIDs.pdf

13:50 Search for Cosmic Background Neutrino Decay with STJ detectors

Speaker: Yuji Takeuchi (Tsukuba)

Slides NuDecay4MKIDws.130827.v2.pdf

14:10 MKIDs and CMB

Speaker: Clarence Chang (University of Chicago)

Slides MKID+CMB.pdf

14:30 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session 7 - Closeout discussion: next steps

Convener: Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

16:00 Summary

Speaker: Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

Slides summary.pptx

17:00 Discussion