Poster Session I: Particles and Fields (2:00PM-5:00PM MT)

Presentations

• Spinorial Representation of Elastic Surface and Membrane Vibrations: From Extrinsic Curvature Model to Spin-Connected Dirac-like Operator.

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  Presenters

  • Amar Dadel

    • Miami University

  Authors

  • Amar Dadel

    • Miami University

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• Physics guided discrepancy learning for neutron induced cross sections

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  Presenters

  • Karishma Shah

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Karishma Shah

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Bethany L Goldblum

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Thibault A Laplace

    • Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

  • Kyle A Wendt

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• A Geometry-Independent Framework for Charged-Particle Track Reconstruction in the Mu2e Experiment

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  Presenters

  • M. Faraz Samavat

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • M. Faraz Samavat

    • University of Minnesota

  • Kenneth J Heller

    • University of Minnesota

  • Ben Messerly

    • University of Minnesota

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• Simultaneous reconstruction of boosted, resolved, and semi-boosted top-quark events with symmetry-preserving attention networks

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  Presenters

  • Lauren Cadle

    • UC San Diego

  Authors

  • Thomas Sievert

    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Daniel Primosch

    • UC San Diego

  • Lauren Cadle

    • UC San Diego

  • Melissa K Quinnan

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Javier M Duarte

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Maria Spiropulu

    • Caltech

  • Haoyang Li

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Julian Jackson

    • UC San Diego

  • Peera Serumaga

    • UC San Diego

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• Unsupervised Non-Parameterized Searches for Anomalous Events at CMS Using Wasserstein Normalizing Autoencoders

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  Presenters

  • Jet Zhang Yue

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Jet Zhang Yue

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Melissa K Quinnan

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Javier M Duarte

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Development of Shower Characterization Tools Within Pandora for the DUNE Near Detector

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  Presenters

  • Paige Trevarrow

    • University of Kansas

  Authors

  • Paige Trevarrow

    • University of Kansas

  • Maria Brigida Brunetti

    • University of Warwick

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• Predicting SUSY Particle Event Count at Future Colliders

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  Presenters

  • Daniel C Downey

    • Sonoma State University

  Authors

  • Daniel C Downey

    • Sonoma State University

  • Simon Knapen

    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • So Chigusa

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Toby Opferkuch

    • Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

  • Inbar Savory

    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • Christiane Scherb

    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • Weishuang Linda Xu

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Alexandra Miller

    • Sonoma State University

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• Status of the ATLAS ITk Inner System Upgrade for the HL-LHC

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  Presenters

  • Kaleb Abdullah

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  Authors

  • Kaleb Abdullah

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Caterina Vernieri

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Zhi Zheng

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• Simulation and Validation of the ICARUS PMT Adder-Board Response

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  Presenters

  • Batu A Orberk

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Batu A Orberk

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Gianluca Petrillo

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• Plastic Scintillator System for Cosmic Particle Detection

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  Presenters

  • Buket Atalay

    • Goztepe Ihsan Kursunoglu Anatolian High school
    • Göztepe İhsan Kurşunoğlu Anatolian High School

  Authors

  • Buket Atalay

    • Goztepe Ihsan Kursunoglu Anatolian High school
    • Göztepe İhsan Kurşunoğlu Anatolian High School

  • Arda Çetinkaya

    • TED Darıca College Private Anatolian High School

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• Fabrication and Characterization of Thin Amorphous Selenium Films for Integrated Charge plus Light Sensors

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  Presenters

  • Douglas Woodward

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  Authors

  • Douglas Woodward

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • Michael Hamje

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • Jay Gainer

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • Alfredo B Enriquez

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • V. A. A Chirayath

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • Jonathan Asaadi

    • University of Texas at Arlington

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• Microwave Multiplexing for Quantum Sensing Experiments

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  Presenters

  • Grey J Garner

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Grey J Garner

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Luke Wanner

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Wouter Van De Pontseele

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Characterizing SiPM Response at Reduced Operating Voltages

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  Presenters

  • Alexander J Cardenas

    • Regis University

  Authors

  • Alexander J Cardenas

    • Regis University

  • Abraham Cabello

    • Regis University

  • Frederick E Gray

    • Regis University

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• Underground Operations at SURF: Day-to-Day Life and Troubleshooting in the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter

