Name: WNPPC2023 - 60th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference
Start: 2023-02-16T05:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-02-19T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Banff Centre

WNPPC2023 - 60th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference

from Thursday, February 16, 2023 (5:00 a.m.) to Sunday, February 19, 2023 (1:00 p.m.)

Monday, February 13, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Thursday, February 16, 2023
7:00 p.m. February 16 Evening Session: Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Physics Beyond the Standard Model
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Opening Remarks

7:15 p.m. The Cosmology and Astrophysics of Dark Complexity - David Curtin (University of Toronto)

7:45 p.m. An Auxiliary ATLAS Detector to Enhance the Detection of Long Lived Particles - Joseph Mitchell Kelly (University of Alberta)

8:00 p.m. Searches for periodic resonance signals in the $e^+e^-$ and $\gamma\gamma$ channels at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV in ATLAS - Ho Chun Lau (University of Alberta)

8:15 p.m. Background simulations on Charged-Lepton Flavour Violation (CLFV) in the Leptoquark framework at the EIC - Bardh Quni (Uni)

8:30 p.m. Signal corrections using background detectors in MOLLER experiment - Fatemeh Gorgannejad (University of Manitoba)

8:45 p.m. Compton Polarimetry at the Electron-Ion Collider - Akshaya Vijay (University Of Manitoba)
9:00 p.m. Reception
Reception
9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Friday, February 17, 2023
8:30 a.m. February 17 Morning Session: Dark Matter 1
Dark Matter 1
8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Welcome & notes

8:45 a.m. A holistic view of pseudo-Dirac dark matter - Katelin Schutz (McGill University)

9:15 a.m. Searching for a Strongly Interacting Dark Sector at MoEDAL MAPP - Shafakat Arifeen (University of Regina)

9:30 a.m. Fluorescent Properties of Clevios For Use As Electrodes In DarkSide-20K - Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

9:45 a.m. Overview and New Results from the PICO Dark Matter Search Experiment - Minya Bai (Queen's University)

10:00 a.m. Status of NEWS-G3 Experiment and Muon Veto System - Hayden Meadows (Queen's University)
10:15 a.m. Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Room: KC 303
10:45 a.m. February 17 Morning Session: QCD & Higgs
QCD & Higgs
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

10:45 a.m. The Electron Ion Collider – The Quest to Make Sense of QCD - Stephen Kay (University of Regina)

11:00 a.m. Understanding Hadronic Mass Through Light Meson Structure at the EIC - Love Preet (University of Regina)

11:15 a.m. Cooling Analysis of HV MAPS Detector in Vacuum - Shefali Shefali (University of Manitoba)

11:30 a.m. From Spin to Structure: Beam Single-Spin Asymmetry in Exclusive Pion Production - Alicia Postuma

11:45 a.m. Higgs Boson Production via Quark mediated Gluon Fusion at High Energy at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Power in Quark Mass - Sneh Modi (University of Alberta)

12:00 p.m. AI/ML for Semi-Inclusive and Exclusive DIS Measurements - Stjepan Oresic (University of Regina)
7:00 p.m. February 17 Evening Session: Dark Matter 2
Dark Matter 2
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Opportunities at SNOLAB - Jodi Cooley (SMU)

7:30 p.m. SuperCDMS Background Explorer Functionality and Validation - Tyler Martin (University of Toronto)

7:45 p.m. SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Analysis - Musaab Al-Bakry (TRIUMF/UBC)

8:00 p.m. New results from the NEWS-G dark matter experiment - Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University)

8:15 p.m. Machine Learning for Noise Removal in NEWS-G - Noah Rowe (Queen's University)
8:30 p.m. Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Room: KC 303
9:00 p.m. February 17 Evening Session: Particle Physics
Particle Physics
9:00 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

9:00 p.m. An Introduction to the TUCAN EDM Measurement - Derek Fujimoto (TRIUMF)

9:15 p.m. Adiabatic transport of ultracold polarized neutrons for the TUCAN EDM experiment - Emma Klemets (TRIUMF)

9:30 p.m. Commissioning of a Paul trap for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Exotic Radionuclides performed in a 30 keV MR-ToF device - Louis Croquette (McGill University)

10:00 p.m. Reconstruction of Semi-Leptonic Top Anti-top Pair Production with Deep Learning - Jenna Chisholm (The University of British Columbia)
Saturday, February 18, 2023
8:30 a.m. February 18 Morning Session: Antimatter
Antimatter
8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Welcome & Notes

8:45 a.m. The ALPHA-g antihydrogen gravity experiment - Chukman So (TRIUMF)

9:15 a.m. Laser Calibration Studies Using the ALPHA-g Detector - Pooja Woosaree (University of Calgary)

9:30 a.m. Anti-Hydrogen Detection and Background Rejection for ALPHA-g - Gareth Smith (UBC/TRIUMF)

9:45 a.m. Magnetic Fields During Gravitational Experiments with Antihydrogen - Adam Powell (University of Calgary)

