Summer School 2024
Registration
Register here! Registration fee: $300, including coffee, lunch, day excursion to black hills’ attractives, day trip to SURF, Lead, SD.
NOTE: Hotel rooms are not included. Participants are expected to arrange their own hotel rooms. If they are not in the hotel suggested on the CoSSURF 2024 accommodation web page, one may need to arrange his/her own transportation to the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technologies.
Topics
- Sciences in deep underground laboratories
- Overview of underground laboratories in the world
- Overview of dark matter theories and experiments
- Overview of neutrino physics and underground neutrino experiments
- HPGe technology
- Working principles of HPGe detectors
- Application of HPGe detectors
- live demonstration of HPGe detectors in action
- Monte Carlo simulation and data analysis
- Geant4 crash course
- HPGe energy spectrum analysis
Timetable
- May 12, Sunday, arrival
- May 13, Monday,
- 8:30 ~ 10:00 Working principles of HPGe detectors
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 12:00 Machine learning
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 1
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 1
- May 14, Tuesday, partially coincide with CoSSURF
- 8:30 ~ 9:00 Culture of Native Americans
- 9:00 ~ 9:30 An overview of physics in underground laboratories
- 9:30 ~ 10:00 The Sanford Underground Research Facility
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 11:00 Neutrino Theory Overview
- 11:00 ~ 11:30 The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment DUNE: Prospective Physics Program and Status
- 11:30 ~ 12:00 Probing Astro- and Particle Physics with Supernova and Solar Neutrinos at SURF
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 2
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Poster session & coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 2
- May 15, Wednesday, excursion (Mount Rushmore, T-rex in Black Hills Institute, Custer State Park)
- May 16, Thursday, partially coincide with CoSSURF
- 8:30 ~ 9:00 Development of novel germanium detectors for rare event physics searches
- 9:00 ~ 9:30 Machine learning in particle physics
- 9:30 ~ 10:00 Geotechnical Characterization and Risk Mitigation for the LBNF Project?
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 11:00 Dark Matter Overview
- 11:00 ~ 11:30 Liquid Noble Technologies for Dark Matter Search
- 11:30 ~ 12:00 Status of Low-mass WIMP search
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 3
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 3
- May 17, Friday, tour to SURF & Deadwood
- May 18, Saturday
- 8:30 ~ 10:00 live demonstration of HPGe detectors in action
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 12:00 data analysis
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 4
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 coffee break?
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 4?
Excursions
May 15. Enjoy a day trip to Mount Rushmore National Memorial and other Black Hills’ must sees.
- 9:30 am, Mount Rushmore
- 11:00 pm, Lunch break, drive to Hill City
- 12:30 pm, Black Hills Institute of Geological Research
- 2:30 pm, ice cream break, drive to Custer
- 3:30 pm, Custer State Park
- 5 pm, Blue Bell Lodge Hayride & Chuck Wagon Cookout
- 8:30 pm, return to Rapid City
May 17. A uinique excursion to the deepest underground facility in US, The Sanford Underground Research Facility hosting world-leading research experiments in physics, biology, geology and engineering.
NOTE: an underground trip may not be possible due to construction. But there is a lot to see and do on surface:
- 10 am, Wastewater Treatment Plant
- 12 pm, Hoistroom
- 1 pm, Lunch at the Sanford Visitor Center (traditional mining pasties)
- 2 pm, Virtual tour to BHSU Underground Campus
- 3 pm, Black Hills Mining Museum
- 4 pm, Old West experiences in Deadwood
- 6 pm, return to Rapid City
Organizing committee
- Brianna Mount, Black Hills State Unversity, Spearfish, SD, USA
- Mary Kidd, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA
- Jing Liu, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
The school is co-organized with CoSSURF 2024. Big thanks to the CoSSURF 2024 organization committee!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pire-gemadarc/ is a webpage about our school in LinkedIn, which can be referred to in your LinkedIn profile.
Code of Conduct
We adopt the Code of Conduct for APS Meetings for our summer school. Please make sure that you are familiar with it before you join the school.