What a great conference. It was a pleasure to help organize the second-ever LIDINE conference (link), bringing together experts from across a wide range of experiments. SUNY University at Albany hosted about 75 participants from neutrino and dark matter experiments who are experts in using the scintillation signal from argon, xenon, and even krypton, neon, and helium.
I had several fruitful conversations with old and new acquaintances, covering topics like wavelength shifters, silicon photomultipliers (a hot topic!), doped/contaminated liquid argon, and UV detector efficiencies. I also learned a lot about the various dark matter efforts underway around the world. (I learned a lot about the logistics of conference organization, too!)
Keep an eye out for the conference proceedings in a special edition of JINST. They’ll cover a wide range of topics and will be of great value to anyone pursuing particle detector work with noble elements. This was definitely a conference to hold again!
Denver Whittington 