NuSec Annual Technical Workshop 2023

Monday, 9 October 2023 - 09:00
Mary Ward House Conference and Exhibition Centre

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Oct 2023
AM
09:00 --- Registration and Coffee ---
09:30
Session 1: New Detector Concepts - Paul Sellin (until 11:00) ()
09:30 Introduction and Welcome - Paul Sellin   ()
09:40 Water-based quantum dots liquid scintillator for radiation detection - Dr Teppei Katori (King's College London)   ()
10:00 CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals based Plastic Scintillator for Ionizing Radiation Detection - Joydip Ghosh (University of Surrey)   ()
10:20 Organic semiconductor radiation detectors for alpha and neutron detection - Aled Horner (Queen Mary, University of London)   ()
10:40 Organic Field Effect Transistors as radiation detectors - Zahaab Amjad (Queen Mary University of London)   ()
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Session 2 Detector Systems - Rob Moss (until 13:15) ()
11:30 Regional analysis of neutron/gamma figure-of-merit in scintillator volumes using a multi-anode photomultiplier tube - Patrick Collins-Price (Lancaster University)   ()
11:50 Investigation of an end-to-end neural architecture for image-based source term estimation - Dr Abdullah Abdulaziz (Heriot-Watt University)   ()
12:10 A Raspberry Pi based multi-channel data acquisition system - Lubos Vozdecky (University of London (GB))   ()
12:30 Low Power, Compact, Dual Mode Detectors for Nuclear Security Applications - David Bennett (University of Glasgow)   ()
12:50 Neutron-Gamma Detectors for Borehole Formation Evaluation Applications - James Greer   ()
PM
13:15
Lunch and Poster Session (until 14:15) ()
13:15 Passive Radiological Inspection of Shipping Containers using a UAV-Mounted Scintillator Detector - Euan Connolly   ()
13:30 New method of thermal neutrons imaging using a fast optical camera - Tian-Qi Gao (University of Manchester)   ()
13:45 Applying Matrix Factorisation methods to improve specificity of fast anomaly detection algorithms - Caroline Pyke (NNL) Luke McGarry (NNL)   ()
13:45 Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Preamplifier/Shaping Amplifier System For Boron-Coated-Straw Neutron Detectors - Mr Krisztian Erdodi (Lancaster University)   ()
13:45 The Simulation and Optimisation of Position-Sensitive LaBr3 Detectors for Compton Imaging - Emily Richardson   ()
14:00 An Investigation Into the Susceptibility of Memory Cards to Neutron Damage - Raghuram Sridhar Prof. Stephen Croft (Lancaster University)   ()
14:00 Background measurements at Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station to assess the viability of on-site-antineutrino detection - Megan Whittle (University of Tennessee)   ()
14:15
Session 3: Sigma Data Challenge - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary University of London (GB)) (until 16:00) ()
14:15 SIGMA Data Challenge Journey So Far - Dr Philip Martin (AWE)   ()
14:25 Poisson-FOCuS on SIGMA data - Kes Ward   ()
14:45 Enhancing Nuclear Security: Leveraging Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for High Sensitivity Threat Detection with Small Volume Gamma Detectors - Mr Sam Fearn (University of Bristol)   ()
15:05 Spectroscopic Anomaly Detection and Isotope Identification using Non-negative Matrix Factorization and Application to AWE SIGMA Data - Stefan Faaland (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
15:25 AWE in-house algorithm development - Dr Philip Martin (AWE)   ()
15:45 Sigma Discussion and Closing Remarks - Paul Sellin   ()
16:00
NuSec/NuFor Reception (until 18:00) ()