The 58th Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference 2021

from Tuesday, 9 February 2021 (02:40) to Friday, 12 February 2021 (20:00)
Virtual Meeting

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021
AM
10:58 --- Chair: Blair Jamieson ---
11:00 Hunting for the Extreme Accelerators in Our Universe with Multi-Messenger Observations - Prof. Nahee Park (Queen's University)   ()
11:30 Warming Nuclear Pasta with Dark Matter: Kinetic and Annihilation Heating of Neutron Star Crusts - Javier Fernandez Acevedo (Queen's University)   ()
11:45 Sub-GeV Dark Vector Bosons and their Impacts on Cosmology - Mr John Coffey (University of Victoria)   ()
10:58 --- Chair: Ken Ragan ---
11:00 Advancing Dark Matter Theory with Black Holes, Exploding Compact Stars, Supercool Gas, and Underground Detectors - Prof. Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)   ()
11:30 Superfluid Neutron Matter with a Twist - Mr Georgios Palkanoglou (University of Guelph)   ()
11:45 Novel Method for the Detection of Axions by Daily and Annual Modulations - Connor Adair (University of British Columbia)   ()
10:58 --- Chair: Erica Caden ---
11:00 Particle Physics with Neutrino Telescopes in Canada - Prof. Juan Pablo Yanez (University of Alberta)   ()
11:30 Measuring the Absorption Length of the Deep Pacific Ocean: Results from STRAW, a Pathfinder Mission for the Proposed P-ONE Neutrino Telescope - Andreas Gaertner (University of Alberta)   ()
11:45 Muon Track Reconstruction for the Upcoming P-ONE Telescope - Dilraj Ghuman (Queen's University)   ()
PM
12:28 --- Chair: Beatrice Franke ---
12:30 Welcome - Thomas Brunner (McGill and TRIUMF)   ()
12:45 Searching for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay at SNOLAB - Dr Erica Caden (SNOLAB)   ()
13:15 Using Machine Learning to Identify Neutron Captures in Gd Loaded Water Cherenkov Detectors - Mr Matthew Stubbs (University of Winnipeg)   ()
13:30 Feature Recognition for Photogrammetry Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector - Tapendra B C (University of Winnipeg)   ()
13:45 Super-Kamiokande PMTs Characterizations Using Artificial Magnetic Field and Robotic Laser-Equipped Arms - Mr Vincent Gousy-Leblanc (University of Victoria/TRIUMF)   ()
15:58 --- Chair: Alain Bellerive ---
16:00 Light Dark Photon Detection with Atomic Transitions - Ningqiang Song (Queen's University)   ()
16:15 Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Dark Sector Higgs Boson in Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector - Danika MacDonell (University of Victoria )   ()
16:30 Search for String Resonances in ATLAS - Ms Fairhurst Lyons (University of Alberta)   ()
16:45 Numerical Loop-Integration Methods for Finite Temperature Effects in QCD Sum Rules - Siyuan Li (University of Saskatchewan)   ()
17:00 Towards Atomic Parity Violation in Francium - Ms Anima Sharma (University of Manitoba)   ()
17:15 Measurements of the TUCAN Vertical UCN Source Heat Load Response - Sean Hansen-Romu (University of Manitoba)   ()
18:30 --- Virtual Reception (18:30 to 20:00) ---
19:15 --- Zoom Room opens (Trivia Night) ---
19:30 --- Trivia questions start ---
12:00 Astrophysical tau Neutrinos in the Pacific Ocean - Akanksha Katil (University of Waterloo)   ()
12:30 Searching for Low-Energy Shape Coexistence in $^{80}$Ge - Ms Fatima H. Garcia (Simon Fraser University)   ()
12:45 Coulomb Excitation of Rn Isotopes in the Region of Large Octupole Collectivity - Dr Pietro Spagnoletti (Simon Fraser University)   ()
13:00 Prototypes of an Ion Trap for the Barium Tagging of nEXO - Yang Lan (McGill University)   ()
13:15 Ab-Initio Calculations of Electric Dipole Moments in Light Nuclei - Mr Paul Froese (TRIUMF)   ()
13:30 Ab Initio Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Matrix Elements - Antoine Belley (TRIUMF/UBC)   ()
13:45 Adapting the Ab-Initio IMSRG for Open-Shell Atomic Systems - Gaurav Tenkila (University of British Columbia)   ()
15:58 --- Chair: Brigitte Vachon ---
