2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

T4-3 Particle Physics V (PPD) | Physique des particules V (PPD)

T4-3

12 Jun 2018, 15:30

Dalhousie University

Conveners

T4-3 Particle Physics V (PPD) | Physique des particules V (PPD)

• Katherine Pachal (Simon Fraser University (CA))

2059. Status of the Belle II Experiment on the SuperKEKB Collider (I)

Andreas Warburton (McGill University, (CA))

12/06/2018, 15:30

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

The Belle II electron-positron collider experiment at the KEK laboratory in Japan is undergoing detector commissioning this year, with first data taking using the full detector planned for early 2019. I will present the physics goals and current status of the project with a summary of recent activities relating to detector construction and the commissioning of the SuperKEKB accelerator. I will...

2179. Pulse Shape Discrimination Studies with CsI(Tl) for Improving High Energy Hadron Identification (G)*

Savino Longo (University of Victoria)

12/06/2018, 16:00

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

We study the potential for using CsI(Tl) pulse shape discrimination in order to improve particle identification at high energy electron-positron collider experiments such as the Belle II experiment. Using neutron and proton testbeam data collected at the TRIUMF Proton Irradiation Facility we analyze the scintillation pulse shape differences between photon and hadron energy deposits and...

2102. Emerging Triggers: Creating a Safe Space for Dark Matter (G)*

Mr Dylan Linthorne (Carleton University)

12/06/2018, 16:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

Our current knowledge of particle physics is best described by the standard model (SM). Despite this, astronomical observations of dark matter made over the past few decades mean that the SM must be incomplete. New models are now motivating the possibility of dark matter being governed by the an extended $SU(3)$ gauge theory resembling Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for the strong force. This...

2091. Measurement of Z bosons produced in association with jets via vector boson fusion at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector (G)*

Stephen Weber (Carleton University (CA))

12/06/2018, 16:30

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

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

At the large hadron collider, most Z bosons are produced in a qqZ vertex, sometimes in association with jets produced via the strong interaction. A more rare production mode for Z bosons is through a triple gauge coupling via a process called vector boson fusion (VBF). This VBF Z process is similar in nature to VBF Higgs production, which is of great interest and is being studied by large...