54th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference (WNPPC2017)
16 Feb 2017, 19:00
→
19 Feb 2017, 12:00
US/Pacific
KC203 (Kinnear Centre)
KC203
Kinnear Centre
Thursday, 16 February
Thu, 16 Feb
Fri, 17 Feb
Sat, 18 Feb
Sun, 19 Feb
19:00
→
19:15
Opening remarks
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Michel Lefebvre
(
University of Victora
)
Slides
19:15
→
19:45
Inner Tracker Detector Advances
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Nigel P. Hessey
Slides
19:45
→
20:00
Proposed CMOS-based Sensors for the ATLAS Detector: CHESS-2
15m
Speaker
:
Robin Newhouse
Slides
20:00
→
20:15
Investigations of Calorimeter Clustering in ATLAS Using Machine Learning
15m
Speaker
:
Graeme Niedermayer
Slides
20:15
→
20:30
Neutral Hadron Particle Identification using CsI(Tl) Scintillation Pulse Shape Analysis
15m
Speaker
:
Savino Longo
20:30
→
20:45
BEAST-II: Measurement of Machine-Induced Backgrounds during Commissioning of SuperKEKB
15m
Speaker
:
Alexandre Beaulieu
Friday, 17 February
Thu, 16 Feb
Fri, 17 Feb
Sat, 18 Feb
Sun, 19 Feb
08:30
→
09:00
Accelerator Physics Developments for Rare Isotope Facilities
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Oliver Kester
(
TRIUMF
)
Slides
09:00
→
09:15
Design and Simulation of Beam-Background Monitors in the Vicinity of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Belle II Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Andrea Fodor
Slides
09:15
→
09:30
Calculation of Isotope Rates for Radioactive Beam Production
15m
Speaker
:
Fatima H. Garcia
Slides
09:30
→
09:45
Simulation of Optical Pumping in TRIUMF’s Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Julien Refour Tannenbaum
Slides
09:45
→
10:00
Simulating the DESCANT Neutron Detection Array with the Geant4 Toolkit
15m
Speaker
:
Joseph Turko
Slides
10:15
→
10:45
Ion Trapping at Rare-Isotope-Beam Facilities
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Anna Kwiatkowski
Slides
10:45
→
11:00
Towards N = 82 r-Process Waiting Point: Precision Atomic Mass Measurements of 125−127Cd
15m
Speaker
:
Erich Leistenschneider
Slides
11:00
→
11:15
Study of 22 Ne and 28 Mg Excited States using Fusion- Evaporation and Doppler Shift Measurements
15m
Speaker
:
Jonathan Williams
Slides
11:15
→
11:30
Single Particle Structure of Exotic Strontium Isotopes
15m
Speaker
:
Steffen Cruz
Slides
11:30
→
11:45
Neutron Activation Analysis via Nuclear Decay Kinetics using Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at SFU
15m
Speaker
:
Thomas Domingo
Slides
19:00
→
19:30
Dark Matter Searches at SNOLAB: looking for WIMPs, either heavy or light
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pierre Gorel
Slides
19:30
→
19:45
Dark Matter Direct Detection with NEWS-G: Analysis and Results
15m
Speaker
:
Francisco Vazquez de Sola Fernandez
Slides
19:45
→
20:00
Search for Dark Matter with leptonically-decaying Z Bosons and Missing Transverse Energy in the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Alison Elliot
Slides
20:00
→
20:15
A likelihood Ratio Algorithm to remove localized Alpha Particle Backgrounds in the DEAP-3600 Detector
15m
Speaker
:
Courtney Mielnichuk
Slides
20:15
→
20:30
Photo-Electron Pulse Finding and Pile-up Detection for the DEAP Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Thomas McElroy
Slides
20:45
→
21:15
Barium-Ion Tagging for 136Xe Double-Beta Decay Studies with nEXO
30m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Thomas Brunner
Slides
21:15
→
21:30
The 16N Source for the Calibration of the SNO+ Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Jie Hu
Slides
21:30
→
21:45
Detection of Antineutrinos Using the SNO+ Detector
15m
Speaker
:
Pawel Mekarski
Slides
21:45
→
22:00
Geochemical Measurement of the Half-Life of the Double- Beta Decay of 96Zr
15m
Speaker
:
Adam J. Mayer
Slides
Saturday, 18 February
Thu, 16 Feb
Fri, 17 Feb
Sat, 18 Feb
Sun, 19 Feb
08:30
→
09:00
Introduction to the Ultracold Neutron Facility at TRIUMF
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Beatrice Franke
