Through the telling of historical facts and stories, you'll learn about how particle accelerators work and some of the ways accelerators are used for fundamental research. In this talk, I'll also introduce some of the well-known particle accelerators used for discovery research around the world, and some of the future ideas!
This workshop is intended to get participants familiar with using the command line to manipulate data files and write scripts. No knowledge of Unix or programming is assumed.
I will review the observations of high-energy astroparticle physics focusing on experiments I am involved in (HELIX, IceCube, P-ONE, VERITAS).
A hands-on introduction to controlling revisions to a shared project using Git.
Beryllium-10, a so called clock isotope can provide unique measurements of Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) lifetimes with respect to the size of the propagation halo in the Milky Way. To this date there are no high-precision measurements of beryllium-10 above 2 GeV/n. The High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment (HELIX), a balloon-borne magnet spectrometer, directly measures a cosmic ray’s charge,...
The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is an array of four 12 m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona, USA, that has been in full array operation since 2007. VERITAS pursues a broad science program spanning both Galactic and extragalactic targets: it probes supernova remnants, pulsar wind...
Potassium-40 is one of the most abundant naturally occurring radio isotopes. Though it's primary decay mode is well known the rare decay via positron emission is not well understood. KDK+ is an experiment that will look for this rare positron decay using liquid scintillators, and sophisticated gamma detection techniques.
In this two-hour whirlwind session, I'll introduce basic principles of frequentist and Bayesian statistics and illustrate the most common statistical techniques used in particle physics.
Mental well-being is incredibly important in our daily life and can affect positively or negatively how we navigate challenges. Many surveys have shown that academia negatively impacts student's mental well-being. In this talk, we will go over these surveys, understand how mental well-being can impact your studies and your research and have a discussion amongst participants about their shared...
Basics of dark matter searches, with a focus on direct detection experiments.
Introduction to the PICO experiment and the use of superheated bubble chambers in the search for dark matter.
This talk will present a summary of liquid argon technology and the scientific opportunities it offers for probing fundamental physics. The main focus will be on two experiments: DEAP-3600, a single-phase detector located at SNOLAB, and DarkSide-20k, a future liquid argon time projection chamber currently under construction at LNGS, Italy. This talk will highlight recent progress, challenges,...
The NEWS-G experiment searches for low-mass dark matter using spherical proportional counters (SPCs). An SPC is a sphere filled with gas, with a high-voltage anode at its centre producing a radial electric field, sensitive to ionizing particles within the detector. The largest NEWS-G detector is a sphere of 135cm of diameter currently taking data at SNOLAB. This talk will explain how an SPC...
Located 2km underground at SNOLAB, the SuperCDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) experiment is currently being constructed and will focus on the detection of low-mass (<10 GeV/c2) dark matter particles. The experiment will utilize 6 silicon and 18 germanium cryogenic calorimeters arranged in 4 detector towers. There are two types of individual detectors; HV and iZIP. The HV detectors are...
Neutrinos. What are they? What do we know about them? What do we still need to know about them? Tune in to learn about the history of research in neutrinos and the motivation behind the various experiments in neutrino physics.
An overview of the global experimental program searching for neutrinoless double beta decay will be given.
The discovery of neutrino oscillation in atmospheric neutrinos by the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Super-K has been a long-running neutrino experiment using Water Cherenkov Detector for more than 20 years using ultra-pure water as its neutrino target. Recently it has been upgraded to Super-K-Gd....
This workshop will aim to review the basics of Python and dive deeper into how it is often used in physics.
I will perform examples using jupyter notebook with python 3.13.2. If you do not have it installed, I would recommend using syzygy (Queen's student) or https://colab.google/ (non Queen's student).
I will upload slides and scripts to Indico after the workshop.
