Conveners
Session I: Session I
- Matt Depatie (Queen's University)
Description
Executive Learning Centre (ELC)
Zoom Link (TBA)
How the Sun Shines
School teachers across Canada are always looking for new ways to enrich their classrooms and bring exciting science to their students, no matter the grade level. That is why I have created three versions of an astroparticle physics educational kit with provincial and territorial curriculum connections mapped across the country. The main topic is answering the question...
Cosmic-ray muons are plentiful at sea level; about one per second passes through an outstretched hand. They are useful as calibration tools for people developing particle detectors but are a significant source of background for low-rate experiments and are one of the reasons that deep-underground facilities like SNOLAB exist. The muons are the decay products of charged mesons (mostly pions)...
The DEAP experiment, set at SNOLAB, 2km underground (6.011 km.w.e.), is designed to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), one of the most promising dark matter candidates. The experiment consists of a target of 3.3 tons of liquid Argon contained in an acrylic spherical vessel. The target is surrounded by a cylindric tank filled with ultra-pure water, which allows for the...
It has been suggested that ultra diffuse galaxy AGC 114905 contains little to no dark matter [1], a claim that stems from a 3D kinematic analysis of atomic gas maps of the system. My analysis aims to study the reliability of 3D-BAROLO, the software used to derive such claims, in the low-mass and low-resolution regime to look for sources of uncertainty within this calculation. By producing mock...
The light-only liquid xenon (LoLX) experiment is designed to study light emission, transport, and detection in liquid xenon (LXe) detectors using silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). LoLX consists of 96 Hamamatsu VUV4 SiPMs arranged in a cylindrical geometry and submerged in liquid xenon. This R&D detector is used to investigate the timing structure of light production processes like...
The Ar2D2 detector is designed to detect Ar39 levels in liquid argon. To determine if the detector would be usable for this purpose, RAT was used to simulate the background levels of radiation generated by each layer of the detector, as well as by the external lab. From the results, the main source of background radiation in the energy range of interest will be identified, along with any...
The black holes solution of the Lovelock theory in five-dimensional spacetime plays an important role in higher dimensional theories of gravity. In five dimensions there are two orders of Lovelock Gravity, where the first order of Lovelock gravity is equivalent to Einstein's theory of gravity. The second order of Lovelock gravity is equivalent to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory,...
