Name: Joint SARAF & WIS TPC mini-workshop
Start: 2026-02-19T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-02-19T17:45:00+02:00
Location: WIS

Joint SARAF & WIS TPC mini-workshop

Thursday, 19 February 2026 - 08:30

Monday, 16 February 2026
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Thursday, 19 February 2026

08:30 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
08:30 - 08:55
Room: Physics Library
08:55 SARAF TPC
08:55 - 10:15
Room: Physics Library
Contributions

08:55 Welcome - Elad Caspi (SNRC) Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

09:00 Overview of the SARAF facility - Israel Mardor (Tel Aviv University)

09:30 Soreq Reactor facility - Elad Caspi (SNRC)

09:45 Motivation for a TPC at SARAF - Leo Weissman (SARAF)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Physics Library
10:45 SARAF TPC
10:45 - 11:50
Room: Physics Library
Contributions

10:45 Results from a prototype Optical TPC at WIS: a milestone towards a detector at SARAF-II - Ryan Felkai (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

11:15 Simulation Studies and Commissioning of an Optical TPC at the Soreq Reactor. - Maryna Borysova (Weizmann Institute of Science)

11:35 Status of the new O-TPC detector - Jacques Pienaar (The University of Chicago)
11:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:50 - 13:00
Room: Physics Library
13:00 Other TPC projects
13:00 - 14:45
Room: Physics Library
Contributions

13:00 Review of the electronic and optical Warsaw TPC projects. (Zoom) - Mikolaj Cwiok (Warsaw Univ)

13:45 NEXT: high pressure Xe TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay. - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

14:15 Future Liquid Argon TPCs of DUNE neutrino experiment. - Adi Askenazi (TAU)
14:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Physics Library
15:15 Other TPC projects
15:15 - 17:45
Room: Physics Library
Contributions

15:15 Liquid Xenon TPCs of XENON and future XLZD dark matter experiment - Ran Budnik

15:45 TPC activities at FRIB (Zoom) - Marco Cortesi (MSU)

16:15 Discussion

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