Introductory Remarks

• Melissa Baiocchi

Introduction to Particle Physics

• Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)

"It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to."

Accelerator Physics Overview

• Brigitte Vachon (McGill University, (CA))

Introduction to Unix Command Line Interface (CLI) and tools for scientific computing

• David Gallacher

This workshop includes a crash course in Unix filesystems, including navigation, file permissions and other useful common commands, including shell scripts. We will also discuss shell scripts and Docker containers. Time permitting, we will cover an introduction to networked computing and DevOps for scientific computing.

Scintillating Bubble Chambers

• Marie-Cécile Piro

The SBC Collaboration is constructing a 10-kg liquid argon bubble chamber with scintillation readouts. The goal is to achieve 100 eV nuclear recoils detection with near-complete discrimination against electron recoil events. In addition to a dark matter search, SBC targets a CEvNS measurement of MeV-scale neutrinos from nuclear reactors. A high-statistics, high signal-to-background detection would enable precision searches for physics beyond the standard model. In this talk, after giving a brief introduction to dark matter and challenges, I will present the physics reach of the SBC detectors and the advantages of using such technology. I will also discuss the progress towards the construction at Fermilab to test the sub-keV threshold performance and at SNOLAB for the search for dark matter.

SNO+

• Alex Wright (IPP/Queen's University)

Particle Astrophysics Overview

• Ana Sofia Inacio (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partícul)

Particle astrophysics lies at the rich interface between astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics. It aims to find answers for the most fundamental questions about our universe, its origin and evolution, using the complementary information provided by the cosmic messengers that arrive to us: cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves. This lecture aims at telling the story of the origins of astroparticle physics, the current puzzles that need to be solved, while presenting the different cosmic messengers from a very experimental perspective.

Statistics and Error Analysis

• Scott Oser

A Crash Course in Statistics: In this two-hour whirlwind session, I'll introduce basic principles of frequentist and Bayesian statistics and  illustrate the most common statistical techniques used in particle physics.

Git

• Carter Rhea

ROOT

• Chris Jillings

Root is a C++-based data analysis environment that is supported by CERN. This will be a two-hour tutorial style introduction to Root, including the basic functionality, basic data structures, and how to read and write data. The available documentation and how to use it will be discussed. The zip file contains materials that you will need in order to participate in the workshop

Neutrinos: Past, Present and Future

• Ryan Martin

This talk will give a short overview of neutrino physics, including their initial motivation and discovery, the solar neutrino problem and its resolution by the SNO experiment. The talk will end with current open questions in neutrino physics.

Dark Matter Overview

• Gopolang Mohlabeng (Queen's University)

Over the past several decades physicists have made remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental building blocks of nature. Yet there remains much we still do not know. One of the biggest open questions in our Universe is the nature of dark matter. Cosmological and astrophysical observations point to the existence of a non-luminous and mysterious form of matter that is far more abundant than all the visible matter in our Universe. This substance, which we simply refer to as ""dark matter"", holds our Universe together. It is responsible for the formation of galaxies, the solar system and ultimately life as we know it. In this one hour lecture, I will discuss how particle and astro-physicists have been trying to answer two questions, What is dark matter? and How do we find it? The lecture will focus on the current status of dark matter searches. In particular, how connections between diverse searches from the laboratory to the cosmos could help deepen our understanding of dark matter.

Indirect Dark Matter Detection

• Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

The session will provide a short introduction to indirect searches for dark matter, with cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmology.

Superallowed Beta Decays

• Gwen Grinyer (University of Regina)

Belle-II

• Caleb Miller

Belle II and it's accelerator SuperKEKB are setting world records for the amount of data produced and collected in e^+ e^- collisions. This huge data set is being used to test the standard model through incredibly precise measurements of predictions made by the standard model and beyond. This session will outline the Belle II detector, our event selection algorithms, and highlights from our new physics results.

PICO

• Colin Moore

The PICO collaboration operates freon-filled bubble chambers for the direct detection of dark matter, focused primarily on the spin dependent WIMP-proton regime. This session will describe the history and basics of bubble chambers as particle detectors, their role in dark matter direct detection, and the PICO-40L chamber. PICO-40L is the current generation of bubble chamber being assembled at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, which is planned to begin re-commissioning in summer 2022.

Python

• Hannah Sousa-Fronenberg

In this two-hour workshop we will cover python topics for beginners and also some tips and tricks that more experienced python users can implement into their coding practices. We will cover an introduction to python as a programming language, an overview of basic python objects and their built-in functions. We will also go over some of my favourite python libraries and modules for scientific programming. Time permitting, I will give a quick crash course in writing test code which is one way in which any programmer can level-up their coding game. This session will be highly interactive with coding demo’s, exercises, and exploration time built into the workshop’s schedule.

Academic Presentations

• Jenna Saffin

An interactive workshop to help you develop presentation and communication skills to share your science and make it engaging. Includes information on how to create presentations, visuals, posters, and how to make your talks accessible.

DarkSide

• Szymon Manecki (Queen's University)

Dark matter search is a high priority endeavour in our field. Building larger and more sensitive detectors underground in the next decades will provide an opportunity for new discoveries, but it will also require new technological developments to achieve that. Liquid argon has been used by many collaborations already and has proven to deliver high quality data, but one of the challenges that future experiments will need to address is a background intrinsic to atmospheric argon itself in a form of argon-39. In this class, I will go over lessons learned from past experiments, how those can be applied to future projects and what strategies are being developed to address the intrinsic argon background.

SuperCDMS

• Richard Germond

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment uses cryogenic semiconductor detectors instrumented with superconducting transition edge sensors to search for interactions caused by low-mass dark matter particles. In this talk I will describe the detection principle, experimental setup, and calibration and energy reconstruction techniques used by SuperCDMS that allow it to have excellent sensitivity to light dark matter.

P-ONE

• Andreas Gaertner (University of Alberta)

NEWS-G

• Daniel Durnford

Medical Physics Overview

• Liz Fletcher (Carleton University)

An overview of the field of medical physics with an emphasis on how it is related to particle physics.

ATLAS

• Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF (CA))

Super-Kamiokande

• Blair Jamieson (University of Winnipeg)
• Ali Ajmi

The discovery of neutrino oscillation in atmospheric neutrinos by Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) led to their experiment's PIs sharing the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Both of these are water Chernkov detectors, Super-K with light water, and SNO with heavy water. A new generation of water Cherenkov detectors is being built to make precision measurements of neutrino oscillation, and to search for a potentially large CP-violation of neutrinos. This talk will present a brief physics overview of neutrino oscillation, and progress towards building a new Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector in the J-PARC beamline that will be part of the next generation of CP-violation searches with neutrinos.

PMT's

• Peter Skensved

The Majorana Demonstrator and LEGEND experiments

• Ryan Martin

This talk will give a short overview of experiments that utilize high purity germanium detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay and ultimately understand whether the neutrino is a Dirac of Majorana particle.

Dark Matter Modulation and the COSINUS Experiment

• Matthew Stukel

nEXO

• Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

Watchman

• Leon Pickard

ANNIE

• Leon Pickard

Multi-Messenger Astronomy

• Ken Clark (Queen's University)

C++

• Ian Lam (Queen's University, Canada)

This session aims to provide students with introductory working knowledge of C++. We will explore commonly used syntax with some example code. Exercises will also be provided to guide participants in further understanding of the principles. Time permitting, a brief tie-in with ROOT will also be given.

Closing Remarks

Mandatory Fun!