Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

Session

Plenary - Advanced Materials, Geology, Advanced Data Analysis

May 13, 2022, 8:15 AM

Electrical Engineering & Physics (South Dakota Mines)

Conveners

Plenary - Advanced Materials, Geology, Advanced Data Analysis

• Matthias Plum (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

80. Development of novel germanium detectors for rare event physics searches

Dr Wenzhao Wei (USD)

5/13/22, 8:30 AM

Materials Science

Oral

The University of South Dakota (USD) has been active in germanium (Ge) crystal growth and Ge detector development for rare event physics searches for more than 10 years. This talk will give an overview of the USD's R&D on novel Ge detectors made with USD grown crystals. Three new types of Ge detectors including Ge detectors with internal charge amplification, thincontact Ge detectors, and...

114. Machine learning in particle physics

Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5/13/22, 9:00 AM

Advanced Data Analysis

Oral

During the last decade, research of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) has gone through an explosive evolution and made impacts across many domains of science and human lives. AI/ML models in computer vision can perform high quality analysis of image data from physics experiments, and models developed for natural language processing are applied to analyze sequential data....

75. Geotechnical Characterization and Risk Mitigation for the LBNF Project

Seth Pollak

5/13/22, 9:30 AM

Geology

Oral

The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility Far Site, which will house the DUNE experiment, is currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Excavation of several caverns and ancillary tunnels is being undertaken at depth through jointed and foliated rock. This presentation will give a brief overview of the geotechnical characterization of the site and what intrinsic...