Name: WNPPC2023 - 60th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference
Start: 2023-02-16T05:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-02-19T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Banff Centre

WNPPC2023 - 60th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference

from Thursday, 16 February 2023 (05:00) to Sunday, 19 February 2023 (13:00)

Monday, 13 February 2023
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Thursday, 16 February 2023
19:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Physics Beyond the Standard Model
19:00 - 21:00
Room: KC 303
Contributions

19:00 Opening Remarks

19:15 The Cosmology and Astrophysics of Dark Complexity - David Curtin (University of Toronto)

19:45 An Auxiliary ATLAS Detector to Enhance the Detection of Long Lived Particles - Joseph Mitchell Kelly (University of Alberta)

20:00 Searches for periodic resonance signals in the $e^+e^-$ and $\gamma\gamma$ channels at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV in ATLAS - Ho Chun Lau (University of Alberta)

20:15 Background simulations on Charged-Lepton Flavour Violation (CLFV) in the Leptoquark framework at the EIC - Bardh Quni (Uni)

20:30 Signal corrections using background detectors in MOLLER experiment - Fatemeh Gorgannejad (University of Manitoba)

20:45 Compton Polarimetry at the Electron-Ion Collider - Akshaya Vijay (University Of Manitoba)
21:00 Reception
Reception
21:00 - 22:30
Room: KC 303
Friday, 17 February 2023
08:30 Dark Matter 1
Dark Matter 1
08:30 - 10:15
Room: KC 303
Contributions

08:30 Welcome & notes

08:45 A holistic view of pseudo-Dirac dark matter - Katelin Schutz (McGill University)

09:15 Searching for a Strongly Interacting Dark Sector at MoEDAL MAPP - Shafakat Arifeen (University of Regina)

09:30 Fluorescent Properties of Clevios For Use As Electrodes In DarkSide-20K - Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

09:45 Overview and New Results from the PICO Dark Matter Search Experiment - Minya Bai (Queen's University)

10:00 Status of NEWS-G3 Experiment and Muon Veto System - Hayden Meadows (Queen's University)
10:15 Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
10:15 - 10:45
Room: KC 303
10:45 QCD & Higgs
QCD & Higgs
10:45 - 12:15
Room: KC 303
Contributions

10:45 The Electron Ion Collider – The Quest to Make Sense of QCD - Stephen Kay (University of Regina)

11:00 Understanding Hadronic Mass Through Light Meson Structure at the EIC - Love Preet (University of Regina)

11:15 Cooling Analysis of HV MAPS Detector in Vacuum - Shefali Shefali (University of Manitoba)

11:30 From Spin to Structure: Beam Single-Spin Asymmetry in Exclusive Pion Production - Alicia Postuma

11:45 Higgs Boson Production via Quark mediated Gluon Fusion at High Energy at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Power in Quark Mass - Sneh Modi (University of Alberta)

12:00 AI/ML for Semi-Inclusive and Exclusive DIS Measurements - Stjepan Oresic (University of Regina)
19:00 Dark Matter 2
Dark Matter 2
19:00 - 20:30
Room: KC 303
Contributions

19:00 Opportunities at SNOLAB - Jodi Cooley (SMU)

19:30 SuperCDMS Background Explorer Functionality and Validation - Tyler Martin (University of Toronto)

19:45 SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Analysis - Musaab Al-Bakry (TRIUMF/UBC)

20:00 New results from the NEWS-G dark matter experiment - Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University)

20:15 Machine Learning for Noise Removal in NEWS-G - Noah Rowe (Queen's University)
20:30 Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
20:30 - 21:00
Room: KC 303
21:00 Particle Physics
Particle Physics
21:00 - 22:15
Room: KC 303
Contributions

21:00 An Introduction to the TUCAN EDM Measurement - Derek Fujimoto (TRIUMF)

21:15 Adiabatic transport of ultracold polarized neutrons for the TUCAN EDM experiment - Emma Klemets (TRIUMF)

21:30 Commissioning of a Paul trap for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Exotic Radionuclides performed in a 30 keV MR-ToF device - Louis Croquette (McGill University)

22:00 Reconstruction of Semi-Leptonic Top Anti-top Pair Production with Deep Learning - Jenna Chisholm (The University of British Columbia)
Saturday, 18 February 2023
08:30 Antimatter
Antimatter
08:30 - 10:15
Room: KC 303
Contributions

08:30 Welcome & Notes

08:45 The ALPHA-g antihydrogen gravity experiment - Chukman So (TRIUMF)

09:15 Laser Calibration Studies Using the ALPHA-g Detector - Pooja Woosaree (University of Calgary)

09:30 Anti-Hydrogen Detection and Background Rejection for ALPHA-g - Gareth Smith (UBC/TRIUMF)

09:45 Magnetic Fields During Gravitational Experiments with Antihydrogen - Adam Powell (University of Calgary)