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  Presenters

  • Isabella R Lopez

    • Georgia College & State University

  Authors

  • Isabella R Lopez

    • Georgia College & State University

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• SiPM Array Characterization for Dual Phase XeNeu Time Projection Chamber

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  Presenters

  • Jennifer E Ortiz

    • Sonoma State University

  Authors

  • Jennifer E Ortiz

    • Sonoma State University

  • Teal J Pershing

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Improving sensitivity with a boosted decision tree in a search for dark photons decaying to lepton jets at CMS

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  Presenters

  • Izen Wong

    • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

  Authors

  • Izen Wong

    • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

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• Nonaquarks: A Possible Candidate of Dark Matter Particles

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  Publication: 1. Zhang, T. X., Two-Flavor Multi-Excitation Model of Quarks, Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 1243-1268 (2005)
  2. Zhang, T. X., New Four-Element Theory of Nature, Progress in Physics, 21, 137-146 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Tianxi Zhang

    • Alabama A&M University

  Authors

  • Tianxi Zhang

    • Alabama A&M University

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• Hunting for Axions and Hidden Photons in the Wilderness: The Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE Hunt)

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  Publication: Hunt for magnetic signatures of hidden-photon and axion dark matter in the wilderness. 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.096026

  Presenters

  • Katie Hermanson

    • California State University, East Bay

  Authors

  • Katie Hermanson

    • California State University, East Bay

  • Derek F Jackson Kimball

    • California State University - East Bay
    • California State University, East Bay

  • Owen William Linton

    • California State University, East Bay

  • Andre Li

    • CSU East Bay

  • Ryan Dougherty Miller

    • California State University, East Bay

  • Madeline r Bernstein

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Saarik Kalia

    • University of Minnesota

  • Itay M Bloch

    • University of California at Berkeley

  • Ibrahim Sulai

    • Bucknell University

  • Jason Evan Stalnaker

    • Oberlin College

  • Abaz Kryemadhi

    • Messiah University

  • Dmitry Budker

    • Johannes Gutenberg University

  • Daniel Gavilán Martín

    • University of Mainz

  • Ophir M. Ruimi

    • Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Helmholtz Institute Mainz

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• Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Experiment to search for the Post-Inflation Axion

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  Publication: 1. Planned paper with a tentative title: A Tunable Metamaterial Resonator to Search for the Post-Inflation Axions, Shriram Jois et. al.
  2. Preprint: Spiral Tuning of Wire-metamaterial Cavity for Plasma Haloscope, Jacob Lindahl et al., arXiv:2508.18145v2
  3. Searching for dark matter with plasma haloscopes, Alexander J. Millar et al. Phys. Rev. D 107, 055013

  Presenters

  • Aarav Sindhwad

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Aarav Sindhwad

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• A Geometrical Approach to Neutrino Oscillation Parameters

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  Publication: M. F. H. Seikh, "A Geometrical Approach to Neutrino Oscillation Parameters," AIP Advances 15, 105204 (2025); also available as arXiv:2510.06526.

  Presenters

  • Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh

    • University of Kansas

  Authors

  • Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh

    • University of Kansas

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• CP Violation in Neutrino Oscillations

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  Publication: Thesis

  Presenters

  • Samia Hebbah

    • Independent Researcher; PIEAS, Pakistan

  Authors

  • Samia Hebbah

    • Independent Researcher; PIEAS, Pakistan

  • Dr. Rizwan Ahmed

    • Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH)

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• Collective Neutrino Oscillations using the Stabilizer Tensor Network Formalism

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  Presenters

  • Michael Hite

    • University of Arizona

  Authors

  • Michael Hite

    • University of Arizona

  • Pooja Siwach

    • University of Arizona

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• Probing Earth's Chemical Composition with Neutrino Oscillation Tomography

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  Presenters

  • Shouvik Mondal

    • University of Utah

  Authors

  • Shouvik Mondal

    • University of Utah

  • Carsten Rott

    • University of Utah

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• Predictions of Neutrino Fluxes at the Forward Physics Facility at the High Luminosity LHC

