Name: WNPPC2020 - 57th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference
Start: 2020-02-13T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2020-02-16T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Banff Centre

WNPPC2020 - 57th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference

from Thursday, 13 February 2020 (08:00) to Sunday, 16 February 2020 (18:00)

Monday, 10 February 2020
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Thursday, 13 February 2020
19:00
19:00 - 20:40
Room: Kinnard Center (KC 303)
Contributions

19:00 Conference Opening - blair jamieson (University of Winnipeg)

19:15 Higgs boson physics and upgrade work with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider - Claire David (DESY)

19:45 Analysis of Higgs boson decays to two W bosons with the ATLAS experiment - Benjamin Jaeger (Simon Fraser University)

20:00 Search for mono-Z signature dark matter with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Samantha Taylor (University of Victoria)

20:15 Event Reconstruction using the Global Particle Flow Algorithm for the ATLAS Experiment - Laura Miller (Carleton University)
Friday, 14 February 2020
08:30
08:30 - 12:15
Room: KC303
Contributions

08:30 From Quarks to Neutrinos - Nikolina Ilic (Institute of Particle Physics)

09:00 The SNO+ Scintillator Fill - Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)

09:15 MoEDAL-MAPP Detector Physics Performance Benchmarks - Michael Staelens (University of Alberta)

09:30 The NEWS-G light Dark Matter search experiment: Current status and preparation for SNOLAB - Daniel Durnford (University of Alberta)

09:45 A novel technique for ultracold neutron transmission measurements - Sean Vanbergen (TRIUMF)

10:30 Environmental Magnetic Fields for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment at TRIUMF - Maedeh Lavvaf (Presenter)

10:45 Decreasing the measurement time of the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TRIUMF - Steve Sidhu (SFU/TRIUMF)

11:00 Simulation and Data Comparison of Ultracold Neutron Experiments for TUCAN Collaboration - Beryl Bell (TRIUMF, McGill University)

11:15 Radon mitigation for the NEWS-G Dark Matter Detector - Patrick O'Brien (University of Alberta)

11:30 Propagation of Muons at SNOLAB - William Woodley (University of Alberta)

11:45 Search for dark matter and neutrinos with the Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) - SUMANTA PAL (University of Alberta)

12:00 Ba Daughter Tagging as a Method for Background Rejection Techniqe for nEXO - Christopher Chambers (McGill University)
19:00
19:00 - 21:30
Room: KC303
Contributions

19:00 Multi-messenger astrophysics - Daniel Siegel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Guelph)

19:30 Development of multi-detector systems for gamma-ray coincidence measurements - Melanie Gascoine (SFU)

19:45 Ion transport simulations for the TITAN experiment - Abhilash Javaji (TRIUMF)

20:00 Investigation of resonance states in 11Li - Mukhwinder singh (student)

20:30 Correcting Signal Saturation in DEAP-3600 - Joe McLaughlin (Royal Holloway University of London/TRIUMF)

20:45 Testing exotic fosmology models with LISA - Maxence Corman (PI/UW)

21:00 Dark Matter Detection with SuperCDMS - Lucas Bezerra (UBC)

21:15 The search for CLFV at BELLE II - Trevor Shillington (McGill University)
Saturday, 15 February 2020
08:30
08:30 - 12:15
Room: KC303
Contributions

08:30 Dark Matter: Direct Detection Searches - Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto)

09:00 Simulating a new complementary detector for DESCANT - Harris Bidaman (University of Guelph)

09:15 Status of DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB - SUMANTA PAL (University of Alberta)

09:30 Explosion Energies, Ages and Densities of Galactic Supernovae - Denis Leahy (University of Calgary)

09:45 Nonperturbative Extraction of the Effective Mass in Neutron Matter - Nawar Ismail (University of Guelph)

10:30 Charged pi-Meson Studies at Jefferson Lab - Ali Usman (University of Regina)

10:45 Kaon Electromagenetic Form Factor - Vijay Vijay kumar (University of Regina)

11:00 Deep Exclusive π− Production with SoLID - Stephen Kay (University of Regina)

11:15 PICO Bubble Chambers: Past, Present, and Future - Colin Moore (Queen's University)

11:30 Precision Measurements on Antihydrogen us- ing the ALPHA-g Apparatus - Pooja Woosaree (University of Calgary)

11:45 A Cosmic Ray Veto System for the ALPHA- g Experiment - Gareth Smith (UBC/TRIUMF)

12:00 Magnetometry for Gravitational Measure- ments of Antihydrogen with ALPHA-g - Nathan Evetts (UBC)
19:00
19:00 - 21:30
Room: KC303
Contributions

19:00 Recent Studies of Astrophysical Reactions at ISAC - Matthew Williams (TRIUMF)

19:30 Primary electron drift time simulation in spherical proportional counter - Yuqi DENG (University of Alberta)

19:45 Decay of a bound muon to a bound electron - Muhammad Jamil Aslam (University of Alberta)

20:00 Applied Quantum Annealing for Track Re- construction in HEP - Parker Reid (Simon Fraser University)

20:30 From odd-even staggering to the pairing gap in neutron matter - Georgios Palkanoglou (University of Guelph)

20:45 Nuclear Recoil Calibration at TUNL - Francois De Brienne (Université De Montréal)

21:00 Analysis of electron drift properties and fluc- tuations for NEWS-G - Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University)

21:15 Investigation of wavelength shifting materi- als in an active helium target - Michael Perry (Mount Allison University)
Sunday, 16 February 2020
08:30
08:30 - 11:00
Room: KC303
Contributions

08:30 The Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector for Hyper-Kamiokande - Matej Pavin (TRIUMF)

09:00 High-Precision Half-life Measurement of 14O - Shivani Sharma (University of Regina)

09:15 High-Precision Branching Ratio Measurement and Spin Assignment Implications for 62Ga Superallowed Beta Decay - Andrew MacLean (University of Guelph)

09:30 Dipositronium annihilation into a single photon - Muhammad Mubasher (University of Alberta)

09:45 Single photon decay of the positronium ion - Md Samiur Rahman Mir (University of Alberta)

10:30 Student prizes / conference close - blair jamieson (University of Winnipeg)