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9/30/25, 10:00 AM
Dynamic Earth Tour
Tuesday, September 30th, 10am to 12pm
Dynamic Earth is an interactive earth sciences museum that builds on the city's mining heritage. This visit will include an underground tour experience that will provide insight into the history and development of the local mining industry. This visit will also include a screening of the Jane Goodall documentary, Planting Hope,...
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Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)10/1/25, 8:30 AM
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Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook University)10/1/25, 8:40 AM
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Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)10/1/25, 8:50 AM
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Shirley Li (UC Irvine)10/1/25, 9:00 AM
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10/1/25, 9:25 AM
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Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)10/1/25, 9:30 AM
Neutrino oscillation offers a precise measurement of the lepton mixing (PMNS) matrix, including the CP violation phase, and sensitive search windows for new physics, such as new mass eigenstates (sterile neutrinos) and interactions beyond the standard model through matter oscillation effects. In this presentation, an overview of the neutrino oscillation experiments with a focus on the next...
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10/1/25, 9:55 AM
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Michael Reh (University of Colorado Boulder)10/1/25, 10:00 AM
T2K is a neutrino experiment that measures neutrino and antineutrino oscillations using a long baseline of 295km, from the neutrino beam source at JPARC in Japan, to the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka. The ND280 near detector at JPARC measures the properties of the neutrino beam prior to oscillations, while SuperK measures the beam after oscillations.
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10/1/25, 10:25 AM
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Mr Jürgen Brunner (CPPM)10/1/25, 11:00 AM
The measurement of atmospheric neutrinos led to the discovery of neutrino oscillations 27 years ago. Since, they have developed into a valuable tool for precision measurements of neutrino properties and for searches of physics beyond the Standard Model. Their propagation through the Earth is strongly affected by matter effects, which makes them a perfect probe to pin down the neutrino mass...
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10/1/25, 11:25 AM
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Dr Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)10/1/25, 11:30 AM
The Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is the third generation of underground water Cherenkov detectors in Japan. It will serve as: (1) the far detector for a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment for the upgraded, 1.3 MW power, J-PARC muon neutrino/antineutrino beam, and (2) a detector capable of observing proton decays, atmospheric neutrinos, and neutrinos from astronomical sources. The...
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10/1/25, 11:55 AM
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Ryan Bayes (Queen's University)10/1/25, 12:00 PM
SNO+ is a liquid scintillator detector located 2 km below the Canadian Shield in the Vale Creighton mine. SNO+ has a rich neutrino program that includes the observation of solar neutrinos. Detection of anti-neutrinos from nearby reactors and the Earth have been also been reported upon and leveraged for a nascent supernova detection program. Preparations of the search for neutrinoless double...
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10/1/25, 12:25 PM
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Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)10/1/25, 12:30 PM
Foundation Models (FMs), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), have dramatically transformed many aspects of modern workflows. FMs are machine learning (ML) models designed to learn flexible and general representations of data, which can then be adapted to solve a wide variety of tasks. Successful pre-training yields a model with a broad range of applications, and fine-tuning further optimizes...
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10/1/25, 12:55 PM
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Mr Gianfranco Ingratta (York University)10/1/25, 2:00 PM
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an ambitious research program in neutrino physics under construction at Fermilab and the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). Neutrino oscillations have led to the discovery that neutrinos have nonzero masses. The current model describes the oscillation phenomenon in terms of three mixing angles and one CP-violating phase. Within the...
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10/1/25, 2:25 PM
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Yue Zhang (Carleton University)10/1/25, 2:30 PM
I will give an overview on the sterile neutrino extension of the Standard Model, including motivations and terrestrial/cosmological probes.
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10/1/25, 2:55 PM
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Sergey Martynenko (Brookhaven National Laboratory)10/1/25, 3:00 PM
The MicroBooNE experiment uses an 85-ton liquid argon time projection chamber to detect neutrinos from Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and off-axis NuMI beam. Its physics program has three main goals. First, it explores beyond-standard-model (BSM) physics by searching for dark sector particles, investigating the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess, and probing light eV-scale sterile neutrinos....
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10/1/25, 3:25 PM
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Anna Suliga (New York University)10/1/25, 4:00 PM
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10/1/25, 4:25 PM
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Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini (University of Milano-Bicocca)10/1/25, 4:30 PM
Core-collapse Supernovae (SN) are critical astronomical events where nearly an entire star's binding energy is emitted as neutrinos. RES-NOVA is pioneering a new approach to their detection, introducing cryogenic detectors constructed from ultra-pure archaeological Pb. The experiment exploits Coherent Elastic Neutrino–Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS), a channel with a cross-section approximately...
