Summer Particle Astrophysics Workshop 2023 (EIEIOO)

2 May 2023, 09:00 → 11 May 2023, 21:00 Canada/Eastern

Melissa Baiocchi, Minya Bai (Queen's University)

The 5th SummEr PartIclE AstrophysIcs WOrkshOp (EIEIOO)

This workshop series is directed at incoming undergraduate and master's students new to the field of particle astrophysics. Any individuals with an interest in the material (or looking to refresh their skills) are welcome to join for any aspects of the workshop. No prior knowledge is required for participants to attend.

Sessions consist of introductory lectures, experimental talks, and coding workshops. We are excited to announce we have over thirty speakers and the timetable is now available!

The workshop is running in hybrid form this year. All sessions will be broadcast live over zoom with closed captioning enabled. Speakers at Queen's University will present in person in Stirling Hall with live streaming over the same zoom line. Lectures will be recorded and made available after the workshop.

 

Connection Information

All connections will be done through Zoom. The link is sent directly to attendees emails. All sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants.

A discord is available for asking questions and socializing: https://discord.gg/Rr32WzEz

Feel free to post questions on the workshops and talks in their respective channels!

If you have any questions, including those related to content or registration, please contact Melissa Baiocchi at m.baiocchi@queensu.ca

Tuesday 2 May

12:00 → 12:30 Introduction

Speaker: Melissa Baiocchi

EIEIOO2023_Intro (1).pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Introduction to Particle Physics

"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."

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)

Intro To Particle Physics - Skip to 15 minutes in.mp4

13:30 → 14:00 Break

14:00 → 15:00 Particle Astrophysics Overview

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 story of the origins of astroparticle physics, the current puzzles that need to be solved, while presenting the different cosmic messengers from a very experimental perspective.

Virtual

Speaker: Ana Sofia Inacio

AstroparticlephysicsOverview.pdf

Intro To Particle Astrophysics.mp4

15:00 → 16:00 Lunch

16:00 → 18:00 Intro to Unix Command Line Interface (CLI) and Tools for Scientific Computing

Virtual

Speaker: David Gallacher

2023 Summer Astroparticle Physics Workshop - Computing Session.pdf

unix_zoom_recording.mp4

Wednesday 3 May

12:30 → 13:30 Astronomy Overview

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Stéphane Courteau

13:30 → 13:45 Break

13:45 → 14:45 Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Nahee Park

Multi-Messenger Astronomy.mp4

14:45 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:00 Accelerator Physics

Virtual

Speaker: Brigitte Vachon (McGill University, (CA))

Accelerator Physics - Dr. Brigitte Vachon.mp4

Vachon-MI-SummerStudent-2022.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Lunch

17:00 → 17:30 ATLAS

The ATLAS detector is one of the two general-purpose experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider that discovered the Higgs boson. It performs precision measurements of the properties and interactions of Higgs bosons, top quarks, W and Z bosons, and (nearly) all the other particles in the Standard Model. But how do we design an experimental apparatus to measure particles whose existence is so fleeting that they decay instantly, in the vacuum of the beam pipe, without ever reaching the detector? The talk will be a lightning introduction to both the ATLAS detector and the collaboration of thousands of scientists who built and operate it and sift through the wealth of data it provides.

Virtual

Speaker: Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF (CA))

ATLAS and BELLE-II Recordings.mp4

MI_20min_ATLAS_intro_2023.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 BELLE II

The Belle II detector is a general-purpose detector located at the SuperKEKB particle collider (the highest luminosity collider ever). It is the successor experiment to Belle and BaBar, whose experimental confirmation of B-meson CP violation predicted by the Kobayashi-Masakawa theory led to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

This intro talk will give you a quick walkthrough of how the highest precision collider experiment in the world is built and operated by over a thousand scientists and what kind of Physics it seeks to achieve.

Virtual

Speaker: Alexandre Beaubien

20230503_introBelleII.pdf

ATLAS and BELLE-II Recordings.mp4

Thursday 4 May

12:00 → 13:00 Direct and In-Direct Detection

This talk will cover two ways of searching for dark matter: direct and indirect detection. Direct detection uses sensitive particle detectors to search for dark matter colliding with nuclei or electrons in the lab, allowing us to measure or constrain its scattering cross section. In indirect detection, we search for astronomical signals—such as photons and cosmic rays—which could have been produced by dark matter decay or annihilation. I will briefly discuss evidence for dark matter, and the argument for the popular WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) model of dark matter. I will then cover techniques used for indirect detection. We will discuss several observed excesses, unexplained astrophysical signals that could be caused by dark matter, and see how different observations and background modeling can challenge or constrain the dark matter interpretation of these signals. We will then cover the history of direct detection, and the basics of computing detection rates. We will end by looking at how different types of direct detection experiment are optimized to search for different models of dark matter, motivating a wide variety of different techniques and technologies.

