Conveners
M2-5 Energy Frontier: SUSY and Exotics (PPD) / Frontière d'énergie: supersymétrie et particules exotiques (PPD)
- Brigitte Vachon (McGill University (CA))
Dag Gillberg
(Carleton University)
13/06/2016, 13:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The 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...
Samuel de Jong
(University of Victoria)
13/06/2016, 13:30
Particle 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...
Alexandre Beaulieu
(University of Victoria)
13/06/2016, 13:45
Particle 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...
Hubert Trepanier
(Universite de Montreal (CA))
13/06/2016, 14:00
Particle 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...
Mr
Nima Sherafati
(Carleton University)
13/06/2016, 14:15
Particle 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...
