Name: XeSAT 2026 - International Workshop on Applications of Noble Gas Xenon to Science and Technology
Start: 2026-05-19T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-22T13:50:00-07:00
Location: TRIUMF

XeSAT 2026 - International Workshop on Applications of Noble Gas Xenon to Science and Technology

from Tuesday, 19 May 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 22 May 2026 (13:50)

Monday, 18 May 2026
Tuesday, 19 May 2026

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Auditorium
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Chloé Malbrunot (TRIUMF)

09:15 Rare-event searches and other applications with xenon detectors - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

09:45 An Overview of and Latest Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Tomasz Biesiadzinski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:15 Latest results and status of the XENONnT experiment. - Daniel Wenz (University of Muenster)
10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 XEMIS2 : Current status, results and outlooks - Théo Bossis (Subatech, CNRS/IN2P3, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université)

11:45 The PETALO project - Nerea Salor Iguiñiz (DIPC & IFIC-UV)

12:00 Electroluminescence in Liquid Xenon and Its Applications - Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Overview of recent progress in PandaX experiment - Ning Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

14:00 Ab initio theory towards reliable neutrinoless double beta decay nuclear matrix elements - Antoine Belley (MIT)

14:30 KAMLAND-Zen Experiment Talk - Haruhiko Miyake (Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University)

15:00 Recent results and plans for NEXT - Roxanne Guenette (University of Manchester)
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Advancing High-Voltage Technologies for Large-Scale Liquid Xenon Detectors with the MOTION experiment - Yanina Biondi (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

16:30 XeLab: Electrode Studies for Future LXe TPCs - Yajing Xing (LPNHE-Sorbonne Université)

17:00 Upgrade of the XENONnT experiment with new electrodes - Alexander Deisting (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
17:30 Session
Session
17:30 - 18:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

17:30 Used Nuclear Fuel as a Xenon Source - Regan Ross (McGill University)

17:45 Orano Talk

18:00 Linde Talk

18:15 Messer Talk

18:30 Air Liquide Talk
18:45
18:45 - 20:20
Room: Outside MOB "fire lane"
Contributions

18:50 Calibration Sources for the Light-only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) Detector - Irina Nitu (McGill University)

18:50 Measuring the photon detection efficiency of VUV-sensitive digital SPAD arrays at TRIUMF - Harry Lewis (TRIUMF)

18:50 The Key to a Background-Free $0\nu\beta\beta$ Search in Liquid Xenon: Ba-Tagging - Status and Prospects - Hussain Rasiwala (McGill University)

18:50 LAr R&D for Argo and DarkSide-LowMass at Queen’s University - Theo Hugues (Queen's University)

18:50 Development of a Xenon Purity Monitor - Emma Klemets (TRIUMF)

18:50 The measurement of Krypton in Xenon with ppq sensitivity - Dacheng Xu

18:50 Simulating scintillation light transport in a ton-scale LXe detector - David Gallacher

18:50 Status of the MainzTPC Upgrade for Precision Low-Energy Recoil Measurements in Liquid Xenon - Alexander Deisting (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

18:50 Exploring Zeolites as Radon Adsorbents in Noble Gas Experiments - Ryan Curtis (Queen's University)

18:50 Light-only Liquid Xenon Detector Hardware Overview - Eleanor Allen (McGill University)
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Auditorium
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 New results from the MEG II experiment and liquid xenon calorimetry - Kensuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)

09:30 The LXe detector R&D for the PIONEER experiment - Toshiyuki Iwamoto (The University of Tokyo)

10:00 Solar Neutrino Searches in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment - Tyler Horoho (University of Michigan)
10:30 Coffee/Tea break
Coffee/Tea break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 R&D on LXe TPC - Elisabetta Barberio

11:30 Calibration considerations for neutrinoless double beta decay searches with LXe TPCs - Brian Lenardo (SLAC)

12:00 Low-background cryogenic design for large liquid xenon experiments - Andrea Pocar (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

12:30 Characterization of LXe Scintillation using VUV SiPMs in the Light-only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) Detector - Xiang Li (TRIUMF)

12:45 Characterizing infrared scintillation light in xenon - Robert Hammann (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK))
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 13:45
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")

13:45

13:45 - 17:30

17:30 Travel time to conference dinner location
Travel time to conference dinner location
17:30 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 21:00
Thursday, 21 May 2026

08:00

08:00 - 08:30
Room: Auditorium
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Status and Upgrades of the DEAP-3600 Experiment - Theo Hugues (Queen's University)

09:00 The DarkSide-20k Program - Roberta Calabrese

09:30 Argo Experiment Talk - Mark Boulay
10:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
10:30
10:30 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 VUV phototubes & SiPMs Talk - Satoshi Mihara (KEK)

11:00 Potential of Digital SiPM for light detection in Xenon based applications - Michael Keller (Heidelberg University)
11:30 Panel
Panel
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium

12:00

12:00 - 13:00
Room: MOB boardroom

Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:00 Status of the AXEL: 180L Prototype Results and Developments for the 1000L Detector - Soki Urano (Tohoku University)

13:30 Instrumentation Development for XLZD - The Ultimate Liquid Xenon Rare Event Observatory - Alexander Deisting (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

14:00 The status of PandaX-20T time projection chamber development - Minzhen Zhang (SJTU)
14:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
15:00
15:00 - 17:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:00 Purification of xenon for the next generation of xenon experiments - Christian Weinheimer

15:30 Xenoscope: a vertical demonstrator for the XLZD observatory - Jose Cuenca Garcia (University of Zurich)

15:45 Xenon-doped argon: challenges and prospects for the dark matter search - Michela Lai (Queen's University)

16:15 Performance of Large-Scale Xenon Doping Liquid Argon in ProtoDUNE - Henrique Souza (INFN - Milano Bicocca)

16:45 Hardware Upgrades and Background Mitigation in DEAP-3600 - Badamsambuu Jigmeddorj (Laurentian University)
17:15

17:15 - 18:15

18:15

18:15 - 19:45
Room: Auditorium
Friday, 22 May 2026

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Auditorium
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Overview 0vBB Talk - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

09:30 XLZD - Overview and Physics Potential - Brian Mong (SLAC)

10:00 Unifying the community to realize a next-generation Xe rare-event search - Thomas Brunner (McGill/TRIUMF)
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Outside MOB ("fire lane")
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Global Underground Science Infrastructure: Enabling Xenon-Based Experiments - Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

11:30 Underground Facility Panel
12:30

12:30 - 12:50
Room: Auditorium

12:50 Lunch & Farewell
Lunch & Farewell
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Auditorium