QUEST-DMC Joint WP1/WP2 Meeting

15 Oct 2025, 11:30 → 17 Oct 2025, 22:45 Europe/London

Mathematics Student Resource Room (Ground Floor) (Department of Mathematical Sciences)

MeetingMinutes_Summary.pdf

Wednesday, 15 October

11:30 Arrival and Welcome / Lunch

1 Welcome to Liverpool!

Speaker: Juri Smirnov

Welcome Liverpool.pdf

2 Introduction

Speaker: Jocelyn Monroe (University of Oxford)

QUEST_15Oct25_intro.pdf

3 Theory Introduction

Speaker: Juri Smirnov

Discussion: Introduction

Convener: Jocelyn Monroe (University of Oxford)

DiscussionGroups.pdf

15:00 Coffee Break

4 Science Talks Session 1: Bolometer designs for detection of heating events in superfluid 3He

Speaker: Dima Zmeev

Blometer_design2025_QUEST.pdf

5 Science Talks Session 1: Heat injection into superfluid 3He through secondary detector components

Speaker: Tania Kozynets

tania_kozynets_indirect_heat_injection_quest_dmc_151025.pdf

6 Science Talks Session 1: Nuclear recoil and heating

Speaker: Jack Shergold

quest_131025.pdf

Discussion: Science Session 1 (Small Groups)

DiscussionGroups.pdf

7 Summary by Groups

Thursday, 16 October

8 Science Talks Session 2: ND3 bolometer data and analysis

Speaker: Elizabeth Leason

9 Science Talks Session 2: ND3 background model

Speaker: Lizzie Bloomfield

Bloomfield_ND3_Backgrounds_Liverpool.pptx

10 Science Talks Session 2: ND3 simulation

Speaker: Paolo Franchini

Franchini-QUEST-Meeting-20251016.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

Discussion: Science Session 2

Conveners: Elizabeth Leason, Lev Levitin

DiscussionGroups.pdf

13:00 Lunch

11 Science Talks Session 3: Bubbles and blobs: dynamics of AB transition

Speaker: Mark Hindmarsh

12 Science Talks Session 3: Understanding our baselines: origins and mitigations

Speaker: Joe McLaughlin

Liverpool_Oct2025.pdf

13 Science Talks Session 3: Recent theoretical highlights and future prospects

Speaker: Neda Darvishi

QUEST_DMC_ND.pdf

14 Science Talks Session 3: Structure function of quasiparticle excitations in superfluid ³He-B

Speaker: Adam Ting

Adam_Ting_Structure_Function_Rate_Liverpool_Slides.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Discussion: Science Session 3

Convener: Mark Hindmarsh

DiscussionGroups.pdf

15 Dinner

Friday, 17 October

16 Science Talks Session 4: Early-universe phase transitions in superfluid 3He: progress and future

Speaker: Petri Heikkinen

WP2-talk_Petri-Heikkinen.pdf

17 Synergy between WP1 and WP2: Summary

Speaker: Juri Smirnov

18 Inspiration on data collection from large collaborations

Speaker: Tania Kozynets

data_management_171025.pdf

10:45 Coffee Break

19 Science Talks Session 4: Very small bolometers

Speaker: Samuli Autti

Autti_small_bolometers_v1-1.pdf

20 Science Talks Session 4 : Nanofabricated bolometers with vibrating ribbon resonators

Speaker: Lev Levitin

nanofab_bolometers_with_ribbons.pdf

Discussion: Science Session 4

Convener: Ashlea Kemp (STFC)

DiscussionGroups.pdf

13:00 Lunch

21 Future Directions and Strategic Planning: Overview

Speaker: Andrew Casey (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Casey_QUEST-DMC_2025_Strategy.pptx

Discussion: Future Directions/Strategy

Convener: Juri Smirnov

DiscussionGroups.pdf

22 Questionnaire Results

Speaker: Ashlea Kemp (STFC)

16:10 Coffee Break

23 Workshop, wrap-up and departure