Conveners
M2-5 Energy Frontier: SUSY and Exotics (PPD) / Frontière d'énergie: supersymétrie et particules exotiques (PPD)
- Brigitte Vachon (McGill University (CA))
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Dag Gillberg (Carleton University)13/06/2016, 13:00Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe ATLAS detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, detects the particles produced in proton-proton collisions created by the Large Hadron Collider. Following the very successful Run I data taking period during 2009-2012 where the proton-proton collision energy was at maximum 8 TeV, we have now started the Run II data taking period with the significantly higher collision energy of 13 TeV. This...Go to contribution page
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Samuel de Jong (University of Victoria)13/06/2016, 13:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Thermal neutron detectors have been installed into BEAST II, the commissioning detector of the SuperKEKb accelerator. These detectors use helium-3 to detect neutrons via the capture process $^{3}$He$ + n \rightarrow ^{3}$H$+p+720keV$ and are only sensitive to thermal neutrons, and are therefore an excellent means of monitoring the thermal neutron flux in the BEAST. Commissioning began in...Go to contribution page
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Alexandre Beaulieu (University of Victoria)13/06/2016, 13:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The SuperKEKB electron-positron collider, aiming to deliver an unprecedented peak instantaneous luminosity to the Belle-II experiment, was operated for the first time at the beginning of this year. The expected luminosity --- 40 times that delivered to the Belle experiment --- demands careful prediction and characterization of the machine-induced background radiation and its effect on the...Go to contribution page
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Hubert Trepanier (Universite de Montreal (CA))13/06/2016, 14:00Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most popular and the most studied theory proposed as an extension to the Standard Model (SM). If R-parity is conserved the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is stable and in many models LSP can be a good candidate for dark matter. I will present the method and the results about the search of strongly produced supersymmetric particles using a specific...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nima Sherafati (Carleton University)13/06/2016, 14:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The most common feature produced in the proton-proton collisions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are collimated sprays of particles referred to as jets, which are typically produced from quarks or gluons. The large centre-of-mass energy of the LHC collisions also enables the production of heavy particles with a significant Lorentz-boost. The decay products of such a boosted heavy particle...Go to contribution page