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6/26/24, 8:45 AM
Welcome from SNOLAB leadership
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Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto), Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)6/26/24, 8:55 AM
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Ryan Bayes (Queen's University)6/26/24, 9:00 AM
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Michel Lapointe (NOSM University)6/26/24, 9:35 AM
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Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)6/26/24, 10:00 AM
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Benjamin Broerman (Queen's University)6/26/24, 10:50 AM
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Ezri Wyman (Queen’s University)6/26/24, 11:10 AM
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Depatie Matt (Laurentian University)6/26/24, 11:30 AM
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Nasim Fatemighomi (SNOLAB)6/26/24, 11:50 AM
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Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)6/26/24, 1:00 PM
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James Page (U Sussex)6/26/24, 1:45 PM
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Sumanta Pal (Queen's University)6/26/24, 2:05 PM
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Juliette DeLoye (SNOLAB)6/26/24, 2:25 PM
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Mark Ward (Queen's University)6/26/24, 2:45 PM
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Jean-Francois Mercier (Health Canada)6/26/24, 3:25 PM
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Pawel Mekarski (Health Canada)6/26/24, 3:45 PM
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Zahra Yamani (CNL)6/26/24, 4:05 PM
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Dr Richard Germond (University of Waterloo)6/26/24, 4:25 PM
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Erica Caden (SNOLAB)6/27/24, 9:00 AM
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Regan Ross (McGill University)6/27/24, 9:20 AM
Owing to its depth underground, SNOLAB is an excellent site for hosting rare event searches such as searches for WIMP-like dark matter or neutrinoless double beta decay. The overburden of rock at SNOLAB provides a reduction in the cosmic muon flux of over 7 orders of magnitude as compared to the flux at sea level. Still, even the residual fluxes of cosmic muons can contribute to backgrounds;...
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Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)6/27/24, 9:40 AM
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Phillipe Di Stefano (Queen’s University)6/27/24, 10:00 AM
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Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)6/27/24, 10:20 AM
Single photon detectors are used in a wide range of experiments at SNOLAB, from SNO, to DEAP-3600, and experiments on the horizon, nEXO and ARGO. The technology continues to evolve from vacuum Photo-multiplier tube to Silicon photo-multiplers, to the future "photon to bit" converter. I will review the evolution of the technology and highlights its relevance to ongoing and future experiments at...
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Dr Sarah Overington (NSERC)6/27/24, 11:00 AM
Presentation by and discussion with NSERC
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Sarah Coogan (CFI)6/27/24, 11:45 AM
Presentation by and discussion with CFI
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Samantha Kuula (SNOLAB)6/27/24, 1:30 PM
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6/27/24, 2:00 PM
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Dr Vijay Iyer (University of Toronto)6/27/24, 3:00 PM
The Cryogenic Underground TEst (CUTE) facility at SNOLAB, provides an opportunity for its users to test and operate their devices in a low-background environment at cryogenic temperatures. CUTE uses a dilution refrigerator to reach a base temperature of ~12mK, and can hold a payload of up to 20 kg. The facility has been used to test detectors for SuperCDMS and is transitioning to become a...
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Sushil Thakre (SNOLAB)6/27/24, 3:20 PM
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Samantha Kuula (SNOLAB)6/27/24, 3:50 PM
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Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto), Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)6/27/24, 4:20 PM
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6/27/24, 4:50 PM
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Dr Pawel Mekarski (Health Canada)Talk
To address the risks Canadians face from radon, Health Canada leads the National Radon Program. Under this program, targeted research aims to close knowledge gaps and, in conjunction with outreach and stakeholder engagement, informs Canadians of these health risks and motivates action to reduce them. Integral to the program, Health Canada regularly reviews and updates the national radon risk...
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Dr Ryan Bayes (Queen's University)Talk
SNO+, the successor experiment to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), is now filled with an optimized scintillator mixture after an initial water fill and a sustained period of being partially filled with scintillator. The SNO+ experiment has demonstrated good neutron detection through all phases of the experiment to date, allowing for the detection of anti-neutrinos by the inverse beta...
