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. 

8:00 AM → 8:30 AM Breakfast and Gathering

8:30 AM → 10:30 AM SNOLAB Facility Updates

8:30 AM SNOLAB Welcome and Updates

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

250729_SEF_ED.pdf

9:00 AM SNOLAB Research Update

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

250729_SEF_RD.pdf

9:30 AM SNOLAB Corporate Services Update

Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

250729_SEF_CSD.pdf

10:00 AM SNOLAB Operations Update

Speaker: Richard Ford (SNOLAB)

Ford - OPS Div SEF Meeting July 2025.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 12:15 PM Experiment Updates

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

10:45 AM 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

11:15 AM PICO-500

Speaker: Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

SNOLAB SEF Update PICO July 2025.pdf

11:25 AM SuperCDMS Report to SEF

Speaker: Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto)

SuperCDMS installation SEF July2025.pdf

11:35 AM SNO+ Report to SEF

Speaker: Christine Kraus (SNOLAB)

SEF_July2025_slides.pdf

11:45 AM DEAP-3600 Report to SEF

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

DEAP-DarkSide-ARGO-v2.pdf

11:55 AM nEXO Report to SEF

Speaker: Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

nEXO-update-July2025-SEF.pdf

12:05 PM CUTE Report to the SEF

Speaker: Tyler Reynolds (University of Toronto)

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM 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

1:00 PM Overview of Public Discussion Session

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

1:05 PM Cage and Shift Schedules: Identifying overlapping needs

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

1:30 PM 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)

1:55 PM IT Infrastructure at SNOLAB

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

2:15 PM 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?

2:35 PM 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 → 3:30 PM Break

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM SEF and SNOLAB In-Camera Session

SEF In-Camera Agenda

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM SEF and EAC Dinner