Name: SNOLAB User Meeting 2024
Start: 2024-06-26T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-27T22:30:00-04:00
Location: SNOLAB

SNOLAB User Meeting 2024

from Wednesday, June 26, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, June 27, 2024 (10:30 PM)

Monday, June 24, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
8:45 AM Experiments/Projects I
Experiments/Projects I
8:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

8:45 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:55 AM Goals of the Meeting - Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto) Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)

9:00 AM Anti-Neutrino Measurements and Prospects in SNO+ - Ryan Bayes (Queen's University)

9:35 AM Investigating the Biological Impact of Sub-Natural Background Radiation: Insights from the REPAIR project - Michel Lapointe (NOSM University)

10:00 AM The Search for Dark Matter with Liquid Argon: DEAP-3600, DarkSide-20k, and ARGO - Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)

10:50 AM The Scintillating Bubble Chamber at SNOLAB - Benjamin Broerman (Queen's University)

11:10 AM Thermal Modelling for the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment at SNOLAB - Ezri Wyman (Queen’s University)

11:30 AM Tales from the SNO+ Detector - Depatie Matt (Laurentian University)

11:50 AM Current Status and Plans for the SNOLAB Radon Assay Board - Nasim Fatemighomi (SNOLAB)
12:10 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
1:00 PM Special Lecture: The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with nEXO (CAP PPD Thesis Prize) - Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)
Special Lecture: The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with nEXO (CAP PPD Thesis Prize)
- Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
1:45 PM Experiments/Projects II
Experiments/Projects II
1:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

1:45 PM Event by Event classification of alpha-n and IBD Interactions at SNO+ - James Page (U Sussex)

2:05 PM TeA-TeDiol-DDA system for SNO+ - Sumanta Pal (Queen's University)

2:25 PM Water Assays for SNO+ - Juliette DeLoye (SNOLAB)

2:45 PM Automated Shifting in SNO+ - Mark Ward (Queen's University)
3:05 PM BREAK
BREAK
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
3:25 PM New Opportunities and Directions I
New Opportunities and Directions I
3:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

3:25 PM Health Canada Environmental Monitoring Network: Laboratories and Gamma Detectors - Jean-Francois Mercier (Health Canada)

3:45 PM Adapting Canada’s National Radon Program to emerging technologies - Pawel Mekarski (Health Canada)

4:05 PM Establishing Transition-Edge Sensor Technology for Advanced Nuclear Detection at CNL - Zahra Yamani (CNL)

4:25 PM Characterizing superconducting qubits in a deep underground environment - Richard Germond (University of Waterloo)
Thursday, June 27, 2024
9:00 AM New Opportunities and Directions II
New Opportunities and Directions II
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM nEXO: Searching for 0νββ - Erica Caden (SNOLAB)

9:20 AM FLUKA/GEANT4 Comparisons: Progress and Differences - Regan Ross (McGill University)

9:40 AM Harmonizing muon flux modelling for SNOLAB - Soud Al Kharusi (Stanford University)

10:00 AM Rare nuclear decays for standard and exotic physics - Phillipe Di Stefano (Queen’s University)

10:20 AM Single photon detection at SNOLAB and beyond - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)
10:40 AM BREAK
BREAK
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
11:00 AM Funding and Project Support
Funding and Project Support
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM NSERC - Sarah Overington (NSERC)

11:45 AM CFI - Sarah Coogan (CFI)
12:30 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
1:30 PM EDII and SNOLAB
EDII and SNOLAB
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM EDI at SNOLAB: The Path Ahead - Samantha Kuula (SNOLAB)

2:00 PM Open Discussion of Ideas, Concerns, and Issues
2:30 PM BREAK
BREAK
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
3:00 PM User Support and Issues
User Support and Issues
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Fraser Duncan Auditorium
Contributions

3:00 PM The Cryogenic Underground TEst (CUTE) facility at SNOLAB - Vijay Iyer (University of Toronto)

3:20 PM SNOLAB Safety Training Management System (STMS) - Sushil Thakre (SNOLAB)

3:50 PM SNOLAB Site Access Changes and Processes - Samantha Kuula (SNOLAB)

4:20 PM SEF Survey Questions: Discussion of Additional Question(s) - Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto) Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)

4:50 PM CLOSEOUT