4th Conference on Science
at the Sanford Underground Research Facility
will take place on
SD Mines Campus on May 11 - 13, 2022.
See this link for more information.


3rd CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE
AT THE
SANFORD UNDERGROUND RESEARCH FACILITY


The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology will host the third Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility to address scientific research related to the laboratory in nearby Lead, SD. Scientists from around the world are conducting the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter search, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR project, CASPAR, SIGMA-V, and other experiments in geology, astrophysics, biology, and engineering. The onsite work on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) has just started.

Scientific areas of discussion include: Neutrino Oscillations, Proton Decay, Nuclear Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Materials Science for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Geology, and Astrobiology and Life in Extreme Environments.

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Conference Welcome Letter

Conference Schedule (PDF)

Conference Book of Abstracts (PDF)


Conference Schedule:

Low Background Workshop (Tuesday)
Plenary Session: Opening & Materials Science (Wednesday)
Plenary Session: Neutrino Oscillations (Wednesday)
Parallel Sessions on Wednesday afternoon
Plenary Session: Underground Science (Thursday)
Plenary Session: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay (Thursday)
Plenary Session: Dark Matter (Thursday)
Parallel Sessions on Thursday afternoon
Plenary Session: Geology (Friday)
Plenary Session: Astrophysics (Friday)

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019

LOW BACKGROUND WORKSHOP:

High Purity Germanium Detectors: Room EEP 252 (8:45-10:30)

8:45 Brianna Mount Low Background Counting at SURF
9:00 Ryan MacLellan The nEXO background control program
9:30 Drew Alton DarkSide 20k Material Assay
10:00 Matthew Lassiter A Toolbox for High Purity Germanium Detector Geometry Design

Coffee Break: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (10:30-11:00)

Environmental Background and New Detectors: Room 252 (11:00-1:00)

11:00 Sally Shaw Measurement of the Gamma Ray Background in the Davis Cavern at SURF
11:30 Paul Barton Ultra Low Background Front End Electronics for the Majorana Demonstrator
12:00 Richard Saldanha Measuring cosmogenic activation rates in active detector material
12:30 Madan Timalsina Neutron Calibration and Simulation for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment

Lunch: Room EEP 251A (1:00-2:00)

Radon Assay and Suppression: Room 252 (2:00-3:30)

2:00 Joseph Street Radon Background Control for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Dark Matter Experiment
2:30 Michael Bowles Evaluation of Radon Emanation and Diffusion for SuperCDMS SNOLAB
3:00 Eric Morrison Radon Mitigation in the LZ Experiment

Coffee Break: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (3:30-4:00)

Radon Assay and Suppression (continued): Room 252 (4:00-5:00)

4:00 Nicholas Chott Radon Emanation Assay Results for the LZ Experiment
2:30 Marcus Hall Radon Emanation Measurements for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2019

PLENARY: Opening Plenary Room EEP 252 (8:30-10:00)

8:30 Demitris Kouris Welcome
8:40 Whitney Recountre II The Sacred Sites in the Black Hills
9:10 Cabot-Ann Christofferson Radiopure Material Development for Next Generation 0νββ Experiments
9:30 Dongming Mei Advanced Materials for Nuclear and Particle Physics

Coffee Break/Poster Session: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (10:00-10:30)

PLENARY: Neutrino Oscillations Room 252 (10:30-12:15)

10:30 Shirley Li Theory Overview on Neutrino Oscillations
11:00 Jeremy Hewes Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment NOvA and Comparison to T2K
11:30 Jingbo Wang Status of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)

Group Photo/Lunch: Quad then Room Surbeck Center (12:15-2:00)

PARALLEL: Dark Matter I Room 253 (2:00-3:40)

2:00 Moo Hyun Lee COSINE-100: A WIMP dark matter experiment
2:20 Radomir Smida The DAMIC dark matter experiment: status and prospects
2:40 Sudip Poudel FCPs Search with CDMSlite Run2a
3:00 Ruslan Podviianiuk Data Visualization of the SuperCDMS Experiment

