Transcript Current Developments in Nuclear and Particle Physics in Malaysia

Current Developments in
Nuclear and Particle Physics
in Malaysia
W.A.T. Wan Abdullah, Universiti Malaya,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ACFA 11/08
Tsukuba
Activities
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High Energy Physics (Experimental)
Theory
Nuclear Physics
Research Reactor
Particle Accelerators
High Energy Physics
• ZEUS collaboration
[Universiti Malaya, Agensi Nuklear]
– Electron-proton collision at HERA
• Baryon production
– Microelectronics
• FPGA-based Readout Control
• JPARC
[Agensi Nuklear]
- Possible participation
Theory
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Phenomenology
[Universiti Malaya]
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Exact calculation of photon-penguin, Z-penguin and
Higgs-penguin.
Rare decays of heavy flavour, s to d and b to s
transitions, with emission of lepton-antilepton pair.
Production of dissimilar quark-antiquark pairs from
electron-positron collision.
Decay of Z boson into dissimilar quark-antiquark pair
Effective quark masses in hadrons.
Field theory
[Science University of Malaysia]
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Studying the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs field theory for
different monopoles and antimonopoles
configurations
Studying the solitonic solutions of the 2+1 SU(2)
Yang-Mills Field Theories
Nuclear Physics
• Nuclear structure
[Technology University of Malaysia, Agensi Nuklear]
- heavy elements
• Nuclear astrophysics (theory)
[Universiti Malaya]
- solar neutrinos, cosmological neutrinos
• Neutron scattering
[National University of Malaysia, Agensi Nuklear]
- materials structure
Research Reactor
• TRIGA PUSPATI (RTP) 1MW
[Agensi Nuklear]
– Operating mode:
• Pulse: maximum total pulsed energy1360MWs
• Steady/square wave mode: 1MW thermal
– Uses: training, R&D, isotope production
Research Reactor (cont)
– Current neutron beam facilities: neutron radiography
(NR), small angle neutron scattering (SANS)
– Planned beam facilities: neutron diffractometer,
Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA).
Boron Neutron Capture (BNC) for medical and
industrial R&D
– Current R&D include: instrumentation (FPGA-based
readout control/digital signal processing (DSP),
neutron tomography), material testing, fundamental
research, Monte Carlo simulation with MCNP5
Particle Accelerators
• Electron Beam Machine (EBM)
[Agensi Nuklear]
• EPS-3000 (3 MeV, 30 mA)
– For dosimetry
– polymer testing
– microbiology services
• CURETRON (200 KeV,20 mA )
• Baby EBM (160 KeV, 10 mA)
– Lab scale test
• ELV-4 RUSSIA (1 MeV, 50mA)
– Under construction
EPS-3000 (3 MeV, 30 mA)
Particle Accelerators [contd]
• Plasma devices
[Universiti Malaya, Agensi Nuklear]
- soft X-ray laser
- neutron source
• Medical
[Agensi Nuklear]
– Synchrotron (16.5 MeV)
• For radioisotope production
– Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
• Cancer treatment
Challenges
• Science policy
• Budget
• Human capital