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This year, the 1 week event hosted by ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ (Kingston, ON, Canada) gathered 650 participants and featured Nobel Prize winner Arthur B. McDonald (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´).

NEWS-G took the opportunity of this event to report the first results from the search of low-mass WIMPs with SEDINE, a SPC prototype operated at the LSM (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane). Five NEWS-G members from ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ gave talks covering a wide range of topics such as recent sensor developments, calibration strategies and status of the next phase of the experiment at SNOLAB.

• Status of NEWS-G experiment
  – Gilles Gerbier
   
• Quenching measurements for a spherical detector at COMIMAC
  – Philippe Di Stefano
   
• Firsts results on the search for low-mass WIMPs with the NEWS-G experiment
  – Quentin Arnaud
   
• Sensor optimization and gas quality analysis for spherical gas detector operation
  – Alexis Brossard
   
• Calibration schemes for Spherical Gas Detectors
  – Daniel Durnford

Congratulations to Daniel Durnford (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) who was among the and got the 2nd place in the Particle Physics Division (PPD) for his talk on calibration strategies for the NEWS-G experiment @ SNOLAB.

Next year, the CAP Congress will take place in Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (June 11-15, 2018).

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