Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

Session

Plenary - Nuclear Astrophysics, Biology, DUNE Module of Opportunity

May 12, 2022, 10:30 AM

Electrical Engineering & Physics (South Dakota Mines)

Conveners

Plenary - Nuclear Astrophysics, Biology, DUNE Module of Opportunity

• Juergen Reichenbacher (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

103. Microbes in Space: Extremophiles from Extraterrestrial Environments

Dr Kasthuri Venkateswaran (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

5/12/22, 10:30 AM

Plenary

Oral

Microbiome of environmental surfaces and atmosphere samples in the International Space Station (ISS) were characterized in order to examine the relationship to crew and hardware maintenance. The Microbial Tracking projects generated a microbial census of the ISS environments using advanced molecular microbial community analyses along with traditional culture-based methods. Since the “omics”...

107. Nuclear Astrophysics Underground – Status of CASPAR

Frank Strieder (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)

5/12/22, 11:00 AM

Nuclear Physics

Oral

Even more than 60 years after the groundbreaking publication by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle, Nuclear Astrophysics is still a thriving and exciting research field at the interface of nuclear physics, astrophysics, and particle physics. Current topic is associated with the evolution of stars and its impact on the production of heavy elements but also the source strength of solar...

115. DUNE Module of Opportunity

steve kettell (bnl)

5/12/22, 11:30 AM

Oral

A summary of proposed new ideas and technologies for a different detector module of opportunity for the DUNE far detector underground at Sanford Lab will be presented. The potential new physics reach for the DUNE program is discussed as well for some selected ideas and technologies.