[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar, Thu 2015-06-11 at 09:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2015-06-11 at 09:00  

Location: Auditorium  

Speaker: SGSPD (TRIUMF)  

Title: TRIUMF Junior Research Symposium  

Abstract: The Symposium will feature talks by TRIUMF post-docs and graduate students on their research, in preparation for the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress next week in Edmonton. The talks are split into two sessions, and coffee and cookies will be served before each session.

Session 1: Nuclear physics (09:00 - 10:30)
9:00   Jeff Bale - "Development and simulations of the CANREB RFQ buncher and cooler at the TRIUMF facility"
9:18   Brian Kootte - "Cooling Highly Charged Ions"
9:36   Jenna Smith - "Beta-decay from 47K to 47Ca with Griffin"
9:54   Lee Evitts - "Electric monopole transition strengths in 62Ni"
10:12 Jason Park - "Isomeric decay spectroscopy of 96Cd"

Coffee break 10:30-10:45

Session 2: Particle physics (10:45 - 11:55)
10:45   Sebastien Rettie - "Test beam performance measurements of novel thin gap detectors for the ATLAS experiment upgrade"
11:03   Travis Martin - "Before and After - Consequences of the Higgs Discovery"
11:36   Ben Smith - "Trigger development for the DEAP-3600 dark matter experiement"