Name: WNPPC2025 - 62nd Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference
Start: 2025-02-13T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-02-16T14:50:00-07:00
Location: Banff, Alberta

Monday, February 10, 2025
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025

4:00 p.m. Registration

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Dinner

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Room: Vistas Dining Room
7:00 p.m. Evening 1 - Nuclear physics
7:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Welcome to WNPPC 2025 - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF) Corina Andreoiu (Simon Fraser University)

7:15 p.m. Exploring the unknown facets of the visible universe through the lens of rare isotopes - Rituparna Kanungo (TRIUMF)

7:45 p.m. Investigation of N=32 Shell Closure through $^{50}$Ca(d,p)$^{51}$Ca - Sora Ishida (Saint Mary's University)

8:00 p.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)

8:15 p.m. The first measurement of the $0^+_3$ lifetime in $^{120}$Sn using thermal neutron capture - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)

8:30 p.m. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM Research - Claudia Gomes da Rocha (University of Calgary)

9:00 p.m. Measurements of Cross Section Enhancement of $^7\mathrm{Li}(^1\mathrm{H}, \alpha)\alpha$Reaction in Four Lithium Bearing Materials - Aaron English (Carleton University)
9:15 p.m. Welcome Reception

9:15 p.m. - 10:45 p.m.
Room: KC 305
Friday, February 14, 2025
8:15 a.m. Morning 1 - Nuclear Physics
8:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:15 a.m. Atom-at-a-time Chemistry: From Actinides to Superheavies - Jennifer Pore (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

8:45 a.m. Questions of nuclear structure: a study of 80Ge - Fatima H. Garcia (Simon Fraser University)

9:15 a.m. β-decay of 68Mn: Probing the N=40 island of inversion - Rashmi Umashankar (TRIUMF)

9:30 a.m. Highly-Charged Radioactive Molecules: Amplifying Sensitivity for New Physics - Rane Simpson (TRIUMF)
9:45 a.m. Coffee Break

9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
10:15 a.m. Morning 2 - Particle Physics
10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:15 a.m. Temperature Dependent Scintillation of Plastic Scintillators between 300 K and 4 K - Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

10:30 a.m. Development of a Novel Magnet for the HAICU Hydrogen Fountain - Jack Ewins (TRIUMF)

10:45 a.m. Cooling Analyses of HV-MAPS detector for the Compton Polarimeter in Hall A of JLab - Shefali Shefali (University of Manitoba)

11:00 a.m. Towards a High Precision Measurement of the Hyperfine Structure of Antihydrogen - Sean Wilson (University of Calgary)

11:15 a.m. Simulation of MAPP-1 Detector - Abhinab Mukhopadhyay (University of Alberta)

11:30 a.m. Development of a calorimeter for the next-generation rare pion decay experiment: PIONEER - Emma Klemets (TRIUMF)

11:45 a.m. Search for Highly Ionising Particles in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS Detector - Priyanka Kumari (York University)
12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Dinner

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Room: Vistas Dining Room
7:00 p.m. Evening 2 - Dark Matter Searches
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

7:00 p.m. Searching for milli-charged Dark Pions in MoEDAL MAPP - Shafakat Arifeen (University of Alberta)

7:15 p.m. Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches - Carter Garrah (Queen's University)

7:30 p.m. Search for dark matter with the PICO-40L C3F8 bubble chambers - Hantz Nozard (University of Montreal)

7:45 p.m. Advancing Dark Matter Detection with the PICO-500 Bubble Chamber - Quinn Malin (University of Alberta)

8:00 p.m. Recent Developments and Analysis in the DEAP-3600 Experiment - Akhil Maru (Carleton University)

8:15 p.m. Supporting Measurements for Current and Future Dark Matter Detectors with Argon-1 - Michael Perry (Carleton University)
8:30 p.m. Coffee Break

8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
9:00 p.m. Evening 3 - Dark Matter Searches
9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

9:00 p.m. Characterizing SuperCDMS detectors in the CUTE facility at SNOLAB - Ariel Zuniga Reyes (University of Toronto)

9:15 p.m. Innovative radon removal system for dark matter searches using silver-zeolite adsorbent - Yuqi DENG (University of Alberta)

9:30 p.m. Locked in a Dark and Dusty Basement: Field Emission and Particulate Contamination in the TRIUMF e-Linac - Aveen Mahon (TRIUMF | UVic)

9:45 p.m. A Cherenkov fiber-based safety shut-off system for the ARIEL e-Linac at TRIUMF - Richard Hermann (TRIUMF)
Saturday, February 15, 2025
8:30 a.m. Morning 3 - Neutrino physics
8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Current results and a future outlook for very large neutrino telescopes - Darren Grant (Simon Fraser University)

