"It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to."
Particle astrophysics lies at the rich interface between astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics. It aims to find answers for the most fundamental questions about our universe, its origin and evolution, using the complementary information provided by the cosmic messengers that arrive to us: cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves.
This lecture aims at telling the...
A Crash Course in Statistics: In this two-hour whirlwind session, I'll introduce basic principles of frequentist and Bayesian statistics and illustrate the most common statistical techniques used in particle physics.
This talk will give a short overview of neutrino physics, including their initial motivation and discovery, the solar neutrino problem and its resolution by the SNO experiment. The talk will end with current open questions in neutrino physics.
Over the past several decades physicists have made remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental building blocks of nature. Yet there remains much we still do not know. One of the biggest open questions in our Universe is the nature of dark matter. Cosmological and astrophysical observations point to the existence of a non-luminous and mysterious form of matter that is far more abundant...
The session will provide a short introduction to indirect searches for dark matter, with cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmology.
An interactive workshop to help you develop presentation and communication skills to share your science and make it engaging. Includes information on how to create presentations, visuals, posters, and how to make your talks accessible.
Dark matter search is a high priority endeavour in our field. Building larger and more sensitive detectors underground in the next decades will provide an opportunity for new discoveries, but it will also require new technological developments to achieve that. Liquid argon has been used by many collaborations already and has proven to deliver high quality data, but one of the challenges that...
An overview of the field of medical physics with an emphasis on how it is related to particle physics.
The discovery of neutrino oscillation in atmospheric neutrinos by Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) led to their experiment's PIs sharing the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Both of these are water Chernkov detectors, Super-K with light water, and SNO with heavy water. A new generation of water Cherenkov detectors is being built to make...
This talk will give a short overview of experiments that utilize high purity germanium detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay and ultimately understand whether the neutrino is a Dirac of Majorana particle.
This session aims to provide students with introductory working knowledge of C++. We will explore commonly used syntax with some example code. Exercises will also be provided to guide participants in further understanding of the principles. Time permitting, a brief tie-in with ROOT will also be given.
