2026 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2026

Session

(PPD) M2-9 | (PPD)

M2-9

22 Jun 2026, 14:15

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

905. Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillation at SNO+

James Page (Queen's University)

22/06/2026, 14:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

SNO+ is a low background multi-purpose detector 2 km underground in Sudbury, Ontario. It is able to detect electron antineutrinos with energies down to 1.8 MeV via inverse beta decays. With the majority of the incoming electron antineutrino flux at SNO+ originating from three nuclear reactors 240, 350 and 355 km away, the detector is well situated to measure neutrino oscillation. In...

853. Spatial Reconstruction of EXO-200 Events using Deep Learning Network

Tanmay . (University of Windsor)

22/06/2026, 14:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

The EXO-200 experiment, a 100-kg-class liquid xenon time projection chamber, operated from 2011 to 2018, in searching for neutrino-less double beta decay of 136Xe. This is a process whose observation would establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos and help constrain their absolute mass scale. Precise reconstruction of event energy and position is essential for this search. Spatial information...

974. Signatures of Composite Dark Matter in Bubble Chambers

Alex Hayes (Queen's University)

22/06/2026, 15:00

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

This presentation will show a new analysis of bubble chamber dark matter detectors which could be used to discover composite dark matter. A bubble chamber contains a volume of superheated fluid which nucleates a bubble when enough energy is deposited in the fluid. Traditional analysis assumes that a bubble is nucleated from a single, high-energy interaction with a dark matter particle....

865. Calibration of the SNO+ Scintillator Phase with an AmBe Neutron Source

Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

22/06/2026, 15:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

The SNO+ experiment is a kilotonne-scale liquid scintillator (LS) neutrino detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario. The 780 tonnes of LS is housed inside of a 12 m diameter acrylic vessel (AV). Surrounding the AV is a 17 m diameter array of 9362 inward-looking photo-multiplier tubes which detect scintillation light produced by particle interactions in the LS. Within...

627. Performance results of germanium high-voltage detectors tested in the Cryogenic Underground TEst facility

Ruchi Soni (Queen's University)

22/06/2026, 15:30

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment aims to search for low-mass dark matter using the new generation high-voltage (HV) detector design with germanium and silicon targets. A subset of these HV detectors (four Ge and two Si) were tested in the Cryogenic Underground TEst (CUTE) facility at SNOLAB, which provided the first opportunity for an extended operation of these...