KU Physics & Astronomy LOcally Organized Assembly (PALOOZA) meeting 2020-2021

Session

Third Day

Day3

Feb 25, 2021, 5:00 PM

Zoom Link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92389769214 (Zoom Passcode: 990417)

Conveners

Third Day

• Margaret Lazarovits

Description

Third Day of Talks

25. Introduction

Margaret Lazarovits

2/25/21, 5:00 PM

1. The high energy limit of strong interactions

Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas (US))

2/25/21, 5:05 PM

The physics program of the CERN LHC relies on our description of the interactions of quarks and gluons, the degrees of freedom of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), in high-energy hadronic collisions. When the interactions occur at very short distances, cross sections can be calculated in a power expansion of the strong coupling, $\alpha_s \ll 1$. However, there are regions of phase-space where...

15. Black Hole Identification in James Webb Data with Ensemble Based Novelty Detection

Mr Kurt Hamblin (University of Kansas)

2/25/21, 5:25 PM

The study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is important to further our understanding of galaxy evolution, and thus, reliable and accurate methods for the identification of AGN are crucial. With the unprecedented sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and in particular, the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), more reliable and sensitive classification techniques are needed....

9. AGILE: Development of a compact, low power, low cost and on-board detector for ion identification and energy measurement.

Florian Gautier

2/25/21, 5:55 PM

“AGILE (Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tEle- scope) instrument is being developed at KU and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to be launched on board a CubeSat in 2022. AGILE instrument aims at identifying a large variety of ions (H-Fe) in a wide energy range (1-100 MeV/nucl) in real-time using fast silicon detectors and read-out electronics. This can be achieved by the first use of real-time...

13. Motivation and Methods for Studying Photocarrier Dynamics of MoO3

Mr Ryan Scott

2/25/21, 6:05 PM

2D materials have come a long way since the discovery of graphene in 2004. They have become increasingly relevant for shrinking nanoelectronics, but development has recently become limited by a lack of 2D insulators. MoO3 is one possible candidate for a 2D insulator. By studying the photocarrier dynamics of monolayer, bilayer, and multi-layer MoO3, we may expand the number of available 2D...

6. Long-Lived Particles at the LHC

Zach Flowers

2/25/21, 6:15 PM

Long Lived Particles (LLPs) are an emerging hot topic in LHC physics due to the non-traditional event topology in the way new physics is produced. These are a feature in many extensions to the Standard Model with many different variations in the final state. The nature of these events make searches for LLPs difficult to conduct. This talk will cover an overview of both current searches during...