Conveners
Session II: Session II
- Juliette Deloye (SNOLAB)
Session II: Session III
- Matt Depatie
Description
Student Talks
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Branden Aitken17/08/2023, 11:15
The MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) project is devoted to studying exotic, long-lived particle that, if found, could help answer many Beyond the Standard Model questions including dark matter interactions and the baryon asymmetry. MATHUSLA is a highly modular detector with a straightforward design. At UVIC, there is ongoing work to make a prototype which...
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Mithun Vanniasinghe (University of Toronto)17/08/2023, 11:30
See abstract attached as PDF.
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Mark Volin (SNOLAB, Universidad Iberoamericana)17/08/2023, 11:45
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...
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Dhruval Shah (University of Regina)17/08/2023, 12:00
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...
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Kristofer Karam (Université de Montréal)17/08/2023, 15:30
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...
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Zachariah Charlesworth17/08/2023, 15:45
LoLX1 is a small light sensing detector using SiPMs and Liquid Xenon. A small drawback of SiPMs is that they occasionally emit secondary photons outward from their sensing surface -- these photons can trigger other SiPMs in the detector and this process is known as external cross talk. In order for larger, SiPM using, experiments to have better energy resolution, external cross talk must be studied.
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Maggie Oxford17/08/2023, 16:00
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was home to the SNO experiment that hunted for solar neutrinos. In 2015 a Canadian scientist was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discoveries made by this project, and such a legacy of Canadian science should have a dedicated website. To offer an accessible website describing the SNO experiment and the science of SNO, a new website is being built...
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David Drobner (Queen's University)17/08/2023, 16:15
In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to find detector operators
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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...