I am very excited for next week’s biennial “User Meeting” at @snolabscience.bsky.social . “Users” are non-staff who utilize laboratory facilities, including building and running whole experiments. #SNOLAB has over 1000 users involved in two dozen projects.
We will use the meeting to spotlight early career researchers, share new #measurements, and review the status of #experiments We’ll engage with lab leadership and collect needs and challenges.
Had my second serious run of the spring at Bell Park on Lake Ramsey today . This was a pleasant 5K.
This month, I am part of a #SNOLAB "SNOcial" committee running team. We are the "Sole Mates", running to raise money for childrens' hospitals. If you want to support the cause, SickKids Hospital in Toronto, and encourage me to run more, please donate! Any amount helps.
https://www.millionreasons.run/fundraisers/stephensekula/mrr-26
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After chatting about #Artemis last week, #CBC Radio One Sudbury "Morning North" host, Markus Schwabe, and I had an off-mic chat about "what's cool right now at SNOLAB". I thought was making a pun, because something literally VERY cool is running at #SNOLAB right now: the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter experiment.
He hit "record" again and we did a bonus chat about #darkmatter! Enjoy this conversation about cool science at SNOLAB.
@snolabscience.bsky.social ... and here is the original post from the #SNOLAB Bluesky social channel. Follow them for more tales of underground science!
https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/@sno[email protected]/116381391768122504
It was fantastic to have the benefit of Hilding's expertise, insights, and wisdom last week at #SNOLAB. I learned a lot about the view of many Indigenous peoples regarding the connection of land and sky, and the erasure of boundaries between those concepts. It is also good to have a shared concern about the sky being taken away from the eyes of all living things on Earth by means of light and satellite pollution.
Découvrez la récente entrevue du Chargé de recherche SNOLAB Matt Stukel à l’émission « Le matin du Nord » de Radio-Canada!
Interested in ultra-cold #darkmatter detectors and work at #SNOLAB to advance the frontier of low-mass particle candidate searches? Membre de la #Francophonie?
Check out SNOLAB Research Scientist Matt Stukel’s recent interview on Radio-Canada’s “Le matin du Nord” program!
« Un nouveau projet au Snolab 100 fois plus froid que l'espace »
Another great day working in the underground laboratory at #SNOLAB. My focus was on supporting the #PICO bubble chamber team today. Activities included starting the check of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in an underground “dark box” setup; and applying retroreflector material to steel cone sections.
The PMTs will be used in PICO-500’s water tank muon shield.
The reflectors help direct light onto the bubble chamber for good bubble photos.
Queen’s researchers use geoneutrinos to study Earth’s composition - The Queen's Journal https://www.queensjournal.ca/queens-researchers-use-geoneutrinos-to-study-earths-composition/
For centuries, scientists have tried to answer the question, “What’s the Earth made of?” While drilling projects and geological studies have revealed clues about the planet’s crust, the deeper layers remain largely inaccessible.Now, researchers at Queen’s University are turning to an unlikely source of information—subatomic particles known as geoneutrinos—to probe the planet’s interior.The research comes from a Queen’s-led team working with the SNO+ neutrino detector at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario. Located two kilometres underground to shield it from radiation and other interference, the detector is designed to capture faint flashes of light produced when neutrinos interact with a liquid scintillator, a solution of organic compounds that emits light when exposed to radiation, inside a spherical tank.
Stephen Sekula
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