Summer Particle Astrophysics Workshop 2023 (EIEIOO)

Contribution List

1. Introduction

Melissa Baiocchi

02/05/2023, 12:00

2. Introduction to Particle Physics

Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)

02/05/2023, 12:30

"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."

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

3. Particle Astrophysics Overview

Ana Sofia Inacio

02/05/2023, 14:00

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...

4. Intro to Unix Command Line Interface (CLI) and Tools for Scientific Computing

David Gallacher

02/05/2023, 16:00

Virtual

5. Astronomy Overview

Stéphane Courteau

03/05/2023, 12:30

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

33. Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

Nahee Park

03/05/2023, 13:45

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

6. Accelerator Physics

Brigitte Vachon (McGill University, (CA))

03/05/2023, 15:00

Virtual

7. ATLAS

Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF (CA))

03/05/2023, 17:00

The ATLAS detector is one of the two general-purpose experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider that discovered the Higgs boson. It performs precision measurements of the properties and interactions of Higgs bosons, top quarks, W and Z bosons, and (nearly) all the other particles in the Standard Model. But how do we design an experimental apparatus to measure particles whose existence is so...

8. BELLE II

Alexandre Beaubien

03/05/2023, 17:30

The Belle II detector is a general-purpose detector located at the SuperKEKB particle collider (the highest luminosity collider ever). It is the successor experiment to Belle and BaBar, whose experimental confirmation of B-meson CP violation predicted by the Kobayashi-Masakawa theory led to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

This intro talk will give you a quick walkthrough of how the highest...

9. Direct and In-Direct Detection

Christopher Cappiello

04/05/2023, 12:00

This talk will cover two ways of searching for dark matter: direct and indirect detection. Direct detection uses sensitive particle detectors to search for dark matter colliding with nuclei or electrons in the lab, allowing us to measure or constrain its scattering cross section. In indirect detection, we search for astronomical signals—such as photons and cosmic rays—which could have been...

21. PMTs

Peter Skensved, Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

04/05/2023, 13:15

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

10. Neutrino Overview

Arthur McDonald

04/05/2023, 14:00

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

11. SNO+

Alex Wright (IPP/Queen's University)

04/05/2023, 15:00

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

12. Super-Kamiokande

Ali Ajmi, Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

04/05/2023, 16:30

Virtual

13. nEXO

Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

04/05/2023, 17:00

Virtual

14. IceCube

Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Patrick Hatch (Queen's University)

04/05/2023, 17:30

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

15. Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE)

Andreas Gaertner, Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

04/05/2023, 18:00

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment is a new neutrino telescope in the Pacific Ocean. Consisting of 70 instrumented mooring lines, P-ONE aims to detect neutrinos with energies ranging from TeV to PeV, and will cover areas of the sky that are yet uncovered by the other existing neutrino telescopes.

Following two successful pathfinder missions, the P-ONE collaboration is now developing the...

16. Dark Matter Overview

Gopolang Mohlabeng (University of California, Irvine), Katarina Bleau (Queen's University)

05/05/2023, 12:30

Virtual

17. Dark Matter Modulation and COSINUS

Katarina Bleau (Queen's University), Matthew Jake Stukel (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

05/05/2023, 14:00

Virtual

18. Darkside

Katarina Bleau (Queen's University), Szymon Manecki (Queen's University)

05/05/2023, 14:30

Virtual

19. Git

Carter Rhea (Université de Montreal), Tianai Ye (Queen's University)

05/05/2023, 16:00

Virtual

22. Balloon Physics

Laura Fissel (Queen's University)

08/05/2023, 12:30

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

35. CCAT

Mayukh Bagchi (Queen's University)

08/05/2023, 14:00

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

34. HELIX

Nahee Park

08/05/2023, 14:30

Virtual

20. Statistics and Error Analysis

Scott Oser

08/05/2023, 16:00

In this whirlwind review of elementary statistics, I will cram half a semester's worth of material into the bare minimum necessary to make use of popular statistical techniques like fitting, chi-squared estimation, and Bayesian analysis. I will probably fail. 😉

Virtual

24. Academic Presentations

Blaire Flynn (SNOLAB), Juliette Deloye (SNOLAB)

09/05/2023, 12:30

32. Medical Physics

Liz Fletcher (Carleton University)

09/05/2023, 14:00

Virtual

25. Superallowed Beta Decays

Prof. Gwen Grinyer

09/05/2023, 14:30

Superallowed Fermi $\beta$ Decay: The precision frontier of nuclear physics

Dr. Gwen Grinyer (she/her)

Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada

High precision measurements of the ft values for superallowed Fermi $\beta$ decays provide fundamental data with which to constrain the conserved vector current (CVC) hypothesis, set limits on...

26. Python

Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Hannah Fronenberg (McGill University)

09/05/2023, 16:00

Introduction to Python!

Power point : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nXaZIDt4WC83qW3L7TKHp3KK1Rmdxzjh/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109215338010014774265&rtpof=true&sd=true

Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VVvvl8rD05QmJgt6LaOmXOdy7PN60XeO?usp=sharing

Virtual

27. C++

Jonathan Hucker

10/05/2023, 12:30

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

28. SBC

Marie Cecile Piro (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

10/05/2023, 15:30

Virtual

29. PICO

Colin Moore, Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

10/05/2023, 16:00

30. NEWS-G

Mr Daniel Durnford (University of Alberta), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

10/05/2023, 16:30

Virtual

31. SuperCDMS

Eleanor Fascione (TRIUMF/Queen's University), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

10/05/2023, 17:00

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) Collaboration uses cryogenic semiconductor detectors to look for evidence of dark matter interactions with ordinary matter. The current generation of the experiment is under construction at the SNOLAB underground facility in Sudbury, Canada. Two complimentary detector designs, interleaved Z-sensitivity Ionization and Phonon (iZIP) detectors...

38. ROOT

William Parker

11/05/2023, 12:30

A tutorial on programming with ROOT!

There will be a small project to work through in the second half of the session. To be able to work along through it you will need to have ROOT installed. As this can take some time, it will be better to try and install ROOT beforehand. As everyone will have different machinery setups, it's difficult to give exact instructions, but hopefully this can get...

39. Machine Learning

Jean-Marie Coquillat, Mark Anderson, Noah Rowe

11/05/2023, 15:30

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

36. Closing

Melissa Baiocchi, Minya Bai (Queen's University)

11/05/2023, 17:45

37. Mandatory Fun

11/05/2023, 18:15

40. CASST 2023

Christine Kraus

SNOLAB and the McDonald Institute invite you to the

2023 CASST COMPETITION

AUGUST 17-18, 2023

VIRTUAL / LAURENTIAN

UNIVERSITY

This event is for undergraduate students to show their work and will include networking opportunities. Participation in person or virtually is welcomed. Prizes will be awarded for best talks.

The Canadian Astroparticle physics Summer...