Name: BeEST collaboration meeting 2025
Start: 2025-05-13T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-15T16:15:00-07:00
Location: TRIUMF

BeEST collaboration meeting 2025

from Tuesday, May 13, 2025 (8:00 a.m.) to Thursday, May 15, 2025 (4:15 p.m.)

Monday, May 12, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
9:00 a.m. Welcome session
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:05 a.m. Welcome & Logistics - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

9:10 a.m. Introduction of new members - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)
9:15 a.m. BeEST Concept & Status
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:15 a.m. The BeEST Experiment - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

9:35 a.m. Superconducting Tunnel Junction Radiation Detectors - Stephan Friedrich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

9:55 a.m. Rare isotope beam implantations at TRIUMF - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Room: Auditorium
10:45 a.m. Theory & Analysis
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 a.m. Neutrino Mass Generation and BSM Neutrino Physics - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)

11:05 a.m. Phase-III analysis details and current status - Inwook Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
11:30 a.m. TRIUMF Tour & Group photo

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Room: Auditorium

1:00 p.m. Lunch Break (not provided)

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

2:15 p.m. Phase-III data unblinding strategy

2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Room: Auditorium

3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

3:45 p.m. Discussion

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Room: Auditorium

7:00 p.m. Dinner (not organized)

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
8:45 a.m. Material Effects
8:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:45 a.m. Influence of the environment on electron capture decay: update - Paul-Antoine Hervieux (University of Strasbourg)

9:05 a.m. Atomistic Materials Science Effects for the BeEST - Vincenzo Lordi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

9:25 a.m. Experimental Evaluation of Possible Material Effects - David Diercks (Colorado School of Mines)

9:45 a.m. βNMR Spectroscopy of Ta films for the BeEST Sterile Neutrino Search - Iain McKenzie (TRIUMF)

10:05 a.m. GEANT4 Condensed Matter Physics (G4CMP) - Caitlyn Stone-whitehead (Colorado School of Mines)

10:25 a.m. Progress on low-energy Auger scattering simulations - Mohamad Kanafani (LPC Caen)
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Room: Auditorium
11:15 a.m. BeEST setups at collaborating facilities
11:15 a.m. - 12:55 p.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 a.m. Current and future plans for LLNL - Stephan Friedrich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:35 a.m. BeEST@PNNL: Current Status and Plans - Francisco Ponce (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

11:55 a.m. Enhancing Thermal Stability in Dilution Refrigeration at TRIUMF - Ashley Marie Evangelista (TRIUMF)

12:15 p.m. STJs in Colorado - Fridges at CURIE and Mines - Wouter Van De Pontseele (Colorado School of Mines)

12:35 p.m. An Experimental Design for Testing STJs in Dilution Refrigerators for BeEST - Joseph Templet (Colorado School of Mines)
12:55 p.m. Lunch Break

12:55 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
2:10 p.m. Simulations/Systematics/New Avenues
2:10 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:10 p.m. A laser-abaltion ion source for off-line radioisotope loading - Thomas Brunner (McGill/TRIUMF)

2:30 p.m. Studying systematics in BeEST with phonon-mediated detectors - Brian Lenardo (SLAC)

2:50 p.m. Gamma-Tagging and Future Prospects - Connor Bray (Colorado School of MInes)

3:10 p.m. 7Be Decay in Al STJs - Spencer Fretwell (Colorado School of Mines)

3:30 p.m. Adaptable implantation holder design for future work - Brian Mong (SLAC)
3:50 p.m. Coffee Break

3:50 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Room: Auditorium
4:20 p.m. New Physics Searches with BeEST
4:20 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:20 p.m. BSM Physics Targets Beyond Heavy Neutral Leptons at BeEST - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)

4:40 p.m. Three-body decays in the BeEST - Leendert Hayen (LPC Caen)

5:00 p.m. Using BeEST data for limits on neutrino wavepacket sizes and other ideas - Joseph Smolsky (STAR Cryoelectronics)

5:20 p.m. Physics with the BeEST beyond sterile neutrinos - David Moore (Yale)
7:00 p.m. Dinner (not organized)

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 15, 2025

9:00 a.m. BeEST collaboration board meeting (closed session)

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: MOB Boardroom

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Room: Auditorium

11:00 a.m. BeEST collaboration board meeting (closed session)

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: MOB boardroom

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break (not provided)

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. Beyond the BeEST
1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 p.m. Beyond the BeEST: SALER - Andrew Marino (Colorado School of Mines)

1:50 p.m. ASGARD: Precision spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes - Leendert Hayen (LPC Caen)

2:10 p.m. Beyond the BeEST: Optomechanical Sensing - David Moore (Yale)

2:30 p.m. Feasibility studies for low-mass dark matter searches - Pietro Giampa (TRIUMF)
2:50 p.m. Concluding remarks

2:50 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Room: Auditorium