10:00 Decay Rates of Positronium Species - Muhammad Mubasher (University of Alberta)
10:15 Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
10:15 - 10:45
Room: KC 303
10:45 Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure
10:45 - 12:15
Room: KC 303
Contributions

10:45 Investigating the Nuclear Shell Evolution in Neutron-Rich Calcium - Robin Coleman (University of Guelph)

11:00 Decay spectroscopy around neutron-rich 33Mg to probe the "island of inversion" - tammy zidar (university of guelph)

11:15 Searching for Alpha-Cluster States in $^{126}$Te - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)

11:30 Mirror symmetry in the f7/2 shell below 56Ni, excited states and electromagnetic transition rates in 55Ni and 55Co - Heinz Asch (Simon Fraser University)

11:45 Electromagnetic Transition Rate Studies in 28Mg - Matthew Martin (Simon Fraser University)

12:00 The Experimental Study of Shape Coexistence in 114Sn Using the GRIFFIN Spectrometer - Dominic Annen (Simon Fraser University)
14:15 Neutrinos
Neutrinos
14:15 - 15:45
Room: KC 303
Contributions

14:15 Precision measurement of neutrino oscillations with Hyper-Kamiokande - Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)

14:45 Mitigating Cosmogenic Backgrounds in nEXO - Soud Al Kharusi (McGill University)

15:00 Rapid characterization of SiPMs for nEXO and future noble liquid experiments - Bindiya Chana (Carleton University)

15:15 Detection of Supernova Neutrinos in the SNO+ Detector - Jasmine Corning (Queen's University)

15:30 Measurement of the inelasticity distribution of neutrino interactions for 100 GeV < E𝞶 < 1 TeV with IceCube DeepCore - Maria Liubarska (University of Alberta)
15:45 Coffee + Posters
Coffee + Posters
15:45 - 16:15
Room: KC 303
16:15 Nuclear Physics 1
Nuclear Physics 1
16:15 - 18:00
Room: KC 303
Contributions

16:15 Bound-state beta-decay of Thallium-205 to constrain s-process predictions for the early Solar System - Guy Leckenby (TRIUMF)

16:30 Mass measurements of neutron-deficient strontium--implications for the rp-process and isospin symmetry - Zachary Hockenbery (McGill)

16:45 Singlet and triplet pairing in nuclear and cold atomic systems - Georgios Palkanoglou (University of Guelph)

17:00 Measurement of kaon-carbon forward scattering with EMPHATIC spectrometer - Bruno Ferrazzi (University of Regina)

17:15 High Precision Half Life Measurement of 26Na with GRIFFIN - Eric Gyabeng Fuakye (University of Regina)

17:30 Update On GPD Factorization Validity Studies For Meson Production - nathan heinrich (Univeristy of Regina)

17:45 Investigation of States Populated in the 102Ru(p,t)100Ru Two Neutron Transfer Reaction - Samantha Buck (University of Guelph)
18:30 Banquet
Banquet
18:30 - 21:30
Room: 103
Sunday, 19 February 2023
08:30 Nuclear Physics 2
Nuclear Physics 2
08:30 - 10:15
Room: KC 303
Contributions

08:30 Using Neutrons for Material Research - Marcella Berg (University of Regina)

09:00 The KDK Experiment: A novel measurement of $^{40}$K for rare-event searches and geochronology - Lilianna Hariasz (Queen's University)

09:15 Constraining the 90Sr Neutron Capture Rate with the Short-Lived 91Sr Nucleus - Beau Greaves (University of Guelph)

09:30 How to consistently use modern nuclear forces in an ab initio technique - Ryan Curry (University of Guelph)

09:45 Development of the Detector Array for Energy Measurement of Neutrons (DAEMON) - Zarin Tasnim Ahmed (University of Guelph)

10:00 Global Analysis of the Protons Elastic Form Factors in the Space-like Region - Craig McRae (University of Manitoba)
10:15 Coffee
Coffee
10:15 - 10:30
Room: KC 303
10:30 Computation & Instrumentation
Computation & Instrumentation
10:30 - 11:30
Room: KC 303
Contributions

10:30 Study of W Boson Production in Association with Two Jets using Boosted Decision Trees on Data Collected by the ATLAS Detector. - Matthew Smith (Carleton)

10:45 Core-collapse Supernova Constraint on the Origin of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter via Neutrino Self-interactions - Yu-Ming Chen (Carleton University)

11:00 MUTE: A Modern Calculation for Deep Underground and Underwater Muons - William Woodley (University of Alberta)

11:15 New model on nucleation efficiency of bubble chamber detectors - Xiang Li (University of Alberta)
11:30 Coffee
Coffee
11:30 - 11:45
Room: KC 303

11:45 Awards and Closing Remarks
Awards and Closing Remarks
11:45 - 12:15
Room: KC 303