Conveners
Plenary: Introduction
- Evelyn Jean Thomson (University of Pennsylvania (US))
Plenary: Instrumentation Overview
- Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)
Plenary: National Initiatives
- Mitchell Franck Newcomer (University of Pennsylvania (US))
Plenary: Early Career Research
- Ira Joseph Kroll (University of Pennsylvania (US))
Plenary: High Priority Big Projects
- Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico (US))
Plenary: Award ceremony, RDC Highlights, Closeout
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)
- Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
This talk presents an overview of the major national AI initiatives driving today's scientific breakthroughs, focusing on the Department of Energy’s AI for Science efforts, including the FASST and hardware-aware AI programs, and the National Science Foundation’s AI research institutes and AI2 ecosystem. The presentation highlights how these initiatives foster foundational AI model development,...
Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) are silicon sensors renowned for their ability to deliver fast timing, especially in high energy and nuclear physics. They achieve a timing resolution of 20-30 picoseconds through an internal multiplication process that creates a controlled avalanche of charge carriers, producing a gain of 10-100. Some variants of LGADs can also track particle trajectories...
Current and future particle trackers are beginning to incorporate timing measurements as part of the readout electronics. The ATLAS HGTD and CMS MTD timing detectors for the HL-LHC are already capable of sub-50 picosecond-level resolution, and tracking detectors for future colliders such as the muon or 10 TeV hadron colliders will require similar or better levels of time resolution with pixel...
Since the entry to the precision era for the nuclear and high-energy physics communities, excellent particle detection capability is highly demanded for each part of the detection system. A homogeneous EM-Calorimeter could provide excellent energy resolution for electrons and photons in a wide dynamic range allowing rapidity coverage, particle containment and granularity. However, concerns of...
As SuperKEKB approaches its target instantaneous luminosity of $6\times 10^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, its only particle detector, Belle II comprised of several subdetectors*, is also undergoing constant upgrades and changes. Closer to its target luminosity, the Belle II detector expects to receive very large data samples that have much higher background and radiation levels. Single event upsets...
The TESSERACT experiment will deploy 3 unique detector modules based on a common transition edge sensor-based readout to search for sub-GeV dark matter. HeRALD will use sensors with silicon or sapphire substrates to image radiative and quasiparticle emission from a target of superfluid helium-4 . SPICE will use sensors fabricated on sapphire and gallium arsenide substrates sensitive to both...
QUAntum LImited PHotons In the Dark Experiment (QUALIPHIDE) searches for Hidden Photons (HP) as dark matter. Quantum sensing techniques, such as photon counting, enable exploring new phase space for both HPs and axion like particles as candidates for dark matter. We have fielded a deeper than standard quantum limit search with single photon resolving MKIDs. This newest version of QUALIPHIDE...
