Group Barbecue at Thomas's Place (Summer, 2024)
From left: Hussain, Felix, Irina, Julien, Samin, Sophie, Kavin, Lucas, David, Grace, Eliot, Sarah, Emilio,
Thomas.
Group Members
Thomas Brunner
Rutherford Physics Building Office 340 Phone:
(514) 398 8972
Click here for Thomas's Webpage.
Tsvetelin Totev
Working on the various coding needs of the lab.
Working on an electroluminescent light source. Msc May 2020.
Sarah Nowicki
Working on the optical rail system.
Graduate Students
Irina Nitu
Doing a PHYS396 project simulating the nEXO Outer Detector calibration system.
PHYS 489 Research Project. Calibration Configuration of nEXO's Outer Detector.
Calibration Configuration of nEXO's Outer Detector and Diffuser Ball Simulations in Chroma.
Worked on core-collapse supernovae simulations for studies of nEXO Outer Detector sensitivity to supernova neutrinos.
Simon Lavoie
USRA summer student
Working on developing CHROMA simulations for LoLX.
Working on a linear Paul trap for ion cooling and bunching.
Working on nEXO outer detector calibration.
Working on LoLX and SiPM testing.
David's Website.
Working on developing a RF carpet for Barium ion extraction.
Adjunct Members
Undergraduate, Summer, and CEGEP Students
Sandhya Rottoo
SURA summer student
Working on the developing of a liquid Xe level sensor for LoLX.
Doing a PHYS479 Project for the Implementation of a Cherenkov light generator in Chroma.
installation and calibration of LXe and LN2 level sensors.
Tania Atoui
Development of an electrical high-density vacuum feedthrough.
Development of an electrical high-density vacuum feedthrough.
Designing heatsink and interface boards for silicon photomultiplier testing.
Neutrino Group Alumni
Working on heat flow simulations for emvironmental test chamber for SiPM testing.
Working on LoLX.
Working on SiPM testing.
Multi-messenger search for SN events with nEXO Co-supervised by Daryl Haggard, McGill.
Soud's Website.
Investigates the effect of magentic fields on Ge detectors for EC-BR studies with TITAN .
Kevin Murray
2016-2023
Working on a 137 Xe tag for EXO-200 and the optimization for a Mr TOF for Ba-tagging for nEXO.
Working on Ba-tagging for nEXO.
Yuta Ito
2017-2018
Ba-tagging technique for nEXO now at Japanese Atomic Energy Agency.
Yang Lan
2020-2021
Working on Ba-tagging developments.
Working on nEXO projects.
Working on EXO-200 operation and nEXO photon sensor development.
Working on the UCN project at TRIUMF Co-supervised by Beatrice Franke, TRIUMF MSc Summer 2020.
Development of an in-Xe-gas Laser Ablation Source for the Ba-tagging technique MSc. 2021.
Melissa's Website
Ab initio calculations of atomic properties Co-supervised by Jason Holt, TRIUMF MSc. August 2019.
Chloe Gingras
2021-2023
Working on tests of integrated SiPM photon sensors.
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Emilio de la Cruz
2023
Working on upgrading the Laser optics of the LAS and performing SIMION simulations to verify observed ion transport properties with simulated expectations.
Eliot Raschetti
2023
Working on setting up the linear rail system and building a cooling system for SiPM Testing.
Kavin Aggarwal
2023
Working on upgrading the Laser optics of the LAS and performing SIMION simulations to verify observed ion transport properties with simulated expectations.
Sophie Gélinas
2023
with on a simulation of the SiPM stave testing setup in Chroma .
Julien Hacot-Slonosky
2023
Creating a cooling system using thermoelectric coolers to cool a test stand and test how SiPMs operate at low temperatures.
Grace Champagne
2023
Developing a control system to monitor pressures of supply gases and the lab exhaust pressure in the lab.
Encoder code development and testing for SiPM tile characterization.
Maxim Lysenko
2023
PHYS479 Thesis Student working on implementing a liquid nitrogen level sensor for the lab's Xe recovery system.
Kristofer Karam
2023
Developing an oscilloscope readout for a MIDAS DAQ.
