Cosmogenic activities and background workshop

The DUSEL Project is sponsoring an international workshop on Cosmogenic Activities and Backgrounds to take place in Berkeley, CA on April 13-15, 2011. The goal of the workshop is to explore the key experimental measurements and theoretical models of cosmogenic activity and backgrounds, to discuss the challenges in interpreting the data and matching models to experiment, and to lay out a roadmap for future experimental activities and modeling efforts. The workshop will bring together researchers engaged in underground experiments around the globe who are striving to characterize this physics and understand its impact on nuclear and particle physics experiments. The workshop scope includes neutron spallation and subsequent interactions, isotope production, electromagnetic and hadronic showering, muon-incident interactions and propagation, and other related topics.