Conveners
Facilities
- Richard Saldanha
- Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico (US))
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Flor de Maria Blaszczyk (Fermilab)21/10/2026, 11:00FacilitiesPresentation
The Noble Liquid Test Facility (NLTF) at Fermilab is a liquid argon detector R&D facility open to the national and international HEP community. The facility consists of 4 liquid argon permanent cryostats, ranging from 250L up to 3000L, open space for small open dewar testing and an optical test stand facility capable of measuring the optical properties of materials and characterizing photon...
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Dr Alan Hunt (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)21/10/2026, 11:15FacilitiesPresentation
The interaction of ionizing radiation with superconducting qubits can lead to large-scale correlated errors that are problematic, as they cannot be fixed by conventional error correction techniques. These radiation induced upset events have mostly been studied using the natural radiation in the environment and manmade radioactive sources, making it difficult to directly correlate the observed...
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Daniel Baxter (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)21/10/2026, 11:30FacilitiesPresentation
The infrastructure associated with building a large accelerator complex created some very unique spaces at Fermilab. In particular, the MINOS tunnel, excavated as part of the NuMI neutrino beam delivering neutrinos to the MINOS, MINERVA, and NOVA experiments, is an easily-accessible 100m underground experimental space. The rock overburden at this depth blocks 99.5% of all cosmic ray muons, and...
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Jaret Heise (Sanford Underground Research Facility)21/10/2026, 11:45FacilitiesPresentation
The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) began operation in 2007 as a facility dedicated to advancing compelling multidisciplinary scientific research. SURF is one of the deepest laboratory sites and offers the largest footprint in the world for scientific pursuits, including physics campuses at a depth of 1.5 km where the LUX-ZEPLIN and CASPAR experiments currently operate (the...
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Reyco Henning (UNC Chapel Hill)21/10/2026, 12:001FacilitiesPresentation
The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, or TUNL, is a nuclear physics accelerator facility located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC. It is a consortium of 4 universities, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. It hosts a storage ring Free-Electron Laser (FEL) and the High...
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Evan Niner (Fermilab)21/10/2026, 12:15FacilitiesPresentation
Fermilab plays host to the Fermilab Test Beam Facility(FTBF) and the Irradiation Test Area (ITA). The FTBF is one of the highest energy facilities in the world which is dedicated to helping experimenters develop, test, and calibrate particle detectors. The Fermilab accelerator complex can deliver a 120 GeV primary proton beam and secondary/tertiary beams of varying momenta and particle content...
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Douglas Ryan Berry (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))21/10/2026, 12:30FacilitiesPresentation
The Silicon Detector Facility (SiDet) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory provides specialized infrastructure, technical expertise, and engineering support for the development, construction, and characterization of state-of-the-art silicon detectors. SiDet plays a central role in several major detector projects, including the CMS Outer Tracker (OT), High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL),...
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Luke Wanner (Colorado School of Mines)21/10/2026, 12:45FacilitiesPresentation
The Colorado Underground Research Institute (CURIE) is a shallow underground laboratory under development in the Edgar Experimental Mine (EEM), a former gold mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado, owned and operated by the Colorado School of Mines and located roughly 30 minutes from campus. The lab space sits beneath ~200 m of rock (~415 m.w.e.), which reduces the cosmic-ray muon flux by a factor of...
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