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10/1/25, 4:55 PM
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Tom Sonley (SNOLAB)10/1/25, 5:00 PM
HALO, the Helium and Lead Observatory, has been operating at SNOLAB for thirteen years as a low-maintenance, high-livetime supernova neutrino detector. The HALO detector is principally composed 79 tonnes of lead from a decommissioned cosmic ray station, and is instrumented by 368 m of SNO’s ultra-low activity He-3 neutron counters. Supernova neutrinos interacting with the lead target may...
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10/1/25, 5:25 PM
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Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
Access to clean drinking water is an urgent global challenge, driven by climate change and emerging contaminants beyond the reach of conventional treatment methods. At TRIUMF, we have developed the Water Monitoring System (WMS), a novel in-situ monitoring approach that adapts technologies from large water Cherenkov detectors. The system employs single-photon-sensitive detectors, photon...
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Ms Jacqueline Baeza-Rubio (Yale University)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
The QuIPS collaboration is designing novel tabletop optomechanical sensors to search for evidence of sterile neutrinos in the keV to MeV mass range. This search will employ a levitated radioactive nanosphere, where nuclear recoils following decays within the nanosphere will transfer their momentum to the entire nanosphere. By measuring the nanosphere’s recoil momentum for each decay, the...
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Abobakr Emara (University of Windsor)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
Future large-scale detectors searching for rare events such as neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter nuclear recoils require understanding and an accurate measurement of the background sources present in such detectors. Radon contamination presents a challenge and significant contribution to the background of these experiments. This talk will present the radon assay program developed...
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29. Targeted Low Energy Data Capture: Region of Interest Filter Optimization for the DUNE ExperimentXinyue Yu (University of Toronto)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that will use a powerful neutrino beam produced at Fermilab and two detectors: a near detector at Fermilab and a far detector, 1300 kilometers away, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.
The DUNE experiment will feature a high-throughput, modular Data Acquisition...
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William Dallaway (University of Toronto)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
The DUNE experiment is a future long baseline experiment planned with a 1300km baseline and a flux spectrum peaked at approximately 3.5GeV. This means the DUNE experiment has a unique opportunity to detect tau neutrino charged current interactions. Our goal is to identify the tau neutrino charged current events in DUNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) far detectors. To identify...
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Dr Takashi Iida (University of Tsukuba)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
The PIKACHU experiment is a search for the double beta decay of 160Gd using large single crystals of Ce:Gd3Al2Ga3O12 (GAGG). In particular, it aims to observe the so-far undetected two-neutrino double beta decay (2nbb) of 160Gd down to half-lives predicted by theory. We have been developing high-purity GAGG crystals, and in 2023, succeeded in producing crystals with uranium- and thorium-series...
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Moritz Neuberger (Technical University of Munich (TUM))10/1/25, 5:30 PM
The LEGEND collaboration aims to unambiguously discover neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) using high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors enriched in the double-beta-decaying isotope $^{76}$Ge (Q$_{ββ}$ = 2039 keV). The HPGe detectors operate in liquid argon, which serves as a coolant and an active shield, enabling a quasi background-free search for 0νββ decay. The first phase, LEGEND-200,...
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Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)10/1/25, 5:30 PM
The Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE) is a 40-ton water Cherenkov detector operated in the T9 beamline of the East Area at CERN from October 2024 to June 2025. It is instrumented with 97 multi-PMT modules, each consisting of 19 3" PMTs. Charged particles in the beam are characterized by a series of trigger scintillators and aerogel Cherenkov threshold detectors on an event-by-event basis...
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10/1/25, 8:00 PM
Sports occupy an important part of our lives. It is often difficult to flip through the TV channels without encountering sports shows. Surprisingly, a large fraction of the intriguing and often spectacular sports actions and feats can be explained using relatively basic physics concepts. In this talk I will present and discuss the physics behind some remarkably creative innovations in popular...
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Xinyue Yu (University of Toronto)10/2/25, 8:30 AM
Non-standard interactions (NSI) are a compelling beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) framework for explaining the tensions between the T2K experiment and the $\operatorname{NO\nu A}$ experiment results. They can be formulated as general neutrino– or antineutrino–flavour-changing scattering processes with fermions in matter. In oscillation phenomenology, NSI enter as additional matter-potential...
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10/2/25, 8:55 AM
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Dr Szymon Manecki (SNOLAB)10/2/25, 9:00 AMPlenary Talk
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10/2/25, 9:25 AM
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Dr Masatoshi Kobayashi (KMI, Nagoya University)10/2/25, 9:30 AM
The XENONnT is an experiment designed to search for dark matter and other rare events. It has been conducted at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, using the time projection chamber with 8.5 tons of liquid xenon in total. Data taking started in July 2021 and stopped at the beginning of 2025, for the further upgrade of the detector.
