2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l’ACP 2014 Sunday, 15 June 2014 - Friday, 20 June 2014 Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne Book of Abstracts ii Contents An Analytic Mathematical Model to Explain the Spiral Structure and Rotation Curve of NGC 3198. .......................................... 1 Belle-II: searching for new physics in the heavy flavor sector ................ 1 The high cost of science disengagement of Canadian Youth: Reimagining Physics Teacher Education for 21st Century ................................. 1 What your advisor never told you: Education for the ’Real World’ ............. 2 Back to the Ionosphere 50 Years Later: the CASSIOPE Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e- POP) ............................................. 2 Changing students’ approach to learning physics in undergraduate gateway courses . 3 Possible Astrophysical Observables of Quantum Gravity Effects near Black Holes . 3 Supersymmetry after the LHC data .............................. 4 The unintentional irradiation of a live human fetus: assessing the likelihood of a radiation- induced abortion ...................................... 4 Using Conceptual Multiple Choice Questions ........................ 5 Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS ............................. 5 **WITHDRAWN** Monte Carlo Field-Theoretic Simulations for Melts of Diblock Copoly- mer .............................................. 6 Surface tension effects in soft composites ........................... 6 Correlated electron physics in quantum materials ...................... 6 The Future of the Cosmic Frontier: Dark Matter ....................... 7 Quantum Resource Theories .................................. 7 Science Objectives and Results from the ePOP Suprathermal Electron Imager . 8 Recent developments in astroparticle physics ........................ 8 The Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) at TRIUMF ................ 8 e-POP Magnetic Field Instrument (MGF) - Instrumentation and Early Results . 9 iii Squeezed coherent states and a measure of entanglement .................. 9 A long distance for the smallest particle: recent results from long baseline neutrino exper- iments ............................................ 9 Neutrino Theory Impacts .................................... 10 Latest results from the B factories ............................... 10 Early Universe Cosmology ................................... 11 Mechanisms Affecting Glassy Dynamics in Thin Polymer Films . 11 The evolution of APEs and the Hawking-Page transition . 12 Clusters for Cosmology ..................................... 12 Shear-induced enhancement of solute mass transport in flows of concentrated suspensions through microchannels ................................... 12 Numerical simulations and analytical modeling of precessing binary black holes . 13 Modelling Van Allen Probes Observations of ULF waves and Outer Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics .......................................... 13 Dark Matter: What Do We Know From Cosmology? .................... 14 Higgs: theory review ...................................... 14 Easing the Transition of Physicists into Industry ....................... 15 The little we know about quantum nonlocality ........................ 15 Confinement effects on movement and predator-prey dynamics: where does the foxstay? 15 Phonon-induced topological insulation ............................ 16 Probing the Ionosphere with the Radioscience Instruments on CASSIOPE/e-POP . 17 No Stone Left Unturned? Searches for New Physics with ATLAS . 17 Tailoring the magnetic properties of paramagnetic molecules on metal substrates by adlay- ers and ligands ....................................... 18 Standard Model Measurements with the ATLAS Detector . 19 Topological insulators: interaction effects and new states of matter . 19 Superallowed Fermi Beta Decay Studies at TRIUMF-ISAC . 19 Modeling the structure, optoelectronic properties and charge transport of organic semicon- ducting conjugated polymers with DFT .......................... 20 A fresh look at fundamental properties of quantum information . 20 Tracking the growth of cells using microfluidic sensors ................... 21 Microscopic simulations with modern nuclear forces .................... 21 iv The long arm of the lattice ................................... 21 The Exploding Sky: Prospects for Transient Gravitational-Wave Astronomy . 22 An overview of Loop Quantum Gravity ............................ 22 Spin-orbit coupling + Interaction = ? ............................. 23 Some experimental aspects in support of gravitational wave detection . 23 Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry: from nuclear physics experiments to clinical applications ................................... 