Three members of the Wright Lab community attended and presented at the 2024 Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD) Workshop, held November 18-22, 2024 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The speakers and talk titles, with links to abstracts, follow:
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Fernando Flor, NSF MPS-Ascend postdoctoral fellow: “First Test Beam Results from the LFHCal Prototypes for the ePIC Detector at the EIC
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Prakhar Garg, research scientist: “Automatization of LFHCal scintillating tile evaluation for the ePIC detector at the EIC
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Sierra Wilde, graduate student: “Characterizing the Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities for nEXO”
Wilde said, “CPAD was a great experience. I learned a lot about different detection techniques that are being developed, such as detecting negative ions in gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). The TPC is a common type of detector that uses a combination of charged particles and light to gather information about the energy and position of interactions that occur within the detector.”
Wilde continued, “At the conference, we also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the TPC with David Nygren, its inventor, presenting on its history and how the detector has evolved over the years. Overall, it was a great opportunity to meet other scientists in the field and Knoxville was a fun place to visit too!”