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Dr Mark Ward (Queen's University)Talk
Control of the SNO+ detector has evolved since commissioning was completed and shifting started in 2017. SNO+ used control rooms with a minimum of 2 computers to perform monitoring and control of the detector. Through the years of successful data taking by hundreds of shifters, the obvious question is, can this task be done by fewer people? Freeing up students, postdocs and faculty to do other...
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Jeter Hall (SNOLAB)
Similar to semiconductor electronics, ionizing radiation upsets superconducting electronics. However the research on mitigating the impact of ionizing radiation on superconducting electronics is not well developed. We describe an experiment to operate an array of superconducting qubits underground at the CUTE facility in SNOLAB.
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Dr Nasim Fatemighomi (SNOLAB)Talk
Radon is a limiting background in many leading dark matter and low energy neutrino experiments. One way to mitigate radon background is to fill external experimental components with a clean cover gas such as N2. At SNOLAB, the radon concentration in the experiments cover gas system are monitored using a radon assay board. To improve the sensitivity of gas assays a new trapping mechanism is...
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Samantha Kuula (SNOLAB)Talk
A look back and forward at the EDI accomplishments at SNOLAB.
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Dr Zahra Yamani (CNL)
The establishment of advanced nuclear detection technology is critical for enhancing security and monitoring capabilities of nuclear materials. At CNL, we are focused on implementing transition-edge sensor (TES) technology to achieve superior detection performance over traditional techniques such as high-purity germanium detectors. TES sensors are renowned for their high resolution and...
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James Page (U Sussex)Talk
In the study of reactor and geo antineutrinos, tagging of the inverse beta decay (IBD) positron-neutron coincidence signature allows for the elimination of most backgrounds. In many detectors, the primary remaining background is caused by captures on 13C — so called (⍺, n) events — which release a neutron and closely mimic the IBD's signature. The most common (⍺, n) prompt event is produced by...
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Regan Ross (McGill University)Talk
A short talk on the differences between FLUKA/Geant4 and current status. He can maybe highlight some results from nEXO to initiate a discussion with the DM folks on what their comparisons may look like / what the harmonization process for SNOLAB experiments might look like.
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Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)Talk
The accurate modelling of underground muon fluxes is critical for the success of underground experiments in particle astrophysics, providing essential background understanding for rare event searches such as neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter interactions. This proposal seeks to unify the muon flux modelling efforts across various experiments hosted at SNOLAB, leveraging the rich...
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Dr Jean-Francois Mercier (Health Canada)Talk
Health Canada operates three distinct environmental networks and two radionuclide laboratories, which include an array of gamma spectroscopy systems. This presentation will provide an overview of the networks and systems. It will also present a performance comparison between several germanium-based gamma spectroscopy systems using the same set of environmental samples. The comparison includes...
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Michel Lapointe (NOSM University)Talk
Natural background ionizing radiation is ubiquitous, yet its biological significance remains elusive. The REPAIR (Researching the Effects of the Presence and Absence of Ionizing Radiation) project investigates the consequences of sub-natural background radiation exposure, 2 km underground at SNOLAB. With experimental radiation dose rate reductions of between 7x and 550x compared to normal...
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Erica Caden (SNOLAB)Talk
The nEXO experiment is a proposed next-generation liquid xenon detector to search for neutrino-less double beta decay (0νββ) of $^{136}$Xe. The experiment will use a 5-tonne liquid xenon monolithic single-phase time projection chamber enriched to 90% in $^{136}$Xe. Ionization electrons and scintillation photons from energy deposits in the Xe will be recorded by a segmented anode place and a...
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Juliette Deloye (SNOLAB)Talk
Radon is an unwanted background in current rare-event search experiments taking place at SNOLAB. The radon is ever-present and naturally occurring due to the uranium and thorium in the surrounding rock in the mine, and as such poses challenges when creating a system for radon mitigation. SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino detector and radon is one of the backgrounds that needs to be well...
