Conveners
Poster Session: Poster Session
- Greg Morrison (University of Houston)
Description
Poster session
NOvA (NuMI Off-Axis $\nu_e$ Appearance experiment) is an experiment located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory studying neutrino oscillations, a quantum mechanical effect in which neutrinos change flavor as they travel. This poster presents a study of $\nu_{\mu}$ CC (muon neutrino charged-current) interactions with a nucleus accompanied by low hadronic activity using data from the...
A system for measuring Intensity Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy (IMVS) data on photoelectrodes was built utilizing a standard laboratory lock-in amplifier. IMVS measurement was performed on TiO2 thin film photoanodes under UV illumination to determine recombination time for electrons and holes, and charge transfer efficiency at the photoelectrode/electrolyte interface. Results from the...
Since the discovery of graphene, two-dimensional (2D) materials have sparked great interest among condensed matter physicists. These materials exhibit new physical properties, and their magnetic versions promise numerous applications for spintronics, optoelectronic devices, and quantum computing hardware. 2D magnets are attractive, but the van der Waals (VdW) form has exhibited new and exotic...
CrSBr is a new 2D magnetic material that has received enormous research interest recently. The material shows exceptional properties including air stability compared with other highly studied 2D magnets. Recent findings of this material have shown reversible strain-induced magnetic phase transitions, strong spin-orbit (SOC), and magneto-electronic coupling (MEC) effects.
In our work, we...
Biomolecules experience confined conditions during many biological processes in vivo. The behavior of these biomolecules depends strongly on the local curvature of the confining geometry, inducing conformational changes which may affect binding activity in vitro and in vivo. An effective coarse-grained approach consists of modeling biomolecules as semi-flexible polymers, facilitating the...
I present AI-SNIPS (AI Support for Network Intelligence-based Pharmaceutical Security), a platform that enables stakeholder decision-making, secure data sharing, and interdisciplinary research in the fight against Illicit, Substandard, and Falsified Medical Products (ISFMP). AI-SNIPS takes as input cases: a case consists of one or more URLs suspected of ISFMP activity. Cases can be...
A bipartite system composed by an inertial observer (Alice) and an accelerated observer (Charlie) has been used in previous studies to show a connection between entanglement degradation and the Unruh effect. The degradation in entanglement between two modes of a non-interacting scalar field is attributed to the relative acceleration between the observers. In this work, we analyze the influence...
Neutrinos are a fundamental particle with a strange and unique characteristic: they have mass states that describe how they travel through space and time and flavor states that describe how they interact. In order to study the relationship between the neutrino's mass and flavor quantum states, it's important to understand how readily they will interact with the neutrino detector by measuring...
At temperatures below 250K, 1T’ MoTe$_2$ undergoes a first-order structural phase transition (SPT) to a non-centrosymmetric orthorhombic T$_d$ phase, marked by the appearance of Weyl points protected by broken inversion symmetry. Despite the similar structures of these two phases and a small energy barrier between them, distortions are evident at both macroscopic and atomic scales. This study...
Diffusive behavior is normally governed by the Central Limit Theorem (CLT), which states that the displacement $x(t)$ in the limit of large time $t$ has a Gaussian distribution with a width that increases as $t^{1/2}$. However, diffusive behavior that differs from the CLT is found in a wide array of experimental systems.
In many cases, the dynamics in these systems can be modeled with...
Over recent years, many techniques have been developed to improve the performance of medical x-ray imaging. Traditional x-ray imaging is based on x-ray attenuations. However, the attenuation contrast is low for light elements or density-similar materials such as soft tissues. X-ray phase contrast imaging (PCI) has drawn many researchers' attention in the past years since phase contrast is much...
Atoms are held by the electromagnetic force between electrons and protons while a proton itself is composed of quarks bounded together with strong force or gluon exchange. To understand the nature of strong force one way is to smash the protons or lead nuclei (Pb) in high kinematic energy to reach a certain penetration depth to probe that length scale. In ALICE the energy is in order of a few...
Understanding light-semiconductor interaction is critical for the development of absorbers for efficient solar energy to electrical or chemical energy (fuel) conversion. Numerical simulation methods are often used to support experimental results and explain various optical phenomena in materials. The finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method has emerged as a tool for simulating and modeling...
The industrial scale of fresh water electrolysis to produce hydrogen (H2) will make the shortage of fresh water resource even worse. Seawater, which consists of 97% of the water resource on earth, is much more abundant for water electrolysis. However, the presence of Cl−, Ca2+, and Mg2+ causes several critical problems for the seawater electrolysis. Firstly, the presence of Cl− introduces...
Atmospheric neutrinos are typically formed 15 km above earth’s surface, they form when cosmic ray strike atomic nucleus in Earth’s atmosphere. By studying atmospheric neutrinos, we can learn neutrino oscillations and non-standard neutrino interactions. DUNE and NOvA are two neutrino experiments that observe neutrinos produced in Fermilab and atmospheric neutrinos. The main objectives of these...
As the dimensional shrinkage of modern electronic and optoelectronic devices, materials with high thermal conductivity are required for the significantly increased demand for heat dissipation. Among metals and other bulk materials, cubic boron arsenide (c-BAs) is considered a promising material for heat dissipation of its ultrahigh thermal conductivity, κ, and outstanding semiconductor...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. DUNE is aiming to make groundbreaking discoveries, some of which are characterization of neutrino oscillations, search for nucleon decay, observation of supernovae neutrino bursts. DUNE will employ two detectors to measure neutrino oscillations over a long baseline, a near...
The world is seeking for the appropriate and efficient mixing technologies due to current approaches exhibit poor mixing performances and it requires a long operation time in mixing. In this project, our goal is to introduce a disruptive mixing technology that is rapid and cost-effective than current available mixing technologies.
Our proposed naval mixing method is mainly based on...
Measurements of two particle correlations are sensitive to several characteristics of the
medium created in heavy ion collisions. Looking at the correlations of charged and
neutral kaons might provide information about the potential formation of disoriented
chiral condensates (DCCs). Previous ALICE measurements have indeed shown a
strong anti-correlation between charged and neutral kaons,...