PARALLEL: Neutrino Oscillation I Room 252 (2:00-3:40)

2:00 Marianetta Wospakrik Recent Physics Results of the MicroBooNE Experiment
2:25 Andrea Pocar Solar Neutrino Physics with Borexino
2:50 Robert Svoboda Physics of the Theia Detector
3:15 Joachim Wolf The KATRIN neutrino mass experiment

PARALLEL: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay I Room 254 (2:00-3:40)

2:00 John Hardin Current Status and Future Prospects for KamLAND-Zen 800
2:25 Tanner Kaptanoglu Neutrinoless double beta decay with SNO+
2:50 Michinari Sakai Results from the CUORE experiment
3:15 Tyana Stiegler The nEXO Experiment

Coffee Break: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (3:40-4:00)

PARALLEL: Materials Science Room 253 (4:00-5:40)

4:00 Mathbar Raut Characterizing Germanium (Ge) crystals for developing Ge detectors
4:20 Sanjay Bhattarai Deep level impurity characterization in developing Germanium detectors for detecting rare event physics
4:40 Pramod Acharya Purification of Ge ingots for growing crystals in developing dark matter detectors
5:00 Hao Mei Crystal growth for developing germanium detectors with internal charge amplification for low-mass dark matter
5:20 Wenzhao Wei Investigation of Amorphous Germanium Contact Properties with Planar Detectors Made from USD-Grown Germanium Crystals

PARALLEL: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay II Room 252 (4:00-5:40)

4:00 Moo Hyun Lee AMoRE: A neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
4:25 Benjamin Jones Status of NEXT
4:50 Clint Wiseman Current status of the Majorana Demonstrator and outlook for LEGEND

PARALLEL: Nucleon Decay & Astrophysics Room 254 (4:00-5:40)

4:00 Aaron Higuera Search for baryon number violating processes at DUNE
2:25 Robert Pattie n->n_bar Oscillations at ESS
2:50 Thomas Kadlecek Underground Measurement of the 22Ne(α,n)25Mg and 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg Cross Sections at Low Energies

Wednesday Night: Dinner on your own


THURDAY, MAY 16, 2019

PLENARY: Underground Science Room EEP 252 (8:30-9:00)

8:30 Jaret Heise The Sanford Underground Research Facility

PLENARY: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Room EEP 252 (9:00-10:00)
9:00 Steven Elliott Future Experiments for Double-Beta Decay
9:30 Jonathan Engel Developments in the Theory of Double-Beta Decay

Coffee Break/Poster Session: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (10:00-10:30)

PLENARY: Dark Matter Room 252 (10:30-12:15)

10:30 Pearl Sandick Dark Matter Overview
11:00 Hugh Lippincott Dark Matter Searches with Liquid Nobles
11:30 Jodi Cooley Dark Matter Searches with Solid-State Detectors

Lunch: Room Surbeck Center (12:15-2:00)

SURF TOURS (12:15-6:00)

PARALLEL: Neutrino Oscillations II Room 253 (2:00-3:40)

2:00 David Martinez Caicedo The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
2:25 Juergen Reichenbacher New Results from the Double Chooz Experiment

PARALLEL: Dark Matter II Room 252 (2:00-3:40)

2:00 Drew Alton Results and Plans of DarkSide
2:25 Michael Clark Results from XENON1T and status of the XENONnT upgrade
2:50 Nicholas Chott Status of the LZ Experiment
3:15 Alvine Kamaha A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

Coffee Break/Poster Session: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (3:40-4:00)

PARALLEL: Dark Matter III Room 253 (4:00-5:40)

4:00 Maryvonne De Jesus SubGeV Dark Matter searches with EDELWEISS
4:25 Francisco Vazquez de Sola Review of the NEWS-G experiment
4:50 Andreas Biekert HeRALD: Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium-4
5:15 Lindsey Bignell The SABRE Dark Matter Experiment

