Introduction to neutrino oscillation, atmospheric neutrino, NOvA experiment and non-standard neutrino interaction on atmospheric neutrinos.
Mutations in the Superoxide Dismutase 1 (SOD1) protein may cause misfolding and aggregation leading to the neurodegenerative disease ALS. Despite numerous studies a clear understanding of the impact of electrostatics and crowding on the folding and aggregation of SOD1 remains lacking. In this work, we use a structure-based model and molecular dynamics simulation to study the effects of...
The NuMI Off-Axis nu_e Appearance (NOvA) is an experiment designed to study neutrino oscillations. It utilizes two detectors, one located in Batavia, Illinois (the near detector), and the other one located in Ash River, Minnesota (the far detector). NOvA’s neutrino oscillation analyses require precise correlation of events in the detector with the narrow 10μs NuMI neutrino beam pulses. The...
This paper illustrates a liquid mixing device that generates ultrasonic waves through shining pulse laser of a Gold implanted fiber optic cable and uses the laser streaming to accomplish the mixing liquids with different viscosities in centrifuge tube. Pure gold nanoparticles were implanted beneath the surface of the glass fiber optics cable. The pulse laser (527nm wavelength) was used to...
We discuss our plans to incorporate strategies from physics into AI-SNIPS (AI-Support for Network Intelligence-Based Pharmaceutical Security), a cloud-based platform designed for the domain of Illicit, Substandard, and Falsified Medical Products (ISFMP) that enables stakeholder decision-making, secure data sharing, and interdisciplinary research. The project is separated into software...
Electrochemical water splitting emerges as a pivotal strategy for sustainable hydrogen energy production. Alkaline water electrolysis offers a facile pathway to yield pure hydrogen. However, due to its intrinsically sluggish kinetics, the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) poses a formidable challenge. Overcoming this hurdle demands efficient water oxidation electrocatalysts to mitigate...
The recent discovery of ferromagnetism in 2D van der Waals Chromium trihalides CrX$_3$ (X = Cl , Br and I) down to the monolayer has gain research attraction because of their interesting electronic and magnetic properties. The magnetic properties of CrX$_3$ can be manipulated by applying perturbations such as external magnetic field, strain, pressure. This makes CrX$_3$ prime candidates for...
Diffusive behavior is normally governed by the Central Limit Theorem (CLT), which states that the displacement in the limit of large time has a Gaussian distribution with a width that increases as square root of time. However, diffusive behavior that differs from the CLT is found in a wide array of experimental systems. The root causes of anomalous diffusive behavior can be identified by...
A plurality of collaborations around the world today employ time projection chambers (TPCs) in highly sensitive detectors to search for evidence of rare particles. The dual-phase TPC detector concept relies on two unique (but related) event signals, S1 and S2, to increase a detector’s robustness against background influences. The Darkside-20k experiment applies this idea to the pursuit of dark...
Arguably the most fundamental problem in Network Science is finding structure within a complex network. One approach is to partition the nodes into communities that are more densely connected than one expects in a random network. “The” community structure corresponds to the partition that maximizes a measure that quantifies this idea. Finding the maximizing partition, however, is a...
The unique simultaneous appearance of zero resistivity and magnetic field expulsion enable superconductors to have tremendous potential for various applications, such as efficient electric power transmission, much smaller or more powerful magnets, magnetic levitation, high-speed computing, etc. The superconducting critical transition temperature (Tc) has continuously been enhanced owing to the...
Pursuing hydrogen fuel via water electrolysis has attracted much attention to overcome the diminishing reserves of fossil fuels and their environmental repercussions. The efficiency of water electrolysis largely hinges on overcoming the inherently sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Innovating highly active, durable, cost-effective OER electrocatalysts is essential,...
In an effort to better understand the thermal-like behavior and particle yields seen in p-p collisions we recast the problem employing the principles of quantum states and their entanglement in the produced system. We seek to show that this entanglement in the initial state has a measurable effect on the evolution of the system and is the driving mechanism behind the thermal-like behavior and...
Inspired by Kitaev's Honeycomb Model, we take a qutrit honeycomb circuit and perform repeated measurements to find that when the probability of pz>> px, py, it encodes a logical qutrit.
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies in the Two-Dimensional Magnet CrSBr
CrSBr is an air-stable, novel two-dimensional (2D) magnetic van der Waals (vdW) single crystal that received intense study as a future spintronics material. The material shows some interesting properties such as a large optical band gap (~ 1.5 eV), strong spin-phonon coupling (SPC) effect, quasi 1-D electronic...
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN, we are able to create the hottest and the densest conditions which are similar to those at the beginning of the Universe. During the past ten years, we observed the existence of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) which is formed at the early stages of heavy ion collisions. The measurements we obtained led to significant progress for understanding its...
A crucial component to the EIC program is the determination of the collider luminosity. It will be measured through photon emission in the Bethe-Heitler process as it was at HERA. The anticipated high luminosity at the EIC presents several new challenges that necessitate improvements to the base ZEUS pair spectrometer design, which utilizes e+e- conversions of the Bremsstrahlung photons. The...
We analyze particle number fluctuations in the crossover region near the critical endpoint of a first-order phase transition in baryon-rich matter by utilizing microscopic molecular dynamics simulations of the classical non-relativistic Lennard-Jones fluid. We extend out previous studies by incorporating longitudinal collective flow to model the expansion dynamics in heavy-ion...
