Conveners
W1-3 Particle Physics VI (PPD) I Physique des particules VI (PPD)
- Claudio Kopper (University of Alberta)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be upgraded to a new machine, the High Luminosity LHC, staring up in 2026 with seven times the current luminosity. The ATLAS experiment will then collect 3000 fb-1 of proton collisions at 14 TeV centre-of-mass energy. This large data set will increase the discovery reach and allow higher precision in many measurements. The ATLAS detector needs...
Radon-222 and its daughters are a primary background within SNO+, a large liquid scintillator detector located deep underground at SNOLAB, designed to detect rare neutrino interactions. Therefore it is crucial to determine the remaining trace amounts contributing to the experiment's background signal carefully.
A cryogenic radon trapping system is used to monitor the backgrounds observed in...
SNO+ is a multi-purpose scintillator based neutrino experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Ontario. SNO+ reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) detector, consisting of a 12 m diameter acrylic vessel that will be filled with 780 tonnes of ultra-pure organic liquid scintillator. The primary goal of the experiment is a search for neutrino-less double beta decay with...
Astronomers have observed, through observations of galaxy rotation curves and luminous mass, that our understanding of the dynamics at the scale of galaxies is incomplete; they were the first to challenge the standard model and notice there’s something missing or lacking in our understanding. A possible solution to their observation was adding invisible mass which came to be called dark...
NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) is a rare event search experiment using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs). Primarily designed for the direct detection of dark matter, this technology also has appealing features for Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) studies using nuclear power plants as a neutrino source.
For both applications, an important property of the gas to...
