Name: Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition
Start: 2022-08-15T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-08-16T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Virtual/Laurentian University

Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition

from Monday 15 August 2022 (09:00) to Tuesday 16 August 2022 (20:00)

Monday 15 August 2022

09:00 Networking Activity
Networking Activity
09:00 - 09:45

09:45 Welcome
Welcome
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 Session I
Session I
10:00 - 11:36
Contributions

10:00 How the Sun Shines - Maggie Oxford

10:12 Neutron Beam Solid Transmission Monte Carlo Simulations - Ry Cyna

10:24 The decoherence curve - measuring the lateral distribution of muons in cosmic-ray air showers - Guilherme Caumo (McGill University)

10:36 Monte Carlo simulation of the muon flux in DEAP-3600 - LORENZO MIRASOLA

10:48 Modelling the Kinematics of an Ultra Diffuse Galaxy to Determine its Dark Matter Content - Henry White (Queen's University)

11:00 Waveform fitting algorithm for LoLX pulse data - Laura Gonzalez Escudero

11:12 Ar2D2 Detector Simulation - Megan Foster

11:24 Lovelock Black Holes in the Five-Dimensional Spacetime - M. Nabyan Arkan (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
11:36 Health Break
Health Break
11:36 - 11:50
11:50 Session II
Session II
11:50 - 13:14
Contributions

11:50 Calibrating an Ocean-Floor Observatory: Conquering Currents at the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment - Hamish Johnson (SFU, P-ONE)

12:02 Regulating Thermal Control for the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment - Ezri Wyman (Queen's University)

12:14 Getting Your Head in the Clouds: Construction of a Small Cloud Chamber - Michael Hetu (McGill University)

12:26 Investigating Improvements to Event Selection Cuts Against Neck Alpha Backgrounds for DEAP-3600 - May Wittenberg (DEAP-3600)

12:38 Probing Exotic Scalar Fields by Utilizing the GPS System - Yu Li (University of Waterloo)

12:50 Fuzzy Dark Matter: Dead or Alive?!? - Boris Zupancic

13:02 Studying Muon Events Within SNO+ - Victoria Howard (SNO+)
13:14 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:14 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:00
15:00 Session III
Session III
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 Simulations of Muon-Induced Backgrounds to nEXO - Regan Ross

15:12 Quantum fluctuations masquerade as halos: Bounds on ultra-light dark matter from quadruply-imaged quasars - Alex Laroche

15:24 Radon Gas Assays for the SNO+ Experiment - Juliette Deloye (Laurentian University)

15:36 Axion Quark Nugget Annihilation With Baryon Gas Versus Observed Excess Diffuse Ultraviolet Radiation - Michael Sekatchev
16:00 Health Break
Health Break
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 Session IV
Session IV
16:15 - 17:15
Contributions

16:15 Laser-Driven Photon Emission in SiPMs with MIEL - Zachariah Charlesworth

16:27 NEWS-G Detector Calibration - Irina Babayan

16:39 nEXO Guide Tube Presentation - Emily Laxton

16:51 Simulating Asymmetric Dark Matter in Stars - Madelynn Mast (Queen's University)

17:03 Scintillating Bubble Chamber Silicon Photomultiplier Pulse Analysis - Ciaran Byles-Ho
17:15

17:15 - 19:00
Tuesday 16 August 2022
08:30 SNOLAB Virtual Tour - Blaire Flynn (SNOLAB) Rachel Richardson (CERN)
SNOLAB Virtual Tour
- Blaire Flynn (SNOLAB)
- Rachel Richardson (CERN)
08:30 - 10:00
10:00 Session V
Session V
10:00 - 11:00
Contributions

10:00 K40 Backgrounds in the SNO+ Neutrino Detector - Parmesh Ravi

10:12 hetDB: Tracking transient observations from the past, present, and future - Alex Galvin

10:24 Commissioning a CTBT Coincidence Detector System Underground at SNOLAB - Derek Kong (SNOLAB)

10:36 MATHUSLA - Benjamin Humer Rufat Ismayilov
11:00 Health Break
Health Break
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 Session VI
Session VI
11:15 - 12:27
Contributions

11:15 Characterization of an in-gas Laser Ablation Ion Source through SIMION Simulations - Katherine Lei (McGill University)

11:27 Analyzing a novel class of background events in the SNO+ detector - Matt Marzano (Queen's University - SNO+)

11:39 Building a Temperature Controlled Performance Test Setup for SiPMs - Jack Macaulay (Queen's University)

11:51 Upgrading and updating the SNOLAB hpge-radiopurity.snolab.ca material database - Gwyn Armstrong

12:03 Using Chroma ray-tracing software to determine the trigger conditions for nEXO’s Outer Detector - Liam Retty

12:15 LiquidO: Exploring the properties of opaque liquid scintillators - Spencer Guerin (Queen's University)
12:27 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:27 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Session VII
Session VII
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Developing an In-Gas Laser Ablation Ion Source for Ba-Tagging - Minya Bai

14:12 Producing the World's Cleanest Noble Gas for DEAP-3600 - Sarah Rourke

14:24 Analysis of leaching on PTFE shielding through the detection of alpha particle emissions. - Pranav Sairam

14:36 Non Existence of Electric Field of Point charge at very close distance - Kareem Hassaan (Unaffiliated)
15:00 Health Break
Health Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 Session VIII
Session VIII
15:15 - 16:39
Contributions

15:15 VERA Apparatus and Measurement of Photon Detection Efficiency - Noah Albano (Triumf)

15:27 Particulate Matter Detection with Silicon Photomultipliers - Maia Henriksson-Ward (TRIUMF)

15:39 Tagging efficiency of BiPo’s in SNO+ - Maria Jose Ortiz (SNOLAB)

15:51 CUTE Neutron Calibration System - Sierra Jess (SNOLAB)

16:03 Development of a Compton Gamma-ray Imager using Cubes of CsI(Tl) - Fadi Younes

16:15 Isolating the Sound of Dark Matter: Our HELIOS Suspension - Noah Baker (University of Alberta)

16:27 Observational Anomalies and New Dark Force - Ami Patel
16:39 Health Break and Judging Period
Health Break and Judging Period
16:39 - 17:00

17:00

17:00 - 18:00
18:00 Results - Christine Kraus
Results
- Christine Kraus
18:00 - 18:30