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Prof. Phillipe Di Stefano (Queen’s University)Talk
We discuss some small-scale searches for rare events that may benefit from the low-radioactivity environment of SNOLAB. The mechanisms include standard nuclear decays which will inform nuclear models and matrix elements, and which are of interest to other fields such as neutrinoless double beta decay. A related example is revisiting the decays of uranium of importance in geochronology. ...
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Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)Talk
Single photon detectors are used in a wide range of experiments at SNOLAB, from SNO, to DEAP-3600, and experiments on the horizon, nEXO and ARGO. The technology continues to evolve from vacuum Photo-multiplier tube to Silicon photo-multiplers, to the future "photon to bit" converter. I will review the evolution of the technology and highlights its relevance to ongoing and future experiments at...
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Sushil Thakre (SNOLAB)Talk
The SNOLAB Safety Training Management System (STMS) is a comprehensive SharePoint-based platform. This system features a user-friendly dashboard and a suite of applications that enable users to enroll in the system, schedule training sessions, and manage their profiles among other functionalities.
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Samantha Kuula (SNOLAB)Talk
A discussion of recent changes in site access policies from Vale, along with implications for SNOLAB processes and procedures and recommended best practices.
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Matt Depatie (Laurentian University)Talk
Overview of the SNO+ Detector systems (electronics, DAQ).
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Dr Sumanta Pal (Queen's University)Talk
SNO+ is a liquid scintillator-based neutrino detector that aims to detect neutrino-less double beta decay (NDBD) which can confirm whether the neutrino is its own antiparticle or not. The detection process demands a very low radiogenic background level, good energy resolution, and at the same time large mass of isotopes in the detector. 130Te is chosen due to its high isotopic abundances for...
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Dr Vijay Iyer (University of Toronto)Talk
The Cryogenic Underground TEst (CUTE) facility at SNOLAB, provides an opportunity for its users to test and operate their devices in a low-background environment at cryogenic temperatures. CUTE uses a dilution refrigerator to reach a base temperature of ~12mK, and can hold a payload of up to 20 kg. The facility has been used to test detectors for SuperCDMS and is transitioning to become a...
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Benjamin Broerman (Queen's University)Talk
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration is developing liquid-noble bubble chambers sensitive to sub-keV nuclear recoils. These detectors combine the excellent electron-recoil insensitivity inherent in bubble chambers with the ability to reconstruct energy based on the scintillation signal for further background reduction. The targeted nuclear recoil threshold of 100 eV is made...
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Dr Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)Talk
The nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment aims to detect a hypothetical decay mode in the isotope xenon-136.
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A positive observation of this decay mode would serve as direct evidence for lepton number violation and confirm the Majorana nature of neutrinos, representing a breakthrough in physics beyond the Standard Model. Such an observation could also offer new pathways for... -
Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)Talk
The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration is carrying out a phased program of direct search for dark matter using liquid argon. First, we will briefly summarize the results from DarkSide-50 and DEAP-3600 followed by an overview of the DEAP-3600 hardware upgrades, goals and run plan for the third fill. Second, we will discuss the work for DarkSide-20k, currently under construction at LNGS....
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Ezri Wyman (Queen’s University)Talk
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) dark matter experiment will operate a detector at SNOLAB, consisting of an active volume split into two distinct temperature regions, a cold region at the bottom and a superheated region at the top. This allows for any sediment or impurities to settle out into the cold regions at the bottom without nucleating bubbles while the superheated region can still...
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Caio Licciardi (University of Windsor)Talk
Future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay may require over 50 tonnes of enriched $^{136}$Xe, driving needs for increased xenon production as well as efficient enrichment methods. Centrifuge separation, currently available from a limited number of manufacturers, is the primary technique used for enrichment. Cryogenic distillation is a proposed alternative that depends on the relative...
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Caio Licciardi (University of Windsor)
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