Detectors and Instrumentation for Nuclear Physics II

Presentations

• Advancing HPGe Detector Architectures for Rare-Event Physics with USD-Grown Crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Kunming Dong

    • University of South Dakota

  Authors

  • Kunming Dong

    • University of South Dakota

  • Dongming Mei

    • University of South Dakota

  • SHASIKA PANAMALDENIYA

    • University of South Dakota

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• Dislocation Control in High-Purity Germanium: Mapping Variations and Growth Knobs for Next-Generation HPGe Detectors

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Sanjay Bhattarai

    • University of South Dakota

  Authors

  • Sanjay Bhattarai

    • University of South Dakota

  • Dongming Mei

    • University of South Dakota

  • Narayan Budhathoki

    • University of South Dakota

  • Sunil Chhetri

    • University of South Dakota

  • Athul Prem

    • University of South Dakota

  • Kunming Dong

    • University of South Dakota

  • Austin Warren

    • University of South Dakota

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• Lithium Diffusion in Germanium: Revisiting the Coefficient in High Purity Crystals for Rare-Event Detectors

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Anupama Karki

    • University of South Dakota

  Authors

  • Anupama Karki

    • University of South Dakota

  • Kunming Dong

    • University of South Dakota

  • Dongming Mei

    • University of South Dakota

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• Temperature-Dependent Drift Mobility in USD-Grown HPGe for Ultra-Low-Threshold Detectors

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Narayan Budhathoki

    • University of South Dakota

  Authors

  • Narayan Budhathoki

    • University of South Dakota

  • Abhinna Rajbanshi

    • University of South Carolina

  • Rongying Jin

    • University of South Carolina

  • Dongming Mei

    • University of South Dakota

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• Performance Studies of SiPM-on-Tile Calorimetry for the ePIC Detector at NSRL and STAR

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • weibin zhang

    • University of California, Riverside

  Authors

  • weibin zhang

    • University of California, Riverside

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• Perfomance and Capabilities of the Endcap Time-of-Flight Detector in the STAR Beam Energy Scan

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Performance of the Endcap Time-of-Flight detector in the STAR beam-energy scan - in preparation

  Presenters

  • Mathias Labonte

    • University of California, Davis

  Authors

  • Mathias Labonte

    • University of California, Davis

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• Engineering an ASME-Compliant Helium-4 Evaporation Refrigerator for the SpinQuest Experiment

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Jordan Roberts

    • University of Virginia

  Authors

  • Jordan Roberts

    • University of Virginia

  • Dustin Keller

    • University of Virginia

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• Test Beam Capabilities in the Booster Accelerator Beamline-R at BNL

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Xiaodong Jiang

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  Authors

  • Xiaodong Jiang

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

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• Magnetic Shielding Effects and PINN Mapping for the Nab Experiment

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Skylar Clymer

    • Arizona State University

  Authors

  • Skylar Clymer

    • Arizona State University

  • Ricardo Alarcon

    • Arizona State University

  • Jason Fry

    • Eastern Kentucky University

  • Stefan Baessler

    • University of Virginia

  • Elizabeth Scott

    • Centre College

  • Madelyn Martinez

    • Arizona State University

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• Numerical Optimization Methods for Maximizing Field Uniformity for a Ramsey Based nEDM Measurement

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Lukas Domer

    • Arizona State University

  Authors

  • Lukas Domer

    • Arizona State University

  • Guillermo Velez

    • Arizona State University

  • Ricardo Alarcon

    • Arizona State University

  • Timothy Chupp

    • University of Michigan

  • Felicity Hills

    • University of Kentucky

  • Austin Reid

    • Tennessee Technological University

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• Development of cryogenic light detectors with Neganov-Trofimov-Luke amplification for CUPID

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Krystal Alfonso

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Krystal Alfonso

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Vladyslav Berest

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Electrostatic Simulation Studies in NTL (Neganov-Trofimov-Luke) Detector Geometries

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Aarav Sindhwad

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Aarav Sindhwad

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Initial Results from CERES, the Cryogenic Experiment to Reconstruct Energy Systematics in TeO2 bolometers

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Yael Zayats

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Enzo Brandani

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Yael Zayats

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Tong Zhu

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Yury Kolomensky

    • University of California, Berkeley

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