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 AM) to Thursday, May 15, 2025 (4:15 PM)

Monday, May 12, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
9:00 AM Welcome session
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome

9:05 AM Welcome & Logistics - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

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

9:15 AM The BeEST Experiment - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

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

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

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Auditorium
10:45 AM Theory & Analysis
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium

1:00 PM Lunch Break (not provided)

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

2:15 PM Phase-III data unblinding strategy

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Auditorium

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM Discussion

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Auditorium

7:00 PM Dinner (not organized)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
8:45 AM Material Effects
8:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Auditorium
11:15 AM BeEST setups at collaborating facilities
11:15 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, May 15, 2025

9:00 AM BeEST collaboration board meeting (closed session)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: MOB Boardroom

10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Auditorium

11:00 AM BeEST collaboration board meeting (closed session)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: MOB boardroom

12:00 PM Lunch Break (not provided)

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Beyond the BeEST
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

2:10 PM Beyond the BeEST: Optomechanical Sensing - David Moore (Yale)

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

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Auditorium

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