SEF Meeting (Summer 2025)

Tuesday Jul 29, 2025, 7:45 AM → 8:00 PM Canada/Eastern

The SNOLAB Experiments Forum (SEF) provides a forum for communication between SNOLAB experiments and the facility. 

Breakfast and Gathering

SNOLAB Facility Updates

1 SNOLAB Welcome and Updates

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

250729_SEF_ED.pdf

2 SNOLAB Research Update

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

250729_SEF_RD.pdf

3 SNOLAB Corporate Services Update

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

250729_SEF_CSD.pdf

4 SNOLAB Operations Update

Speaker: Richard Ford (SNOLAB)

Ford - OPS Div SEF Meeting July 2025.pdf

10:30 AM Break

Experiment Updates

• Experiment Round Table
• Project-Specific Presentations (4)

5 Project Round Table

5-minute updates from experiments/projects in the SEF, unless a project is given a longer talk later in the session.

Order:

DEAP
HALO
NEWS-G
nEXO
Low Background Counting
PICO
SBC
SENSEI
REPAIR
SCDMS
DAMIC
Xe-Still
OSCURA
SNO+
IceCube Dom Test

6 PICO-500

Speaker: Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

SNOLAB SEF Update PICO July 2025.pdf

7 SuperCDMS Report to SEF

Speaker: Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto)

SuperCDMS installation SEF July2025.pdf

8 SNO+ Report to SEF

Speaker: Christine Kraus (SNOLAB)

SEF_July2025_slides.pdf

9 DEAP-3600 Report to SEF

Speakers: Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University), Dr Sean Daugherty (Carleton University)

DEAP-DarkSide-ARGO-v2.pdf

10 nEXO Report to SEF

Speaker: Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

nEXO-update-July2025-SEF.pdf

11 CUTE Report to the SEF

Speaker: Tyler Reynolds (University of Toronto)

12:15 PM Lunch

Open Forum Discussion

Suggested topics:
• Cage and Shift Schedules: Identifying overlapping needs
• Inter-Experiment Data Sharing: Investigating lab-wide shower events
• IT Infrastructure at SNOLAB
• PiIVision: Needs for Enhancing Monitoring
• User Support Discussion

12 Overview of Public Discussion Session

Speakers: Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto), Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)

13 Cage and Shift Schedules: Identifying overlapping needs

Open discussion of project "wish list" for shifts, structure of shifts, and available cage access.

14 Inter-Experiment Data Sharing: Investigating lab-wide shower events

Discussion of enhanced cross-experiment information sharing for the purpose of studying potential "lab-wide" background events.

Speaker: Prof. Amy Roberts (UC Denver)

15 IT Infrastructure at SNOLAB

A discussion of project needs and wishes as regards SNOLAB IT.

16 PI Vision: what are the needs for advanced/enhanced monitoring?

What are project "wish lists" for features in PI Vision, or access to data from PI Vision, that would enhance the confidence and reliability in monitoring?

17 User Support Discussion

The SNOLAB User Support Coordinators engage with the SEF in a public discussion

Speakers: Emma Larcher (SNOLAB), Josée Bertrand Houle (SNOLAB)

3:00 PM Break

SEF and SNOLAB In-Camera Session

SEF In-Camera Agenda

6:00 PM SEF and EAC Dinner