10:00 a.m. Decay Rates of Positronium Species - Muhammad Mubasher (University of Alberta)
10:15 a.m. Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Room: KC 303
10:45 a.m. February 18 Morning Session: Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

10:45 a.m. Investigating the Nuclear Shell Evolution in Neutron-Rich Calcium - Robin Coleman (University of Guelph)

11:00 a.m. Decay spectroscopy around neutron-rich 33Mg to probe the "island of inversion" - tammy zidar (university of guelph)

11:15 a.m. Searching for Alpha-Cluster States in $^{126}$Te - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)

11:30 a.m. Mirror symmetry in the f7/2 shell below 56Ni, excited states and electromagnetic transition rates in 55Ni and 55Co - Heinz Asch (Simon Fraser University)

11:45 a.m. Electromagnetic Transition Rate Studies in 28Mg - Matthew Martin (Simon Fraser University)

12:00 p.m. The Experimental Study of Shape Coexistence in 114Sn Using the GRIFFIN Spectrometer - Dominic Annen (Simon Fraser University)
2:15 p.m. February 18 Afternoon Session: Neutrinos
Neutrinos
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

2:15 p.m. Precision measurement of neutrino oscillations with Hyper-Kamiokande - Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)

2:45 p.m. Mitigating Cosmogenic Backgrounds in nEXO - Soud Al Kharusi (McGill University)

3:00 p.m. Rapid characterization of SiPMs for nEXO and future noble liquid experiments - Bindiya Chana (Carleton University)

3:15 p.m. Detection of Supernova Neutrinos in the SNO+ Detector - Jasmine Corning (Queen's University)

3:30 p.m. Measurement of the inelasticity distribution of neutrino interactions for 100 GeV < E𝞶 < 1 TeV with IceCube DeepCore - Maria Liubarska (University of Alberta)
3:45 p.m. Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Room: KC 303
4:15 p.m. February 18 Afternoon Session: Nuclear Physics 1
Nuclear Physics 1
4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

4:15 p.m. Bound-state beta-decay of Thallium-205 to constrain s-process predictions for the early Solar System - Guy Leckenby (TRIUMF)

4:30 p.m. Mass measurements of neutron-deficient strontium--implications for the rp-process and isospin symmetry - Zachary Hockenbery (McGill)

4:45 p.m. Singlet and triplet pairing in nuclear and cold atomic systems - Georgios Palkanoglou (University of Guelph)

5:00 p.m. Measurement of kaon-carbon forward scattering with EMPHATIC spectrometer - Bruno Ferrazzi (University of Regina)

5:15 p.m. High Precision Half Life Measurement of 26Na with GRIFFIN - Eric Gyabeng Fuakye (University of Regina)

5:30 p.m. Update On GPD Factorization Validity Studies For Meson Production - nathan heinrich (Univeristy of Regina)

5:45 p.m. Investigation of States Populated in the 102Ru(p,t)100Ru Two Neutron Transfer Reaction - Samantha Buck (University of Guelph)
6:30 p.m. Banquet
Banquet
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Room: 103
Sunday, February 19, 2023
8:30 a.m. February 19 Morning Session: Nuclear Physics 2
Nuclear Physics 2
8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Using Neutrons for Material Research - Marcella Berg (University of Regina)

9:00 a.m. The KDK Experiment: A novel measurement of $^{40}$K for rare-event searches and geochronology - Lilianna Hariasz (Queen's University)

9:15 a.m. Constraining the 90Sr Neutron Capture Rate with the Short-Lived 91Sr Nucleus - Beau Greaves (University of Guelph)

9:30 a.m. How to consistently use modern nuclear forces in an ab initio technique - Ryan Curry (University of Guelph)

9:45 a.m. Development of the Detector Array for Energy Measurement of Neutrons (DAEMON) - Zarin Tasnim Ahmed (University of Guelph)

10:00 a.m. Global Analysis of the Protons Elastic Form Factors in the Space-like Region - Craig McRae (University of Manitoba)
10:15 a.m. Coffee
Coffee
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: KC 303
10:30 a.m. February 19 Morning Session: Computation & Instrumentation
Computation & Instrumentation
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Room: KC 303
Contributions

10:30 a.m. Study of W Boson Production in Association with Two Jets using Boosted Decision Trees on Data Collected by the ATLAS Detector. - Matthew Smith (Carleton)

10:45 a.m. Core-collapse Supernova Constraint on the Origin of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter via Neutrino Self-interactions - Yu-Ming Chen (Carleton University)

11:00 a.m. MUTE: A Modern Calculation for Deep Underground and Underwater Muons - William Woodley (University of Alberta)

11:15 a.m. New model on nucleation efficiency of bubble chamber detectors - Xiang Li (University of Alberta)
11:30 a.m. Coffee
Coffee
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Room: KC 303

11:45 a.m. February 19 Morning Session: Awards and Closing Remarks
Awards and Closing Remarks
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: KC 303

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