Conveners
Session II: Session II
- Juliette Deloye (SNOLAB)
Session II: Session III
- Matt Depatie
Description
Student Talks
The necessity to account for backgrounds is a well known issue for any feasible Dark Matter detection experiment. One of the major sources of backgrounds is the emission of alpha particles associated with the decay of small amounts of radioactive isotopes present in the experiment.
Due to the quantum nature of radioactive decay, it is impossible to develop a deterministic model for the...
Studies of short-lived radioactive isotopes, at the limits of nuclear binding (the ``drip lines"), are crucial for understanding how the nuclear force evolves toward the extremes. In neutron-deficient nuclei, measurements of $\beta$-delayed proton emission, can be used to constrain proton-capture reaction pathways in nucleosynthesis and test isospin symmetry. In this talk, I will present my...
The nEXO experiment aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in liquid 136Xe. It uses an inner detector, consisting of a time projection chamber, contained within an outer detector. The outer detector, filled with D2O and lined with photomultiplier tubes, shields the experiment passively by stopping cosmic backgrounds in the heavy water and actively by detecting the Cherenkov...
In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to find detector operators
among members of the SNO+ collaboration due to the time consuming and
monotonous nature of this necessary work. Hence, we aim to replace the bulk
of day-to-day detector operation with a new tool named ’Roboshifter’. There
are many interesting challenges when transitioning a large and long-standing
experiment...
