54th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference (WNPPC2017)

Contribution List

1. Opening remarks

Prof. Michel Lefebvre (University of Victora)

16/02/2017, 19:00

2. Inner Tracker Detector Advances

Dr Nigel P. Hessey

16/02/2017, 19:15

3. Proposed CMOS-based Sensors for the ATLAS Detector: CHESS-2

Robin Newhouse

16/02/2017, 19:45

4. Investigations of Calorimeter Clustering in ATLAS Using Machine Learning

Graeme Niedermayer

16/02/2017, 20:00

5. Neutral Hadron Particle Identification using CsI(Tl) Scintillation Pulse Shape Analysis

Savino Longo

16/02/2017, 20:15

6. BEAST-II: Measurement of Machine-Induced Backgrounds during Commissioning of SuperKEKB

Alexandre Beaulieu

16/02/2017, 20:30

7. Accelerator Physics Developments for Rare Isotope Facilities

Dr Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

17/02/2017, 08:30

8. Design and Simulation of Beam-Background Monitors in the Vicinity of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Belle II Experiment

Andrea Fodor

17/02/2017, 09:00

9. Calculation of Isotope Rates for Radioactive Beam Production

Fatima H. Garcia

17/02/2017, 09:15

10. Simulation of Optical Pumping in TRIUMF’s Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Experiment

Julien Refour Tannenbaum

17/02/2017, 09:30

11. Simulating the DESCANT Neutron Detection Array with the Geant4 Toolkit

Joseph Turko

17/02/2017, 09:45

12. Ion Trapping at Rare-Isotope-Beam Facilities

Dr Anna Kwiatkowski

17/02/2017, 10:15

13. Towards N = 82 r-Process Waiting Point: Precision Atomic Mass Measurements of 125−127Cd

Erich Leistenschneider

17/02/2017, 10:45

14. Study of 22 Ne and 28 Mg Excited States using Fusion- Evaporation and Doppler Shift Measurements

Jonathan Williams

17/02/2017, 11:00

15. Single Particle Structure of Exotic Strontium Isotopes

Steffen Cruz

17/02/2017, 11:15

16. Neutron Activation Analysis via Nuclear Decay Kinetics using Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at SFU

Thomas Domingo

17/02/2017, 11:30

17. Dark Matter Searches at SNOLAB: looking for WIMPs, either heavy or light

Dr Pierre Gorel

17/02/2017, 19:00

18. Dark Matter Direct Detection with NEWS-G: Analysis and Results

Francisco Vazquez de Sola Fernandez

17/02/2017, 19:30

19. Search for Dark Matter with leptonically-decaying Z Bosons and Missing Transverse Energy in the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Alison Elliot

