Name: Physics Opportunities of Large Liquid Scintillator Detectors (II)
Start: 2026-10-13T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-15T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM)

Physics Opportunities of Large Liquid Scintillator Detectors (II)

from Tuesday, October 13, 2026 (1:00 PM) to Thursday, October 15, 2026 (1:00 PM)

Monday, October 12, 2026
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

1:00 PM Registration & Coffee
Registration & Coffee
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM General: Welcome
Welcome
2:00 PM - 3:10 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome and recap of first Townhall (Irvine) - Michael Wurm (Institut für Physik, FB08, JGU Mainz)

2:15 PM Neutrino-less double beta decay: opportunities and risks - Manfred Lindner (MPI-K Heidelberg)

2:45 PM Overview of xenon 0νββ experiments - Erica Caden (SNOLab)
3:10 PM Specific: Scintillator
Scintillator
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
Contributions

3:10 PM Introduction - Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)

3:20 PM Slow bi-solvent scintillators - Paolo Lombardi (INFN Milano)

3:30 PM Maximizing Light Yield - Minfang Yeh (BNL)

3:40 PM Opaque scintillator - Stefan Schoppmann

3:50 PM Moderated discussion - Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)

4:30 PM Wrap-up - Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)
4:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Specific: Isotope Loading
Isotope Loading
5:00 PM - 6:40 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Introduction - Valentina Lozza (University of Lisbon) Szymon Manecki (SNOLab)

5:10 PM Studies of scintillator loading for JUNO - Yayun Ding (IHEP Beijing)

5:20 PM Methods for tellurium loading - Hans Steiger (TUM)

5:30 PM Alternative isotopes for double-beta searches - Minfang Yeh (BNL)

5:40 PM Ideas for nanoparticle loading - Thais Silva (AstroCeNT)

5:50 PM New methods for isotope loading - Michael Ford (LLNL)

6:00 PM Moderated discussion - Valentina Lozza (University of Lisbon) Szymon Manecki (SNOLab)

6:20 PM Wrap-up - Valentina Lozza (University of Lisbon) Szymon Manecki (SNOLab)
6:40 PM General: Dinner Information
Dinner Information
6:40 PM - 6:41 PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
9:00 AM Specific: Photon Detection
Photon Detection
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkely)

9:10 AM PMTs - Chris Grant (Boston Unversity)

9:20 AM LAPPDs - Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University)

9:30 AM Dichroicons - Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)

9:40 AM Moderated discussion - Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkely)

10:20 AM Wart-ip - Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkely)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Specific: Engineering
Engineering
11:00 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM JUNO Central Detector - Rosmarie Wirth (GSI Darmstadt/JGU Mainz)

11:25 AM JUNO Calibration - Davide Basilico (INFN Milano)

11:50 AM KamLAND balloon - Chris Grant (Boston Unversity)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
1:10 PM Specific: Readout and DAQ
Readout and DAQ
1:10 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

1:10 PM Introduction - Alberto Garfagnini (INFN Padova)

1:20 PM JUNO Large PMT Electronics - Jun Hu (IHEP)

1:30 PM APP - Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)

1:40 PM Moderated discussion

2:10 PM Wrap-up
2:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:20 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM Specific: Reconstruction & Analysis
Reconstruction & Analysis
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Introduction - Kai Loo (University of Jyväskylä)

2:55 PM Calibrating a hybrid detector - Logan Lebanowski (UC Berkeley)

3:05 PM Novel reconstruction in opaque scintillators - Diana Navas (CIEMAT Madrid)

3:15 PM AI and ML - Aobo Li (UC Berkeley)

3:25 PM Moderated discussion

4:05 PM Wrap-up
4:15 PM Break
Break
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Specific: Site and Integration
Site and Integration
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Introduction - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

4:40 PM SNOLab - Richard Ford (SNOLab)

4:55 PM Boulby - Sean Paling

5:10 PM SURF - Jaret Heise (Sanford Lab)

5:25 PM Moderated discussion - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

5:45 PM Wrap-up - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, October 15, 2026

9:00 AM General: Poster Session
Poster Session
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Specific: Detector design Challanges
Detector design Challanges
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:00 AM Introduction - Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)

10:10 AM Working exercise

11:15 AM Working exercise

11:50 AM Wrap-up
12:30 PM General: Closing
Closing
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Closing remarks - Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)