Name: Winter Nuclear Particle Physics (WNPPC) 2018
Start: 2018-02-15T03:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-02-18T14:00:00-05:00
Location: No location set

Winter Nuclear Particle Physics (WNPPC) 2018

from Thursday, February 15, 2018 (3:00 a.m.) to Sunday, February 18, 2018 (2:00 p.m.)

Monday, February 12, 2018
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018

4:00 p.m. Registration

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Session #1
7:00 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Welcome - Introduction - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)

7:15 p.m. ACTAR TPC: a novel detection system for nuclear physics experiments [INVITED] - Geoffrey Fathom Grinyer (University of Regina)

7:45 p.m. Beta-SRF - A New Facility to Characterize SRF Materials near Fundamental Limits (student talk) - Edward Thoeng (TRIUMF)

8:00 p.m. SNO+ Calibration Systems (student talk) - Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)

8:15 p.m. AmBe source calibration in the SNO+ water phase (student talk) - Yan Liu (Queen's University)

8:45 p.m. A Cryogenic Underground TEst facility (CUTE) for SuperCDMS (student talk) - Richard Germond (Queens University)

9:00 p.m. Design of a Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass-Spectrometer for Barium-tagging with nEXO (student talk) - Kevin Murray (McGill)

9:15 p.m. Current state of ATLAS’s New Small Wheel simulation software and construction effort of the small strip thin gap chambers (student talk) - Alexandre Laurier (Carleton University)

9:30 p.m. Optimization studies for the upgraded readout electronics of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter (student talk) - Alessandro Ambler (McGill)

9:45 p.m. Electrical Isolation of ITk Strip Sensors (student talk) - Konstantin Lehmann (Simon Fraser Universtiy)
Friday, February 16, 2018

7:30 a.m. Breakfast

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Registration: Registration
Registration
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Session #2
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Internal Conversion Electron Spectroscopy at TRIUMF-ISAC [INVITED] - James Smallcombe (TRIUMF)

9:30 a.m. High-statistics $\beta$-decay study of collectivity in $^{122}$Xe (student talk) - Badamsambuu Jigmeddorj (University of Guelph)

9:45 a.m. Decay Spectroscopy of $^{126}$Xe - Farnaz Ghazi Moradi (University of Guelph)

10:00 a.m. One-Neutron Transfer into 22Ne (student talk) - Beau Greaves (University of Guelph)

10:15 a.m. Search for New Physics in Beryllium - Viktor Zacek (University of Montreal)

10:45 a.m. Decay Spectroscopy of Neutron-rich $^{129}$Cd with GRIFFIN Spectrometer (student talk) - Yukiya Saito (The University of British Columbia / TRIUMF)

11:00 a.m. Decay Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Cd Around the $N=82$ Shell Closure (student talk) - Nikita Bernier (TRIUMF/UBC)

11:15 a.m. High-sensitivity atomic magnetometer for neutron EDM (student talk) - Moushumi Das (TUCAN collaboration)

11:30 a.m. Compensation of Magnetic Fields at the TRIUMF nEDM Experiment (student talk) - Shomi Ahmed (U of Manitoba/ U of Winnipeg - for the TUCAN Collaboration)
12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Free for winter activities

2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Session #3
7:00 p.m. - 10:35 p.m.
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Dark matter searches at SNOLAB [INVITED] - Marie-Cécile Piro (University of Alberta)

7:30 p.m. The NEWS-G Direct Dark Matter Search Experiment: First Results and Outlook (student talk) - Daniel Durnford (Queen's University)

7:45 p.m. Calibration of SuperCDMS* Dark Matter Detectors for Low-Mass WIMPs (student talk) - Danika MacDonell (University of British Columbia)

8:00 p.m. The DEAP-3600 Muon Veto System (student talk) - Andrew Erlandson (Carleton University)

8:15 p.m. Dark Matter Search Results of the PICO experiment in the Effective Field Theory Context (student talk) - Arthur Plante (Université de Montréal)

8:45 p.m. Characterization of superheated fluids in PICO-0.1 bubble chamber for the search of Dark Matter (student talk) - Frédéric Tardif (University of Montreal)

9:00 p.m. Improving the Optics and Fiducial Volume of the PICO Bubble Chamber Dark Matter Detector (student talk) - Clarke Hardy (Queen's University)