Javeria Rizwan
2023-2024
Doing a PHYS459 project with Yossera to develop a multi-element ion source for Ba-tagging (mass spectrometer calibration).
Yossera Taghi
2022-2024
Bender Ba-tagging.
Doing a PHYS459 project with Javeria to develop a multi-element ion source for Ba-tagging (mass spectrometer calibration).
Amelia Remnant
2023
MITACS summer student
Working on barium tagging, calibrating and optimising the electrode potentials for ion
transport, as well as the installation of the LAS for the QMF.
Fadi Younes
2023
Built a table-top cooler for SiPM testing down to -30°C.
Marc-Antoine Leclerc
2023
SURA summer student
Working on automating the testing of large SiPM arrays including taking IV curves and packaging
the electrometer software within MIDAS.
Riya Rai
2023
MITACS summer student
Working on the quadrupole bender, specifically in the assembly and characterisation of ion
transport through the bender using simulations as well as measurements.
Victor Desautels
2023
Phys 489 Project. Working on testing the LoLX pulse fitter.
Taichi Saito
2022
PHYS 489 Student
Working on a liquid nitrogen level sensor for LoLX.
SURA summer student
Simulation of RF devices for ion transport.
Research Project.
SURA summer student
development of in-gas laser ablation source (IGLAS).
In-gas LAS development.
Minya Bai
2020-2022
PHYS 396 Research project.
Simulation of photon interactions on material surfaces.
Working on the In-Gas Laser Ablation Source.
Kevin Nguyen
2022
USRA summer student
Testing the LoLX pulse fitter.
Katherine Lei
2022
USRA summer student
Performance studies of a laser-induced single Ba-ion source.
Jordan Agathe
2022
BIPOC summer student
Characterizing the MUX board.
Bender Ba-tagging.
USRA summer student
Design, construction, and commissioning of a small cloud chamber.
Ruijia Yang
2021-2022
PHYS 459 Honours Thesis. Simulation of nEXO muon veto.
Measurement of particulate concentration, temperature, and pressure in the lab.
Measurement of particulate concentration, temperature, and pressure in the lab.
Joey Torsiello
2021
Measurement of ion velocities in an ion plume.
Emma Klemets
2020-2021
PHYS 459 Honours Thesis. Simulation and optimization of a VUV light source.
NSERC USRA award
Optimizing the nEXO muon veto for SN neutrino detection.
Implementation of a slow control data base for BvL.
IT specialist.
Janet Wang
2020
PHYS396 Research project. Visualization of slow control data.
USRA summer student
Simulation of cross talk in LoLX .
CEGEP Visiting Summer Student
VUV light source developments.
Tianyang (Tim) Yu
2019-2020
PHYS396 Research Project. X-Y scanner to document surfaces of SiPMs.
PHYS 489 Special Research Project. Measurement of leakage current on a multiplexer board for SiPM testing.
Cleo Gaillard
2019-2020
Optimizing the nEXO muon veto for SN neutrino detection.
NSERC USRA award
.
PHYS 489 Special Research Project
Charge Calibration of SiPMs for LoLX.
Lab helper.
NSERC USRA and CINP award 2019
Gas-dynamic calculations for nEXO.
PHYS 459 Honours Thesis. Efficiency measurements of the LAS.
Yu Wu
2020
PHYS 489 Special Research Project. Charge Calibration of SiPMs for LoLX.
Arman Mansouri
2019-2020
PHYS 459 Honours Thesis. Studies of an electroluimescent light source.
Research Intern
Read-out of a particulate counter.
LoLX developments.
Optical setup for SiPM testing.
SURA summer student
Improvements of the laser-ablation ion source.
Xinyu Jiao
2019
NSERC USRA award
Rebuilding and commissioning a spark chamber.
PHYS396 Research Project. Characterizing a laser-ablation ion source.
PHYS449 Majors Research Project. Characterization of a laser-ablation ion source for Ba-tagging.
Daniel Mayer
2019
PHYS479 Honours Research Project. Characterization of a UV light flasher.
Louis Leey
2018
PHYS449 Majors Research Project. A laser-ablation ion source for Ba-tagging.
