Jun 14 – 17, 2022
South Dakota Mines
US/Mountain timezone

Topics

  • Underground laboratories

  • Low-background methods and counting techniques

  • Cosmogenic background: experimental data and simulations

  • Mitigation of radon background

  • Mitigation of surface contamination background

  • Crystal scintillators, radio-purity, crystal growth, and application to rare-event searches

  • Liquid scintillator and water Cherenkov: radio-purity, purification methods

  • Radio-purity assay and databases

  • Detectors with liquid noble gases for rare-event searches

  • Bolometers for rare-event searches

  • Semiconductor detector backgrounds, production

  • Low-background material production (including advanced machining and 3D printing)

  • Particle background impacts on quantum information systems and quantum computing