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IOP Joint APP and HEPP Annual Conference 2026

8–10 Apr 2026
John McIntyre Conference Centre
Europe/London timezone

Session

Parallel - detectors 2

9 Apr 2026, 10:45
John McIntyre Conference Centre

John McIntyre Conference Centre

Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Rd, Edinburgh EH16 5AY

Conveners

Parallel - detectors 2: Thursday Pentland

  • Alessandro Sturniolo (University of Liverpool (GB))

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  1. 75. Single-Electron Gas Characterisation for Dark Matter Searches using Spherical Proportional Counters
    Peter Walters
    09/04/2026, 10:45
    Detectors and Instrumentation
    Parallel talk

    The spherical proportional counter, a novel gaseous detector, has been employed in direct, low-mass particle dark matter (DM) searches thanks to its radiopure material construction, single-electron energy threshold, and flexibility to operate with a range of gases. Gases containing low-mass nuclei such as hydrogen, carbon, and neon are used in the detector to provide good kinematic matching to...

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  2. 92. Novel Mass Measurement Methods using the LHCb RICH Detectors
    Michael James Kane (University of Edinburgh (GB))
    09/04/2026, 11:00
    Detectors and Instrumentation
    Parallel talk

    Two Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors enable LHCb to identify charged hadrons between 2-100 GeV with unprecedented Cherenkov angle resolution. While primarily designed for particle identification, novel developments enable direct mass inference using reconstructed Cherenkov photons, paving the way for new precision mass measurements of charged hadrons.
    This work presents the practical...

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  3. 59. Cryogenic characterization of the DarkSide-20k veto photo-detector units
    Emma Ellingwood (University of Edinburgh)
    09/04/2026, 11:15
    Detectors and Instrumentation
    Parallel talk

    DarkSide-20k is a direct detection dark matter experiment currently under construction at LNGS in Italy. The central detector is a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with 50 tonnes of liquid low-radioactivity underground argon (UAr). The TPC is surrounded by an additional 32 tonnes of UAr which acts as a neutron veto. The neutron veto plays a vital part in ensuring that DarkSide-20k...

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  4. 77. Ultra-pure copper electroforming at Boulby deep underground laboratory
    Giovanni Rogers (University of Birmingham (UK), STFC - Boulby Underground Laboratory)
    09/04/2026, 11:30
    Detectors and Instrumentation
    Parallel talk

    Rare-event search experiments, for example those looking for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay, require increasingly sensitive detectors. A critical aspect of this is the reduction of backgrounds from detector materials, especially those in contact with the sensitive volume. High-grade copper is an attractive construction choice, due to its commercial availability and lack of...

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  5. 80. Tyvek reflectance study for the outer detector of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment.
    Sania Lewis (King's College London)
    09/04/2026, 11:45
    Detectors and Instrumentation
    Parallel talk

    Hyper-Kamiokande is a state-of-the-art water Cherenkov neutrino detector, currently under construction in Japan. In its capacity as the far detector within a long baseline program, Hyper-K aims to make high precision measurements of key neutrino oscillation parameters and has the ability to observe exotic phenomena such as proton decay and other BSM physics. One of the main backgrounds to such...

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