PHYS396 Research Project.
Stephanie Mendez
2018
Characterizing a laser-ablation ion source
Maastricht University.
Antoine Belley
2018
NSERC USRA award
VUV light source for nEXO.
Visiting from Grenoble-INF
Working on the development of a VUV light source for SiPM testing.
Thanh Nguyen
2018
NSERC USRA Summer Student
Working on upgrading the Bνl.
Sebastian Eppelt
2018
Visiting from Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Germany
Development of a Cf-252 driven VUV light source.
Villigst scholarship
Visiting from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Working on mass spectrometry for Ba-tagging applications.
Dixin Chen
2018
SURA and CINP awards Ba-tagging developments.
MITACS scholarship Optimization of laser-ablation ion source for Ba-tagging.
MITACS scholarship Development of a VUV light source for nEXO.
Connor Sharp
2018
PHYS 479 Honours Research Project. Investigating n-capture on Xe-137.
Connor Peltz
2018
PHYS 489 Special Research Project. Investigating n-capture on Xe-137.
Waterloo Undergraduate
working on the development of a laser ablation ion source.
Jenny Long
2017
working on the improvement of the PHYS-257/258 undergrad teaching lab
PHYS 396 Undergraduate Research Project. Working on commissioning a LTQ Thermo Finnigan mass spectrometer.
SURA summer student
working on the development or a laser-ablation ion source.
USRA summer student
working on the development of a laser-ablation ion source.
PHYS 479 Undergraduate Research Project. working on commissioning a LTQ Thermo Finnigan mass spectrometer.
Taylor Seo
2017
PHYS 396 Undergraduate Research Project. Working on the design of alaser ablation ion source.
PHYS 396 Undergraduate Research Project. Working on improving McGill's spark chamber.
Waterloo Undergraduate
Working on the development of an electroluminescent light source for SiPM testing for nEXO.
Christopher Gagnon
2016
Working on the improvement of the undergraduate lab PHS257/258.
USRA summer student
Working on the development of an electroluminescent light source for SiPM testing for nEXO.
Christopher Morison
2016
USRA summer student
Working on the development of an electroluminescent light source for SiPM testing for nEXO.
Historic pictures
(yes, I am slowly getting older and already have historic pictures - yet not in b/w.)Art McDonald visits the neutrino lab undergrads (June 5, 2017)
From left: Thanh, Soud, Jonathan, Reem, Jenny, Lucas, Zach, Art McDonald, Louis
Group picture at the first annual group BBQ in 2016.
From left: Saverio, Omar, Chris, Evert, Kevin, Soud, Christo, Thomas (BBQ not shown)
Group picture at the annual group BBQ in 2018.
From left: Tsvetelin, Sebastian, Kevin, Zach, Xiao, Thomas B., Soud, Jonathan, Antoine, Thanh, Haojie, Thomas M., Dixin
Group picture featuring SNOLAB sunglasses on the roof of Rutherford in 2019.
From left: Lucas, Tim, Thomas M., Tsvetelin, Chris, Xiao, Soud, James, Melissa, Xinyu, Yilin, Megan, Jasmine, Thomas B.
Group picture at the annual group BBQ in 2021 (a few were skipped for obvious reasons).
From left: Bernadette, Samin, Lisa, Tsvetelin, David, Felix, Lucas, Chris, Soud, Kevin
Group picture at the first (of two) annual group BBQ in 2022.
From left: Soud, Lisa, Chris, Tsvetelin, Laura, Katherine, Minya, Michael, Chloe, Yossera, Lucas, Megan, Kevin, David, Jordan, Hussain, Kevin
Group picture at the second annual group BBQ in 2022.
From left: Thomas, Minya, Katherine, Hussain, Samin, Felix, Elika, Bernadette, Michael, Laura, Tsvetelin, Chloe, Soud, Lisa, David, Kevin
Group picture at the annual group BBQ in 2023.
From left: Simon, Thomas, Sandhya, Lucas, David, Soud, Marc-Antoine, Lisa, Kevin, Riya, Tsvetelin, Samin, Hussain, Elika
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