2025 Future Projects Workshop

Apr 29, 2025, 8:10 AM → May 1, 2025, 9:40 PM Canada/Eastern

Surface Facility/1-121 - Fraser Duncan Auditorium (SNOLAB)

Please Note: Virtual ZOOM Links & a final agenda will be released by end of day Friday. 

 

As part of our long-term planning process, SNOLAB provides a community-wide review of potential future projects interested in access to the underground laboratory. The Future Projects Workshop (FPW) engage with collaborations that have an interest in using any space underground, including any of the large-scale experimental areas within SNOLAB, over the next five to ten years are invited to present their capabilities, R&D projects, status, plans, and infrastructure requirements. 

 

Additionally, the workshop will briefly review SNOLAB’s new 15-Year Plan framework introduced in the 2024 Canadian Federal Budget to support Major Research Infrastructures. (See 15-Yr Plan tab for further details).  

 

We look forward to hosting you in-person at SNOLAB!

2025 Future Projects Workshop Agenda.pdf

SL-MCS-OTR-20-001-F03-Visitor-Information-Guide_Rev_15 (2023-09-20).pdf

Tue, April 29

8:10 AM → 8:20 AM Meet @ Vale Parking Lot & Turnstiles: Visitors must show up on time for escort

Visitors must show up on time for escort.

8:20 AM → 8:45 AM Escort to SNOLAB Building: Morning Meet & Greet

8:45 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome, Land Acknowledgement & Opening Remarks: Brief Overview of SNOLAB 15-Year Plan

Convener: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM SNOLAB Introduction

Convener: Jeter Hall (SNOLAB)

9:30 AM → 9:50 AM Status and prospect of China Jinping Underground Laboratory

Convener: Hao Ma (Tsinghua University)

9:50 AM → 10:10 AM The Underground Laboratory of Modane

Convener: Silvia Scorza (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC))

10:10 AM → 10:25 AM Discussion Period

10:25 AM → 10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Theia at SNOLAB

Convener: Micheal Wurm (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM The P-ONE Program

Convener: Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

11:20 AM → 11:40 AM The Canadian Long-Range Planning and SNOLAB

Convener: Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM Discussion Period

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Group Photo Opportunity

12:15 PM → 1:15 PM Lunch - Surface Attendees

1:15 PM → 1:35 PM DarkSide-LowMass: Sensitivity projections for a Liquid Argon Detector optimized for GeV-Scale Dark Matter

Convener: Michela Lai (University of California)

1:35 PM → 1:55 PM Small-scale experiments for light dark matter

Convener: Yonatan Kahn (University of Toronto)

Yonatan Kahn.pdf

1:55 PM → 2:10 PM DEAP 3600

Convener: Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)

2:10 PM → 2:25 PM Discussion Period

2:25 PM → 2:40 PM Coffee Break

2:40 PM → 3:00 PM LNGS Activities & Prospects

Convener: Aldo Ianni (I.N.F.N Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

Aldo Ianni.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM SNOLAB: An international hub for fundamental physics

Convener: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

Asimina Arvanitaki.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM NSERC Perspective Discussion

Convener: Kevin Lapointe (Manager for Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC))

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Discussion Period

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee Break

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM SNOLAB 15 Year Plan – Discussion & Suggestion Period

Convener: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

4:45 PM → 5:00 PM Closing Remarks

Wed, April 30

6:20 AM → 6:25 AM Meet @ Vale Parking Lot & Turnstiles: Visitors must show up on time for escort

Visitors must show up on time for escort.

6:25 AM → 6:30 AM Escort to SNOLAB Building: Prep for Underground Tour; Only Allotted to Those Who Pre-Registered

6:30 AM → 7:20 AM Underground Laboratory Tour: Preparations, Dressed PPE & Debrief

7:20 AM → 2:30 PM Underground Laboratory Tour: Vale Cage Decent 7:20

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch - Surface Attendees

1:00 PM → 1:20 PM SNO+ Te Double Beta Decay

Convener: Mark Chen (Queen's University)

1:20 PM → 1:40 PM The Canadian Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Xenon

Convener: Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

1:40 PM → 2:00 PM The Way Forward in the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Convener: David Sinclair (Carleton University)

David Sinclair.pdf

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Discussion Period

2:30 PM → 2:45 PM Coffee Break

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Underground Laboratory Tour: Vale Cage Back to Surface

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Development of ARGO

Convener: Mark Boulay (Carleton University)

3:05 PM → 3:25 PM Cryogenic solid state detectors: SuperCDMS and beyond

Conveners: Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto), Ziqing Hong (University of Toronto)

3:25 PM → 3:45 PM Deep Underground Biology: Past, Present, and Future

Convener: Michael Lapointe (Laurentian University and Northern Ontario School of Medicine University)

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Discussion Period

4:15 PM → 4:30 PM Closing Remarks

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Conference Dinner @ Natura Catering & Event Space

1351-D Kelly Lake Road, Sudbury ON, P3E 5P5

Thu, May 1

8:15 AM → 8:25 AM Meet @ Vale Parking Lot & Turnstiles: Visitors must show up on time for escort

Visitors must show up on time for escort.

8:25 AM → 9:00 AM Escort to SNOLAB Building: Morning Meet & Greet

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM The NEXT experiment 0nubb vision towards the tonne scale

Convener: Krishan Mistry (University of Texas)

Krishan Mistry.pdf

9:20 AM → 9:40 AM The XLZD Experiment

Convener: Hugh Lippincott (University of California Santa Barbara)

Hugh Lippincott.pdf

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Prospect for a Future 0vββ Decay Search

Convener: Kenny Vetter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Discussion Period

10:30 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 11:05 AM Listening to the sound of gravitational waves and dark matter with superfluid helium

Convener: Marvin Hirschel (University of Alberta)

Marvin Hirschel.pdf

11:05 AM → 11:25 AM Thoughts on a tonne-scale liquid-noble bubble chamber

Convener: Benjamin Broerman (Queen's University)

Benjamin Broerman.pdf

11:25 AM → 11:45 AM The Role of the McDonald Institute in the Astroparticle Physics Landscape

Convener: Tony Noble (McDonald Institute)

11:45 AM → 12:15 PM Discussion Period

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch - Surface Attendees

1:00 PM → 1:30 PM Closing Remarks: & Future Suggestions for Meetings

Convener: Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB)