Summer Particle Astrophysics Workshop 2024

7 May 2024, 11:00 → 17 May 2024, 17:30 Canada/Eastern

Minya Bai (Queen's University), Avani Bhardwaj, eieioo email

The 6th SummEr PartIclE AstrophysIcs WOrkshOp (EIEIOO)

This workshop series is directed at incoming undergraduate and master's students new to the field of particle astrophysics. Any individuals with an interest in the material (or looking to refresh their skills) are welcome to join for any aspects of the workshop. No prior knowledge is required for participants to attend.

Sessions consist of introductory lectures, experimental talks, and coding workshops. 

The workshop is running in hybrid form this year. All sessions will be broadcast live over zoom with closed captioning enabled. Speakers at Queen's University will present in person in Stirling Hall with live streaming over the same zoom line. Lectures will be recorded and made available after the workshop.

Connection Information

All connections will be done through Zoom. The link is sent directly to attendees emails. All sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants.

If you have any questions, including those related to content or registration, please contact Minya Bai or Avani Bhardwaj at eieioo@queensu.ca.

EIEIOO-CodeOfConduct.pdf

EIEIOO_Schedule.pdf

NavigatingEIEIOOIndico.pdf

Tuesday 7 May

1 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Minya Bai (Queen's University)

EIEIOO2024_Intro.pdf

Particle & Astroparticle Physics: Intro to Particle Physics

Convener: Dr Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford)

2 Intro to Particle Physics

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, getting 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.

Speakers: Dr Benjamin Tam (University of Oxford), Emily Adams (Queen's University)

12:30 Lunch

Particle & Astroparticle Physics: Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Ana Sofia Carpinteiro Inacio (University of Oxford)

3 Intro to Astroparticle Physics

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.

Speakers: Ana Sofia Carpinteiro Inacio (University of Oxford), Emily Adams (Queen's University)

AstroparticlephysicsOverview.pdf

Particle Astrophysics Overview-zoom recording.mp4

14:30 Break

Workshops: Unix Command Line

Convener: Mark Richardson (McDonald Institute)

4 Unix and Command Line

Speakers: Dr Mark Richardson (McDonald Institute), Melissa Baiocchi

Intro_to_Unix_Recording.mp4

Unix.zip

Wednesday 8 May

Astronomy: Intro to Astro

Conveners: Nikhil Arora, Mr Shamus Tobin (Queen's University)

5 Intro to Astronomy

Speakers: Dr Nikhil Arora, Mr Shamus Tobin (Queen's University), Tai Withers (Queen's University)

EIEIOO_presentation_2024.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Astronomy: Experiments

Conveners: Felix Thiel (Queen's University), Kristine Spekkens (Queen's University)

6 SKA

Title: Canada and the Square Kilometre Array

Abstract: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a next-generation radio astronomy observatory being built by 16 partner countries that will enable transformational science about the history, contents, and extreme conditions in the Universe. It is one of the largest science projects in history, and Canada will soon be a full member! This talk will give an overview of the SKA that highlights the science, technology, and broader impacts aspects of the facility that are most relevant to Canada.

Speakers: Dr Kristine Spekkens (Queen's University), Tai Withers (Queen's University)

GMT20240508-173137_Recording_1600x720.mp4

Spekkens_SKA.pdf

7 Radio Astronomy

A beginner’s guide to Radio Telescopes and Interferometers.

In this talk I will be giving an overview of how radio telescopes operate and why we use them. I will start by giving a basic overview of single-dish telescopes and interferometers as well as their applications in radio astronomy. I will continue by introducing Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), the most extreme form of interferometry and will discuss current limitations of this technique. To wrap up I will talk about the Balloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX) a 22 GHz balloon-borne VLBI station that will launch from Timmins, Ontario in the Summer of 2025, as well as technical challenges that arise when doing VLBI from the stratosphere. Finally, I will discuss how experiments like this can address current limitations of ground-based VLBI such as atmospheric noise, resolution and uv-coverage.

Speakers: Felix Thiel (Queen's University), Minya Bai (Queen's University)

EIEIOO_presentation_2024.pdf

video1208975034.mp4

14:30 Break

Workshops: C++

Convener: Remington Hill (Queen's University)

8 Intro to C++

C++ is an object-oriented successor to the programming language C and has become one of the most common programming languages used today. It sees widespread commercial use in video games, web services, robotics, and many other areas. In physics research, it is commonly used in simulation software packages like GEANT4, or analysis packages like CERN ROOT.

In this talk, it is assumed that attendees have zero knowledge of C++. Starting with the basics of data types and manipulation, a brief survey of control sequences, structs, vectors, arrays, and classes will be explored. The objective is to give you, the student, enough exposure to these concepts so that you can interpret, modify, and use the analysis scripts or simulations you shall encounter throughout your summer work. This presentation will not discuss the more complex topics of polymorphism, exception handling, or templates. At different points through the presentation, the student will be encouraged to work on a given problem that familiarizes them with the material. To be able to participate in these activities, the student will be required to have a C++ compiler (preferably g++, or equivalent), an editor, and a positive attitude!

Speakers: Hugh Morison, Remington Hill (Queen's University)

C^M^M Files.zip

cpp_intro_workshop_closed_caption.txt

cpp_intro_workshop_closed_caption.vtt

cpp_intro_workshop_recording.mp4

EIEIO_Talk_2024.pdf

EIEIO_Talk_2024.pptx

Thursday 9 May

Nuclear: Intro to Nuclear Physics

Conveners: Gary Sweeney (Queen's University), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

9 Intro to Nuclear Decays & Backgrounds

Speakers: Gary Sweeney (Queen's University), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

Gary_Sweeny_talk.mp4

12:30 Lunch

Nuclear: Experiments

Conveners: Arnaud Lemaire, Prof. Gwen Grinyer

10 Superallowed Beta Decays

Speakers: Prof. Gwen Grinyer, Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

GwenGrinyer_Superallowed_2024.pdf

Gwen_Grinyer_talk.mp4

11 KDK+

Speakers: Arnaud Lemaire, Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

Arnaud_Lemaire_talk.mp4

EIEIOO_KDK+_Talk_pdf.pdf

14:30 Break

Workshops: Stats and Errors

Convener: Scott Oser

12 Stats & Errors

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.

Speaker: Scott Oser

oser_statistics_crashcourse.pdf

Friday 10 May

Neutrinos: Intro to Neutrinos

Convener: Ryan Martin

13 Intro to Neutrino Physics

Title: Neutrinos: past, present and future

Abstract: I will present a brief history of neutrino physics to give context to the current experimental and theoretical pursuits in the field. I will highlight the story of the solar neutrino problem and its resolution in Canada.

Speakers: Mr Brian Krar, Ryan Martin

Intro to Neutrino Physics Talk - EIEIOO 2024 - zoom_recording.mp4

Neutrinos_EIEIOO_RMartin_May24.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Workshops: Git

Convener: Dr Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)

14 Intro to GIT

Managing a project is fun when it's just you. Once two or more people all need to collaborate on a project - a software package, a paper, a poster - it's very easy to begin stepping on each other's toes as you pursue ideas separately and together. Git is a collaborative project management system, designed for software developers, that allows for asynchronous collaborative development. In this short lecture, we will tour some of the major features of Git, practice some of them, and start thinking about how you could manage your next software-like project using this system

Speakers: Dr Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University), Tianai Ye (Queen's University, Canada)

Sekula_20240510-EIEIOO-Git-Workshop_2024-05-10.pdf

video1721666200.mp4

14:30 Break

Neutrinos: Experiments

Conveners: Ali Ajmi (University of Winnipeg), Thomas Brunner (McGill University), Tianai Ye (Queen's University, Canada)

15 SNO+

Speakers: Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Serena Riccetto

serena_riccetto_snoplus.mp4

16 SuperKamiokande

Title: The Super-Kamiokande and the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment

The discovery of neutrino oscillation in atmospheric neutrinos by the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Super-K has been a long-running neutrino experiment using Water Cherenkov Detector for more than 20 years using ultra-pure water as its neutrino target. Recently it has been upgraded to Super-K-Gd. The new generation of water Cherenkov detectors is also on its way. The Hyper-K detector, which is similar to the Super-K but larger in dimensions and a more improved version, 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 the neutrino oscillation, the Super-Kamiokande Experiment, and the progress towards building the new Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment in Japan, the construction of which is currently in full-swing, and aims to start taking data from 2027, thus boosting the physics searches with neutrinos.

Speakers: Dr Ali Ajmi (University of Winnipeg), Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

ali_ajmi_super-k.mp4

17 nEXO

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

20240510-EIEIOO-summer-student-workshop-nEXO.pdf

18 LEGEND

Speakers: Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Tianai Ye (Queen's University, Canada)

LEGEND_eieioo_TianaiY.pdf

tianai_ye_LEGEND.mp4

Monday 13 May

Dark Matter: Dark Matter Overview

Convener: Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

19 Dark Matter Overview

Speakers: Aaron Vincent (Queen's University), Katarina Bleau (Queen's University)

AaronEIEIODarkMatter.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Dark Matter: Direct/In-Direct Detection

Convener: Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

20 Direct/In-Direct Detection

Speakers: Katarina Bleau (Queen's University), Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

Direct_Indirect_EIEIOO_Slides.pdf

14:30 Break

Dark Matter: Experiments

Conveners: Emily Adams (Queen's University), Frederick Schuckman, Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University, Canada), Kenneth Clark, Matthew Stukel

21 PICO

Speakers: Emily Adams (Queen's University), Michaela Robert, Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

PICO Bubble Chambers EIEIOO 2024.pptx

22 SBC

Speakers: Kenneth Clark, Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

eieio_sbc_may2024.pdf

23 Argon Experiments

Speakers: Dr Frederick Schuckman, Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

20240513_EIEIOO_Schuckman.pdf

video1085595583.mp4

24 NEWS-G

Speakers: Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University, Canada), Melissa Baiocchi

EIEIOO 2024 NEWS-G.pdf

25 SuperCDMS

Speaker: Matthew Stukel

EIEIOO_Super_CDMS_Presenation_Stukel.pdf

Tuesday 14 May

Multi-Messenger: Intro to Multi-Messenger

Convener: Nahee Park

26 Intro to Multi-Messenger Physics

Speakers: Nahee Park, Patrick Hatch

12:30 Lunch

Workshops: EDII - Getting Along with your Research Group

Conveners: Avani Bhardwaj, Minya Bai (Queen's University)

27 EDII Workshop

Speakers: Minya Bai (Queen's University), Avani Bhardwaj

14:30 Break

Multi-Messenger: Experiments

Conveners: Conor McGrath (Queen's University), Melissa Baiocchi, Patrick Hatch

28 HELIX

Speakers: Emma Ellingwood (Queen's University), Melissa Baiocchi

HELIX_EIEIOO_2024_V2.pdf

29 IceCube

Speakers: Emma Ellingwood (Queen's University), Patrick Hatch

Neutrino astrophysics with IceCube (1).pdf

30 VERITAS

The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is an array of four 12 m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona, USA, that has been in full array operation since 2007. VERITAS conducts research in a variety of areas including galactic science such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, binary systems; extra-galactic science including jetted AGN, gamma-ray burst and fast radio burst searches; multimessenger follow-ups and astroparticle physics, including dark matter searches. In this talk I will give an overview of the methods used by IACTs to observe gamma-ray like events, the VERTIAS instrument itself and highlight some past and recent results from the experiment.

Speakers: Dr Conor McGrath (Queen's University), Emma Ellingwood (Queen's University)

VERITAS EIEIOO-1.pdf

Wednesday 15 May

Accelerators: Intro to Accelerators

Convener: Brigitte Vachon (McGill University, (CA))

31 Intro to Accelerators

Through the telling of historical facts and stories, you'll learn
about how particle accelerators work and some of the ways accelerators
are used for fundamental research. In this talk, I'll also introduce some
of the well-known particle accelerators used for discovery research
around the world, and some of the future ideas!

Speakers: Brigitte Vachon (McGill University, (CA)), Neha Panchal (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Vachon-MI-SummerStudent-2024.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Accelerators: Experiments

Conveners: Alexandre Beaubien, Wolfgang Klassen (UBC/TRIUMF)

32 TUCAN

The degree of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe is currently unexplained by the Standard Model. While the required forms of symmetry breaking are present in the standard model, in particular CP symmetry breaking, the observed systems are not enough to explain the current asymmetry. A particle with a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) breaks CP symmetry, and so precision EDM measurements are underway in many systems, including the neutron. The TUCAN collaboration is seeking to provide a measurement of the neutron EDM (nEDM) with unprecedented precision, improving the current upper bound by an order of magnitude. This is made possible by the TUCAN source which will be the most intense source of ultracold neutrons (UCN) in the world, as well as the development of extremely precise magnetometry and magnetic shielding. This talk will give an introduction to the nEDM experimental method, and will discuss some of the technology being developed in order to reach the target sensitivity.

