Sixth International ICTP-SAIFR/CLAF Workshop
for the Design of the
ANDES Underground Laboratory

Steps towards the ANDES International Consortium


ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil
4 - 6 August 2018

ICTP SAIFR

The Sixth International Workshop for the Design of the ANDES Underground Laboratory took place August 4-6 2018 in São Paulo, Brazil, continuing the School on Dark Matter and Neutrino Detection. It follows the workshops held in April 2011 (Argentina), June 2011 (Brazil), January 2012 (Chile), January 2014 (Mexico) and June 2017 (Argentina).

The confirmation of the building of the Agua Negra tunnel, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), together with the finalization of the ANDES conceptual design (NEC), and the official will of the EBITAN to add ANDES to the Agua Negra tunnel civil work make ANDES closer to completion. This workshop focussed on the many efforts needed to start the planning for the opening of ANDES.

The event web page, like the event, is hosted by the ICTP-SAIFR at this direction. The event was made possible by the hosting of the ICTP-SAIFR and its generous contribution to its organization.

The workshop was devoted to the structure of the international consortium to be built to run ANDES, on the latin-american and international participation, with a specific focus on the role for the local brazilian groups. The schedule was:

Schedule

August 4 Science session:

     TimeSpeakerTitle
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 X. Bertou Welcome
09:30 - 10:00 C. Dib ANDES Status and Update (video)
10:00 - 10:30 O. Civitarese Prospects of physics at ANDES (video)
10:30 - 11:00 A. Rietbrock ANDES-GEO: current design considerations (video)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 R. Itay Results from a tonne-year exposure with XENON1T (video)
12:00 - 12:30 M. Ave New Physics Results from Darkside-50 (video)
12:30 - 13:00 J. Estrada DAMIC-SENSEI, looking for DM with CCD (video)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 B. Saavedra A simple simulation of the IceCube neutrino telescope (video)
15:00 - 15:30 E. Ydrefors Theoretical calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering for supernova neutrinos (video)
15:30 - 16:00 F. Desposorio Quantum Decoherence and CPT Violation at DUNE (video)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
16:30 - 17:00 S. Kuleshov CTVAL/UTFSM Detector Laboratory
17:00 - 17:30 L. Pia The CUPID-Mo experiment

August 5 Organization session:

     TimeSpeakerTitle
09:00 - 09:45 O. Civitarese Organizing ANDES, current status and prospects
09:45 - 10:30 Z. Sayers SESAME, an example to follow for ANDES?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 13:00 Round table on the organization of ANDES
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 First proposal for a structure for the ANDES International Consortium
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
16:30 - 17:30 First proposal for a structure for the ANDES International Consortium (ctd.)

August 6 session:

     TimeTitle
09:00 - 10:30 Round table on experiments in ANDES
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 13:00 Role of Brazil in ANDES
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Wrap up session
16:00 End of workshop


The scientific and organizing committee was:



The event was made possible thanks to the support of the following institutions: