Conveners
PPD Poster Session with beer / Session d'affiches, avec bière PPD
- Christine Kraus
Frederick Dallaire
(Universite de Montreal (CA))
14/06/2016, 19:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)
A search is performed for the process $pp \to G^* \to B_H\bar b/\bar B_H b \to H b \bar b \to b\bar bb\bar b$, predicted in composite Higgs scenarios, where $G^*$ is a heavy colour octet vector resonance and $B_H$ a vector-like quark of charge $-1/3$. The data were obtained from $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $19.5 \text{...
Xiaohe Zhang
(Queen's University)
14/06/2016, 19:02
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
A well shielded Cryogenic Underground TEst facility (CUTE) will be installed at SNOLAB with the goal to do performance tests, calibrations and background measurements with cryogenic dark matter detectors in support and preparation of the search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with SuperCDMS at SNOLAB.
This facility will also offer the opportunity for the European...
Mr
Alexandre Le Blanc
(Laurentian University)
14/06/2016, 19:04
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The PICO experiment uses superheated liquid bubble chambers with different freons, presently $C_3F_8$, as the active fluid to search directly for dark matter. When a particle deposits energy in the active fluid, within a certain critical length, a local phase transition might occur if this energy is greater than a certain critical energy. This phase transition is explosive in nature and will...
Mr
Zachariah Barnard
(Laurentian University)
14/06/2016, 19:08
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The SNO+ experiment is a large-scale liquid scintillator detector with a focus on investigating neutrinoless double beta decay. In order to fully calibrate the experiment, human access is required to within the detector region and therefore careful consideration is needed to prevent radon ingress from the mine air, a significant source of background. A cover gas system is being developed to...
Clarence Virtue
(Laurentian University)
14/06/2016, 19:10
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
Lead is an interesting target material for a supernova detector. The neutron excess in lead nuclei leads to Pauli-blocking of the charged-current $\overline{\nu_e}$ interaction, and the high atomic number of lead Coulomb enhances $\nu_e$ over $\overline{\nu_e}$ giving a large $\nu_e$ CC neutrino interaction cross-section. This leaves a lead-based SN detector dominantly sensitive to $\nu_e$...