Speakers: Neha Panchal (Postdoctoral Fellow), Wolfgang Klassen (UBC/TRIUMF)

WK_TUCAN_EIEIOO_v3.pdf

33 BELLE-II

Speakers: Alexandre Beaubien, Neha Panchal (Postdoctoral Fellow)

20240515_introBelleII.pdf

14:30 Break

Workshops: Python

Conveners: Annabelle Makowski, Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University, Canada)

34 Python

Speakers: Annabelle Makowski, Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University, Canada)

EIEIOO_Workshop_Fin.ipynb

EIEIOO_Workshop_Solutions.ipynb

Python EIEIOO workshop.pdf

ReadMe.txt

sample_data.txt

Thursday 16 May

Accelerators: ATLAS

Conveners: Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF (CA)), Laurelle Maria Veloce (University of Toronto (CA))

35 ATLAS Overview

Speaker: Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF (CA))

MI_20min_ATLAS_intro_2024.pdf

36 ATLAS ITK

Speaker: Laurelle Maria Veloce (University of Toronto (CA))

16-05-2024_ATLAS-ITK.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Workshops: General Lab Skills

Convener: Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

37 General Lab Skills and LaTeX

Speakers: Minya Bai (Queen's University), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

EIEIOO_2024_sample_document.zip

EIEIOO_presentation-1.pdf

14:30 Break

Workshops: ROOT

Convener: Philippe Gros

38 Intro to ROOT

A tutorial on programming with ROOT!

ROOT is a c/c++ environment developed at CERN to provide tools for manipulating, analysing and displaying high energy physics data. It includes a lot of advanced systems.
This will be an introduction to basic routines to simulate some data, process it and display useful graphs. There will be a short presentation, followed by tutorial exercises. It will be very helpful if everyone has the possibility to run ROOT o their own laptop.

ROOT install instructions:

There are many ways to get ROOT. There are lots more details here https://root.cern/install/, so if the below doesn't work for you check out the info there. It will be quicker to get the pre-compiled binaries, but if that doesn't work for whatever reason you can try building from source.

The first thing to do is make sure you have all the things ROOT depends on. A list of these, with instructions for different operating systems, can be found here: https://root.cern/install/dependencies/

MacOS:

Install homebrew https://brew.sh
Install XCode from the App Store
In a terminal, type: brew install root
cd root
source /usr/local/Cellar/root/6.26.06_2/bin/thisroot.sh (maybe the version and/or location are different)

Unix:

Get the precompiled binaries for your system from here:https://root.cern/releases/release-62802/
tar xvf root_v6.28.02.Linux-centos8-x86_64-gcc8.5.tar
source root/bin/thisroot.sh
More detailed walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QItrmchEQWE (he builds from source but you can do this with the precompiled tar files)

Windows:

I think you should have access to Windows Subsystem for Linux or similar
It will probably be easiest to use the above Unix instructions within that
Then install XMing https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
type: export DISPLAY="localhost:0"
More detailed walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfM4Zq6OQU (he builds from source but you can do this with the precompiled tar files)

(Alternative) Building from Source:

Once you have the dependencies, get the source file here https://root.cern/releases/release-62802/
cd root
./configure --disable-castor --disable-rfio --disable-x11 --disable-gfal --disable-ldap (these disabled options are all things I've found problems with on various systems, and we won't need them for the simple examples/project)
make
source bin/thisroot.sh

To check it's worked, type root. The terminal prompt should now be root [0]. If so, it seems root is installed ok! Now try TCanvas c1, if a blank window pops up, the graphics are all working too and you are good to go :)

If that all sounds like gobbledigook, please do not worry!! Just let us know, and we will try to bring extra laptops with ROOT pre-installed, and/or we will spend some tutorial time on the installation process.

If you're having problems but are keen, there are many resources you can use online. https://root.cern/install/ is the place to start but there are countless guides, videos, and forums online. Someone will have encountered your problem before, it's working out what to google which can be tricky! Hopefully this is enough to get you started and point you in the direction of where to find info for your specific setup.

Good luck! And to reiterate, if you can't get root installed, it won't completely preclude you from taking part in the tutorial

Speakers: Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University, Canada), Philippe Gros

chat0.txt

video1685830844.mp4

Friday 17 May

Instrumentation: Experiments

Conveners: Prof. Mark Chen (Queen's University), Peter Skensved

39 PMTs

Speakers: Arnaud Lemaire, Peter Skensved

40 LiquidO

Speakers: Arnaud Lemaire, Prof. Mark Chen (Queen's University)

LiquidO EIEIOO.pdf

LiquidO EIEIOO.pptx

12:30 Lunch

Workshops: Academic Writing/Presentations

Convener: Zoe Brisson-Tsavoussis (Queen's University)

41 Academic Writing & Presentations

Speaker: Zoe Brisson-Tsavoussis (Queen's University)

14:30 Break

42 Closing Remarks

43 Mandatory Fun

Speakers: Minya Bai (Queen's University), Avani Bhardwaj