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Christopher Cappiello

Cappiello Direct and Indirect Detection.pdf

Direct and InDirect Detection - Chris Capiello.mp4

13:00 → 13:15 Break

13:15 → 13:45 PMTs

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speakers: Peter Skensved, Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

eieioo_light_detection_v3 (2).pdf

Light Detection - Peter Skensved.mp4

13:45 → 14:00 Break

14:00 → 15:00 Neutrino Overview

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Arthur McDonald

Neutrino Overview - Arthur McDonald.mp4

15:00 → 15:30 SNO+

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Alex Wright (IPP/Queen's University)

EIEIOO2023_Intro.pdf

SNO+ - Alex Wright.mp4

15:30 → 16:30 Lunch

16:30 → 17:00 Super-Kamiokande

Virtual

Speakers: Ali Ajmi, Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

17:00 → 17:30 nEXO

Virtual

Speakers: Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

17:30 → 18:00 IceCube

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speakers: Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Patrick Hatch (Queen's University)

18:00 → 18:30 Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE)

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment is a new neutrino telescope in the Pacific Ocean. Consisting of 70 instrumented mooring lines, P-ONE aims to detect neutrinos with energies ranging from TeV to PeV, and will cover areas of the sky that are yet uncovered by the other existing neutrino telescopes.

Following two successful pathfinder missions, the P-ONE collaboration is now developing the first mooring line of P-ONE. This mooring line is expected to be deployed in 2024 and will demonstrate the feasibility of a larger installation.
The presentation will give a short overview of the pathfinder missions and the current status of P-ONE.

Virtual

Speakers: Andreas Gaertner, Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

230504_summer_particleastro_workshop.pdf

Friday 5 May

12:30 → 13:30 Dark Matter Overview

Virtual

Speakers: Gopolang Mohlabeng (University of California, Irvine), Katarina Bleau (Queen's University)

dark_matter_overview-Gopolang_Mohlabeng.mp4

DM_Overview_2023_MI_SS.pdf

13:30 → 14:00 Break

14:00 → 14:30 Dark Matter Modulation and COSINUS

Virtual

Speakers: Katarina Bleau (Queen's University), Matthew Jake Stukel (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

cosinus_and_darkside-Matthew_Stuckel_and_Szymon_Manecki.mp4

Dark_Matter_Modulation_And_The_COSINUS_Experiment.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Darkside

Virtual

Speakers: Katarina Bleau (Queen's University), Szymon Manecki (Queen's University)

cosinus_and_darkside-Matthew_Stuckel_and_Szymon_Manecki.mp4

15:00 → 16:00 Lunch

16:00 → 18:00 Git

Virtual

Speakers: Carter Rhea (Université de Montreal), Tianai Ye (Queen's University)

git.mp4

Monday 8 May

12:30 → 13:30 Balloon Physics

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Laura Fissel (Queen's University)

Balloon Astrophysics - Dr. Laura Fissel.mp4

13:30 → 14:00 Break

14:00 → 14:30 CCAT

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Mayukh Bagchi (Queen's University)

CCAT PRIME - Mayukh Bagchi.mp4

14:30 → 15:00 HELIX

Virtual

Speaker: Nahee Park

HELIX - Dr. Nahee Park.mp4

15:00 → 16:00 Lunch

16:00 → 18:00 Statistics and Error Analysis

In this whirlwind review of elementary statistics, I will cram half a semester's worth of material into the bare minimum necessary to make use of popular statistical techniques like fitting, chi-squared estimation, and Bayesian analysis. I will probably fail. 😉

Virtual

Speaker: Scott Oser

oser_statistics_crashcourse.pdf

video1117163660.mp4

Tuesday 9 May

12:30 → 13:30 Academic Presentations

Speakers: Blaire Flynn (SNOLAB), Juliette Deloye (SNOLAB)

SNOLAB-Communicating-science-resources.pdf

13:30 → 14:00 Break

14:00 → 14:30 Medical Physics

Virtual

Speaker: Liz Fletcher (Carleton University)

med_phys_presentation.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Superallowed Beta Decays

Superallowed Fermi $\beta$ Decay: The precision frontier of nuclear physics

Dr. Gwen Grinyer (she/her)

Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada

High precision measurements of the ft values for superallowed Fermi $\beta$ decays provide fundamental data with which to constrain the conserved vector current (CVC) hypothesis, set limits on the Standard Model description of electroweak interactions, and test unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix. In this lecture, I will present the status of the world data on the superallowed Fermi $\beta$ emitters and explain how we go from state-of-the-art measurements in the lab to extracting fundamental physics at the precision frontier.

Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Gwen Grinyer

GwenGrinyer_Superallowed_2023.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Lunch

16:00 → 18:00 Python

Introduction to Python!

