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

WNPPC2025 - 62nd Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference

from Thursday, 13 February 2025 (16:00) to Sunday, 16 February 2025 (14:50)

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

16:00

16:00 - 17:30

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Vistas Dining Room
19:00
19:00 - 21:15
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

19:00 Welcome to WNPPC 2025 - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF) Corina Andreoiu (Simon Fraser University)

19:15 Exploring the unknown facets of the visible universe through the lens of rare isotopes - Rituparna Kanungo (TRIUMF)

19:45 Investigation of N=32 Shell Closure through $^{50}$ Ca(d,p) $^{51}$ Ca - Sora Ishida (Saint Mary's University)

20:00 Mirror Symmetry in the f7/2 Shell below 56Ni: Excited States and Electromagnetic Transition Rates in 55Ni and 55Co - Heinz Asch (Simon Fraser University)

20:15 The first measurement of the $0_{3}^{+}$ lifetime in $^{120}$ Sn using thermal neutron capture - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)

20:30 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM Research - Claudia Gomes da Rocha (University of Calgary)

21:00 Measurements of Cross Section Enhancement of $^{7} Li (^{1} H, α) α$ Reaction in Four Lithium Bearing Materials - Aaron English (Carleton University)
21:15

21:15 - 22:45
Room: KC 305
Friday, 14 February 2025 ¶
08:15
08:15 - 09:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

08:15 Atom-at-a-time Chemistry: From Actinides to Superheavies - Jennifer Pore (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:45 Questions of nuclear structure: a study of 80Ge - Fatima H. Garcia (Simon Fraser University)

09:15 β-decay of 68Mn: Probing the N=40 island of inversion - Rashmi Umashankar (TRIUMF)

09:30 Highly-Charged Radioactive Molecules: Amplifying Sensitivity for New Physics - Rane Simpson (TRIUMF)
09:45

09:45 - 10:15
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
10:15
10:15 - 12:00
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 - 13:00

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Vistas Dining Room
19:00
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

19:00 Searching for milli-charged Dark Pions in MoEDAL MAPP - Shafakat Arifeen (University of Alberta)

19:15 Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches - Carter Garrah (Queen's University)

19:30 Search for dark matter with the PICO-40L C3F8 bubble chambers - Hantz Nozard (University of Montreal)

19:45 Advancing Dark Matter Detection with the PICO-500 Bubble Chamber - Quinn Malin (University of Alberta)

20:00 Recent Developments and Analysis in the DEAP-3600 Experiment - Akhil Maru (Carleton University)

20:15 Supporting Measurements for Current and Future Dark Matter Detectors with Argon-1 - Michael Perry (Carleton University)
20:30

20:30 - 21:00
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
21:00
21:00 - 22:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

21:00 Characterizing SuperCDMS detectors in the CUTE facility at SNOLAB - Ariel Zuniga Reyes (University of Toronto)

21:15 Innovative radon removal system for dark matter searches using silver-zeolite adsorbent - Yuqi DENG (University of Alberta)

21:30 Locked in a Dark and Dusty Basement: Field Emission and Particulate Contamination in the TRIUMF e-Linac - Aveen Mahon (TRIUMF | UVic)

21:45 A Cherenkov fiber-based safety shut-off system for the ARIEL e-Linac at TRIUMF - Richard Hermann (TRIUMF)

22:00 SBC-SNOLAB Material Radiopurity Campaign - Gary Sweeney (Queen's University)
Saturday, 15 February 2025 ¶
08:30
08:30 - 09:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

08:30 Current results and a future outlook for very large neutrino telescopes - Darren Grant (Simon Fraser University)

09:00 Progress on the Hyper-Kamiokande multi-Photomultiplier Tubes and the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment - Jakob Rimmer (TRIUMF)

09:15 A Hybrid Type I + III Inverse Seesaw Mechanism in $U (1)_{R - L}$ -symmetric MSSM - Cem Murat Ayber (Carleton University)

09:30 Ba-Tagging Technique for Liquid Xenon Based Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches - Hussain Rasiwala (McGill University)
09:45

09:45 - 10:00
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)

10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:30 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 Efficiency study of the displaced muon reconstruction for dark photon search with ATLAS detector - Khurshid Usmanov (TRIUMF/UBC)
12:00

12:00 - 13:00
18:15
18:15 - 19:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

18:15 Rare Isotope Doped Superconducting Sensors as Powerful Probes of BSM Physics - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

18:45 Effectively Exploring New Physics: EFT interpretation of ATLAS Run-2 data on the WZ → llνl channel - Shroff Maheyer (University of Victoria)

19:00 Suppression Without Shaping: DisCo Neural Network Optimization for H->µµ Decay Analysis - Samuel Moir (Carleton University)

19:15 Investigating a Mystery: Poor Modelling of Forward Jet Production Rate For Recent ATLAS Data - Owen Darragh (Carleton University)

19:30 KDK+: The Enhanced LSC Stability Experiment - Cameron Ingo (Queen's)
19:45

19:45 - 21:45
Room: KC 101

21:45

21:45 - 22:45
Sunday, 16 February 2025 ¶
08:15
08:15 - 10:00
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

08:15 Direct Measurements of (α,n) Reactions Using the DEMAND Array with DRAGON - Ben Reed (TRIUMF/Saint Mary's University)

08:45 Nuclear/element production by supernovae, measured by X-ray spectra - Jakob Hansen (University of Calgary)

09:00 The Compton Slope Parameter and the Compton and Two Photon Spectrometer - Laura Hubbert (Mount Allison University)

09:15 Atomic Magnetometers for the TUCAN EDM experiment - Tahereh Mohammadi

09:30 Investigating Energy Mixing Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Antihydrogen - Abbygale Swadling (University of Calgary)

09:45 Probing Lepton Number Violation at Same-Sign Lepton Colliders - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Room: KC 305 & Galleria South
10:30
10:30 - 12:15
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

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

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

11:00 Rare $η$ Decay Signal and Background Generation for JEF - Stjepan Oresic (University of Regina)

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

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

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

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

12:15 - 13:15

13:15

13:15 - 13:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)