CONFERENCE BANQUET: Rushmore Hotel Grand Ballroom
Cash Bar 6:00-7:00, Dinner 7:00-9:00

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2019


PLENARY: Geology Room EEP 252 (8:30-10:00)

8:30 Bill Roggenthen Rock Properties and Fracturing at the Sanford Underground Research Facility
9:15 Samuel Voegeli Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining the Maximum Horizontal In Situ Stress

Coffee Break/Poster Session: Rooms EEP 209 and 246 (10:00-10:30)

PLENARY: Nuclear Astrophysics Room 252 (10:30-11:45)

10:30 Frank Strieder Nuclear Astrophysics Underground: From CASPAR to DIANA
11:15 Tyler Borgwardt First underground measurements at CASPAR

Lunch: Room Surbeck Center (12:15-2:00)




International Honary Steering Committee:

Baha Balantekin University of Wisconsin
Priscilla Cushman University of Minnesota
Giorgio Gratta Stanford University
Mike Headley Sanford Underground Research Facility
Kevin Lesko Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Manfred Lindern Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik
Harry Nelson University of California, Santa Barbara
Kate Scholberg Duke University
Michael Wiescher University of Notre Dame
Bob Wilson Colorado State University
Stefan Soeldner-Rembold University of Manchester
Edward Blucher University of Chicago
Weiping Liu China Institute of Atomic Energy

Program Committee:

Materials Science
Dongming Mei University of South Dakota
Vladimir Sobolev South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Geology
Lance Roberts South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Bill Roggentheen South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Neutrino Oscillations
Juergen Reichenbacher South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Luke Corwin South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
David Martinez South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Dark Matter
Richard Schnee South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Juergen Reichenbacher South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Wenqin Xu University of South Dakota
Ryan MacLellan University of South Dakota
Nuclear Physics
Frank Strieder South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Proton Decay
Lisa Koerner University of Houston
Eric Church Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gregory Pawloski University of Minnesota
Physics Theory
Barbara Szczerbinska Texas A&M, Corpus Christi
Ian Shoemaker University of South Dakota
Supernova & Solar Neutrinos
Kate Scholberg Duke University
Alex Friedland Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Local Organizing Committee:

Frank Strieder (Chair) South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Xinhua Bai South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Luke Corwin South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Jaret Heise Sanford Underground Research Facility
David Martinez South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Brianna Mount Black Hills State University
Juergen Reichenbacher South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Lance Roberts South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Rajesh Sani South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Richard Schnee South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Vladimir Sobolev South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

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Code of Conduct:

It is the policy of the conference organizers that all participants, including attendees, vendors, university staff, volunteers, and all other stakeholders at the Conference of Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility will conduct themselves in a professional manner that is welcoming to all participants and free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. Participants will treat each other with respect and consideration to create a collegial, inclusive, and professional environment. Creating a supportive environment to enable scientific discourse at the conference is the responsibility of all participants.

Participants will avoid any inappropriate actions or statements based on individual characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, nationality, political affiliation, ability status, educational background, or any other characteristic protected by law. Disruptive or harassing behavior of any kind will not be tolerated. Harassment includes but is not limited to inappropriate or intimidating behavior and language, unwelcome jokes or comments, unwanted touching or attention, offensive images, photography without permission, and stalking.

Violations of this code of conduct policy should be reported to the conference organizers. Sanctions may range from verbal warning, to ejection from the meeting without refund, to notifying appropriate authorities. Retaliation for complaints of inappropriate conduct will not be tolerated. If participants observe inappropriate comments or actions and personal intervention seems appropriate and safe, they should be considerate of all parties before intervening.


Conference Chair and Contact:

Dr. Frank Strieder

Department of Physics
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 E. Saint Joseph St., SD 57701, USA
E-mail: frank.strieder@sdsmt.edu
Phone:+1-605-394-1227

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