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  Presenters

  • Isabella Coronado

    • University of Utah

  Authors

  • Isabella Coronado

    • University of Utah

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• Using Simulation to Interpret the Liquid Argon Scattering Experiment's Results

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  Publication: Breaux, A. (2025). Identification of the Liquid Argon Scattering Experimental Discrepancies Using Simulation (Report No. FERMILAB-PUB-25-0497-LBNF-STUDENT). Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

  Presenters

  • Auto D Breaux

    • Tulane University

  Authors

  • Auto D Breaux

    • Tulane University

  • Alex I Himmel

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

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• A Low-Cost, Solder-Free, Breadboard-Based System for Hands-On Nuclear and Particle Detection Education

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  Presenters

  • Christabel A Bempomaa

    • University of South Dakota

  Authors

  • Christabel A Bempomaa

    • University of South Dakota

  • Jing Liu

    • University of South Dakota

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• Generic Long-Lived Particle Search at SBND

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  Presenters

  • Sabrina Brickner

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Sabrina Brickner

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Reconstruction of Low Energy Neutrino-Induced Neutrons in the MicroBooNE Detector

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  Presenters

  • Liani Silva

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Liani Silva

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Coleman-Weinberg Corrections to SUSY-breaking from N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory to Adjoint QCD

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  Presenters

  • Param P Gogia

    • Vassar College

  Authors

  • Param P Gogia

    • Vassar College

  • Freddy Loew

    • Vassar College

  • Emily Nardoni

    • Vassar College

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• Unbinned Likelihood Fits for Setting Limits on a Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons at CMS

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  Presenters

  • Blake G Hennings

    • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

  Authors

  • Blake G Hennings

    • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

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• A Higgs Boson Composed of the W,Z Gauge Bosons

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  Publication: [1] F.J. Himpsel, arXiv:1502.06438 [hep-ph] ; [2] F.J. Himpsel, arXiv:1801.04604 [hep-ph] ; [3] F.J. Himpsel, https://pages.physics.wisc.edu/~himpsel/BosonCoupling2.pdf ; [4] F.J. Himpsel, https://pages.physics.wisc.edu/~himpsel/FermionMass12.pdf ; [5] For a recent overview see: https://pages.physics.wisc.edu/~himpsel/HiggsTalk.pdf

  Presenters

  • Franz J Himpsel

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison, Physics Dept.

  Authors

  • Franz J Himpsel

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison, Physics Dept.

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• Stable Charged Bodies from Continuous Electromagnetic Fields

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  Presenters

  • William B. Maier

    • The Naval Postgraduate School (retired)

  Authors

  • William B. Maier

    • The Naval Postgraduate School (retired)

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• Simulation of BeEST Photopeak Calibration

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  Presenters

  • Mathew Potts

    • PNNL

  Authors

  • Mathew Potts

    • PNNL

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• Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon enriched sample

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  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14247, JHEP 07 (2025) 088

  Presenters

  • Cristian Barrera

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Cristian Barrera

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Hunting for the Axion: Innovating Cavity Geometry for Large-Volume, High-Frequency Dark Matter Searches (ADMX-VERA)

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  Presenters

  • Sephora Ruppert

    • Stanford KIPAC

  Authors

  • Sephora Ruppert

    • Stanford KIPAC

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• Radiation Damage Simulation for the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) System

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  Presenters

  • Susan Orgera

    • California State University, East Bay

  Authors

  • Susan Orgera

    • California State University, East Bay

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• Robotic testing system operation for electrical characterization of ECON integrated circuits in the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter

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  Presenters

  • Aaron S Woyshville

    • Wayne State University

  Authors

  • Aaron S Woyshville

    • Wayne State University

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• Thermal Studies of CMS HGCAL Cassettes for the HL-LHC Upgrade

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  Presenters

  • Jinglu Wang

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Jinglu Wang

    • Northwestern University

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• Chasing Ghost Particles: Is Neutrino Directional Reconstruction Possible with DUNE's LAr-TPC?

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  Presenters

  • Lailani Kenoly

    • San Jose State University

  Authors

  • Lailani Kenoly

    • San Jose State University

  • Yun-Tse Tsai

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Hirohisa A Tanaka

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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