9:00 a.m. Progress on the Hyper-Kamiokande multi-Photomultiplier Tubes and the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment - Jakob Rimmer (TRIUMF)

9:15 a.m. A Hybrid Type I + III Inverse Seesaw Mechanism in $U(1)_{R-L}$-symmetric MSSM - Cem Murat Ayber (Carleton University)

9:30 a.m. Ba-Tagging Technique for Liquid Xenon Based Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches - Hussain Rasiwala (McGill University)
9:45 a.m. Group Picture

9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)

10:00 a.m. Coffee Break

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
10:30 a.m. Morning 4 - Particle Physics
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:30 a.m. In-Situ combination of jet uncertainties and the production of jet calibrations for the ATLAS detector - Jérémie LePage-Bourbonnais (Carleton University)

10:45 a.m. Application of DeepSets Machine Learning in FPGA to Improve the ATLAS L0 Global Trigger for HL-LHC - Kelvin Leong (UBC, TRIUMF)

11:00 a.m. Machine Learning Approaches to Segmentation for Reconstruction in the ATLAS Calorimeter - Joshua Himmens (TRIUMF)

11:15 a.m. Tagging and Probing : Measuring muon trigger efficiencies with ATLAS - Surya Sundar Raman (TRIUMF/University of British Columbia)

11:30 a.m. Optimization of Event Selection for Singly- and Doubly-Charged Higgs Boson Search at ATLAS using Machine Learning Techniques - Adrienne Scott (University of Victoria)

11:45 a.m. Efficiency study of the displaced muon reconstruction for dark photon search with ATLAS detector - Khurshid Usmanov (TRIUMF/UBC)
12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
6:15 p.m. Evening 4 - Electroweak/Higgs physics, BSM physics
6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

6:15 p.m. Rare Isotope Doped Superconducting Sensors as Powerful Probes of BSM Physics - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

6:45 p.m. Effectively Exploring New Physics: EFT interpretation of ATLAS Run-2 data on the WZ → llνl channel - Shroff Maheyer (University of Victoria)

7:00 p.m. Suppression Without Shaping: DisCo Neural Network Optimization for H->µµ Decay Analysis - Samuel Moir (Carleton University)

7:15 p.m. Investigating a Mystery: Poor Modelling of Forward Jet Production Rate For Recent ATLAS Data - Owen Darragh (Carleton University)

7:30 p.m. KDK+: The Enhanced LSC Stability Experiment - Cameron Ingo (Queen's)
7:45 p.m. Conference Banquet

7:45 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Room: KC 101

9:45 p.m. Committee Meeting (closed meeting)

9:45 p.m. - 10:45 p.m.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
8:15 a.m. Morning 5 - Nuclear physics, BSM physics
8:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:15 a.m. Direct Measurements of (α,n) Reactions Using the DEMAND Array with DRAGON - Ben Reed (TRIUMF/Saint Mary's University)

8:45 a.m. Nuclear/element production by supernovae, measured by X-ray spectra - Jakob Hansen (University of Calgary)

9:00 a.m. The Compton Slope Parameter and the Compton and Two Photon Spectrometer - Laura Hubbert (Mount Allison University)

9:15 a.m. Atomic Magnetometers for the TUCAN EDM experiment - Tahereh Mohammadi

9:30 a.m. Investigating Energy Mixing Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Antihydrogen - Abbygale Swadling (University of Calgary)

9:45 a.m. Probing Lepton Number Violation at Same-Sign Lepton Colliders - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
10:30 a.m. Morning 6 - QCD and Hadrons
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:30 a.m. Jet broadening in a viscous nuclear medium - Hemanth Regi (University of Regina)

10:45 a.m. Jet and photon tomography of the nuclear medium created in heavy-ion collisions - AMIT KUMAR (University of Regina)

11:00 a.m. Rare $\eta$ Decay Signal and Background Generation for JEF - Stjepan Oresic (University of Regina)

11:15 a.m. Unveiling Hadronic Mass Generation Through Light Meson Structure with ePIC - Love Preet (University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada)

11:30 a.m. HVP Contributions to Muon $g-2$: QCD Constraints Using Inequalities and Sum Rules - Siyuan Li (University of Saskatchewan)

11:45 a.m. From Spin to Structure: Beam Spin Asymmetry in Exclusive Pion Electroproduction - Alicia Postuma

12:00 p.m. Update on PionLT DEMP Factorizability studies. - nathan heinrich (Univeristy of Regina)
12:15 p.m. Lunch

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

1:15 p.m. Student Award Ceremony & Conference Closing

1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)