9:15 p.m. PICO-40, an important step towards a ton-scale spin-dependent dark matter search experiment at SNOLAB - Mathieu Laurin (Université de Montréal)

9:30 p.m. PICO-40L Calibration Simulation and Analysis Techniques using Machine Learning (student talk) - Gevy Cao (Queen's University)
Saturday, February 17, 2018

7:30 a.m. Breakfast

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Session #4
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Overview of the Higgs and Standard Model physics at ATLAS [INVITED] - Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (McGill University)

9:30 a.m. Determination of jet energy resolution in proton-proton collisions of the ATLAS detector (student talk) - Tae Hyoun Park (Carleton University)

9:45 a.m. Measurement of Z bosons produced in association with jets via vector boson fusion at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector (student talk) - Stephen Weber (Carleton University)

10:00 a.m. Search for resonant WZ$\rightarrow$lvl'l' Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13TeV with the ATLAS Detector (student talk) - Benjamin Freund (Université de Montreal)

10:15 a.m. First measurement of photon+b production cross sections in pp collisions using the ATLAS detector (student talk) - Sebastien Prince (McGill University)

10:45 a.m. Scale Factors for the ATLAS Muon Triggers (student talk) - Robin Hayes (UBC/TRIUMF)

11:00 a.m. Search for production of supersymmetric particles in final states with missing transverse momentum and multiple b-jets in 2015-2016 LHC p-p collision data with the ATLAS detector (student talk) - Louis-Guillaume Gagnon (Université de Montréal)

11:15 a.m. Search for supersymmetry in final states with two same-sign or three leptons and jets using 13 TeV ATLAS data - Otilia DUCU (University of Montreal)

11:30 a.m. Sensitivity study of a search for a charged scalar particle in $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV $pp$ collisions (student talk) - Kays Haddad (McGill University)

11:45 a.m. Development of a new B-Physics trigger for the ATLAS Detector at CERN (student talk) - Shreya Saha (McGill University)
12:00 p.m. Lunch: Lunch
Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Free for winter activities: Free for winter activities
Free for winter activities
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Session #5
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Illuminating the dark sector with astrophysical neutrinos [INVITED] - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

7:30 p.m. Neutrinos, Dark Matter and the Standard Model (student talk) - Carla Francisco (Laval University)

7:45 p.m. Neutrino oscillation (student talk) - Fatemeh Najafi (Udem)

8:00 p.m. Prospects for rare neutrino physics at the intensity frontier (student talk) - Ryan Plestid (McMaster University and Perimeter Institute)

8:15 p.m. Quasi-Elastic Neutrino Reactions on Carbon and Lead Nuclei - Mohammad Hedayatipour (University of Alberta)

8:30 p.m. Exploring the supersymmetric U(1)$_{B-L} \times$ U(1)$_{R}$ model with dark matter, muon $g-2$ and $Z^\prime$ mass limits (student talk) - Özer Özdal (Concordia University)

8:45 p.m. Equivalence and Classification of 4D Adinkras (student talk) - Tyrell Edward Umbach (Concordia University)
9:00 p.m. Social Event - Reception Chalet

9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 18, 2018

7:30 a.m. Breakfast

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Session #6
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. From T2K to Hyper-K: Status and Prospects for Long Baseline Neutrino Physics in Japan [INVITED] - Mark Hartz (Kavli IPMU (WPI), University of Tokyo/TRIUMF)

9:30 a.m. Rare Decays with Missing Energy at the Belle II Detector (student talk) - Hannah Wakeling (McGill University)

9:45 a.m. Material Studies for the Belle II experiment (student talk) - waleed ahmed (Mcgill University)

10:00 a.m. Determination of proton radii of neutron rich oxygen isotopes from charge-changing cross section measurements (student talk) - Satbir Kaur (Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada)

10:45 a.m. Quasi-free Proton Knockout Reactions on the Oxygen Isotopic Chain - Leyla Atar (University of Guelph)

11:00 a.m. Characterizing LaBr3(Ce) Detector Response for Proton Therapy Applications (student talk) - Christina Burbadge (University of Guelph)

11:15 a.m. Detecting fusion-evaporation reaction products from contrast agents as a range verification technique in proton therapy (student talk) - Eva Kasanda (University of Guelph)

11:30 a.m. Closing remarks & Prizes - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)
12:00 p.m. Lunch: Lunch
Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.