Summer Student Talks Part 2

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Joseph Garvey, Cecilia Bombari, Ritwik Mangrulkar
• Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:00-12:00
• Ryle Seminar Room.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Steve Dennis.

This seminar will consist of three student speakers who have completed HEP research projects over the summer.

Speaker: Cecilia Bombari

Title: Muon Lifetime Experiment

Abstract: The project focuses on the muon hodoscope, a device designed to detect cosmic muons using scintillation detectors. The system employs Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) to convert the light from scintillators into electrical signals. A significant part of the work involved automating the threshold scanning process, which is crucial for optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio in muon detection. I developed new software that fully automates the threshold scan, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of the system. This automation ensures more precise detection by setting optimal thresholds to differentiate true muon signals from noise. The experience highlighted the importance of bit-by-bit data analysis in tracking scintillator firings caused by the passage of muons, contributing to advancements in the calibration and performance of the hodoscope.

Speaker: Joseph Garvey

Title: Modernising lab teaching with Open-Source Software: Tracing Particle Tracks.

Abstract: The particle tracks experiments performed in Part II involved labour intensive, manual tracing of the original film slides to measure the properties of subatomic particle decay. By developing open-source software tools to perform these measurements, better data can be produced and more time can be spent conveying the central ideas of the experiment, greatly improving student experience and teaching quality.

A tool was developed based upon the open-source multi-dimensional image tool Napari, and modified to perform and store measurements of particle tracks across 3 different perspectives and many events. The resulting tool has been open-sourced, and will see its first use in Michaelmas ‘24 teaching.

Speaker: Ritwik Mangrulkar

Title: Prospects for searches of invisible B(s) meson decays at FCC -ee.

Abstract: The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a proposed particle collider at CERN intended for operation in the mid-second half of this century. As part of the ongoing FCC feasibility study, this talk discusses the potential of the electron-positron configuration (FCC-ee) to investigate invisible decays of B(s) mesons at the Z-pole. These disappearance decays are strongly helicity suppressed in the Standard Model (SM) and thus serve as a powerful null test, as well as probes for New Physics (NP) with experimentally viable sensitivities.

This talk is part of the Cavendish HEP Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Cavendish Laboratory Seminars
• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Cavendish HEP Seminars
• Centre for Health Leadership and Enterprise
• Featured lists
• ME Seminar
• Neurons, Fake News, DNA and your iPhone: The Mathematics of Information
• Ryle Seminar Room
• School of Physical Sciences
• Thin Film Magnetic Talks
• few29

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.