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November 4-6, 2004
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First FLARE Workshop

November 4-6, 2004
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Workshop will take place in Curia II, Wilson Hall 2W .

Agenda

Thursday, November 4, morning

bullet 9:00 - 9:50 Charge to the Workshop: Challenges of large LAr detector - A. Para, Fermilab
bullet 10:00 - 10:25 Liquid argon as an active medium - C. Bromberg, MSU
bullet 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
bullet 10:45 - 11:45 Liquified Gas Storage Tanks: Construction and possible use for the physics experiment - F. Bianchetta and J. Blanchard, Chicago Bridge and Iron
bullet 11:50 - 12:20 Liquid argon as a commodity: production, uses, distribution - F. Giacobbe, Air Liquide

12:25 - 14:00 Lunch

Thursday, November 4, afternoon

bullet 14:00 - 14:25 Thermodynamics of liquid argon in a large tank - Z. Tang, Fermilab
bullet 14:30 - 14:55 Argon purification: past experience and future prospects, dynamics of the purification process - A. Para, Fermilab
bullet 15:00 - 15:25 Tank walls and their contribution to purification process - A. Diaz, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
bullet 15:30 - 16:10 Argon purification - industrial approach and testing argoun purity - K. Grosser, Air Liquide
bullet 16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
bullet 16:30 - 16:55 UHV and Surface Science perspectives on the purification of liquid argon for large TPC detectors - A. Johnson, Nevada
bullet 17:00 - 17:25 Site issues: practical aspects of a construction of a large LAr tank in Ontario - S. Menary, York University

Friday, November 5, morning

bullet 9:00 - 9:25 Experience with low noise electronics in large detector systems- M. Johnson, Fermilab
bullet 9:30 - 9:55 ICARUS electronics and perspectives for an ASIC implementation - P. Rubinov, Fermilab
bullet 10:00 - 10:25 Electronics for liquid argon detectors - S. Rescia, Brookhaven
bullet 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
bullet 10:45 - 11:20 Bringing signal out: all about feedthroughs - D. Rahm, Brookhaven
bullet 11:25 - 11:50 Cryogenics, piping and pumping: design of a robust and fail-safe system - R. Schmitt, Fermilab
bullet 11:55 - 12:20 High voltage systems - H. Jostlein, Fermilab

12:25 - 14:00 Lunch

Friday, November 5 afternoon

bullet 14:00 - 14:30 A ship in a bottle: constructing a detector inside a tank - R. Silva, Fermilab
bullet 14:35 - 15:10 Construction of large wire chambers - P. Rapidis, Fermilab
bullet 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
bullet 15:30 - 16:00 Logistics and practical aspects of construction of a large detector in a remote location - E. McCluskey, Fermilab
bullet 16:05 - 16:30 Safety, ES&H are related issues of a large liquid argon xperiment - J. Kilmer, Fermilab
bullet 16:35 - 17:00 High capacity data acquisition architecture - M. Bowden, Fermilab

Saturday, November 6, morning

bullet 9:00 - 9:25 Particle ID, energy resolution, neutrino flavor tagging, efficiencies and backgrounds - C. Bromberg, MSU
bullet 9:30 - 9:55 Physics potential of the LAr detector in NuMI off-axis beam - S. Parke, Fermilab
bullet 10:00-10:25 Backgrounds for a nucleon decay search in a large surface detector - J. Stepaniak, IPJ Warszawa, Poland
bullet 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
bullet 10:45 - 11:10 Supernova detection with a large surface detector: cosmogenic backgrounds - K. Scholberg, Duke U.
bullet 11:45 - 12:10 Low energy neutrino physics with LAr - B. Fleming, Yale U.
bullet 12:15 - 12:30 Concluding remarks: what have we learned and what to do next? - A. Para, Fermilab
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Contact the Organizing Committee:
Alan Para (630.840.2132)
Judy Meo (650.926.2805)
Melodi Masaniai (650.926.3171)
Stan Wojcicki (650.926.2806)

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