2026 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2026

Session

(PPD) R2-1 | (PPD)

R2-1

25 Jun 2026, 16:15

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

804. In situ calibration of liquid scintillator in SNO+

Dr Ryan Bayes (Queen's University)

25/06/2026, 16:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

Deep beneath the Canadian Shield, within the confines of the SNOLAB underground laboratory situated at the Vale-Creighton mine southwest of Sudbury, Ontario, lies the SNO+ experiment. This experiment, the successor to the SNO experiment, aims to observe neutrino-less double beta decay. SNO+ has been operational as a liquid scintillator neutrino detector since 2022. Specific hardware had been...

828. Time-Charge HEALPix Direction Reconstruction Fitter for Supernova Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande

Nikolas Boily (University of Regina)

25/06/2026, 16:30

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral not-in-competition (Graduate Student) / Orale non-compétitive (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

Supernova (SN) localization from water-Cherenkov neutrino detectors is critical for capturing early optical observations of the next galactic SN, as neutrinos are the earliest observables arriving well before shock breakout. SN neutrino bursts detected by Super-Kamiokande (SK) produce thousands of PMT time-charge (TQ) signals which contain directional information. Our current direction...

900. Multi-PMT detectors for Hyper-Kamiokande

Robert Collister (Carleton University)

25/06/2026, 16:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

Multi-PMT detectors for Hyper-Kamiokande

The Hyper-Kamiokande Far Detector is a 258 kilotonne water Cherenkov detector under construction in Kamioka, Japan. The experiment will use accelerator, atmospheric, and astrophysical neutrinos to search for new physics with unprecedented statistical accuracy. Light from neutrino interactions is detected by 20,000 20" PMTs and 800 multi-PMT...

780. Track Matching and Momentum Reconstruction at the DUNE Near Detector

Quinton Weyrich (York University)

25/06/2026, 17:00

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral not-in-competition (Graduate Student) / Orale non-compétitive (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation particle physics experiment designed to study neutrino oscillation (in which neutrinos of one flavour transform into other flavours as they travel) alongside a broad program of other research. It will consist of two detector facilities, the Near Detector (ND) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near...

667. Neutron backgrounds for ARGO

Susnata Seth (Carleton University)

25/06/2026, 17:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC) is designing a direct detection dark matter experiment using liquid argon, named ARGO. ARGO will utilize 400 tonnes of underground argon, with a fiducial volume of 300 tonnes. The activity of long-lived beta-emitter $^{39}$Ar will be reduced by at least a factor of 1000 in underground argon compared to atmospheric argon. This reduction...