Slides
09:00
→
09:15
EDM Monte Carlo Simulations for the UCN Experiment at TRIUMF
15m
Speaker
:
Sanmeet Chahal
Slides
09:15
→
09:30
Compensation of Magnetic Fields in the TRIUMF nEDM Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Shomi Ahmed
Slides
09:30
→
09:45
Observation of Atomic Transition in Antihydrogen
15m
Speaker
:
Andrew Evans
Slides
09:45
→
10:00
Identification of the 2+ms mixed-symmetry State in 52Ti using Alpha Transfer Reaction
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Fuad A. Ali
Slides
10:15
→
10:45
Connecting Nuclear Astrophysics to Cosmological Structure Formation
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Benoit Côté
Slides
10:45
→
11:00
The 22Ne(p,γ)23Na Reaction and the Origin of 23Na
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Annika Lennarz
Slides
11:00
→
11:15
Experimental Results of β-delayed Neutron Branching Ratios for heavy Species
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Roger Caballero-Folch
Slides
11:15
→
11:30
A Study on Low Spin States in 154Gd using (p, p′) Reaction
15m
Speaker
:
Harris Bidaman
Slides
11:30
→
11:45
Investigation of excited 0+ States populated via the Er-162 two-Neutron Transfer Reaction
15m
Speaker
:
Christina Burbadge
Slides
11:45
→
12:00
The Nuclear Delta Force and The Two-Particle-Rotor Model
15m
Speaker
:
Anish Verma
Slides
19:00
→
19:30
Exploring the Higgs Boson with ATLAS Data
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Dag Gillberg
Slides
19:30
→
19:45
Quartic Gauge Boson Coupling Results from the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Christopher Anelli
Slides
19:45
→
20:00
Measurement of Z Bosons produced in association with Jets via Vector Boson Fusion at 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
15m
Speaker
:
Stephen Weber
Slides
20:00
→
20:15
Hunting for “Bumps” in the Dilepton Invariant Mass Spectrum using BUMPHUNTER at the ATLAS Detector
15m
Speaker
:
Elham E. Khoda
Slides
20:15
→
20:30
The Hunt for the Z′ Boson in ATLAS: a Statistical Perspective
15m
Speaker
:
Etienne Dreyer
Slides
20:45
→
21:00
Spectrometer and Detector Simulations for the MOLLER Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Sakib Rahman
Slides
21:00
→
21:15
Electron Detection for the Jefferson Lab Hall A Compton Polarimeter
15m
Speaker
:
Ryan Spies
Slides
21:15
→
21:30
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
15m
Speaker
:
Tegan Beattie
Slides
21:30
→
21:45
Preliminary Survey of the Photoproduction of π+ + π− + 4γ Final State in GlueX Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Ahmed M. Foda
Slides
21:45
→
22:00
Spin Polarizability of a Proton via Measurement of Nuclear Structure Observable with Polarized Target and Polarized Beam at MAMI
15m
Speaker
:
Dilli R. Paudyal
Slides
Sunday, 19 February
Thu, 16 Feb
Fri, 17 Feb
Sat, 18 Feb
Sun, 19 Feb
08:30
→
08:45
Detailed Spectroscopy of 132Sn with GRIFFIN
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Kenneth Whitmore
Slides
08:45
→
09:00
Angular Correlation Measurements With GRIFFIN
15m
Speaker
:
Andrew D. MacLean
Slides
09:00
→
09:15
Progress towards measuring Parity Non Conservation in Francium
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Mukut R. Kalita
Slides
09:15
→
09:30
A Silicon Tracker for ISAC-II and the Future ARIEL Facility
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Dennis Muecher
Slides
09:30
→
09:45
Ground State Spin of 101Sn and the Role of the Tensor Force in exotic Nuclei
15m
Speaker
:
Joochun Park
Slides
09:45
→
10:00
Coulomb Artifacts and Bottomonium Hyperfine Splitting in Lattice NRQCD
15m
Speaker
:
Ahmed Rayyan
Slides
10:30
→
11:00
Reaction Spectroscopy unveils new Features of Rare Isotopes
30m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Rituparna Kanungo
11:00
→
11:15
A new Determination of Vus
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Kim Maltman
Slides
11:30
→
11:45
Closing remarks
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Michel Lefebvre
(
University of Victora
)
Slides