16:00 New Experimental Approaches for Constraining Neutron Capture Cross Sections in Exotic Nuclei - Prof. Dennis Muecher (University of Guelph)   ()
16:30 Bound-State Beta-Decay Rate of 205Tl - Mr Guy Leckenby (TRIUMF)   ()
16:45 Precision Branching-Ratio Measurement for the Superallowed Fermi $\beta$ Emitter 18Ne - Dr Kushal Kapoor (University of Regina)   ()
17:00 Mass Measurements around the $N = 32$ and $N = 34$ Shell Closures and Upgrades for TITAN's Measurement Penning Trap - William Porter (TRIUMF/UBC)   ()
17:15 Simulating DAEMON: A New Complementary Neutron Detector for GRIFFIN - Harris Bidaman (University of Guelph)   ()
18:30 Professional Development provided by the McDonald Institute   ()
12:00 Using Underground Nuclear Accelerators in the Quest for Dark Matter - Marianne Moore (TRIUMF)   ()
12:28 --- Chair: Joe Bramante ---
12:30 Optimization of Drift Time Measurement in P-Type Point-Contact HPGe Detectors - Tianai Ye (Queen's University)   ()
12:45 LoLX Experiment - Ms Bindiya Chana (Carleton University)   ()
13:00 The Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-20k Detector - Ashlea Kemp (Queen's University)   ()
13:15 Towards Validating Misalignment Measurements of Small-Strip Thin Gap Chamber Quadruplets for the ATLAS New Small Wheel - Lia Formenti (McGill ATLAS Group (Canada))   ()
13:30 Charged Meson Form Factors at Jefferson Lab Hall C - Nathan Heinrich (University of Regina)   ()
13:45 The Electron Ion Collider – A Canadian Perspective - Dr Stephen Kay (University of Regina)   ()
15:58 --- Chair: Thomas Brunner ---
16:00 Analysis and Identification of Alpha Events for NEWS-G - Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University)   ()
16:15 Neutrons for Characterizing Dark Matter Detectors - Jean-François Caron (Queen's University)   ()
16:30 A Measurement of Zinc-65 Using Data from the KDK Experiment - Lilianna Hariasz (Queen's University)   ()
16:45 Light Collection in the Scintillation Bubble Chamber - Mr Hector Hawley Herrera (Queen's University)   ()
17:00 Characterizing and Removing ER Background Events in the DEAP-3600 Experiment - Mark Stringer (Queen's University)   ()
17:15 A Novel Algorithm for Alpha Discrimination in PICO Bubble Chambers - Mr Quintin Trayling (Queen's University)   ()
18:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:00 Potassium Decay Noise Modeling for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer (P-ONE) - Mr Jakub Stacho (Simon Fraser University)   ()
12:28 --- Chair: Gwen Grinyer ---
12:30 ResNet Convolutional Neural Networks for Particle Identification in Water Cherenkov Detectors - Joshua Tindall (TRIUMF)   ()
12:45 Search for New Physics Inside Jets at the ATLAS Detector Using Machine Learning - Mrs Jacinthe Pilette (Université de Montréal)   ()
13:00 Machine Learning for Energy Reconstruction in ATLAS Calorimeters - Luke Polson (University of Victoria)   ()
13:15 Light Tetraquarks Mass Estimates Using QCD Sum Rules - Mrs Barbara Cid Mora (University of Saskatchewan)   ()
13:30 The Search for Evidence of Vector Boson Scattering Between a Photon and a W Boson with the ATLAS Detector - Mr John John McGowan (McGill University)   ()
13:45 Beam Asymmetry in $\gamma$p $\rightarrow$ $\eta$ $\Delta^+$ at GlueX - Varun Neelamana (University of Regina)   ()
15:58 --- Chair: Andreas Warburton ---
16:00 Long-Lived Particles - Searching for New Physics at the Energy Frontier - Prof. Matthias Danninger (Simon Fraser University)   ()
16:30 Measurement of W Boson Drell-Yan Angular Coefficients - Alexander Bachiu (Carleton University)   ()
16:45 Precision Measurement of the Z Boson Transverse Momentum with the ATLAS Detector - Benjamin Davis-Purcell (Carleton University)   ()
17:00 Production Cross-Section and Charge Asymmetry of the W Boson with Jets - Christina Nelson (McGill University, (CA))   ()
17:15 W$\gamma\gamma$ Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Detector - Alessandro Ambler (McGill University)   ()
18:30 Award Ceremony and Closing of Conference   ()