2026 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2026

Session

(PPD) T2-9 | (PPD)

T2-9

23 Jun 2026, 14:15

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

792. Probing the Nature of Neutrinos with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)

Gianfranco Ingratta (York University - CA)

23/06/2026, 14:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Neutrino oscillations have led to the discovery that neutrinos have nonzero masses. The current model describes the oscillation phenomenon in terms of three mixing angles and one CP-violating phase. Within the three-flavour paradigm, the other two major unknowns are the neutrino mass ordering and whether charge-parity is violated in the leptonic sector. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment...

722. ICARUS at Fermilab: Experimental Program and Status

Bruce Howard (York University & Fermilab)

23/06/2026, 14:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

The process of neutrino oscillation, where neutrinos created as one type (flavour) will be measured as another flavour after propagation with an oscillating probability, was confirmed by SNO in Canada and Super-Kamiokande in Japan approximately 25 years ago. Since then, experiments have gained increased reach and precision on the parameters involved. A new generation of experiments, led by the...

577. Chroma: An Open-Source GPU-Based Optical Simulation Tool for Liquid Noble Detectors and Beyond

Xiang Li (TRIUMF, Simon Fraser University)

23/06/2026, 15:00

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

Accurate and fast optical photon simulation is critical for optimizing the geometry design of next-generation liquid noble and scintillator-based detectors, where light collection efficiency directly drives energy and position resolution. While standard tools like Geant4 are robust, they are often computationally expensive for high-photon-yield applications. In this talk, we present our...

841. A New Liquid Argon Test Facility for Studies of Noble Liquids and Advanced Photodetectors

Anantha Padmanabhan

23/06/2026, 15:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

We are commissioning a liquid argon (LAr) cryostat at Queen’s to
study the properties of noble liquids and photo detectors. It will enable
local experimental research on xenon-doped liquid argon, a promising tar-
get medium for next-generation dark matter detectors such as DarkSide-
LowMass and the Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC), which aim to
probe weakly interacting massive particles...

847. Radon Assay Facility at University of Windsor For nEXO experiment

Abo-bakr Emara

23/06/2026, 15:30

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

Next-generation experiments searching for extremely rare processes, such as neutrinoless double beta decay, require unprecedented control and understanding of radioactive backgrounds. Among these, radon and its progeny represent a dominant and challenging background source due to their mobility and ability to plate out on detector surfaces. The nEXO experiment, a proposed tonne-scale liquid...