IOP Joint APP and HEPP Annual Conference 2026

Session

Parallel Talks

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John McIntyre Conference Centre

60. Lowering Barriers, Strengthening the Pipeline: National Skills and Engagement through ATLAS and DUNE

Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))

EDIA, Outreach, and Sustainability

Parallel talk

Large particle physics collaborations offer powerful opportunities to connect fundamental research with skills development and public engagement. In this talk, I will highlight outreach and training initiatives developed at Sussex using ATLAS and DUNE to create pathways from first inspiration to advanced data science skills.

The DUNE UK exhibition has toured nationally for almost two years,...

106. Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillations with 1.46 ktonne-years of data at SNO+

Po-Wei Huang (University of Oxford)

Neutrino Physics

Parallel talk

The SNO+ Experiment is a 780-ton liquid-scintillator detector located approximately 240, 250, and 355 kilometers from the nearest dominant nuclear reactors. Using a dataset corresponding to 684.9 live days, the SNO+ Collaboration reports an updated measurement of the solar neutrino oscillation parameter $\Delta m^2_{21}=(7.93^{+0.21}_{-0.24})\times10^{-5}$ eV$^2$. When combined with Particle...

9. Measurement of the Lund Jet Plane and Dead Cone Effect in Heavy Flavour Jets from ttbar Events

Hanfei Cui (University College London)

Collider physics

Parallel talk

This study presents a QCD jet substructure measurement of the Lund jet plane and the dead cone effect in b- and c-jets from $t\overline{t}$ events. Latest jet flavour tagger (GN2) identifies heavy flavour jets and their decay tracks to probe suppressed emissions at small angles. To isolate pure flavour contributions, we implement a matrix decomposition based on calibrated 2D flavour-tagging...

26. Measuring Electron Diffusion in the Short-Baseline Near Detector

Bethany McCusker (Lancaster University)

Neutrino Physics

Parallel talk

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) serves as the near detector for Fermilab's Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) programme. It is a 112-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) designed to search for new physics phenomena such as sterile neutrinos and study neutrino-argon interactions. Situated only 110 meters from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), SBND has completed its first physics...

88. ML Reconstruction at the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment

Mr Kieren Joseph (Imperial College)

Machine learning and reconstruction

Parallel talk

WCTE is a small water Cherenkov detector instrumented with O(100) multi-PMT modules. The detector collected charged particle beam data at the CERN T9 beam line in 2024 and 2025 and has both charged particle and tagged photons over a momentum range from 200 MeV/c up to 1 GeV/c.

This talk will present the development of CNN-based reconstruction algorithms for water Cherenkov neutrino...