This volume contains the proceedings of the conference. As mentioned before, this time we enjoyed a number of contributions on supernova physics, both theoretical and experimental. Every time the conference program is enriched with original slightly off-topic contributions that trigger the curiosity and stimulate further thought. A relevant subject this time was the electroluminescence in Xe TPCs, covered by several speakers. We then moved on to the usual topics like the status of some low-energy neutrino physics and double beta decay experiments, dark matter experiments with directional detectors, axion searches, or development results. The meeting started with a moving tribute by Ioannis Giomataris to the memory of George Charpak, who recently passed away. The symposium, the fifth of the series, is becoming consolidated as a regular meeting place for the synergic interplay between the fields of rare events and TPC development. As in previous meetings in this series, the format included an informal program with some recent highlighted results, rather than exhaustive reviews, with time for discussion and interaction. The purpose of the meeting was to present and discuss the status of current experiments or projects involving the use of TPCs to search for rare events, like low-energy neutrinos, double beta decay, dark matter or axion experiments, as well as to discuss new results and ideas in the framework of the last developments of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD), and how these are being – or could be – applied to these searches. These proceedings also include the contributions corresponding to the supernova sessions. As a novelty this year, the meeting was extended with two half-day sessions on Supernova physics.
As for all previous meetings, always held in Paris in 2008, 2006, 20, it brought together a significant community of physicists involved in rare event searches and/or development of time projection chambers (TPCs). The Fifth International Symposium on large TPCs for low-energy rare-event detection was held at the auditorium of the Astroparticle and Cosmology (APC) Laboratory in Paris, on 14–17 December 2010.
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