23 Nuclear astrophysics with DRAGON ............................. 24 **WITHDRAWN** Defence in Depth and the Source Terms in Nuclear Reactor Safety . 24 Andreev quantum dots in graphene/superconductor hybrid devices . 25 Heavy-light diquark masses from QCD sum rules and constituent diquark models of charmonium- like tetraquark states .................................... 25 State of the Art of Searches for Dark Matter ......................... 26 Studying the Proton Spin at RHIC ............................... 26 The Canadian contribution to the upgrades to the ATLAS experiment . 27 Recent Developments in Physics Education in Canada. ................... 27 Quantum computing ...................................... 28 First Determination of the Proton’s Weak Charge ...................... 28 How hard is it to get a de Sitter solution in String Theory? . 28 Experimental Update of the TIGRESS HPGe Clover Array . 29 Non-linear Cosmological Structure Formation: Outstanding Questions and Future Prospects ................................................ 29 Black Holes in the Extreme ................................... 30 Testiing Black Hole Physics with the Event Horizon Telescope . 30 Review of the current status of Higgs Properties ....................... 30 Future Directions in Cosmology ................................ 31 Higgs Particle Searches with ATLAS ............................. 31 Local moments in iron-based superconductors ........................ 31 The Universe as a Physics Lab: Recent results in Cosmology and Survey of Near-term Cana- dian Projects ......................................... 32 High-Flux Table-Top Ultrafast Water Window X-Ray Source Driven By Mid-IR Laser Pulses ................................................ 32 v Testing Fundamental Symmetries with Precision Parity-Violating Experiments: Past, Present and Future .......................................... 33 Data Acquisition for SuperCDMS-SNOLAB .......................... 33 High energy OPA and few-cycle IR pulses .......................... 34 Electrical Detection of Dynamically Generated DC and AC Spin Currents . 34 Pressure-induced interdigitation in bicellar mixtures containing anionic lipid . 35 FIR Spectroscopy at the Canadian Light Source: High Torsional Levels of CD3OH and their Coupling to the Methyl Rocking Modes .......................... 36 On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Mass of the Higgs Boson. 36 The Mysterious Role of Alkaloids in Plants Revealed by a Multidisciplinary Approach . 37 The Key Contribution of Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) to the Theory of Partial Differ- ential Equations ....................................... 38 Competition Between Phase Separation and Crystallization in Attractive Colloids . 38 Hierarchical, Self-Similar Structure in Native Squid Pen ................... 39 Search for the rare B− ! Λ¯pνν¯ decay at the BaBar experiment . 39 Quantum gravity on a quantum computer? .......................... 39 Why I am not a QBist ...................................... 40 Weak measurements with an ensemble quantum processor. 40 Medical radioisotopes made at TRIUMF: Accelerating medicine for Canada . 41 The GlueX Experiment: Commissioning is underway .................... 41 Implementing Tracking with the ATLAS Diamond Beam Monitor . 42 The International Linear Collider - a precision probe for physics at the TeVscale . 42 XPS measurements of sodium in Bridgman-grown CuInSe2+x ingots . 43 Transition Metal Oxides based Chromogenic Thin Films and Interactive Devices . 43 Phase Behaviour of Polyelectrolyte/Homopolymer Blends . 44 Mass and Thermodynamic Relations for Lifshitz Symmetric Black Holes . 44 Coupled-channel vibrational-model studies of nucleon scattering from oxygen isotopes and the corresponding mirror systems. ............................ 45 The Continuum Limit of the Unruh Effect in aCavity .................... 45 DETERMINING 210Pb BY ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETERY . 46 Preliminary results of a Beam Expander for Biomedical Imaging . 46 vi **WITHDRAWN**Spin-orbit coupled double perovskite bilayers: Magnetism, Chern bands, and quantum anomalous Hall insulators on the honeycomb lattice . 47 Spin transport in a unitary Fermi gas ............................. 47 Diode Pumped Yb:YAG Ceramic Laser Amplifier Modules for a TW Laser System . 48 Search for the rare B meson decays at the BaBar experiment . 48 The Everyday Phenomena of Black Hole Chemistry ..................... 49 Variational Calculation of Hydrogen Molecular Ion ..................... 49 EFFECT OF HOME GRINDING ON BREWED COFFEE PROPERTIES . 49 Inferring sub-micron sizes using oscillating gradient diffusion weighted magnetic reso- nance imaging ........................................ 50 Ionospheric electron number density volumetric reconstruction