Conveners
Session 7
- Matthew Stukel (Queen's University)
- Leon Pickard
Description
10+3 talks
12:30pm ET Tuesday
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Maeve Cockshutt (SNO+)24/08/2021, 14:00Physics Analysis
The identification of a directional signal from the Cherenkov photons generated during Tl208 decays in the SNO+ detector will be discussed in this presentation. The SNO+ experiment aims to study neutrino properties using a target of 780 tonnes of organic liquid scintillator. Liquid scintillator produces light when excited by the passage of charged particles. The isotropic light, which...
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Alexander Pleava (McMaster University)24/08/2021, 14:15Physics Analysis
The Cryogenic Underground Test Facility (CUTE) is operational at SNOLAB. It is currently testing cryogenic silicon and germanium detectors which will be deployed in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment. Given the small interaction rate of possible dark matter particles with ordinary matter, the radioactive backgrounds due to the lab cavern and other materials surrounding and part of the CUTE...
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Irina Babayan (Queen's University)24/08/2021, 14:30Physics Analysis
NEWS-G’s spherical proportional counters feature an 11-anode sensor at their centre. The sensor has two channels through which voltage can be applied, with the north channel serving the 5 northernmost anodes, and the south channel serving the southernmost 6 anodes. The electric field produced in the detector is asymmetrical (due to the rod that connects the sensor to the outer part of the...
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Laura Gonzalez Escudero (McGill University)24/08/2021, 14:45Instrumentation/Hardware
The nEXO collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) events in a multi-ton Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with liquid Xenon-136 as it decays into Barium-136 ions. As an upgrade, the collaboration is also developing a barium tagging technique to extract Ba-136 from liquid xenon and identify it to eliminate all other background events. To further understand the...
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Tai Withers (Queen's University)24/08/2021, 15:00Physics Analysis
With an increasing number of telescopes and detectors, we now possess a wealth of information about various transient events. One such event of note was the neutrino alert from the IceCube observatory which led to multi-messenger observation of the blazar TXS0506+056. While the data and methods used to perform analysis of these transient events is publicly available, the analysis can be...
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