2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

M1-2 Particle Physics I (PPD) | Physique des particules I (PPD)

M1-2

11 Jun 2018, 11:15

Dalhousie University

Conveners

M1-2 Particle Physics I (PPD) | Physique des particules I (PPD)

• Juan-Pablo Yanez (University of Alberta)

2287. Standard Model and Higgs results from ATLAS (I)

Riccardo Di Sipio (University of Toronto (CA))

11/06/2018, 11:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

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...

2031. Massive Neutrino Search in $\pi \to e\nu$ Decay

Dr Tristan Sullivan (Queen's University)

11/06/2018, 11:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

The PIENU experiment at TRIUMF aims to make a high-precision measurement of the $\pi \to e\nu$ branching ratio: $R_{\pi }=\frac{\mathrm{\Gamma }(\pi \to e\nu +\pi \to e\nu \gamma )}{\mathrm{\Gamma }(\pi \to \mu \nu +\pi \to \mu \nu \gamma )}.$ Measurement of $R_{\pi }$ provides a...

2172. Research and Development for the NEWS-G Dark Matter experiment

Dr Philippe Gros (Queen's University)

11/06/2018, 12:00

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

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.
I will...

2186. Past, present and future activities of NEWS-G at the LSM and SNOLAB

Dr Quentin ARNAUD (Queen's University)

11/06/2018, 12:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

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...