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)

Welcome!

 

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!

Workshop Report

 

NEW: guidance on report writing is available as of the end of the workshop.

https://indico.snolab.ca/event/24/page/93-report-writing-guidance

 

The community is requested to write a report on the material presented at the workshop and the outcome of discussions at the workshop. We understand that not all material that is presented can be put into the report (e.g. because it is not published by the authors yet). However, where possible we ask every speaker to provide at least a "micro proceeding". This involves writing a minimal amount of information into the report:

 

1. 1-2 paragraphs summarizing the key ideas, concepts, and themes from the material presented.
2. About five bullets summarizing the key take-aways from the presentation and any important items that arose during discussions (either during dedicated discussion time or during breaks/lunches).

The goal is to capture the range of material presented at the workshop and leave information for the community to move ideas forward after the workshop. This report will be submitted to the arXiv by the corresponding author, who will be from the community. 

If you wish to contribute, you will need access to the Overleaf document where this is being written. Please email Stephen Sekula (stephen.sekula@snolab.ca) and request access. The Workshop Report document is linked from the menu on the left side of the Indico main page.

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)

250429_15YrPlanFPW_v3.pdf

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM SNOLAB Introduction

Convener: Jeter Hall (SNOLAB)

SNOLAB Introduction -- Jeter Hall.pdf

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

Convener: Hao Ma (Tsinghua University)

CJPL status.pdf

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

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

Silvia Scorza.pdf

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: Michael Wurm (JGU Mainz)

wurm_theia_snolab_apr25.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM The P-ONE Program

Convener: Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

P-ONE SNOLAB Future April 2025.pdf

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

Convener: Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

SNOLAB Future Project Workshop 2025.pdf

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 Riverside)

snolab_future_projects.pdf

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: Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)

2025-04-DEAP-3600-SNOLAB-FPW-v0.pdf

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)

SnolabApril2025.pdf

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

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

Kevin Lapointe.pdf

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

11:20 AM → 11:45 AM Escort to SNOLAB Building

11:45 AM → 12:30 PM Lunch - Surface Attendees

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM SNO+ Te Double Beta Decay

Convener: Mark Chen (Queen's University)

FPW SNO+ Te DBD.pdf

12:50 PM → 1:10 PM The Canadian Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Xenon

Convener: Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

Thomas Brunner.pdf

1:10 PM → 1:30 PM The Way Forward in the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Convener: David Sinclair (Carleton University)

David Sinclair.pdf

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Coffee Break: Extended Break - Surface Attendees

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

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Development of ARGO

Convener: Mark Boulay (Carleton University)

argo-fpw-final-2025.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM Cryogenic solid state detectors: SuperCDMS and beyond

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

Miriam Diamong Ziqing Hong.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Deep Underground Biology: Past, Present, and Future

Convener: Michel Lapointe (NOSM University)

Michael Lapointe.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Discussion Period

4:30 PM → 4:45 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 at Arlington)

Krishan Mistry.pdf

9:20 AM → 9:40 AM The XLZD Experiment

Convener: Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)

202504_XLZD_Lippincott_SNOLAB_v2.pdf

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

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

Vetter_FPW_2025_Slides_v2.pdf

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 (Queen's University)

McDonald-Institute-Canadian Context Presentation May 1 2025.pdf

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)