Agenda

 

The focus of the meeting is on discussion and the chairs of each session will be tasked with actively focussing the discussion towards the plan for the experiment and CDR.

All talks will be linked to the CUPID DocDB, connection information to come shortly.

Day 1 - 14:00-19:00 - Majorana Room (LNGS)

14:00 - The Big Picture  - Chair: Ezio

  • Welcome and Introductions of People/PI’s by Experiment (Oliviero, Andrea, Stefano) [15min]
  • CUPID Sensitivity Goals (Yury) [10min]
  • Preliminary Timeline - CUORE running, 100Mo enrichment, crystal production (Ezio) [10min]
  • Outline of the CDR (Lindley) [10min]
  • Discussion

15:30 - Coffee

15:45 Background and Sensitivity Projections - Chair: Fabio

  • CUORE Background (Stefano Pozzi) [10min]
  • Breakdown of alpha and beta/gamma background in a CUPID-like detector (Maura Pavan) [10min]
  • CUPID-0 Background (Laura Cardani) [10min]
  • Overall background projections and sensitivity for CUPID (Giovanni Benato) [15min]
  • Discussion

16:45 - Sensor Status and R&D - Chair: Lindley

Strong focus on Technology Milestones and Deliverables for TDR in 2020

  • CUORE Cryostat  (Carlo Bucci) [10min] - focus on possible cryostat upgrades.
  • NTD (Matteo Biassoni)  [10 min] - summary of multiple group's efforts
  • MKID (Nicolo Casali) [10 min]
  • TES (Brad Welliver)  [10 min]
  • Discussion

17:45 Break

Full Detector Design - Chair: Ezio

What are the open questions: crystal size, crystal purity, crystal cost, geometry; milestones for each design, e.g. need for additional pilot/demonstrator runs.

  • LMO (Andrea Giuliani) [15 min]
  • TeO2 (Frank Avignone) [15 min]
  • Possible phased deployment (Carlo Bucci) [10 min]
  • Discussion 

Done 19:00

Day 2 - 9:00-17:00 - Majorana Room (LNGS)

9:00 - Working group parallel sessions I

  • Infrastructure (cryogenics, clean rooms, detector assembly, DAQ, muon veto, etc) - Chair: Carlo and Tommy
  • Light detectors (NL-NTD, MKID, TES, …) - Chair: Marco and Yury
  • LMO enriched detectors - Chair: Lindley and Andrea

11:00 Coffee break

11:30-13:30 Working group parallel sessions II

  • Light detectors (NL-NTD, MKID, TES, …) - Chair: Marco and Yury
  • TeO2 enriched detectors - Chair: Rick and Ion
  • Background model, sensitivity, material selection; physics topics other than 0nbb   - Chair: Maura and Gio

13:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Reports from Working Groups

  • Infrastructure [10 min]
  • Light detectors [10 min]
  • LMO enriched detectors [10 min]
  • TeO2 enriched detectors [10 min]
  • Background model, sensitivity [10 min]

15:30-17:00 Strategy Going Forward - Forming the collaboration, Public image of CUPID