Power point : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nXaZIDt4WC83qW3L7TKHp3KK1Rmdxzjh/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109215338010014774265&rtpof=true&sd=true

Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VVvvl8rD05QmJgt6LaOmXOdy7PN60XeO?usp=sharing

Virtual

Speakers: Anthony Allega (Queen's University), Hannah Fronenberg (McGill University)

Intro_python.pptx.pdf

Wednesday 10 May

12:30 → 14:30 C++

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: Jonathan Hucker

CPP_Tutorial.pdf

dataFile.txt

Getting_Started_with_CPP.pdf

YouDidIt.cpp

14:30 → 15:30 Lunch

15:30 → 16:00 SBC

Virtual

Speakers: Marie Cecile Piro (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

MCPiro_SBC_SummerWorkshop2023.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 PICO

Speakers: Colin Moore, Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

PICO Bubble Chambers (no notes).pptx

16:30 → 17:00 NEWS-G

Virtual

Speakers: Mr Daniel Durnford (University of Alberta), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

The NEWS-G dark matter experiment

17:00 → 17:30 SuperCDMS

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) Collaboration uses cryogenic semiconductor detectors to look for evidence of dark matter interactions with ordinary matter. The current generation of the experiment is under construction at the SNOLAB underground facility in Sudbury, Canada. Two complimentary detector designs, interleaved Z-sensitivity Ionization and Phonon (iZIP) detectors and High Voltage (HV) detectors, made of Germanium or Silicon will be used to probe low mass dark matter parameter space. This talk will provide an overview of the experiment and detector technology and present the expected sensitivity of SuperCDMS SNOLAB to different detection channels.

Virtual

Speakers: Eleanor Fascione (TRIUMF/Queen's University), Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)

Thursday 11 May

12:30 → 14:30 ROOT

A tutorial on programming with ROOT!

There will be a small project to work through in the second half of the session. To be able to work along through it you will need to have ROOT installed. As this can take some time, it will be better to try and install ROOT beforehand. As everyone will have different machinery setups, it's difficult to give exact instructions, but hopefully this can get you started. But if you are unable to get ROOT installed, the instructor will work though the examples live, and you can watch along and in that way still be able to take part in the tutorial.

ROOT install instructions:

There are many ways to get ROOT. There are lots more details here https://root.cern/install/, so if the below doesn't work for you check out the info there. It will be quicker to get the pre-compiled binaries, but if that doesn't work for whatever reason you can try building from source.

The first thing to do is make sure you have all the things ROOT depends on. A list of these, with instructions for different operating systems, can be found here: https://root.cern/install/dependencies/

MacOS:

Install homebrew https://brew.sh
Install XCode from the App Store
In a terminal, type: brew install root
cd root
source /usr/local/Cellar/root/6.26.06_2/bin/thisroot.sh (maybe the version and/or location are different)

Unix:

Get the precompiled binaries for your system from here:https://root.cern/releases/release-62802/
tar xvf root_v6.28.02.Linux-centos8-x86_64-gcc8.5.tar
source root/bin/thisroot.sh
More detailed walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QItrmchEQWE (he builds from source but you can do this with the precompiled tar files)

Windows:

I think you should have access to Windows Subsystem for Linux or similar
It will probably be easiest to use the above Unix instructions within that
Then install XMing https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
type: export DISPLAY="localhost:0"
More detailed walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfM4Zq6OQU (he builds from source but you can do this with the precompiled tar files)

(Alternative) Building from Source:

Once you have the dependencies, get the source file here https://root.cern/releases/release-62802/
cd root
./configure --disable-castor --disable-rfio --disable-x11 --disable-gfal --disable-ldap (these disabled options are all things I've found problems with on various systems, and we won't need them for the simple examples/project)
make
source bin/thisroot.sh

To check it's worked, type root. The terminal prompt should now be root [0]. If so, it seems root is installed ok! Now try TCanvas c1, if a blank window pops up, the graphics are all working too and you are good to go :)

If that all sounds like gobbledigook, please do not worry!! In the tutorial we will try and go through the installation process. (It can take time though so ideally we want to get as far through the process as possible beforehand.) But if you can't get it installed in time, you can just watch the tutorial without working along with it and that will be fine!

If you're having problems but are keen, there are many resources you can use online. https://root.cern/install/ is the place to start but there are countless guides, videos, and forums online. Someone will have encountered your problem before, it's working out what to google which can be tricky! Hopefully this is enough to get you started and point you in the direction of where to find info for your specific setup.

Good luck! And to reiterate, if you can't get root installed, it won't completely preclude you from taking part in the tutorial

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speaker: William Parker

Repository of code to produce all the plots shown in the slides, and exercise solutions

ROOT - Dr. William Parker.mp4

ROOTTutorial.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Lunch

15:30 → 17:30 Machine Learning

In-Person (Stirling Rm 501)

Speakers: Jean-Marie Coquillat, Mark Anderson, Noah Rowe

EIEIOO_ML_2023.pptx

GitHub repository for tutorial

video1630938699.mp4

17:30 → 17:45 Break

17:45 → 18:15 Closing

Speakers: Melissa Baiocchi, Minya Bai (Queen's University)

18:15 → 19:15 Mandatory Fun