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, 13 May 2025 (08:00) to Thursday, 15 May 2025 (16:15)

Monday, 12 May 2025 ¶
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 ¶
09:00
09:00 - 09:15
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:05 Welcome & Logistics - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

09:10 Introduction of new members - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)
09:15
09:15 - 10:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:15 The BeEST Experiment - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

09:35 Superconducting Tunnel Junction Radiation Detectors - Stephan Friedrich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:55 Rare isotope beam implantations at TRIUMF - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)
10:15

10:15 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium
10:45
10:45 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

11:05 Phase-III analysis details and current status - Inwook Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
11:30

11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium

13:00

13:00 - 14:15

14:15

14:15 - 15:15
Room: Auditorium

15:15

15:15 - 15:45

15:45

15:45 - 16:45
Room: Auditorium

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 ¶
08:45
08:45 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:45 Influence of the environment on electron capture decay: update - Paul-Antoine Hervieux (University of Strasbourg)

09:05 Atomistic Materials Science Effects for the BeEST - Vincenzo Lordi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:25 Experimental Evaluation of Possible Material Effects - David Diercks (Colorado School of Mines)

09:45 βNMR Spectroscopy of Ta films for the BeEST Sterile Neutrino Search - Iain McKenzie (TRIUMF)

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

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

10:45 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium
11:15
11:15 - 12:55
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:55 - 14:10
14:10
14:10 - 15:50
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:10 A laser-abaltion ion source for off-line radioisotope loading - Thomas Brunner (McGill/TRIUMF)

14:30 Studying systematics in BeEST with phonon-mediated detectors - Brian Lenardo (SLAC)

14:50 Gamma-Tagging and Future Prospects - Connor Bray (Colorado School of MInes)

15:10 7Be Decay in Al STJs - Spencer Fretwell (Colorado School of Mines)

15:30 Adaptable implantation holder design for future work - Brian Mong (SLAC)
15:50

15:50 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium
16:20
16:20 - 17:40
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:20 BSM Physics Targets Beyond Heavy Neutral Leptons at BeEST - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)

16:40 Three-body decays in the BeEST - Leendert Hayen (LPC Caen)

17:00 Using BeEST data for limits on neutrino wavepacket sizes and other ideas - Joseph Smolsky (STAR Cryoelectronics)

17:20 Physics with the BeEST beyond sterile neutrinos - David Moore (Yale)
19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Thursday, 15 May 2025 ¶

09:00

09:00 - 10:30
Room: MOB Boardroom

10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium

11:00

11:00 - 12:00
Room: MOB boardroom

12:00

12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 14:50
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Beyond the BeEST: SALER - Andrew Marino (Colorado School of Mines)

13:50 ASGARD: Precision spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes - Leendert Hayen (LPC Caen)

14:10 Beyond the BeEST: Optomechanical Sensing - David Moore (Yale)

14:30 Feasibility studies for low-mass dark matter searches - Pietro Giampa (TRIUMF)
14:50

14:50 - 15:05
Room: Auditorium