17/02/2017, 19:45

20. A likelihood Ratio Algorithm to remove localized Alpha Particle Backgrounds in the DEAP-3600 Detector

Courtney Mielnichuk

17/02/2017, 20:00

21. Photo-Electron Pulse Finding and Pile-up Detection for the DEAP Experiment

Thomas McElroy

17/02/2017, 20:15

22. Barium-Ion Tagging for 136Xe Double-Beta Decay Studies with nEXO

Prof. Thomas Brunner

17/02/2017, 20:45

23. The 16N Source for the Calibration of the SNO+ Experiment

Jie Hu

17/02/2017, 21:15

24. Detection of Antineutrinos Using the SNO+ Detector

Pawel Mekarski

17/02/2017, 21:30

25. Geochemical Measurement of the Half-Life of the Double- Beta Decay of 96Zr

Adam J. Mayer

17/02/2017, 21:45

26. Introduction to the Ultracold Neutron Facility at TRIUMF

Dr Beatrice Franke

18/02/2017, 08:30

27. EDM Monte Carlo Simulations for the UCN Experiment at TRIUMF

Sanmeet Chahal

18/02/2017, 09:00

28. Compensation of Magnetic Fields in the TRIUMF nEDM Experiment

Shomi Ahmed

18/02/2017, 09:15

29. Observation of Atomic Transition in Antihydrogen

Andrew Evans

18/02/2017, 09:30

30. Identification of the 2+ms mixed-symmetry State in 52Ti using Alpha Transfer Reaction

Dr Fuad A. Ali

18/02/2017, 09:45

31. Connecting Nuclear Astrophysics to Cosmological Structure Formation

Dr Benoit Côté

18/02/2017, 10:15

32. The 22Ne(p,γ)23Na Reaction and the Origin of 23Na

Dr Annika Lennarz

18/02/2017, 10:45

33. Experimental Results of β-delayed Neutron Branching Ratios for heavy Species

Dr Roger Caballero-Folch

18/02/2017, 11:00

34. A Study on Low Spin States in 154Gd using (p, p′) Reaction

Harris Bidaman

18/02/2017, 11:15

35. Investigation of excited 0+ States populated via the Er-162 two-Neutron Transfer Reaction

Christina Burbadge

18/02/2017, 11:30

36. The Nuclear Delta Force and The Two-Particle-Rotor Model

Anish Verma

18/02/2017, 11:45

37. Exploring the Higgs Boson with ATLAS Data

Dr Dag Gillberg

18/02/2017, 19:00

38. Quartic Gauge Boson Coupling Results from the LHC

Dr Christopher Anelli

18/02/2017, 19:30

39. Measurement of Z Bosons produced in association with Jets via Vector Boson Fusion at 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Stephen Weber

18/02/2017, 19:45

40. Hunting for “Bumps” in the Dilepton Invariant Mass Spectrum using BUMPHUNTER at the ATLAS Detector

Elham E. Khoda

18/02/2017, 20:00

41. The Hunt for the Z′ Boson in ATLAS: a Statistical Perspective

Etienne Dreyer

18/02/2017, 20:15

42. Spectrometer and Detector Simulations for the MOLLER Experiment

Sakib Rahman

18/02/2017, 20:45

43. Electron Detection for the Jefferson Lab Hall A Compton Polarimeter

Ryan Spies

18/02/2017, 21:00

44. Analysis of the η(548) → π+ π− π0 and η′(958) → π+ π− η Channels using a 8-9 GeV tagged Photon Beam for the GlueX Experiment

Tegan Beattie

18/02/2017, 21:15

45. Preliminary Survey of the Photoproduction of π+ + π− + 4γ Final State in GlueX Experiment

Ahmed M. Foda

18/02/2017, 21:30

46. Spin Polarizability of a Proton via Measurement of Nuclear Structure Observable with Polarized Target and Polarized Beam at MAMI

Dilli R. Paudyal

18/02/2017, 21:45

47. Detailed Spectroscopy of 132Sn with GRIFFIN

Dr Kenneth Whitmore

19/02/2017, 08:30

48. Angular Correlation Measurements With GRIFFIN

Andrew D. MacLean

19/02/2017, 08:45

49. Progress towards measuring Parity Non Conservation in Francium

Dr Mukut R. Kalita

19/02/2017, 09:00

50. A Silicon Tracker for ISAC-II and the Future ARIEL Facility

Dr Dennis Muecher

19/02/2017, 09:15

51. Ground State Spin of 101Sn and the Role of the Tensor Force in exotic Nuclei

Joochun Park

19/02/2017, 09:30

52. Coulomb Artifacts and Bottomonium Hyperfine Splitting in Lattice NRQCD

Ahmed Rayyan

19/02/2017, 09:45

53. Reaction Spectroscopy unveils new Features of Rare Isotopes

Prof. Rituparna Kanungo

19/02/2017, 10:30

54. A new Determination of Vus

Prof. Kim Maltman

19/02/2017, 11:00

55. Closing remarks

Prof. Michel Lefebvre (University of Victora)

19/02/2017, 11:30

0. Opening remarks

Prof. Michel Lefebvre (University of Victora)