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10/2/25, 9:55 AM
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Erica Caden (SNOLAB)10/2/25, 10:00 AMPlenary Talk
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10/2/25, 10:25 AM
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Janina Hakenmueller (Marietta-Blau-Institute for particle physics)10/2/25, 11:00 AM
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10/2/25, 11:25 AM
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Pietro Chimenti (Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL))10/2/25, 11:30 AM
Reactor neutrinos have played a central role in shaping our understanding of neutrino properties, from their discovery in 1956 to today’s precision measurements of oscillation parameters. This presentation will provide an overview of the field, beginning with landmark historical milestones and moving toward the current generation of precision experiments. I will highlight recent results on...
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10/2/25, 11:55 AM
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Michael Wagman (Fermilab)10/2/25, 12:00 PM
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10/2/25, 12:25 PM
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Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)10/2/25, 12:30 PM
Planned precision neutrino oscillation experiments at accelerators have motivated a world-wide program to study interactions of GeV neutrinos on nuclei. I will review recent results and insights gained from these measurements and will discuss future prospects for this work.
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10/2/25, 12:55 PM
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10/2/25, 1:15 PM
Guided Mural Tour
Thursday, October 2nd from 1:15pm to 2:00pm
Discover urban art in Sudbury with a guided mural tour lead by We Live Up Here Urban Arts. This guided walking tour of downtown Sudbury’s urban art gallery will provide details on various mural artists, artworks, and the public art scene in Sudbury. The tour will be 45min in length and participants will visit massive works...
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Marcello Messina (INFN)10/2/25, 2:00 PM
Neutrino mass is a fundamental parameter of particle physics with important implications for cosmology and the Standard Model of particle physics. Despite of almost 100 years of experimental effort, its absolute scale remains unknown. Over that period, direct kinematic measurements, searches for neutrino-less double beta decay, and oscillation experiments have progressively put constraints on...
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10/2/25, 2:25 PM
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Dr Jason Holt (TRIUMF)10/2/25, 2:30 PMPlenary Talk
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10/2/25, 2:55 PM
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Emmanuel Chauveau (LP2i Bordeaux, CNRS / IN2P3)10/2/25, 3:00 PM
SuperNEMO is a double-beta-decay experiment, whose isotope-agnostic tracker-calorimeter architecture has the unique ability to track trajectories and energies of individual particles. If the hypothesised lepton-number-violating process, neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ), is discovered, this full topological event reconstruction will be the only way to determine the mechanism. The detector...
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10/2/25, 3:25 PM
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Mr Andreas Leonhardt (Technical University of Munich)10/2/25, 4:00 PM
The LEGEND collaboration aims to uncover the fundamental nature of neutrinos, specifically whether they are Majorana particles, by searching for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge (Q$_{\beta\beta}$ = 2039 keV). In the currently operating phase, LEGEND-200, up to 200 kg of isotopically enriched high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are deployed bare in a liquid...
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10/2/25, 4:25 PM
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Danielle Speller (Johns Hopkins University)10/2/25, 4:30 PM
The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is fundamental for investigating lepton-number violation, probing new physics beyond the Standard Model, and determining whether neutrinos are Majorana particles. CUORE, a cryogenic bolometric experiment at LNGS, studies 0νββ in 130Te using 988 TeO2 crystals. It is a milestone of cryogenic detector arrays with a tonne-scale detector operated...
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10/2/25, 4:55 PM
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Hannah Peltz Smalley (University of Massachusetts Amherst)10/2/25, 5:00 PM
Neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay offers a means to explore whether neutrinos are massive Majorana fermions, i.e., their own antiparticles, and thus a portal between matter and antimatter. The EXO-200 experiment operated between 2011 and 2018 at the WIPP underground site in New Mexico, USA, setting some of the strongest constraints on the existence of this decay in 136Xe. EXO-200 was a...
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10/2/25, 5:25 PM
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Stefan Schoppmann (JGU Mainz)10/2/25, 5:30 PM
Double beta plus decay is a rare nuclear disintegration process. Difficulties in its measurement arise from suppressed decay probabilities, experimentally challenging decay signatures and low natural abundances of suitable candidate nuclei.
In this context, we present NuDoubt++, a new detector concept to overcome these challenges. It is based on the first-time combination of hybrid and...
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10/2/25, 5:55 PM
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Alexander Antonakis (UCSB)10/3/25, 8:00 AM
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors positioned along the axis of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, and serves as the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. The SBND detector completed commissioning and began taking neutrino data in the summer of 2024, and has finished its Run1...
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10/3/25, 8:25 AM
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Charlotte Cavanagh (ETH Zurich (CH))10/3/25, 8:30 AM
The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) is a small experiment in the far-forward region 480 m upstream of the ATLAS interaction point at the LHC. It is designed to detect highly-energetic neutrinos as well as to search for feebly-interacting new particles predicted by extensions of the Standard Model. So far in Run 3 FASER has collected close to 200 fb$^{-1}$ of data and has yielded results from...
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10/3/25, 8:55 AM
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Asish Moharana (Carleton University)10/3/25, 9:00 AM
The proposed ARGO detector, under development for deployment at SNOLAB is a 300-tonne fiducial mass single-phase liquid-argon detector. The physics program is broad and includes many relevant neutrino studies including a precise measurement of Boron-8 solar neutrinos from charged-current neutrino absorption on Ar-40. ARGO will have excellent supernovae neutrino sensitivity as well. The...
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10/3/25, 9:25 AM
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Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)10/3/25, 9:30 AM
Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) offers a unique window into neutrino interactions at low energies, with implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics, nuclear nonproliferation, and other applied technologies. While the first observation by the COHERENT collaboration in 2017 and the recent detection by CONUS+ at a nuclear reactor marked significant milestones, this...
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10/3/25, 9:55 AM
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Darcy Newmark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10/3/25, 10:30 AM
This talk will present the first event-by-event observation of Cherenkov radiation from sub-MeV electrons in a high-yield scintillator (liquid argon) detector, representing a milestone in low-energy particle detector development and one of the major goals of 2021 Snowmass Process. This work utilizes the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment, a 10-ton liquid argon light collection detector...
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10/3/25, 10:55 AM
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Dr Will Thompson (Harvard University)10/3/25, 11:00 AM
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10/3/25, 11:25 AM
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Riya Shah (Drexel University)10/3/25, 11:30 AM
Searches for astrophysical neutrino point-sources in IceCube have been preformed for over a decade. IceCube has two data streams; track-like and cascade-like events. Historically the track-like stream was utilized for these searches, producing observations of the first astrophysical neutrino sources such as NGC 1068 and TXS 0506+06. Cascade-like events were utilized to observe the Galactic...
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10/3/25, 11:55 AM
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Sara Rebecca Gozzini (IFIC, CSIC-U. of Valencia)10/3/25, 12:00 PM
ANTARES was an underwater neutrino telescope operating in the Mediterranean, structured as a photomultiplier array of 12 lines that instrumented a 0.01 km$^3$ volume of water. It recorded data for about 15 years until its decommissioning in 2022, transfering its legacy to KM3NeT. ANTARES was primarily designed for neutrino astronomy, reaching a sub-degree angular resolution and engaging in the...
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10/3/25, 12:25 PM
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Marco Circella (INFN Bari, Italy)10/3/25, 1:30 PM
KM3NeT is a neutrino observatory under construction in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. Even in partial construction stage its detectors are already operational and collecting data. The observatory comprises two detectors: ARCA, located at 3500 m depth 80 km from Capo Passero, Sicily, and ORCA, located at 2500 m depth 40 km off the coast of Toulon, France. The two detectors are based on...
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10/3/25, 1:55 PM
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Logan Lebanowski (University of California, Berkeley)10/3/25, 2:00 PM
Theia is a proposed large-scale neutrino detector with a novel liquid scintillator target and fast, spectrally-sensitive photon detectors, leveraging both the direction resolution of the Cherenkov signal and the remarkable energy resolution and low detection threshold of a scintillator detector. The Theia physics program spans low-energy neutrino physics, such as solar, geo, supernova burst,...
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10/3/25, 2:25 PM
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Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)10/3/25, 2:30 PM
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Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University), Dr Ian Lawson (SNOLAB), Lorna Nolan (Laurentian University), Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)10/3/25, 2:45 PM
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Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook University), Siyeon Kim (Chung-Ang University), Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)10/3/25, 3:00 PM
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Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook University), Siyeon Kim (Chung-Ang University)
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Dr Nasim Fatemighomi (SNOLAB)
Radon-222 is a limiting background in many leading dark matter and low-energy neutrino experiments. At SNOLAB, we have various radon instruments dedicated to material screening and to the measurement of radon concentration in N₂ gas systems and in ultra-pure water. My talk will focus on describing these instruments. In addition, it will describe a recent development aimed at improving our N₂...
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Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)Invited TalkPlenary Talk
This is just a test abstract so that the ISAC can practice reviewing without worrying about a real abstract receiving feedback, comments, etc. during reviewing.
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