54th Winter Nuclear Particle Physics Conference (WNPPC2017)

16 Feb 2017, 19:00 → 19 Feb 2017, 12:00 US/Pacific

KC203 (Kinnear Centre)

Thursday, 16 February

1 Opening remarks

Speaker: Prof. Michel Lefebvre (University of Victora)

Slides WNPPC_welcome.pdf

2 Inner Tracker Detector Advances

Speaker: Dr Nigel P. Hessey

Slides 1-2017-01-27Banff.pdf

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

Speaker: Robin Newhouse

Slides 2-WNPPC-CMOS-Robin-Newhouse-compressed.pdf

4 Investigations of Calorimeter Clustering in ATLAS Using Machine Learning

Speaker: Graeme Niedermayer

Slides 3-WNPPC_Graeme_Niedermayer.pdf

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

Speaker: Savino Longo

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

Speaker: Alexandre Beaulieu

Friday, 17 February

7 Accelerator Physics Developments for Rare Isotope Facilities

Speaker: Dr Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

Slides 1-WNPPC2017_ACC-OK.pdf

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

Speaker: Andrea Fodor

Slides 2-AFodor-20170217-WNPPC.pdf

9 Calculation of Isotope Rates for Radioactive Beam Production

Speaker: Fatima H. Garcia

Slides 2-AFodor-20170217-WNPPC.pdf

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

Speaker: Julien Refour Tannenbaum

Slides 4-Presentation_jrt.pdf

11 Simulating the DESCANT Neutron Detection Array with the Geant4 Toolkit

Speaker: Joseph Turko

Slides 5-J_Turko_WNPPC2017.pdf

12 Ion Trapping at Rare-Isotope-Beam Facilities

Speaker: Dr Anna Kwiatkowski

Slides 6-kwiatkowski_wnppc.pdf

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

Speaker: Erich Leistenschneider

Slides 7-WNPPC17_Leistenschneider.pdf

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

Speaker: Jonathan Williams

Slides 8-JW_WNPPC2017.pdf

15 Single Particle Structure of Exotic Strontium Isotopes

Speaker: Steffen Cruz

Slides 9-SteffenCruz_WNPPC.pdf

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

Speaker: Thomas Domingo

Slides 10-WNPPC2017v4.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Pierre Gorel

Slides 1-Gorel_WNPPC2017_Rev1.pdf

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

Speaker: Francisco Vazquez de Sola Fernandez

Slides 2-2017_WNPPC_Congress.pdf

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

Speaker: Alison Elliot

Slides 3-AE_WNPPCTalk2017_vf.pdf

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

Speaker: Courtney Mielnichuk

Slides 4-WNPPC_V2_CMielnichuk.pdf

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

Speaker: Thomas McElroy

Slides 5-ThomasMcElroy_WNPPC_2017.pdf

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

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Brunner

Slides 6-20170217-WNPPC-Brunner-final.pdf

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

Speaker: Jie Hu

Slides 7-N16calibration_WNPPC2017.pdf

24 Detection of Antineutrinos Using the SNO+ Detector

Speaker: Pawel Mekarski

Slides 8-WNPPC_Antineutrinos_PawelMekarski.pdf

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

Speaker: Adam J. Mayer

Slides 9-Mayer_-_WNPPC_2017.pdf

Saturday, 18 February

26 Introduction to the Ultracold Neutron Facility at TRIUMF

Speaker: Dr Beatrice Franke

Slides 1-bf_WNPPC_UCN_2017.pdf

27 EDM Monte Carlo Simulations for the UCN Experiment at TRIUMF

Speaker: Sanmeet Chahal

Slides 2-WNPPC_SanmeetChahal.pdf

28 Compensation of Magnetic Fields in the TRIUMF nEDM Experiment

Speaker: Shomi Ahmed

Slides 3-Compensation_of_Magnetic_Fields_in_the_TRIUMF_nEDM_Experiment_WNPPC2017.pdf

29 Observation of Atomic Transition in Antihydrogen

Speaker: Andrew Evans

Slides 4-talk_v3_final.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Fuad A. Ali

Slides 5-talk_52Ti_banff.pdf

31 Connecting Nuclear Astrophysics to Cosmological Structure Formation

Speaker: Dr Benoit Côté

Slides 6-BenoitCote_WNPPC_2017.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Annika Lennarz

Slides 7-Lennarz_WNPPC2017.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Roger Caballero-Folch

Slides 8-20170218-WNPPC2017-RCaballero-Folch.pdf

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

Speaker: Harris Bidaman

Slides 9-HBidamanWNPPC17.pdf

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

Speaker: Christina Burbadge

Slides 10-WNPPC_2017_Burbadge.pdf

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

Speaker: Anish Verma

Slides 11-WNPPCAnish.pdf

37 Exploring the Higgs Boson with ATLAS Data

Speaker: Dr Dag Gillberg

Slides 1-Gillberg_ExploringHiggs.pdf

38 Quartic Gauge Boson Coupling Results from the LHC

Speaker: Dr Christopher Anelli

Slides 2-ChrisAnelli_WNPPC_Talk.pdf

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

Speaker: Stephen Weber

Slides 3-Zjj_WNPPC.pdf

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

Speaker: Elham E. Khoda

Slides 4-Elham_WNPPC_2017_v4.pdf

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

Speaker: Etienne Dreyer

Slides 5-dreyer_WNPPC_2017.pdf

42 Spectrometer and Detector Simulations for the MOLLER Experiment

Speaker: Sakib Rahman

Slides 6-Rahman_WNPPS.pdf

43 Electron Detection for the Jefferson Lab Hall A Compton Polarimeter

Speaker: Ryan Spies

Slides 7-Spiess_Electron_Detection_for_the_Jefferson_Lab_Hall_A.pdf

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

Speaker: Tegan Beattie

Slides 8-WNPPC_Tegan.pdf

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

Speaker: Ahmed M. Foda

Slides 9-WNPPC2017_Foda.pdf

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

Speaker: Dilli R. Paudyal

Slides 10-Dilli-WNPPC2017.pdf

Sunday, 19 February

47 Detailed Spectroscopy of 132Sn with GRIFFIN

Speaker: Dr Kenneth Whitmore

Slides 1-WNPPC_2017_whitmore.pdf

48 Angular Correlation Measurements With GRIFFIN

Speaker: Andrew D. MacLean

Slides 2-MacLean_WNPPC_2017.pdf

49 Progress towards measuring Parity Non Conservation in Francium

Speaker: Dr Mukut R. Kalita

Slides 3-WNPPC2017_MRK.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Dennis Muecher

Slides 4-silicon_tracker_muecher.pdf

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

Speaker: Joochun Park

Slides 5-WNPPC2017_JPark.pdf

52 Coulomb Artifacts and Bottomonium Hyperfine Splitting in Lattice NRQCD

Speaker: Ahmed Rayyan

Slides 6-bb.pdf

53 Reaction Spectroscopy unveils new Features of Rare Isotopes

Speaker: Prof. Rituparna Kanungo

54 A new Determination of Vus

Speaker: Prof. Kim Maltman

Slides 8-krm_wnppc17_feb10_17.pdf

55 Closing remarks

Speaker: Prof. Michel Lefebvre (University of Victora)

Slides WNPPC_goodbye.pdf