Conveners
M1-2 Particle Physics I (PPD) | Physique des particules I (PPD)
- Juan-Pablo Yanez (University of Alberta)
Standard Model processes are at the core of the physics programme of the ATLAS Experiment. In this talk, a review of recent measurements is presented: the production cross-sections of vector bosons in association with jets; the mass of the $W$ boson; processes yielding jets of hadrons in the final state; strong and electroweak production modes of the top quark and its properties; the...
The PIENU experiment at TRIUMF aims to make a high-precision measurement of the $ \pi \rightarrow e \nu $ branching ratio: $ R_{\pi} = \frac{\Gamma\left(\pi \rightarrow e \nu \hspace{1 mm} + \hspace{1 mm} \pi \rightarrow e \nu \gamma \right)}{\Gamma\left(\pi \rightarrow \mu \nu \hspace{1 mm} + \hspace{1 mm} \pi \rightarrow \mu \nu \gamma \right)}. $ Measurement of $R_{\pi}$ provides a...
NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) is a direct dark matter detection experiment using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs). SPCs are gaseous detectors, where different gases can be use to optimise sensitivity for different dark matter masses. First results using Neon in the prototype SEDINE at Laboratoire Sousterrain de Modane (LSM) were presented at the 2017 CAP Congress.
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New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) is a dark matter direct-detection experiment using spherical proportional counters (SPCs) with light noble gases. First results obtained with a SPC prototype operated with Ne gas at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM) have already placed NEWS-G as a leader in the search for low-mass WIMPs. The forthcoming next phase of the experiment consists of...
